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PetroChallenge is an educational event which uses an innovative web-based learning tool where participants act as energy companies looking for oil and gas in a fictitious province, opened up for exploration.

PetroChallenge provides participants with an interactive experience of the oil and gas industry, achieved through participation in what is known technically as a ‘serious simulation’. In this case, the participants simulate what it’s like to work for an oil company exploring for oil and gas in a remote, unspoilt region.

Students are grouped into teams of 4 with each team representing a virtual oil and gas exploration company. They are ‘sent’ out to a ‘virtual’ remote province that has just been opened for exploration, with a budget of $100 million to find commercially viable volumes of oil and gas. Teams compete and collaborate in this virtual reality where they will learn:

  • basic geology and how to acquire and interpret seismic surveys;
  • to bid for and secure licensing rights;
  • how to initiate and undertake the drilling of exploration and appraisal wells;
  • the importance of collaborative working and partnerships in the high stakes world of oil and gas exploration
PetroChallenge provides all the challenges, opportunities and dilemmas that a real exploration team would face. It is during this process that the students gain an effective insight into the risks and challenges of oil and gas exploration, as well as exposure to real oil and gas technical processes and terminology such as magnetic, gravimetric, and seismic surveys, service providers, the environment and net present value calculations.

The underlying assumption is that you learn better when you are actively involved in taking crucial decisions rather than just passively receiving information..... learning by doing. A vocational experience that enhances both skills for work and skills for life to develop “industry ready” young people.

PetroChallenge only requires a basic knowledge of PC operation and using an internet web browser. Apart from that, there are no prior knowledge prerequisites such as geological or oil and gas industry knowledge. Teams access the learning simulation through an internet-connected PC.

To assist the teams at the event, a number of facilitators and teachers will be present and they will introduce the participants to the simulation, facilitate the process and debrief students after the event.
 

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Around 4,9 million children in the age 5-14 years are working in Bangladesh. Child labour is a part of a vicious cycle, with poverty as a main cause as well as a main consequence. Why are these children working and what are their alternatives?

You arrive in Bangladesh to investigate a case of child labour in a tannery in the nations capital, Dhaka. In this episode you will work for the European Leatherwear Industries.

A couple of days ago, you received an e-mail from a woman that claims she has spoken to a girl that works in the tannery. You have to investigate the case and find proof of child labour as well as coming up with a solution that will not damage the tannery or your company. Should you stop buying leather form the factory knowing that it will probably shut down? The more information you gather, the better you stand in the final interview with the factory owner, Rodo Raihan.

 

Focus on:

Child labour, globalization, poverty

Age group:
13-20 year

Child Soldiers

 

More than 25.000 children have been abducted to serve as child soldiers in the local armies in Uganda. Why is this happening and how can justice best be ensured?

You arrive in Uganda on a dry and dusty road. You work for the International Criminal Court and are sent on an assignment in Uganda, to meet with the feared leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony. Two decades of brutal civil war between government forces and the LRA has driven 1.7 million people into camps. Since 2006, the Ugandans have tried to negotiate peace with Kony. But now that the ICC has put out arrest warrants for him he refuses to talk peace. Can you make him change his mind?

Focus on:
Civil war, child soldiers, international law
Age group:
13-20 years

 

 

 

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Online Simulation Events are multi-team, competitive simulations conducted via the Internet with support and coaching from KnowledgeWorking consultants. Teams from various companies or from within the same company participate virtually in these open or in-house learning experiences. The ultimate goal for all participants is to enhance their skills within a dynamic and competitive environment. Companies entering teams in tournaments save on travel and facilities cost while retaining the benefits of experiential learning.

 

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