Career Development
The 1-day event organized by SPE Gulf Coast Section Young Professionals empowers young professionals, interns, and students with the knowledge to choose and plan appropriate career paths as they become valuable members of their organizations.
This article explores how early-career engineers can build the competencies needed to support sustainability in oil and gas operations, not just for efficiency but also for climate resilience.
Aman Srivastava, SPE, recently spoke with students—from elementary school to university—about the oil industry and his work in the field. What began as outreach turned into a moment of reflection on his own career. Here's what he learned.
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The history of Sakhalin Island, Russia and what it's like to live and work there. -
TWA Editor Luis Ayala weighs the pros and cons of technical and managerial career paths.
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An engineer must continue to increase his or her development through continuing self-development. The SPE Petroleum Engineering Certification Program can be extremely beneficial to an engineer’s professional and personal life.
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Another new series debuting this issue looks at young women in the oil industry—where are they working, what are they doing, what are their challenges? In this first article, we explore the experiences of women working in the field.
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A conversation with Christine Ehlig-Economides, professor of petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University about her career and industry R&D.
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Aberdeen's role in the North Sea industry and what it is like to live and work there.
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I have benefited from all kinds of opportunities that have exposed me to a variety of challenges and, increasingly, I have had the chance to draw on experiences from many different environments.
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Ali Ghalambor, head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, looks at petroleum engineering as a career—one he considers at times to be more sophisticated than rocket science—and offers some insight into the profession.
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In prior surveys, young professionals expressed a preference for managerial careers. So we surveyed experienced professional to get their feedback on the differences and making the right choice.
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Technical and managerial career paths are not mutually exclusive. For 80 or 90% of technical management roles, there is significant common ground with respect to the journey, accomplishments, recognition, and relative success.
