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Oil & Gas Production for High School Students REV A 1 Oil & Gas Production for High School Students Jason Dugas, Director of Operations, PetroEd Top Paying Occupations Not Pay Abstract— The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has approved Requiring Education Beyond High Rank TEKS-based Oil and Gas Production courses for high school School students. The course falls within the Agriculture, Food, and Rotary drill operators (oil and gas) 6th Natural Resources cluster and is recommended as career and Service unit operators (oil and gas) 10th technical education (CTE) for students in grades 9-12. This paper explains why the course can be an important part of a student’s Derrick Operators (oil and gas) 11th education and offers guidance for overcoming challenges Roustabouts (oil and gas) 24th associated with millennial engagement. We recommend using blended learning for maximum student impact including A table of today’s average oil field salaries are listed in Table approved eLearning courses, guest speakers, research projects, 1. [5] and field trips; the SkillGRID® workforce development platform TABLE I is profiled as an on-line tool for managing these activities to AVERAGE SALARIES FOR OIL & GAS INDUSTRY achieve an optimal outcome for students that wish to (1) go directly into the workforce after graduation, or (2) follow career paths that Type of Position Average require post-secondary education. Drilling $107,630 Engineering $84,255 I. INTRODUCTION Geoscience $107,389 EW industries are more connected with the state of Texas F than the energy industry. Native Americans found oils Health & Safety $80,829 seeping from Texas soils prior to the arrival of Columbus and the first drilled oil well in Texas was near present day Maritime $102,642 Nacogdoches in 1866. [1] The true start of the Texas oil boom Mgmt./Support $91,227 began with the Spindletop gusher near Beaumont. In 1902, Spindletop alone produced over 17 million barrels of oil, Oilfield Service $74,715 starting a larger trend of other discoveries ever since. [2] Today, Texas leads the nation in crude oil reserves and Production $89,505 production. The state has almost 33% of all United States crude Trades $71,605 oil reserves. [3] II. ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR STUDENTS B. Oil and Gas Job Outlook A. Salaries Oil and gas are commodities. Market prices for these The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes occupational commodities ebb and flow based on a complex interplay employment, job openings, and worker characteristics on a between economic activity, geopolitical factors and production periodic basis. The latest data shows that the top 25 highest rates. In 2014, Saudi Arabia began flooding world markets with paying jobs not requiring college education are dominated supply leading to an oil price collapse and reduction of more by the oil and gas industry, therefore this space represents a than 440,000 sector positions worldwide. [6] substantial opportunity for students that pursue little or no The life cycle of oil and gas fields can be divided into three education beyond high school. [4] stages: 1. Start-up (two to three years for deep water) 2. Plateau production (stable output) 3. Decline On average, a typical offshore well is most productive for roughly 10 years. Since the Saudi market move, many of the REV A 2 U.S. offshore fields already in operation at that time have begun where districts are judged by the state based on their providing to exit the plateau stage and are entering their decline. Once courses within this framework. they enter this lower production stage, prices will tend to rise We work intimately with schools that offer the first two due to the constricted supply available on the market. courses (Oil and Gas Production I & II), but to our knowledge Jobs in the oil and gas sector follow this ‘boom or bust’ only one district in the state of Texas offers or plans to offer all dynamic. The recent spate of layoffs has now been replaced four courses in the series (Oil & Gas Production I, II, III, IV). with a hiring environment favorable to job creation. In fact, That pathway would be shown as follows: employers expect more new positions to be created this year than were lost over the previous year. Recruitment efforts in Year Course the industry are up 60% over the previous year [7]. The activity Freshman Oil and Gas Production I is being led by sharp increases in investment in U.S. land-based Sophomore Oil and Gas Production II shale ‘plays’—oilfield parlance for formations containing Junior Oil and Gas Production III significant oil or gas reserves and which share similar geologic Senior Oil and Gas Production IV and geographic properties. C. The Great Crew Change The pathways shown above is extremely rare. In most cases, Oil and Gas Production I should be the first priority in terms of The skills shortage in the oil patch is frequently cited as one of giving students