Young Professionals & Students Programme

This panel aims to spotlight the significance of all sectors partnership in the energy transition. It promotes dialogues that explores today’s most pressing opportunities and challenges across different domains. The conversation will discuss how MENA is building on its current energy heritage to be at the forefront of the net-zero future, the repositioning of the development of the workforce to achieve MENA’s goals and ensuring diversity and inclusion, the speed and scale of current technologies to achieve long term achievements, how MENA is mainstreaming sustainability in the education sector. In this panel, speakers will push the boundaries to invest in solutions that are expanded and enhanced through intersectionality between these sectors in hope to create a future that is holistic and harmonious for MENA’s economy, ecology and society.

As the youth face this era of changes, they hold the key to creating a better future. This panel empowers the youth to drive the conversation on Sustainability in order to orchestrate a sustainable ecosystem for the region and themselves through the value of their work. This conversation will discuss how can the youth contribute to achieve our sustainable development goals, how can they create an impact locally among business lines & communities, how can they shape their voices and be each other’s inspiration “The ripple effect.”

In this workshop four technology professionals will discuss the critical role of geoscience and engineer in sustainability with focus on carbon storage, sequestration, and climate change recent researches and developments. The workshop will highlight related technologies and their influence on nature and environment.

During MEOS GEO 2023, EAGE will conduct its Geo Quiz for all students in attendance and engage in the Student & YP program.
EAGE is a truly multidisciplinary association and this is emphasized in the EAGE Geo Quiz as well. The quiz consists of several rounds with questions related to different fields in the geoscience and engineering industry. Petroleum geoscience, geology, geophysics, petrophysics and drilling are just a few of the fields that students may have to deal with during the competition. The level of the questions differs and will get more difficult along the way. The best way to compete in this quiz is with a multidisciplinary team of students.

• Every team consists of 2-3 students
• Each team will receive one remote control
• Once a team has pressed ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, or ‘d’ the answer cannot be changed anymore
• The questions will be shown on a screen
• Teams will answer the questions under time pressure

In addition to bragging rights, a great prize awaits the winning team.

Start now to build your team and once confirmed please email us at middle_east@eage.org to be registered to take part. You will have the opportunity to register on site for those last minute teams. Please visit the EAGE booth 7.G30 before 12pm on Sunday 19th. Remember the quiz takes place that day at 2pm.

In this workshop technology professionals will discuss the critical role of geoscience in sustainability with focus on carbon storage, sequestration, and climate change recent researches and developments. The workshop will highlight related technologies and their influence on nature and environment.

A brainstorming session for Young Professional attendees to participate and share their thoughts on sustainability and the energy transition. That starts with a talk on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) Followed by a brainstorming session on what does it mean to move the needle towards sustainability. This will allow the attendees to contribute to the constructive net zero dialogue in the presence of SMEs as facilitators of the discussions.

The SEG | DGS Middle East Challenge Bowl Competition quizzes the students’ breadth and depth of knowledge about the field of geoscience. The quiz-show format results in intense competition as the contestants attempt to “buzz in” first with the answers to challenging geoscience questions. It a fantastic opportunity for nominated students to go head-to-head and battle it out for the title of regional winner and will also represent the region in the SEG Challenge Bowl Finals Competition held globally later this year.

Emerging leaders is an interactive program that is designed to provide the future leaders with a strategic framework to develop their soft and leadership skills. The program provides a rich medium for young professional and high potential university students to engage with key executive in the industry and learn from their experiences. Additionally, this event will give emerging leaders the chance to engage with their peers to discuss the industry, and how the new era of engineers will contribute to its future development. The youth will also have the chance to engage with industry and management professionals from around the globe, providing attendees with the chance to debate critical issues, fine tune soft skills, and address key challenges. Activities may include panel and speaker sessions, round table discussions, interactive breakout sessions and more.

Emerging leaders is an interactive program that is designed to provide the future leaders with a strategic framework to develop their soft and leadership skills. The program provides a rich medium for young professional and high potential university students to engage with key executive in the industry and learn from their experiences. Additionally, this event will give emerging leaders the chance to engage with their peers to discuss the industry, and how the new era of engineers will contribute to its future development. The youth will also have the chance to engage with industry and management professionals from around the globe, providing attendees with the chance to debate critical issues, fine tune soft skills, and address key challenges. Activities may include panel and speaker sessions, round table discussions, interactive breakout sessions and more.

This workshop offers a wide range of financial terms and concepts that are essential in a real-world context. The topics would be simplified with analogies from personal life for engineering and geoscience young professionals who have not had extensive exposure to finance as part of their formal education. We then aim to upscale these concepts to how a business works and eventually how the global financial market influences our day to day life. This session will provide attendees with the fundamental building blocks to enable them to dive deeper and ask the right questions related to financial data in their organization or projects.

The session would conclude with the impact of finance on energy transition and the future of oil and gas. The aim is that young professionals gain a strong grasp of the language associated with finance, grounded within the context of everyday decisions. The understanding of risk and return would benefit the attendees in their personal as well as professional life and help them use “the numbers” to their best advantage and make more informed decisions.

Stress can work for you if we learn to channel it positively and energize it! Stress is important in our lives for personal growth, development and sustainability as long as we are able to balance our stress with strategic recovery Due to our hectic lifestyles learning to balance the demands of work/life and recovery is the key to ensuring that you are able to sustain your energy levels sufficiently throughout the day and take back control of your life.

This workshop offers a neurology and programming session that illustrates practical methods for personal growth and influences. The session is essential for personal growth and improvements, it is useful for recent graduates to top managers. The session will enable the participants to discover their inner triggers, thoughts and emotions. Various techniques such as managing self-emotions, changing habits and building confidence will be covered in the session.

The core viewing session will have cores from the following major source rock sequences:

• Precambrian Carbonates & Clastics (e.g., the Buah, Shurham, Ara, Athel from Oman)
• Silurian Clastic Shales (e.g., Qalibah/Qusaibah Fms from KSA, Kuwait, Jordan)
• Late Jurassic Carbonates (e.g., Tuwaiq Mountain, Hanifa, Jubaila, Diyab, Najmah Formations from KSA, Bahrain, UAE & Kuwait)
• Early Cretaceous Carbonates (e.g., Sulay and Manifa from Kuwait, KSA, UAE)
• Mid-Cretaceous Carbonates (Safaniyah, Shilaif, Natih B from KSA, UAE & Oman)
• Late Cretaceous/Early Cenozoic Carbonates (e.g., Muwaqqar Fm from Jordan)

Awali Field was the first oil field to be discovered in the Arabian Peninsula, back in 1932. Located 30 km south of Manama, the field continues to be the economic powerhouse of Bahrain. The half-day field visit will cover outcrops around Jebel Al Dhukhan, the surface expression of the Bahrain anticline, where Eocene Dammam and Rus formations are exposed. These are a part of the conspicuous carbonate rimrock in the center of the island that are surrounded by a ring of younger Miocene and Quaternary formations on the periphery. The visit will give participants an overview of the facies architecture, diagenetic processes and structural features present on the field. It will also cover the present day oil and gas development facilities in Awali Field.

Energy Education Workshop aims to provide teachers the tools they need to teach STEM subjects comfortably. During the workshop, participants will experience hands-on activities using simple components to teach complicated engineering concepts used in the oil and gas explorations and production.