GRADUATING WITH HONORS at the height of the boom in 1980 with a petroleum engineering degree, Kevin Lacy had his pickings. His five summer jobs had given him a taste of drilling, production and reservoir engineering, but he wanted to learn things first-hand, and he knew it was drilling that would get him into the field right away. He ended up choosing Chevron because the company sends its drilling engineers to the rigs in a leadership capacity. "I had learned the field work and basics through summer and part-time jobs, and I was ready to take it to the next level," he said.
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