Citation
(2013), "Computer game aims to fuel interest in the oil industry", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 45 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/ICT.03745gaa.006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Computer game aims to fuel interest in the oil industry
Article Type: Notes and news From: Industrial and Commercial Training, Volume 45, Issue 7
Maersk Group has launched a computer game that allows players to experience first-hand the stresses and strains of managing an oil company.
The game tests players ability to understand the key challenges of the oil industry, including how to “read earth layers, how to detect where to find oil reservoirs and how to drill and successfully bring oil to the market.
Maersks aim is to make the oil industry more accessible and to highlight the importance of oil to the world economy. The company also wants to inspire young people to take up a career in the industry.
A recent survey on the North Sea oil industry found that 70 percent of employers are struggling to recruit quality candidates and this is “set to get worse. The survey also revealed mass skill shortages across the industry, with 25 percent of companies failing to find enough engineers. There were also shortages of drilling specialists, sub-sea specialists, health and safety specialists, project engineers and geoscientists.
Despite advances in alternative fuels, more than six billion people rely on the skills and dedication of the oil industry providing not only gasoline for transportation or ensuring heating or cooling for billions of households and workplaces around the world, but also thousands of products used in everyday life.