Louis Romo, BP: Finding common ground to advance deepwater well control practices

摘要

For Louis Romo, segment technical authority - well control for BP, a career in the oil and gas industry was the result of a series of fortunate but non-linear events. As a freshman at Texas A&M University in 1986, plans were to pursue a political science and economics degree. Just a year later, however, he decided to take a break from school. When he returned three years later, he decided to change his major to geophysics because he wanted to be a volcanologist. "I wanted to go hiking up volcanoes; that seemed cool. But I soon figured out that the career path was really limited. It was hard to make a living and hard to raise a family."