Career Development
Emuobosa Patience Ojoboh, SPE, shares how unexpected academic challenges changed her career path and how, throughout it all, SPE served as her anchor through uncertainty.
In this interview, Purohit explains why ultrasonic technology is rising as a dominant solution for gas-flow applications and how engineering teams can approach measurement as a tool not just for accountability but also for operational excellence.
Three Namibian engineering graduates have been awarded fully funded scholarships worth more than $40,000 to attend a specialized ROV pilot technician training program at the Netherlands Maritime University College in Malaysia. After completion of the training, Subsea7 will provide the graduates with on-the-job training, integrate them into its global offshore workforc…
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To promote gender diversity in the upstream oil and gas industry, the SPE Women in Energy (WIN) Standing Committee was formed in 2016. The vision of the committee is to empower women to realize their full potential in the industry. The SPE Gulf Coast Section (GCS) WIN Committee was launched in 2018 to further support the mission within the section. The committee hopes…
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Competing narratives make it difficult to evaluate the “big crew change.” Has the worst of it already passed, leaving the industry relatively unscathed?
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These tips are for business professionals who are already comfortable with giving presentations—and may even be admired for their skills—but who, nonetheless, want to excel.
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Halliburton Landmark recently presented a software grant to King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, which provides students and faculty access to Landmark’s DecisionSpace enterprise software platform.
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Workplaces are changing to embrace greater collaboration and interaction. The article speaks to the importance of mentoring and its new and improved version—reciprocal or reverse mentoring.
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To turn the spotlight on YPs' contributions to the industry, the TWA Editorial Committee is launching a new initiative: "TWA Energy Influencers 2020: Young Professionals Who ENERGIZE Our Industry.”
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An assistant driller, Rosie has a wide range of responsibilities, from supervising the daily drilling activities, operating rig floor equipment, and performing downhole or well control calculations, to organizing the people and equipment needed for upcoming operations.
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The article identifies three inflection points where female participation falls off in oil and gas companies.
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Military veterans possess a number of valuable, transferrable skills that are needed in the energy sector, but the transition from the military to oil and gas is not always easy. We talked to a 20-year Air Force veteran about what he learned moving into a career as a reservoir engineer advisor.
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No one wants to be left struggling for an answer in front of a client or a boss, or stuck stammering in a job interview or networking event. Here's useful advice on how to be prepared for several common career situations