GIVEN the oil demand destruction wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic and the increasing focus on cutting global greenhouse gas emissions, now may seem like an inopportune time to be an aspiring geoscientist. Adam Law thinks otherwise. Managing director of UK-based energy consulting group ERCE, Law has been in the business long enough to have weathered more than a few downturns, and while recovery from the current one will be different, he says, demand will not disappear any time soon. "There is an energy transition, or rebalancing, and that will continue. But while we are building that new infrastructure and finding alternatives to petrochemicals, we're going to need carbon-based energy and materials, possibly for a long period of time." Law himself was working on his undergraduate degree in exploration geophysics at University College London (UCL) in the wake of the 1980s oil price shock, and most of his classmates took jobs outside oil and gas.
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