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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The roadmap presented by the International Energy Agency requires extreme measures that could be career changing for petroleum engineers. -
In a world where year after year more and more oil and gas are consumed, a bullish outlook on the market for “oil and gas workers” should not be matter of debate. However, that does not seem to be the case for petroleum engineers.
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This paper describes diversity and inclusion in its broadest sense and its benefits and challenges within the context of the oil and gas industry, in particular with regard to petroleum engineering and subsurface teams.
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I see it like this: Two students took action to start pushing our industry to more openly share basic information about what we do and how we do it, so that we as an industry can benefit by learning from each other.
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Smaller and independent upstream companies often have limited resources for data management. Nonetheless, their data are valuable and must be managed for that value to be realized. Geologists may just be in the perfect position to do the job, if they can get the training.
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In the Q&A, Blasingame talks about how YPs can prepare for the energy transition.
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A 2016-2017 SPE Distinguished Lecturer, and CEO and technical director of XCIDrill Technology, Graham Mensa-Wilmot spoke to African young professionals on how to thrive in petroleum engineering careers.
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Don’t ask the talent pool if they’d like to sign up for a career as a petroleum engineer. Instead, ask them if they want to be at the forefront of the energy transition.
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SPE relaunched the former Women in Energy Standing Committee as the renewed Diversity and Inclusion Standing Committee.
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The World Economic Forum’s Human Capital initiative has been implemented at Satbayev University in Kazakhstan for the past 2 years. This paper assesses the effectiveness of project components, such as industry guest lectures, summer internships, and program improvement, and provides lessons learned for human resources development.
