GEES Conference

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GEES Conference

• Birmingham
• 25-26 June 2007

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Demand for GEES graduates in the petroleum sector

• Tony Grindrod
• AAPG Education Committee
• PESGB Executive Council
• (Training Manager)

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Recruitment and RetentionofPetroleum
Geoscientists

• Tony Grindrod
• AAPG Education Committee
• PESGB Executive Council
• (Training Manager)

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Structure of Presentation

• Entry to the industry
• Who employs GEES graduates?
• Why join the industry?
• Why not!
• Location
• Retention of staff!
• Career timelines

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What did you do at work todaymum?

• I spent all morning playing computer games, and
  then after lunch I built some models
• Denise Cox , Denver geoscientist, CEO
• AAPG Student Affairs Co-ordinator

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Entry to the industryWhat are the routes?

• HND
• BSc
• MSc (Aberdeen, Imperial College, Manchester,
  Royal Holloway)
• MSc (Leeds, NHM, Heriot Watt/Newcastle, Durham,
  SOAS, Kingston)
• PhD

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International RecruitmentThe Milk Round is
back!!

• Delft, Tromso, Bergen, Uppsala
• Leoben
• Zurich
• Adelaide
• Calgary, Edmonton
• UT Austin, Rice, Texas A M, Colorado School of
  Mines, Stanford, Berkeley,Caltech, UC Riverside,
  UW Madison, LSU, UTEP

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Who employs GEES graduates?

• Supermajors, Majors, Indies, SOCs
• Contractors, Service Companies
• Governments
• Financial Institutions, Banks
• Computing/IT Companies
• Utilities
• Remote Sensing/GIS

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Location! Location! Location!

• Does it have to be London, Aberdeen, Houston?
• Surrey/Thames Valley
• Gatwick/Crawley
• Tetbury/Ledbury/Llandudno/Chester
• Glasgow/Edinburgh
• Oslo/Stavanger/Vienna/Pau/The Hague

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Why join the industry?

• Remuneration
• Salary
• Signing-on bonus
• Share options, bonuses
• Housing/Schooling/Re-location
• Leading Technology/IT
• International colleagues
• International travel/postings

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Why not?

• Reputation for cyclic employment
• Hire/Fire!
• Environmental concerns
• Perception of non-green credentials
• Overseas postings
• Language problems

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Skills requirementsHard Skills

• Strong course background
• Links with industry
• Modern European Foreign Language
• Mathematics skills
• IT skills
• Spatial awareness

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Skills requirementsSoft skills

• Ethics/Integrity/Reliability
• Cultural awareness
• Innovative thinking

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Career Timeline I

• International School
• BSc Geology (Durham)
• PhD Sedimentology (Newcastle)
• Oil major London-based/postings to San
  Francisco/Anchorage/Houston
• MBA leading US school
• Board ( director of LloydsTSB/NATS)
• Chairman major financial institution

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Career Timeline II

• School South London Girls State (S)
• BSc Geology/Geography Hull
• HND P/T London
• Geology Technician (Polytechnic)
• Data Storage and Management Company gtgt
  President/VP postings to Casper/Denver/Houston/Dal
  las
• MBA leading UK school
• Consultant on company start-up/finance provider

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Career Timeline III

• GDST School IB
• HL Maths/Physics/Geography
• SL English/French/Chemistry/TOK/CAS/
• EE
• BSc Geology (Oxford)
• Geophysical contractor (Woking/Oslo)
• Computer Company (Houston)
• Financial Services (London)
• IT/GIS consultant (New Zealand)

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Retention

• Poaching
• Longer postings

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Summary

• High oil price for foreseeable future
• Strong market for GEES graduates
• More difficult drilling targets
• 50 of workforce likely to retire within 10 years
• Too few GEES grads in priority areas
  geophysics/petrophysics/petroleum
  engineering/GIS/remote sensing/ environmental
  monitoring