Career Development
Discover how engineer Tim Ong, SPE, built a successful career in energy by leveraging transferable skills, embracing mentorship, and navigating a nonlinear path from medical instrumentation to innovation, digital transformation, and leadership.
CCUS and underground gas storage researcher Youwei He shares his insights on energy innovation, academic leadership, SPE service, and the future of subsurface carbon storage.
2026 TWA Energy Influencer Muhammad Karimi shares how he transformed academic research into a globally deployed energy technology, offering insights on innovation, entrepreneurship, oilfield digitalization, and the energy transition.
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Adel Anwar, management consultant, focuses on effective thinking and superior leadership. -
Khalid Aziz, Stanford University, examines the costs and benefits of graduate education by sharing his experience and the lessons he learned along the way.
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Find out what TWA readers said in a survey on the competencies that energy professionals will need for the future.
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Presenting results of a 2007 SPE survey on dual-career couples in the oil and gas industry.
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Lynda Armstrong talks about her career, mentoring, competency development and advice for young professionals.
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Bill Cobb discusses the lifelong job of developing your technical skills, and several key means for doing so.
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Stuart Ferguson talks about his career, competency development, future technology challenges and competitiveness.
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In the oil and gas industry of this era, important issues have arisen because of the age of the workforce. Distinctions between the mature generation, baby boomers, Generation X, and the newest wave of college graduates—dubbed the new millennials—are commonly understood. The matures and baby boomers can be collectively called “old school” in the way they do things. Th…
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Ganesh Thakur, Chevron Energy Technology, discusses the important role that technical professionals play within our industry and the challenges that lie ahead.
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Phil Williams shares his vision of how professional and industry development are responding to new pressures and changing to reflect new values.
