The Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP) and the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Foundation (Foundation) is pleased to announce our scholarship program targeted at  students pursuing careers in the oil and natural gas industry.

Each scholarship will be worth a minimum of $1,000 per year and can be renewed for up to four years.  The minimum scholarship criteria includes:

• Student must have a career goal in the crude oil and natural gas industry, or related energy field.
• Student must be an OHIO resident, OR, a student attending, OR planning to attend an Ohio college, university or vocational school.
• Student must be enrolled full-time in a program at a college or university, OR a high school senior enrolling in a 4-year college program, OR, a student attending or enrolling in a vocational school.

"In 2010, Ohio celebrates its 150^th Anniversary of the first commercial well drilled in the state.  Since then more than 273,000 natural gas and crude oil wells have been drilled.  Changes in technology and energy demand drive our need to encourage more students to pursue careers in domestic energy production.  By establishing scholarship opportunities, we want to reward these outstanding students who will certainly help develop, produce and supply tomorrow's energy needs," states Rhonda Reda, Executive Director, OOGEEP and the Foundation.

 The deadline for applications is March 31st, and scholarship winners will be announced by May 31st of each year.