UNTAPPED RESERVES: HOW TO IMPROVE GENDER BALANCE IN OIL AND GAS

摘要

The oil and gas sector is in significant need of talent. The industry faces sizable challenges, including those posed by the recent oil price drop and ongoing, potentially game-changing technological advances (such as in robotics and artificial intelligence). It also faces the prospect of having to replace some or all of the approximately 350,000 workers estimated to have been laid off in the industry's recent downturn. Compounding matters, oil and gas companies will have to contend with the industry's pending "crew change," the retirement of many of its most experienced employees aged 50 or older, who make up nearly three-quarters of the current workforce. Finally, the industry will need to attract sufficient numbers of new talent to continue delivering major capital projects, which will be vital to their continuing success.