Seeking The Good Oil

WE have noticed a definite trend over the last decade with a lot of old boys training and then working in the geological science and surveying areas. It seems appropriate for Taranaki boys given our oil profile. The latest to join this growing group is Aaron Huesser and we include part of a Waikato University press release describing what he is up to.  

Two University of Waikato Master of Science graduates have scored jobs in the oil industry and will be heading to Perth in February to start work on the same day for two different companies.

Aaron Huesser has been selected for Chevron Australia’s Horizons’ Programme, which will take five years and involve three different assignments. He’ll be based in Perth’s CBD.

In the next door tower block in downtown Perth, Kadin Lucas will be employed by Woodside Petroleum, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company, on their three-year graduate development programme that will have three rotations.

Aaron, from New Plymouth and with a father who works in the oil industry, says he’s always been attracted to the oil industry, “the scale of it and the cutting edge technology”.

For Chevron he’ll be doing exploration, production management, research and development, and reservoir management and development.  He’s one of three graduate geologists that Chevron’s taking on in 2014. “We’ll be using advanced geological and geophysical tools and new technologies to find, evaluate and develop oil and gas resources.”