A New Generation Is Coming To Work, But Is the Oil and Gas Industry Ready?

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (12) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
Trent Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Technical Conference ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Low Carbon Technologies ◽  
New Generation

Even before a pandemic changed the course, the oil and gas industry was destined for big change, thanks to pressure coming from a number of different fronts. The asymmetric challenges include the industry’s dire need to get caught up on the digital transformation while also figuring out how to embrace the separate arena of low-carbon technologies. Representing the human embodiment of this juggling act is another new challenge: Generation Z. Born between 1996 and 2010, Generation Z - or Gen Z, or the plural, Gen Zers - represents one of the clearest signals that the great crew change has come and gone. Yet, big questions remain about whether oil and gas companies and the academic programs that feed them talent have fully adapted to this reality. Three new technical papers recently presented during the 2020 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) suggest that the answer is no. However, what the papers also suggest is that there are clear steps that industry can take to become a more attractive one to the youngest generation of workers. The most common thread between the papers is the call for major reforms in how petrotechnicals of the future are educated at school and trained at work. Putting the scope of the generational gap into clearer context, one of the papers from professors at the Australian College of Kuwait found that Baby Boomers (those born from 1944 to 1964) make up only 6% of the current industry workforce. Meanwhile, about a quarter of all employees are Generation Z. The following is a selection of the actions upstream companies and petroleum engineering departments are being told will help them adapt to the technological and generational shifts that are redefining the business. To Lead Gen Z, Think Like Gen Z To appreciate Generation Z, one must first understand why they are different from generations of past. Two chief characteristics that stand out to Maria Capello is that Gen Z is driven by community and dialogue.

Lessons Learned in Developing Human Capital for the Oil and Gas Industry in Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (08) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Chris Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Technical Conference ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Colorado School ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Successful Model

This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 201272, “Lessons Learned in Developing Human Capital for the Oil and Gas Industry in Kazakhstan,” by Zhassulan Dairov, SPE, KIMEP University and Satbayev University; Murat Syzdykov, SPE, Satbayev University; and Jennifer Miskimins, SPE, Colorado School of Mines, prepared for the 2020 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, originally scheduled to be held in Denver, Colorado, 5–7 October. The paper has not been peer reviewed. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Human Capital initiative has been implemented at Satbayev University (SU), Almaty, Kazakhstan, during the last 2 years. Participating in this effort are Chevron, Eni, Shell, and the Colorado School of Mines (Mines). The complete paper assesses the effectiveness of project components, such as industry guest lectures, summer internships, and program improvement, and provides lessons learned for human-resource-development initiatives. Introduction In most cases, the industry/ university alliance is intermittent, short-term, and underdeveloped. The engagement of three stakeholders, such as government, industry, and the university, is the most-successful model of joint performance. This approach allows all participants to create competitive advantages in the achievement of common objectives. Moreover, the role of governmental agencies is critical alongside professional organizations in facilitating such cooperation.

scholarly journals Strategic perspectives of the oil and gas sector industrial development

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-374
Author(s):  
O. I. Kalinskiy ◽  
M. A. Afonasiev
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Sector

The authors study oil and gas industry, its condition and perspective trends of industrial development. One of them involves applying low carbon and low cost technologies. The authors introduce new strategic imperatives in oil and gas sector to perform energy transition. They study the types of categories of perspective trends of the industry’s development: scaling up the development and implementation of a carbon capture and storage system, using low carbon raw materials, making it possible to take granular measurements. The article deals with perspectives of the oil and gas industry for the current year. The perspectives are built with the consideration of the previous year’s indicators and include all the past disasters and the dynamics of their solution and the results for the society. The authors show wider implementation of drones used for abnormal emissions of hydrogen sulfide to carry out distant monitoring, observations, inspections and preventive maintenance, change tracking, methane management, emergency response and material processing. The article describes precision drilling which reduces the risk of accidents, oil spills, fires and increases rate of penetration. The authors present microwave hydraulic fracturing which can become the next significant achievement in the perspective development of the industry.

