Todd A. Green, technical advisory group team lead at Aramco, discusses how Aramco encourages young to mid-career petroleum engineers to receive their SPE Petroleum Engineering Certification.
Prior to this effort, Saudi Aramco had developed a strategy to manage and retain explicit and tacit knowledge from the experienced retiring workforce through a corporate university know as Upstream Professional Development Center (UPDC). When establishing training programs at UPDC, a critical factor was to identify principle in-house subject-matter experts (SMEs) and capture their knowledge. Additionally, UPDC utilizes the in-house SMEs to deliver courses. When creating a program to prepare young professionals for the SPE Certification, the UPDC was able to leverage existing programs and in-house SMEs to create a program for preparing to take the SPE Certification Exam.
In this discussion, Green discusses the details of the program and the success of the efforts as of today, achieving a 98% passing rate with over 1200 engineers certified.