an edge in the job market, but another viable the biggest challenges facing the industry. In what has been pathway might be as follows: called the “Great Crew Change,” the older generation of employees who were hired before the sweeping lay-offs of the Year Course 1980s—an event similar to the more recent downturn—are now approaching retirement age. [8] Sophomore Intro to Agriculture OR Intro to Manufacturing The senior ranks include positions such as drilling superintendents, rig managers, instructors, area managers, and Junior Oil and Gas Production I (no certifications) tool pushers. Entering these upper ranks usually takes many Senior Oil and Gas Production II years in the industry to be sufficiently qualified. Now that an (RigPass/WellSharp Certifications) entire generation of employees is leaving, the lower ranks will tend to be promoted into recently vacated high-level positions, with entry level jobs being filled by industry new-hires. Year Course The Great Crew Change has also coincided with a reduction Sophomore Introduction to Manufacturing in force from the Saudi supply glut. As oil prices return to Junior Oil and Gas Production I (RigPass normal, oil and gas enterprise organizations will be faced with certification) unprecedented human resource deficits from a combination of Other Vocational/Technology Training the reduction-in-force and the Great Crew Change. (example: Drafting/CAD, process technology, electrical technology, welding, III. USING PETROED E-LEARNING FOR OIL AND GAS culinary arts) PRODUCTION I Oil and Gas Production I and II were approved in Proclamation 2017 as a Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills B. PetroEd E-Learning Modules: Oil and Gas Production I (TEKS)-based course. Oil and Gas Production III and IV are The on-line eLearning modules offered by PetroEd provides a still listed only as innovative courses as of 2018. All of the foundational solution to the challenges outlined above. PetroEd courses fall under the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources is the leading provider of eLearning to the oil and gas sector Career Cluster. worldwide. During the company’s 25 year history, we have developed an extensive library of content, covering a wide A. Pathways range of the specialized topics for working in the oil and gas industry. Pathways has become a strategic priority for the TEA. To create a course that fulfills TEA requirements, we Because of its work with the Texas higher Education selected certain modules traditionally used by our industrial Coordinating Board and the Texas Workforce Commission, client-base to educate their own employees on the “basics of the TEA looks at pathways as a way to boost college and career business.” The TEA approved course features 58 modules that readiness. TEA’s website states that “pathways are not an add- can be completed by the student at his or her own pace at home, on program or new reform, but are designed to work within in the classroom, or a combination of the two. current systems, structures, and budgets.” In effect, students are receiving the same training material We believe the importance of the Oil and Gas Production demanded by our large oil and gas enterprise clients, ensuring course lies in its ability to put high school graduates to work that course content and subject matter have relevance to the quickly after graduation with little or no immediate post- students when they enter the workforce, while also addressing secondary study. Our view is that this course will successfully the TEKS for the course. stand on its own without other introductory coursework, however we recognize the importance of pathways especially REV A 3 C. Learning & Delivery Platform D. Dual Language Feature: Spanish & English PetroEd’s eLearning material is deployed using the learning Many PetroEd eLearning courses are available in both management system (LMS) component of the SkillGRID® English and Spanish. The availability of educational material Workforce Development Platform. The platform was designed in a dual language format has been a key driver in our success for use by industry, but we have extended its capabilities to over the years. Many of the clients we serve operate in Spanish address educational implementations. speaking areas of the world. PetroEd is uniquely positioned to There is an inherent, forward thinking advantage to the offer Spanish-speaking students in Texas a toe-hold into the strategy of using an LMS from industry as opposed to one built more jargon-intensive areas of the industry—some clients even for K-12. Regardless of which post-secondary pathway the report using our courses in an ‘English as a second language’ student selects, the SkillGRID platform is designed to assist and capacity. While the long-term goal of workers in the oil accompany students as they transition into industry or higher industry is to speak fluent English, the criticality of offering education.
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