The Underground

It Takes a Team

What does it take?

Bringing up natural gas from all its many hiding places in the earth takes a lot of skill! That’s why companies hire people who are good at different things to work on their natural gas teams. Let’s take a look at just some of the special jobs in Energy Underground.

Companies that look for natural gas look for team members who know how to find it. People who study about the surface of the earth and the rocks below it are called geologists (gee-OL-o-jists). They help look for special rocks that might show the location of pockets of natural gas.

Other team members are called geophysicists (gee-o-FIZ-zi-sists). Geophysicists not only study rocks, but they combine the studies of math, chemistry and physics. This helps them understand more about things like ground water, pools of oil, and ocean waves.

Companies look for natural gas in different places, like oceans, swamps and deserts. They explore areas and map their findings. Natural gas teams need people with many different skills, including petroleum geologists, computer scientists, chemists, biologists and engineers.