Creating, Managing, and Evaluating Multidisciplinary Teams

The oil and gas industry has experienced major changes worldwide, including downsizing of professional staffs. Greater emphasis has therefore been placed on carrying on exploration and production with smaller, more efficient work teams of geoscientists and petroleum engineers together with land, legal, accounting, and administrative staff. This publication is a direct result of a course presented in October 1990, and focuses on the competitive advantages gained by recognizing the role of people and teams dovetailed with improved technology in exploration and development.