A new workforce program offered by the University of Houston focuses on helping oil and gas producers more efficiently use and maintain equipment by making better use of the terabytes of data streaming from monitoring sensors built into equipment. It will launch in fall 2017.
“Companies lose billions of dollars because equipment went down unexpectedly,” said Matthew Franchek, founding director of the UH graduate subsea engineering program, the first in the nation. “The industry needs a 21st century oil and gas workforce.”