We recruit as many as we can possibly handle.
The oil and natural gas we're exploring for and producing today is a lot harder to get at than oil and natural gas was 20 years ago. That takes pretty smart people and pretty high technology.
The average age of petroleum engineers is 49. It won't be very long until all our engineers, geologists and tech people are ready to retire.
If you go back to the old 'Beverly Hillbillies' show, you dig a hole in the ground and oil pops up. Those days are gone. We recruit as many as we can possibly handle.