Transdisciplinary Application of Functional Materials in Petroleum Engineering

2021 ◽  
Vol 1035 ◽  
pp. 649-654
Author(s):  
Gu Fan Zhao ◽  
Rui Yao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Functional Materials ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
Densified Wood ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Literature Metrology

Currently, transdisciplinary integration has become increasingly close, and has gradually become the source of innovation. At the same time, petroleum engineering technologies demand more new technologies like functional materials and electronic information technologies. In order to effectively promote technological innovation and development of the petroleum engineering, it is important to continuously monitor, analyze and evaluate the latest development of the technologies outside of the oil and gas industry. This paper combines qualitative analysis of onsite demands, application cases, technical characteristics, and quantitative analysis of literature metrology, patent evaluation, technology maturity, to evaluate the application prospects of densified wood, liquid metal and poly (thioctic acid) in the field of petroleum engineering, and specific transdisciplinary suggestions are put forward. It is recommended to carry out pre-research work for the potential application of functional materials in the petroleum engineering, and it is expected to introduce new materials for downhole tools, new antennas for downhole instruments, extend long-term effectiveness of downhole plugging, and improve drilling efficiency.

Transition to a low carbon economy in the context of the oil and gas industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
P. N. Mikheev
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Carbon Economy

The article discusses issues related to the transition of the oil and gas industry to a low-carbon economy. Within the framework of the scenario approach the key risks of the transition period are considered. The importance of managing climate risks for organizations in the oil and gas industry is emphasized. The prospect of including climatic risks in the general risk management system of the organization is shown. Examples of the implementation of new approaches to climate risk management and adaptation to climate change in Russia and abroad are given.

Human Factors in Domain Adaptation Within the Oil and Gas Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iraj Ershaghi ◽  
Milad A. Ershaghi ◽  
Fatimah Al-Ruwai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Domain Expertise

Abstract A serious issue facing many oil and gas companies is the uneasiness among the traditional engineering talents to learn and adapt to the changes brought about by digital transformation. The transformation has been expected as the human being is limited in analyzing problems that are multidimensional and there are difficulties in doing analysis on a large scale. But many companies face human factor issues in preparing the traditional staff to realize the potential of adaptation of AI (Artificial Intelligence) based decision making. As decision-making in oil and gas industry is growing in complexity, acceptance of digital based solutions remains low. One reason can be the lack of adequate interpretability. The data scientist and the end-users should be able to assure that the prediction is based on correct set of assumptions and conform to accepted domain expertise knowledge. A proper set of questions to the experts can include inquiries such as where the information comes from, why certain information is pertinent, what is the relationship of components and also would several experts agree on such an assignment. Among many, one of the main concerns is the trustworthiness of applying AI technologies There are limitations of current continuing education approaches, and we suggest improvements that can help in such transformation. It takes an intersection of human judgment and the power of computer technology to make a step-change in accepting predictions by (ML) machine learning. A deep understanding of the problem, coupled with an awareness of the key data, is always the starting point. The best solution strategy in petroleum engineering adaptation of digital technologies requires effective participation of the domain experts in algorithmic-based preprocessing of data. Application of various digital solutions and technologies can then be tested to select the best solution strategies. For illustration purposes, we examine a few examples where digital technologies have significant potentials. Yet in all, domain expertise and data preprocessing are essential for quality control purposes

The Role of Pre-College STEM Education in Student Enrollment in Petroleum Engineering

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayef Alyafei ◽  
Afsha Shaikh ◽  
Mohamed Gharib ◽  
Albertus Retnanto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
School Students ◽  
Gas Industry

