Career Development
SPE Africa's first Beyond the Borders program, held during the 2025 Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition in Lagos, brought together young professionals from seven African countries to foster collaboration, leadership, and professional growth.
The free, 1-day symposium will bring together graduate students, faculty, and industry leaders dedicated to advancing research, career growth, and energy innovation.
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.
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From their perspective as industry leaders, Cindy Reece and David Ching discuss future job security in the oil and gas industry. -
Find out how SPE training courses can help advance your career.
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Deanna Jones, vice president of human resources and administrative services at Marathon Oil, shares her own career "best practices."
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Job security in the oil and gas industry depends on a few major factors that can have either a positive or negative impact on the industry’s people and profits.
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Results of TWA survey on job satisfaction and job security in oil and gas.
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Interview with John Zornick on hiring former members of the US military.
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Stephen Holditch, now retired as head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M, talks about his multifaceted career.
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You have invested a lot of time and money training new employees. Once employees are fully qualified, how do you retain them?
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CEO Brandon Hayes talks about what he's learned as a young leader helping revitalize Drillchem Drilling Solutions, an oilfield services company.
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Two YPs discuss how they became entrepreneurs, their success, and the biggest challenges they faced in starting their own business.
