# Hydrocarbon production or processing operations. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 29, 2000, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrocarbon-production-or-processing-operations/43138 "2000-11-29T03:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![viten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@viten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/viten)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrocarbon-production-or-processing-operations/43138/1 "2000-11-29T03:18:02Z")
I have just recently applied for a job with a oil company here in australia. On the job advertisement it said that a brief understanding of ‘hydrocarbon production or processing operations’ would be benificial. If you people could tell me a little it might help me to get the job. Any information would be of a great help. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrocarbon-production-or-processing-operations/43138/2 "2000-11-29T03:32:23Z")
If you are within reasonable proximity to a university library, that’s your best bet. As for Internet resources, you might start with the sit eof the Amercian Pwetroleum Institute: > **[API](https://www.api.org/)** > > The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the only national trade association that represents all aspects of America’s oil and natural gas industry. Our more than 600 corporate members, from the largest major oil company to the smallest of... Then try some of the industry links found here: [http://www.1.slb.com/petr.dir/index.html](http://www.1.slb.com/petr.dir/index.html) But really, if you don’t know anything about the industry at all, it’s going to take more than few hours spent cruising web sites to make sense of it. Best of luck anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrocarbon-production-or-processing-operations/43138/3 "2000-11-29T03:34:47Z")
That’s “American Petroleum Institute”, of course. Sorry, seem to have set a record for typos, there. : : walks away, shaking head and muttering at his own stupidity : : ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrocarbon-production-or-processing-operations/43138/4 "2000-11-29T04:35:34Z")
**viten** , that’s a _B-I-G_ subject (hydrocarbon production or processing operations). Can you perhaps be a little more specific about the job for which you’re applying? I am in hydrocarbon exploration and I did work downstream, as a reactor operator in a chemical plant; perhaps I have something to offer you, but we need to circle in a bit. ---
**Author:** ![viten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@viten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/viten)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrocarbon-production-or-processing-operations/43138/5 "2000-11-29T05:44:33Z")
all it says in the add is ‘An understanding of hydrocarbon production or processing operations would be an advantage’ so i dunno. I spoke to a mate who said that it is the proccess the oil goes through once it is pumped out of the ground. so i have no idea in other words. So n e info would be great… it doesn’t matter how much info cos i will read it all. Thanks.