NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES Non-renewable resource is also known as a finite resource, it is a natural resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human timeframes (Wikipedia 2013).
Pay by Industry. As of 2011, about half of all petroleum engineers worked in the oil and gas extraction industry and also earned the highest pay for their occupation, an average of $150,890 per year, according to the BLS.y state, the top earners among petroleum engineers were employed in Massachusetts, where they earned a very high average salary of $221,500 a year, as of 2011. North Dakota ranked second at $176,910 a year, followed by Alaska at $149,450, Texas at $147,070 and Oklahoma at $146,770.
Petroleum engineers are expected to receive the highest average starting salary among Class of 2015 bachelorâs degree engineering majors, and chemical engineering majors are projected to be the top engineering earners at the masterâs level, according to results of NACEâs January 2015 Salary Survey.mong the bachelorâs graduates, petroleum engineers are projected to earn starting salaries that average more than $80,000. (See Figure 1.) Chemical engineering, electrical engineering, and systems engineering majors also are expected to receive top average salaries among engineering majors.