Career Development
Seven young professionals were selected to represent SPE at the 2026 Emerging Leaders Alliance Conference.
A global portal to collaboration and growth, the Student Chapter Development Workshop connects SPE student chapters worldwide to exchange knowledge and learn from industry experts, all under the 2026 theme of catalyzing carbon management innovation.
Brittany N. Cole offers career advice on how new graduates can avoid the “busy but ineffective” trap, prioritize high-impact work, and build strategic value in their first 90 days to accelerate long-term career growth in an AI-driven workforce.
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I realized how ignorant and oblivious I had been up until that point of the lived experiences of women and the many layers of challenges they face. … The first step to moving to a gender equal world is for people to become curious and to seek to understand the issues. -
Young professionals from multiple technical societies and associations were identified as emerging leaders in the offshore energy sector.
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What is it like to work in a highly coveted and respected national security lab? Mohamed Mehana, a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, describes his work profile and shares insights into building a research career.
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While extremely rewarding, graduate school is not for everyone. However, I find many students do not consider it because they have a misunderstanding about what graduate students do and what their daily life looks like.
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Career paths in the oil and gas industry are more flexible than perceived. TWA reached out to four distinguished professionals who have built exemplary careers, successfully navigating through various twists and turns along the way.
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A selection of outstanding young professionals in the oil and gas industry whose work positively influences and inspires others.
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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.
