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I am also from chemical engineering background. In fact, I was in the same class as Zaki, my husband. However, I’ve never entered the industrial world of chemical engineering. Instead, I joined fellow academicians in this field. I am currently an academic staff in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor.

Being an academician, I should have a wide knowledge in this field and I constantly update myself with new information in chemical engineering. Below is an interesting fact included in one of the articles I recently read. It is on oil and gas industry.

DID YOU KNOW?

The upstream oil and gas industry:

• Uses more computer power than any other industry except entertainment
• Is actively producing more than 75% of the new energy options for our future, including solar energy, fuel cells, wind-generated energy and hydrogen technology
• Designs and manufactures the extra-vehicular tooling for the space shuttle
• Collects large amounts of met-ocean and atmospheric data that is instrumentral in building new understanding of hurricanes
• Offers the most practical solution to carbon dioxide (CO2) build up in the atmosphere. It can be separated and re-injected it to earth in a process known as CO2 sequestration
• Still doesn’t get as much money for a barrel of oil, in inflation adjusted terms, it did in 1981.
  

Extracted from “Careers in the Petroleum Industry”, Careers in Oil and Gas, Building a Successful Future, E&P Magazine.