The average age for oil engineers is 51.

One Government goal is to channel newcomers into growth fields - turning oil engineers into computer specialists, for instance.

Mr. Shawkri, who is trained as an oil engineer, stuck closely to the official line.

At the end of the war, there was great demand for oil engineers in the Soviet Union and the school trained them in great numbers.

Her parents were British, but had moved to the Caribbean for the purposes of her fathers work as an oil engineer.

Jamal is an oil engineer by profession.

The targets of assassinations are commanders of Iraqi security forces, as well as politicians, doctors, professors and oil engineers.

"I hated him," said Bekhan Musostov, 37, an oil engineer.

He posits that this is exactly why the three oil engineers published their article explaining the curse in 1971.

After graduation, she furthered her studies in Japan to become an oil engineer, and she was also trained as a missile engineer.