Chapter 20: Some Advice for Non-Professional Petroleum Economists Available to Purchase

Many, if not most, if not the vast majority of petroleum economist practitioners come from other disciplines and backgrounds. Few are petroleum economists by original training. Therefore, as non-professional petroleum economists, they face an immediate challenge, aside from being or becoming proficient at petroleum economics.

That challenge is the same one that managers in companies and even prime ministers and presidents face, which is that they have to surrender their particular cares and interests of the past and now also care about much else besides.

Managers have to care about what happens in parts of the company they may never have worked in, and prime ministers and presidents have to care about what happens all over their country and not just in one part or aspect of it anymore. In the same way, nonprofessional petroleum economists have to care about other disciplines now in addition to their own original one.