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As the workplace continues to evolve in the “new normal,” the workforce must continue to adapt its job-hunting skills to find future employment in the virtual age. This panel will answer questions that can help you land your next job.
The SPE Research Portal uses artificial intelligence technology, fortified by industry knowledge, to address the long-term challenges of finding and analyzing information in unstructured data.
A review of three documentaries covering the petroleum industry and what might be learned from them beyond their immediate message.
In the ongoing digital transformation in the industry, it's not enough if we only adapt and improve data-processing capabilities; we should also empower human interaction, study, engagement, and collaboration through the use of that data.
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At work, we often call senior professionals and senior managers as leaders, but there’s much more to being a leader than experience or position within an organization. -
When the attitude of the crew seems fixed and nothing could be done, it's time for “what-if” thinking.
Oil and gas businesses are rapidly and strategically shifting to Agile. How can one can best prepare to be relevant?
Your most valuable career asset and bargaining chip is your reputation for increasing stakeholder value; if you want to avoid lamenting missed opportunities, enhance and leverage that reputation by following the advice of oil and gas leaders who help teams navigate industry volatility.
For petroleum engineering graduates, the job profile in investment banks and private equity firms start with the common technical knowledge of the petroleum world but slowly expands to economics, management, and global energy situations.
The roadmap presented by the International Energy Agency requires extreme measures that could be career changing for petroleum engineers.
In a world where year after year more and more oil and gas are consumed, a bullish outlook on the market for “oil and gas workers” should not be matter of debate. However, that does not seem to be the case for petroleum engineers.
This paper describes diversity and inclusion in its broadest sense and its benefits and challenges within the context of the oil and gas industry, in particular with regard to petroleum engineering and subsurface teams.
I see it like this: Two students took action to start pushing our industry to more openly share basic information about what we do and how we do it, so that we as an industry can benefit by learning from each other.
Smaller and independent upstream companies often have limited resources for data management. Nonetheless, their data are valuable and must be managed for that value to be realized. Geologists may just be in the perfect position to do the job, if they can get the training.
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SPE is accepting applications for its annual Energy Startup Competition. The deadline for applications is 2 July. -
Fourteen technologies from 14 companies around the world were selected, including five companies receiving small business recognition.
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A workforce with the right know-how to maximize the tools being used or investigated in the industry is a critical feature to support a clear route forward. -
Earlier this year, 19 teams competed in a machine-learning contest held by the Data Analytics Study Group of SPE’s Gulf Coast Section. The was the first competition of its kind for SPE. Here, the organizers of the contest present some of the techniques used and lessons learned from the Machine Learning Challenge 2021.
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To develop improved predictive models of complex real-world problems, one needs to pursue a balanced perspective. Ultimately, the physics we know needs to rely on data to unmask the physics that we do not yet know.
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Thirty three years in the oil and gas industry and I never get tired of watching a sunset. This photo was taken from the helideck of the Ocean Onyx mobile offshore drilling unit which is currently drilling for Beach Energy, offshore Australia. I’m looking out over the Otway Basin and the vast expanse of the Southern Ocean. How far south are we? Well if I was to get in…
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I’m proud to share the nice celebration of a big milestone recently achieved: 100,000 b/d produced in Iara license by the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel P-68. Congratulations to Total E&P Do Brasil and all involved. It is only the beginning of this incredible adventure.
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Now more than ever, one of the biggest values of SPE membership is the professional networking opportunity. From personal experience, the sense of community I've found by being involved with SPE and the connections I've made along the way have been of the greatest benefit.
