petroleum geologist
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6.7
- noun
- /pəˈtroʊliəm dʒiˈɑːlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
:
geólogo del petróleo
- I've been a petroleum geologist for over 30 years.
Examples
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Even large publicly traded oil companies with armies of petroleum geologists and engineers who operate under strict U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules for estimating reserves—even these companies don't always get it right.
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By analyzing seismic data, the petroleum geologist was able to predict the location of new natural gas deposits.
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I've been a petroleum geologist for 33 years and have worked on hundreds of projects.
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During my 33 years as a petroleum geologist, I've seen oil/NG sold below development costs many times.
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Comparisons between the East Mediterranean and the North Sea may be vindicated if reserve estimates turn out to be accurate, petroleum geologist David Peace said.
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In 1956, petroleum geologist M. King Hubbert correctly predicted that a peak and subsequent drop in US production would occur around 1970.
Academic text (2004) -
I had a job to return to in Denver, where I was working as a petroleum geologist for a boss who had not been amused at the thought of releasing me for three days for an activity that would not directly add to the stuffing in his wallet.
Fiction book (2000) -
"Shale is very fine-grained rock," containing silica, Peng Li, petroleum geologist at the Arkansas Geological Survey, said.
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As a petroleum geologist, I was supposed to be able to glance at an E-log and "see" the rock column that had produced it; but much as I stared, the E-log was still just a wiggly line to me.
Fiction book (1995) -
It is critically important to understand that the overall rate of decline in oil production from existing U.S. wellbores is going up, as an increasing percentage of U.S. crude oil production comes from shale oil plays, which have a very high decline rate," said Jeffrey Brown, an independent petroleum geologist who studies and writes about production data.
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Synonyms
A person who studies rock layers to find where oil is and how much there is
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'petroleum' (oil/hydrocarbons) with 'geologist' (a scientist studying the Earth), indicating a scientist who studies petroleum. This noun-noun compounding pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Petroleum geologist comes from the simple idea of petroleum meaning 'oil in rocks' and geologist meaning 'someone who studies rocks'. They look under the ground for rock layers that hold oil and gas, so the name means 'a scientist who finds and studies underground oil and gas'.