Career Development
Kobi McNutt explores her journey from Division I athlete to pioneering deepwater projects in the Gulf of Mexico, highlighting the mental resilience, technical grit, and advocacy that define her impact both on the rig and online.
Artificial intelligence is transforming—not replacing—petroleum engineering. As AI-driven, data-centric methods replace traditional deterministic models, engineers must adapt by acquiring skills in data science, algorithmic thinking, and software tools. The industry’s evolution raises a critical question: Will petroleum engineers evolve with these changes or risk beco…
Panelists discussed expectations for the state of the market by 2050, based on observable trends, evolving policies, and emerging market dynamics.
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A selection of outstanding young professionals in the oil and gas industry whose work positively influences and inspires others. -
Oil and gas businesses are rapidly and strategically shifting to Agile. How can one can best prepare to be relevant?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The roadmap presented by the International Energy Agency requires extreme measures that could be career changing for petroleum engineers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
