Defining Future Subsurface Education Needs in Collaboration with the Energy Industry

This project (SUBSET) aims to increase the relevance of subsurface course content to actual needs in the energy industry of the future by establishing an arena for dialogue and collaboration between academia and industry.

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Facts
Project manager

Lisa Jean Watson

Duration

2022-2024

Partners & collaborators

Aker BP, AS Norske Shell, Equinor, Vår Energi, WintershallDea, Tekna, Norsk Olje og Gass, Industri Energi

Funding

Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills: "Increased work relevance of education study programmes"

Subsurface courses for the energy industry of the future

About the project

The SUBSET project's activities will target a better understanding of the knowledge gaps within subsurface competencies required for the energy transition, how to bridge these gaps, and how to increase the interaction between industry and academia. The goal is to provide a richer educational experience for the students and continued knowledge exchange between academia and industry. We foresee that the project will increase industry relevance of subsurface education and will create value for all project stakeholders.

The main components of the project include dialogue with all stakeholders, design of improved or new course content, and identification of methods that will maximise the learning experience. The work-plan includes running pilot courses to test the outcome and collect feedback for their evaluation. Dissemination to fellow researchers as well as to society at large will be pursued via workshops and publications.

The Department of Energy Resources at UiS initiated and will coordinate the project. The Department for Continuing Education (EVU) and University Pedagogy Department (UNIPED) at UiS will contribute to the project deliverables.

The project aims at investigating what competence within subsurface are needed for the market and activities of the future. This is done in collaboration with the partners as representative of the energy industry. At the same time we deem as important to hear the experiences of the employees working in this changing market.

In mid-2022, a questionnaire was shared to the energy industry workforce via project partners and trade organizations. The feedback helped us to identify three major areas of work relevance skills that are of interest: programming/digital skills, subsurface specialization topics, and energy transition.

This feedback is being used to create courses to meet these demands.

From late 2022 and onwards, the 5 project partners will contribute to the creation and delivery of courses to meet workforce needs. The first course is expected to launch in August/September 2023 and the second in January 2024.

News

Hosted workshop for Tekna members

The SUBSET project group hosted a workshop for Tekna members to present results from the workforce survey.

En gruppe mennesker samlet under en workshop.

On September 12, SUBSET researchers Lisa Watson, Kenan Dikilitas, and Micol Pezzotta hosted an evening with Tekna members at the Archaeology Museum.

The evening consisted of a visit to the archaeological exhibitions, enjoying the hor's devoures from the cafe, and an overview of the project SUBSET, “Defining Future Subsurface Education Needs in Collaboration with the Energy Industry”. This is a collaborative project with industry partners and support from interest organizations, including Tekna's local branch in Stavanger.

The project aims to increase the relevance of subsurface course content to actual needs in the energy industry of the future by establishing an arena for dialogue and collaboration between academia and industry.

The audience got an overview of the feedback received from industry partners and survey respondents that helped guide which continuing education courses SUBSET will create and offer. Two courses have been approved by the administration, Carbon Capture and Storage and 4 micro-courses on Python programming. Carbon Capture and Storage starts on September 19 and the Python micro-courses will begin in January. Current registration is limited to project partners.

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SUBSET workshop

On June 9, a workshop was held for sharing ongoing work between HKDIR funded projects at UiS – "Increasing work relevance in education: Collaboration between universities and industry".

En kvinne holder en presentasjon.

The projects are to increase work relevance in education, provide new ways of learning and assessment, and to share the learned experiences and knowledge. Both projects are using EVU as a means to do this as it is more flexible for us to try out new courses and programs with a quick turnaround. The project in TN is Defining Future Subsurface Education Needs in Collaboration with the Energy Industry (SUBSET). SUBSET is a collaboration between IER, Uniped, and EVU. Lisa Watson presented on behalf of SUBSET. The second project is from the Social Sciences Faculty and is led by Rune Todnem By and Trude Furunes and is focused on work relevance education related to leadership for all employees, not just management - Strategic design and leadership in support of the green shift: from ”Strategic design and leadership” to ”Master in Transformation and Innovation”. Kenan Dikilitas, a Professor in Uniped and contributor for SUBSET, led a discussion after the project presentations.

SUBSET presented how we have collaborated with different stakeholders in work relevant education - energy companies, workforce, trade organizations, and academic staff. We are working on 2 courses which were identified as being needed and relevant. One has been submitted for approval and is focusing on carbon capture, use and storage. The second course description is being finalized within the next week to ten days. It will focus on basic skills for coding and programming for those who have other education and to learn to apply these skills to their own work.

The workshop had 16 people physically and 15 people online, including some from HKDIR. Except for HKDIR, this was an internal UiS workshop.

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Identification of needs: completed

SUBSET has completed its first work package to identify and prioritise workforce educational needs. Now, work package two has begun where the project team will create the course content. Stay tuned for more developments.

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Kick-off meeting

The project started on March 21st with a digital meeting (via TEAMS) where all partners met to review the work-plan and agree on the first activities of the project.

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Project team

Associate Professor
51832284
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources
Postdoctoral Fellow
51831160
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering
Professor
Arne Rettedal
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources
Professor
51831757
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources
Professor
51832391
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources
Professor
51831406
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources
Professor
51832260
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources
Associate Professor
E 301-B
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources
Senior Adviser
51833728
Division of Education
UiS Lifelong Learning
Higher Executive Officer
51831501
Division of Education
UiS Lifelong Learning

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Contact

Associate Professor
51832284
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy Resources
Postdoctoral Fellow
51831160
Faculty of Science and Technology
Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering