Established in 2014, this challenge is a three-month period program that encourages young professionals to become more proactive in the working environment through addressing real present-day conflicts within the oil and gas industry.
At the end of the three months, team members will complete their work, present the solution and implementation methods in the closing ceremony. Predesignated teams are presented a challenge they will propose their solutions, which will be shared with the organizations that issued the challenge.
Examples of Challenges:
2013-2014:
Technical Project:
- Developing a unified world-class seismic data process workflow
- Removing multiples from seismic utilizing efforts of the VSP group and processing division
- Unifying Aramco formation tops between departments for all wells
*winning team topic
Non-technical Projects:
- Improving publication approval process
- Breaking communication barriers and encouraging knowledge sharing within exploration
- Overcoming career growth hurdles and tackling issues related to mentorship, recognition, SDP goals and advanced degrees
2016-2017
- Encourage YPs to read and share technical articles to keep up with recent technological advances.
- Optimize YPs onboarding time (Geo-train program efficiency, workflows for transition between train program and department’s selection, toolkit to help new hires navigate and find data).
- Standardize weekly updates by exploration professionals to their direct report.
- Strategies for better engagement with senior professionals: Well-defined YP mentorship program, specific for each department.
- Adjust existing counterintuitive workflows and procedures.
- Classify and sort incoming and existing departmental databases (i.e. shared folder, petrel projects, cores and seismic data).
- Improve communication channels between service departments and proponents to provide desired products and proper feedback, vice versa. (i.e. platform to advertise recent technologies and offered services, and prevent unused products).
*winning team: Zaid Al Musallam, Jose Johnson, Mohammed Arfaj
