With an increasing focus towards gender equality in Egypt’s oil and gas sector, it is evident that middle management has a responsibility to achieve inclusion and diversity targets. Middle management plays an integral role in translating goals and strategies set by the top management into policies and targets that are achievable by employees.
Digitized equipment has helped women's participation in extractive fields and encouraged them to reject the stereotypes of “male-dominated” industries. Using recent technologies could help Egypt bridge the gender gap in these sectors as it helps women have more flexibility to challenge the existing barriers.
In order to boost female participation and give women equal opportunities of building a successful career path, the industry has to ensure that female graduates are up-to-date and well trained, and emphasize how reskilling through a top-down approach can create a bigger impact.
Including humanities and liberal arts studies into the engineering curriculum can produce more well-rounded engineers into the next generation. Egypt Oil and Gas spoke to a range of students, academics, and practitioners in order to know their views on the application of humanities to engineering.
Mature fields remain a popular investment. However, as production curves decline and surrounding infrastructure ages, mature fields present both technical and operational challenges that affect the viability of making or maintaining an investment.
AIM systems ensure that companies are able to maintain the integrity of their assets while adopting cost-effective methods. Having a clear AIM system allows companies to optimize operations, and to ensure safety through analyzing their equipment, infrastructure and workforce.
How can we improve safety standards among local contractors employed in the oil and gas sector? Egypt Oil & Gas spoke to HSE experts to find out what local and international companies can do to ensure high HSE performance throughout the contracting chain.
Mental health of workers in the oil and gas sector is one of the less publicized risks facing workers despite being a very crucial issue. Neglecting the well being of employees leads them to poorly handle the rapid changes that take place in the work environment, which compromises their ability to work under pressure.
How economically viable is it to invest in mature fields? As the economic limit changes from field to field, it is important to consider all the factors that can affect an investment, such as the current oil price, the state of surrounding infrastructure, the projected depletion curve, and the ease of extraction.
Groundwater does not only affect soil, it affects humans, animals, and economy. In many ways, the oil and gas industry could contaminate groundwater; yet, there are some ways to prevent or decrease the pollution.
