Engineers whose defining technological contribution is the extraction, recovery or transport of oil and natural gas: drilling technology, well design and reservoir recovery methods, and the pipelines and processing infrastructure that move extracted petroleum to refining. Belongs here: engineers credited with a specific drilling, extraction or recovery method. Does not belong here: the refining chemistry that turns crude petroleum into a finished product, grouped under Chemical Engineering, or general mechanical equipment adapted to oilfield use without a petroleum-specific design contribution.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
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The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Petroleum engineering
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The profession got its start in 1914 within the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).
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