On the 6th December 2019 the Society of Petroluem Engineers, Kenyatta University Student Chapter (SPE KU) hosted the 3rd Annual Dinner and Gala at the Azure Restaurant in Nairobi. The event was open to professionals, stakeholders and others who have an interest in the developing energy, oil and gas sector with Kenya. It provided an…
The following sets out some of the key findings of the recent PWC Fuel for Thought, Africa Oil and Gas Review 2019. The oil price crash in 2014 – 2016 lead to a decrease in expenditure which began to improve in 2017. However in Africa capital expenditure in the industry continued to decline into 2018.…
On the 8th November 2019, the Bentworth team attended the Excellence in Extractives Recognition Awards 2019 at the Muthaiga Golf Club in Nairobi. We were invited after Lynette Nyagah, our Project Lead, was nominated as a finalist for the Young Achiever of the Year Award. We are delighted to announce that Lynette won the award…
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…
This, our final installment of the Mind the Engineering Gap, summarises our conclusions and recommendations. These can be categorised in four areas, formal education, students, industry and government: For education: How can more students be encouraged to undertake STEM subjects, how can students be convinced that “it is not hard, just hard work”? Can students…
In our fourth installment of our engineering survey findings we summarise what our respondents told us about their internships. Including if they had undertaken an internship and if not why; the sector of their internship and how they found out about their internship. Only a minority of students and graduates had undertaken an internship and…
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…
On Friday 21st June 2019 representatives of Bentworth Investments Ltd were invited to attend the 3rd annual Upstream Awards. This was our second year to be nominated for an award. In 2018 were were the proud recipients of the Oilfield Service Company of the Year Award. The event was attended by our Chairman and CEO…