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Workforce Education at Oil and Gas Companies in the Permian Basin: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Author(s)/Editor(s): Julie Neal (Dearing Sales, USA)and Brittany Lee Neal (Axip Energy Services, USA)
Copyright: ©2019
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8464-3
ISBN13: 9781522584643
ISBN10: 1522584641
EISBN13: 9781522584650
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DescriptionOil and gas companies are continually upgrading drilling and production facilities in response to safety, regulatory, and technology advances, causing the amount of data that an operator must interpret in order to optimize a facility’s production to increase exponentially. Trained employees are at premium demand in the field, and companies are willing to pay for skills. However, there are too many skill-specific positions available and too many untrained applicants, and companies within this industry lack the recruiting, training, and experience necessary to train them. Workforce Education at Oil and Gas Companies in the Permian Basin: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential scholarly resource that examines changing technical, data analysis, and decision-making skills required of operations or maintenance personnel, as well as expectations for future changes. The book contrasts these needs against a typical oilfield worker’s education level and skillset in order to target potential solutions for the challenges that face today’s workforce. Highlighting topics such as economic development, oilfield technology, and employee training, this book is geared toward oil and gas workers, training facilitators, education practitioners, industry professionals, academicians, and researchers.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Julie Neal
Julie Neal earned her Ed.D. in Higher Education from Texas Tech University, MA in Humanities-Literature from California State University, DH, and BA in Political Science and English from the University of Texas, PB. She has 20 years educational experience with private, public and community college levels in the areas of English, speech, humanities, literature, math, history, geography and ITV dual credit. Also, included in her years of teaching experience include Teacher of the Year at two public institutions, teaching the deaf at SWCID in Big Spring, Texas and students with special needs in Midland, Texas. Her administrative experience includes Dean of Lamesa Campus for Howard College. Dr. Neal’s committee experience involves: Core, Critical Thinking Team, Strategic Planning, Program Reviews, SACS Team, Instructional and Workforce Education, Vison, Council, Online Planning, STEM, READe, eLearning, Rotary, Admissions, Advisory, and Affirmative Action committees. Julie is currently working for a private oil and gas company in the Permian Basin as a market research analyst.
Brittany Neal
Brittany Lee Neal earned her Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Development and Business Administration from Texas A&M University. She has 7 years experience that includes the oilfield, human resource, environmental, sales and technical operations manager. Her areas of expertise include environmental compliance, emergency spill response, environmental field services, waste disposal services, remediation, client relations, customer service, communications, leadership, upstream chemicals, and human resources. Her certifications include OSHA HAZWOPER, TCEQ Water Operations, TRWA Water Operations, PEC Hydrogen Sulfide instructor and Safeland training instructor, First Aid, CPR, and Smith Driving. She also gives her time to Big Brothers Big Sisters, Relay for Life, community service projects, local clean-ups, and property improvements. Her work experience includes the areas of Midland, Odessa, Dallas, Richardson, College Station and Crane, Texas. Working for the Society of Petroleum Engineers gave her first hand experience working with engineers, teams, sponsors, contractors, transportation, security, management, and offshore specialists. Her mantra is dedication, passionate project coordinator utilizing goal-oriented tactics, cost-effective solutions and leading by example – as integrity matters.
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