CEAMS Testimonials

From the Employers

"It was a pleasure to train a student who looked beyond just the Land silo. Her EAM education ensured well rounded knowledge which included Marketing, Surface, Accounting, JV and Audit and that allowed her to make contributions from a broad range of perspectives."
Zenwill Sequeira - Devon Canada

"Angela Gallagher was a great addition to the Enerplus land team this past summer. Her EAM background certainly helped her make a positive contribution during her time with us. She came to us with an existing knowledge of terminology, the details required from an operational perspective, and the life cycle of a well, which allowed her to communicate confidently with the team and undertake her tasks with minimal supervision."
Michele Kelly - Enerplus

"David Burke has been working in Surface Land on the Area Team side (new Acquisition, area maintenance). The advantage of hiring an EAM student, is that David already possessed a basic understanding of the assets of an oil & gas company. He thus grasped the administrative procedures pertaining to the Surface side of the business easily. The concepts were not new to him, just how to administer them."
Mary Beth Buchanan - PennWest

"The students enrolled in the EAM program have a leg up on the competition", says Joanne Reardon, Vice Chair of CEAMS and Manager of Land Negotiations at BP Canada Energy Company. "When we hire them, they come to us industry-ready, and that saves huge amounts of time and financial resources that would previously have been allocated to their training and familiarizing them with the essentials of the oil and gas industry. They become much more productive employees much more quickly than other new hires that come to us before they've been exposed to the energy business."
Joanne Weber – BP Canada Energy Company

 

From the Students

"The EAM program has given me a broad perspective on the interconnected issues that energy companies deal with on a daily basis" says Marzena Wojcik who has worked with Cenovus this past summer. "At Cenovus, I've been rotated through a number of different departments all related to energy asset management so I'm able to use what I've learned in school but I'm also getting some valuable exposure to the practical application of my studies in a variety of different areas which will help me in my second year of the EAM program but also when I'm ready to join the workforce."

Cory Owens has been working with PennWest this summer. "Before starting the EAM program, I had absolutely no exposure to the oil and gas industry", says Owens. "The program has really brought me up to speed quickly so that I've been able to actually work on substantive issues like road use, third party and proximity agreements and really understand how they impact the overall business of the company."

Ty Eisner and Scott Neiman worked with BP Canada this summer. "Our program at SAIT really covers the full range of issues that companies deal with from an energy asset management perspective", says Eisner. "I've been able to bring a decent academic knowledge to my summer position here at BP and I think that I've been able to get up to speed on what's expected of me and deliver some results much faster than I would have expected."

"I think we're making some good headway on our project for the summer", say Neiman. "I'm learning just how complex the oil and gas business is and I'm going to be able to take back a lot of firsthand knowledge and experience and apply them to my second year in the EAM program. I think the biggest complement that I get in my work is the fact that our supervisors didn't have to explain every detail of the work and the issues that I was going to be dealing with before I could get started on the project. I think that really shows just how relevant the EAM program is to the actual work being done in energy companies right now."

Paul Poscente is an EAM student who is working with Cenovus this summer. "I have a strong business background, and it's not hard to see that the oil and gas sector is having to adapt to the changing realities of industry"; says Poscente. "It's no longer enough to simply be aware of what's going on in different areas of your business, or of the issues that are affecting another part of your company. You have to have a decent understanding of those issues as well because in the end, they are going to affect you and your job. That's a central component of the EAM program and it's a process that companies should really adopt in order to have a clear picture of what's really going on right across their whole business."

"The full life-cycle of an oil and gas project is highly regulated and our program sets the stage for us to learn what the regulations are and how the system works to make sure that projects such as drilling a new well are compliant and can actually proceed", says Emily Glatthor, an EAM student and summer student with Cenovus. "And it's not only about using that knowledge within a company. Landowners are key stakeholders in the oil and gas business and I think that I'll be in a better position to work with them and help them understand the processes and the work that would be going on if we were going to be working on their land."

"I grew up in a family that worked in the energy sector so I thought that I was pretty aware of a lot of what was going on but after a year in the EAM program, I can see that the industry is developing so quickly", says Digney Eisner who is working with Enerplus Resources this summer. "But I really didn't know how complex a business it really is. To be good at your job, you really have to have a working knowledge across a wide range of departments from drilling to land and accounting. The EAM program gives us the skills that energy companies really need so they can manage their business and their issues as a whole rather than a bunch of separate components."

Jordan Voss and Stephanie Baird are two EAM students that have been hired for summer positions at Devon. Voss, who will be working in the joint venture accounting group, says that he is more confident going into his job at Devon because the EAM program has not only taught him the fundamentals of energy asset management, he actually has some understanding of the oil and gas industry as a whole. "I think that I'm actually going to be able to make a solid contribution to the company this summer. I'm also going to get far more from my work experience and apply it to my education and career more effectively than if I didn't have the EAM background."

Stephanie Baird has been working in the land and joint venture department at Devon for the summer. "The EAM program is unique because the students learn how each individual component of energy asset management is critical to the business but we also learn how these components need to work together", said Baird. "With our background, we're going to be the people around the table who can bring all the pieces of the puzzle together."