We were honoured to have been part of the 4th Annual SPE Career Fair that has just ended. The career fair; whose theme was ‘Africa Rising’ began on the 10th of March and was being held at Kenyatta University. As a key player in the oil and gas industry in Kenya, we have always supported…
As part of the ‘Mind the Gap Survey’ we identified that many Petroleum, and other engineering students, struggle to gain experience in the workplace, where they have the opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge. While Bentworth Energy is only able to offer a limited number of internship placements, we are always exploring new ways in…
Development of the future engineering workforce is a key objective for Bentworth Investments. This week representatives attended the University of Nairobi to meet with Petroleum Engineering students. The talk covered the following main areas: About Bentworth – The role we play in the oil and gas sector in Kenya and details about what we do…
In the third Mind the Gap post, we focus on the aspirations of the undergraduates who submitted a response to our survey (view post 1 Demographics, post 2 Graduate Employment). The survey was submitted by six 3rd years, six 4th years and eleven 5th years. A total of 23 undergraduates in total. All of the…
In the second of our Mind the Gap posts, we focus on graduate employment (view post 1 demographics). We asked all our respondents what year of study they had attained, 41 respondents indicated that they were graduates. Of these only 4 (10%) indicated that they were currently employed. Two (5%) were working in engineering fields…
We published a survey asking for responses from graduate and undergraduate engineers, entitled “Mind the Engineering Gap”. We were especially interested to know what the opportunities for students and graduates are; what the impediments and encumbrances are to becoming a fully qualified engineer; and how Bentworth could assist with these areas in the future? We…
Bentworth continues our mentorship and training programme for petroleum engineering students. Our aim is to share lessons we have learned as the only local content provider within the oil and gas industry in Kenya. During our visit to Thika we provided the students with an overview of what Bentworth Investments Limited do with a specific…
Bentworth was recently proud to launch our graduate intern program. We have been humbled and overwhelmed by the amount of interest we have received to date. As we have reviewed applications, it has lead us to consider a number of general tips for graduates, which may be helpful when putting together applications and moving into…
As Kenya debates the Local Content Policy and draft Local Content Oil and Gas Regulations, we have been taking our own steps to monitor and maintain quality standards. During 2019 we will continue working on our policies and procedures and implementation of these policies to enable us to obtain the following ISO standards. These include:…
On 23rd July 2018 Kenyatta University Society of Petroleum Engineers chapter hosted a Technical conference focusing on the theme “The Petroleum Industry in Perspective”. Bentworth’s Project Lead, Lynette Nyagah, delivered a presentation on “Oil and Gas Cementing Design”. The presentation focused on Bentworth’s experience with the cementing process from planning and design to laboratory testing…