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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A Saudi Aramco engineer discusses being one of a few women, and how she balances work and family while sacrificing neither. -
Tips on how to mentor well and how to gain the most from your mentor.
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In this TWA interview, Hayward shows how important it is to learn to think with your heart as well as your head. He also demonstrates that you can be passionate about your work while enjoying life outside your career.
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Tjerk Joustra, Shell, reflects on his mentoring experiences and how they have helped him along his career path.
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The E&P industry offers young professionals something that no other industry can: an international venue that combines business and technology in a challenging way.
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Mentoring represents the most powerful means to address the pending "crew change" and facilitate the transfer of knowledge from seasoned seniors to the young. Young professionals speak out on the subject.
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David Tournadre, Vice President of Personnel at Schlumberger, discusses how there is no recipe for success—it is very much driven by hard work, the results you produce, and your own individual motivation.
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Cheryl Collarini and Claude Thorp, both of Collarini Energy Staffing, examine how employees should look at the pros and cons of changing jobs.
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Bill Robb, Managing Director of Profit Improvers Ltd., offers six steps for assessing business, career, and relationship risks.
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Eni engineer Andrea Rimoldi ponders whether a transfer to Angola is worth it. Tricia Stephens encourages risk taking and thinking outside the box.
