Abstract
The oil and gas industry human resources typically comprise of managers, engineers, assistant engineers and, administrators among others. This paper examines the key sources of the workforce that run Kuwait's oil and gas industry. Most of the technical workforces including engineers and assistant engineers are originally from Kuwait University and the College of Technological Studies in Kuwait.
This paper examines data on the number of assistant engineers in the oil and gas sector that graduated from the college of technological studies from 2006 to 2018. The college's petroleum engineering technology department was started in 2001. Remarkably, its first batch of students graduated as assistant engineers two and a half years down the line with most of them joining companies in the oil and gas sector. The college offers two programs focusses on the production and exportation while the other one focusses on exploration and development. Additionally, this paper examines the number of students that have successfully graduated from the college's petroleum engineering department over the last twelve years. Records indicate that between 2006 and 2018, about 7% of the institution's graduates were from the petroleum engineering department.
Moreover, the study established that there was no correlation between oil prices and the number of graduates from the petroleum department. The findings of this study will be insightful to decision-makers especially in crafting policies to improve college enrollment to fill the existing workforce gap in the oil and gas sector in Kuwait.