Career Development

The pace of globalization, despite its critics around the world, continues unabated. This reality raises increasingly pressing management issues for multinationals engaged in today’s complex and rapidly changing environment.

Insight from Jasper Ring, Subsurface Manager for Chevron's Blind Faith Project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

Creativity is not a single or simple process. It includes several key elements that, when combined, result in a new and innovative product or process.

Khaled Al-Buraik, Chief Petroleum Engineer, Petroleum Engineering and Development, E&P, at Saudi Aramco offers insight about the company, its recruitment and career development mechanisms, and its development and promotion programs.

One of the most memorable programs of the MSc petroleum engineering degree course work at Imperial College, London, has been the Intra-Mentoring Group Project. This interesting and challenging exercise involved an integrated study, evaluation, and development of a real reservoir using actual field data provided by the field operator. The truly unique aspect of this pr…

Mentoring is without doubt one of the keys to success. As a young woman in a male-dominated environment, I believe that it is still the human factor that makes the difference.

A Saudi Aramco engineer discusses being one of a few women, and how she balances work and family while sacrificing neither.

How a program of lectures, structured mentoring, and symposiums has helped develop young professionals in Azerbaijan.

Royal Dutch Shell plc has had formal mentoring systems in place for many years. Mentoring is available to staff throughout the company; however, the focus is on new joiners to Shell and in particular new graduate professionals.

Tjerk Joustra, Shell, reflects on his mentoring experiences and how they have helped him along his career path.