Abstract Final-year high school students are faced with a difficult decision when selecting their undergraduate major of choice. Often, the decision is made even more difficult by uncertainty about what different majors entail. Petroleum engineering in particular is a discipline that is generally not explored within high school classrooms and therefore students lack understanding about the roles of engineers in the oil and gas industry. To combat this uncertainty, this paper explores the potential of running pre-college project-based learning programs to increase high school students’ interest in and familiarity with pursuing various undergraduate STEM disciplines and careers. More specifically, this paper provides an insight into two case studies of novel STEM education programs, developed to enhance a group of high school students’ understanding of petroleum engineering. The programs were designed to increase students’ interest in learning about the selected petroleum engineering concepts, namely polymer flooding to enhance oil recovery and multiphase fluid flow in porous media, while simultaneously providing an understanding of the current global challenges faced by the oil and gas industry. The program also aimed to engage students in learning and applying fundamental engineering skills to relatable real-world issues. These project goals will help facilitate the desire, commonly seen in recent years, of developing countries to increase their oil and gas production. This program was applied during the Summer Engineering Academy program offered by Texas A&M University at Qatar, which provides an innovative educational space for high school students. The program was conducted with the main objective of allowing the students to understand the basic concepts of petroleum engineering via short lectures as well as laboratory experimentation. Students in Grades 9-11 spent 10 days learning about petroleum engineering applications that integrated science, engineering, and technology where they designed, built, and tested an experimental setup for understanding various processes in petroleum engineering. Students were expected to solve a common problem faced in the petroleum industry. At the end of the program, the students gained an understanding of the issues and recommended unique solutions to these problems in the form of oil-recovery based projects presented to a panel of experts. This program attempted to build bridges between the STEM education pipeline of rapidly developing countries, such as Qatar, and the new demand for talent in the oil and gas sector. The details of this novel program are presented, including the content, preparation, materials used, case studies, and the resulting learning outcomes.

Research into the Dependency of the Flame-Retardant Textile Safety Index on the Fibre Content

10.12737/2547 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Анна Савинова ◽  
Anna Savinova ◽  
Юрий Тюменев ◽  
Yuriy Tyumenev ◽  
Татьяна Чернышова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flame Retardant ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Fibre Content ◽  
Water Repellent ◽  
Safety Index ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

Employment in the oil and gas industry, due to the specifics of work, is fraught with explosion and fire. One of the ways to protect the employees is the use of new generation special-purpose flame-retardant wear. The article at hand provides the results of research into the dependency of flame-retardant textiles safety index on the fibre content. The objective of the research was to identify the impact of the fibre content of oil-and-water-repellent-impregnated flame-retardant textiles on the tailored properties. The task of the researchers was to conduct a comparative analysis of the objects of research against various indices, and with the analysis data in mind determine the consumer product ID preferences in the market of special-purpose high-temperature/fire/oil-refined-product-protective wear.

New Generation of Heavy Wall Thicknesses Line Pipes for HPHT and Ultra-Deep Water Applications

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Crippa ◽  
Lorenzo Motta ◽  
Alessandro Paggi ◽  
Emanuele Paravicini Bagliani ◽  
Alessandro Elitropi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wall Thickness ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
High Pressures ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Rolling Process ◽  
Corrosion Properties ◽  
Line Pipe ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
New Generation

Oil and Gas industry in the last decades has increased the use and need of heavy wall thickness line pipes, in particular for onshore / offshore high pressures and high temperatures (HP/HT) and offshore deep water / ultra-deep water applications. The paper presents the results achieved by Tenaris on seamless line pipes in grades X65/X70, according to API 5L / ISO 3183, with wall thickness in a range from 40 to 60 mm and diameter between 6 5/8” and 16”, produced by hot rolling process followed by quenching and tempering. Such line pipes are able to withstand very demanding conditions, like sour environment, very high pressure and wide temperature range. In this publication, the main outcomes of laboratory testing activities on the mentioned materials will be presented as part of heavy wall line pipe qualification. For this purpose, a special testing program, including mechanical and corrosion tests, has been executed. Material demonstrated an excellent behaviour, exhibiting both mechanical, toughness and stress corrosion properties suitable for the envisaged harsh applications.

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