Students/Education
Students and young professionals gathered in late May for the 2025 Latin America and the Caribbean Student Symposium for 2 days of programs including the PetroBowl regional qualifiers, student sessions, roundtable discussions with companies, and more.
The competition tasked participants with formulating a detailed oil and gas field development plan.
The campus will offer four core bachelor’s degree programs in mining, geology and geological exploration, geophysical engineering, and petroleum engineering.
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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. -
The London Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) saw an increased interest in its activities in 2005, and it looks forward to repeating this performance in 2006. The focus for this year will be on increasing networking opportunities between ELP members and industry professionals through several events.
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On 15 February 2006, the Ambassador Lecturer Pilot Program kicked off at Delft U. of Technology, Faculty of Earth Sciences. The event was hosted by Nicolaas Boot, President of the SPE Student Chapter Delft. About 25 graduates and PhD students attended the event.
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Have you seen what is happening out there? Young professionals in the petroleum industry are joining together, interacting, and networking in ways never previously seen in our industry. Young professionals are reaching out to students to share their enthusiasm about their careers and provide a lens into their exciting futures. The interaction with a successful young p…
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Mankind has always tried to achieve the impossible. It is one of the most latent and potent desires among achievers to do something that appears extraordinary. Exploring deep within the Earth to produce a fluid that powers economies and empowers nations falls under the category of “extraordinary worth.” The challenges involved in achieving this feat are immense, and t…
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By now, many people throughout the petroleum industry have been made aware of the Ambassador Lecturer Pilot Program (ALPP), part of SPE’s effort to recruit and retain petroleum engineering students and promote the energy industry as an exciting and challenging career. The ALPP allows young professionals the opportunity to visit local university SPE student chapters to…
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The first issue of TWA was dedicated to the “survivors”: the young oil and gas industry professionals who, in the last several years, have been in considerable decrease. It is clear that one of the main missions of YEPP sections all around the world is contacting as large a number of young professionals as possible to share SPE values.
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In October, the SPE Gulf Coast Section Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) held its 4th Annual Petrobowl competition at the 2005 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Dallas. Petrobowl is a competition in which universities compete in teams of four against each other to answer questions ranging from the fundamentals of petroleum engineering to the unique and ri…
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Several SPE young professionals from Saudi Arabia along with members of the SPE student chapter at King Fahd U. of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) recently took a trip to Dubai. The students and young professionals spent 4 days learning about the activities and operations of several operator and service companies.
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The Student Chapter of King Fahd U. of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) was officially established in June 1996. The chapter consists of 122 members, mostly students but also young professionals, professionals, and professors. The main mission of the chapter is to promote members’ creativity, emphasize the role of petroleum engineering in society, support the local SPE …
