Abhijeet Anand

Schlumberger

Abhijeet Anand is an energy industry professional who specializes in reservoir performance solutions and people productivity practices. Anand is a people development manager for reservoir performance division, India, at Schlumberger. He has more than 7 years of energy industry experience spanning across three continents. He is an active volunteer for SPE, heads the Soft Skills department in TWA, delivers SPE Ambassador Lectures, and is a young professional member of the SPE Business Management and Leadership committee. Anand is the founder and director of Sarthak Mentoring Program, a life skills mentoring program for young adults from remote towns and villages across India. He holds a master’s degree in political marketing from the Rome Business School, Italy, a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, and a diploma in entrepreneurship and business law from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

Business

Three Traits That Make a Leader Stand Out

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.

June 8, 2021 • Abhijeet Anand • The Way Ahead
Career Development

Five Stories Show Skills for Aspiring Leaders in the Oil Industry

Looking to the stories of those who have experienced the hardest situations will teach us how to face anything in our paths, and that is exactly what this article will do. Here, we present five short stories of extraordinary achievers in the oil and gas industry and their incredible journeys.

August 24, 2020 • Abhijeet Anand • The Way Ahead
Technology

Saltwater Disposal: A Key to Permian Productivity

As the Permian Basin has boomed again, recent conversations focused on how pipeline takeaway capacity limits the ability of operators to develop the basin to its full potential. In addition to solving the takeaway problem, water management is another bugbear waiting to be addressed.

February 28, 2019 • Andreas Michael • The Way Ahead
Students/Education

East Meets West Ninth Congress Attracts Students From 36 Universities

The AGH University of Science and Technology (UST) SPE student chapter organized the East Meets West International Student Petroleum Congress and Career Expo during 10–12 April. Around 200 students and university representatives from several parts of the world, as well as exploration and production (E&P) companies were gathered in Kraków for the ninth time. With SPE I…

September 6, 2018 • Yogashri Pradhan • The Way Ahead
Students/Education

SPE ISM Chapter Makes Mentorship More Accessible to School Students

Under the banner of SPECares the SPE Indian Institute of Technology Indian School of Mines [IIT (ISM)], Dhanbad, Student Chapter in India has joined hands with Sarthak, a unique mentoring program tailored to the needs of children from low income communities. In the pursuit of empowering millennials for a better tomorrow, the program started in February with 12 enthusi…

July 1, 2018 • Yogashri Pradhan • The Way Ahead
Students/Education

SPE South America and Caribbean Region Student Members Spend “A Day as an Engineer”

Back in 2013, Reinel Echavez and his colleagues at the Universidad de Oriente (UDO) SPE student chapter were looking for options to improve student communication and networking with the regional oil companies. Keeping this in mind, when Echavez made the transition to a professional position in 2017 as a reservoir engineer at Petrocedeno (a joint venture between PDVSA,…

March 4, 2018 • Luis Enrique Valencia • The Way Ahead
Students/Education

2017 SPE Student Paper Contests: Words From the Winners

SPE conducted the 2017 International Student Paper Contests (SPC) during the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) held in San Antonio, Texas, in October. The technical paper contests are conducted under the Undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD categories, with each category having three winners. This year’s winners are:

November 8, 2017 • Yogashri Pradhan • The Way Ahead