Many are the engineers, geologists and other petro-people who survived the savage culls of the 1980s, brought on by the low price of oil at the time.
According to Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC), more than 22,000 senior petrotechnical professionals are set to leave the industry by 2015.
It is predicted they will be replaced by a mere 16,500, equating to a net loss of more than 5500 personnel.
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