Reflecting on his career, a gas executive in his 30s sums up the appeal of his industry. “I worked in Saudi Arabia, and they sent me on a course to learn desert driving, going over the sand in a truck. What other business in the world would give you the opportunity to do that?”
In what other industry, too, would employees, be strapped into a mock-up of a helicopter, plunged into darkness, turned upside down and dropped into a pool of freezing water?
