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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Khaled Al-Buraik, Chief Petroleum Engineer, Petroleum Engineering and Development, E&P, at Saudi Aramco offers insight about the company, its recruitment and career development mechanisms, and its development and promotion programs. -
Carl Montgomery discusses his career and the value of pursuing a technical track.
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Bill Gammell discusses his career, his company, remaining competitive and his advice for young professionals.
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Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa offers a recipe for success that includes an inspiring vision, internal and external balance, polishing technical and interpersonal skills, and choosing the right ship.
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Who can deliver a message to Young Professionals (YPs) better than a YP himself? On 2 June, Said Al-Adawi, Schlumberger Oman Country Manager, spoke in Muscat, Oman, about career development to approximately 80 enthusiastic attendees representing different companies and technical backgrounds.
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The first SPE North American Young E&P Professionals Workshop was held in Keystone, Colorado, during 10–11 April. The event was attended by young E&P professionals from all over North America, including engineers (reservoir, facilities, drilling, completion, and production), sales representatives, land negotiators, and advisers from many companies. Participants from N…
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Mentoring is without doubt one of the keys to success. As a young woman in a male-dominated environment, I believe that it is still the human factor that makes the difference.
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Royal Dutch Shell plc has had formal mentoring systems in place for many years. Mentoring is available to staff throughout the company; however, the focus is on new joiners to Shell and in particular new graduate professionals.
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As the industry faces the challenge of getting new workers up to speed faster, knowledge management programs hold the promise of helping to transfer knowledge from experienced workers to those who need to learn it.
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Editor Thomas Bruni discusses mentoring's place in the big picture.
