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Engineering for the next generation

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Jeremy Hall
President Technical and Assurance

When we look to the future of the energy industry, we must consider how we are developing the next generation of engineering talent to lead in this complex and challenging sector. Even though the skill sets we are looking for from graduates today have largely remained the same, present-day technology, education and culture is more accelerated than it was ten or twenty years ago.

The energy industry has largely missed entire generations of the workforce in some cases because the investment wasn't there, and industry chose not to hire during a downturn. This has caused real gaps in some of our progressive knowledge and knowledge handover that impacts subsequent generations.

About the author

Jeremy Hall is Wood’s Wood’s President of Technical & Assurance in Projects and a seasoned leader at Wood, having worked for the company for 21 years in key operational and functional roles across the US, UK, Australia and Malaysia.

Today, he is based in Houston, TX and is a key member of Wood’s Projects business unit leadership team where he is ultimately responsible for the quality of engineering and technical assurance, a key hallmark of Wood’s leading market position.

Prior to his current role, Jeremy was SVP of Oil & Gas and New Energies in the Western Hemisphere and former VP of Wood’s business in Malaysia. He has also led multiple, major capital projects in his time, including Chevron’s iconic Anchor project in the US Gulf of Mexico, which was a world’s first in terms of deepwater high-pressure projects.

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