# mentor.energy

> Career platform for energy-industry students and professionals, focused on Nigeria and Africa: free courses on oil & gas, geoscience and engineering, 1:1 mentoring with experienced industry professionals, aptitude-test practice for graduate programmes, and Mentor AI, a career assistant.

Course overviews and preview lessons are public; full lessons, mentoring and Mentor AI need a free account. Requesting a mentor or booking a session happens on the site.

AI assistants can query the site directly through its read-only MCP server: https://mentor.energy/api/mcp (streamable HTTP, no sign-in). Setup steps: https://mentor.energy/ai-assistants

## Courses

- [Career Acceleration for Geoscientists](https://mentor.energy/learn/career-acceleration-geoscientists) (career, beginner, 4-5 hours): A comprehensive 5-module program designed to help Nigerian geoscience graduates navigate the job market, build professional brands, find opportunities, master interviews, and land their dream roles in the energy sector.
- [Career Acceleration for Engineers](https://mentor.energy/learn/career-acceleration-engineers) (career, beginner, 4-5 hours): A comprehensive 5-module program for Nigerian engineering graduates (petroleum, mechanical, electrical/instrumentation, chemical/process) to navigate the energy job market, get professionally registered, build a standout brand, win graduate-trainee places, master technical interviews and assessment centres, and execute a 90-day plan to land their target role.
- [Introduction to Petroleum Systems](https://mentor.energy/learn/intro-petroleum-systems) (geology, beginner, 4 hours): Understand how oil and gas form, migrate, and accumulate. This foundational course covers the complete petroleum system from organic matter to commercial reservoirs, with a Niger Delta case study.
- [Reservoir Fundamentals for Geoscientists & Engineers](https://mentor.energy/learn/reservoir-fundamentals) (petroleum, intermediate, 4-5 hours): Pick up where Introduction to Petroleum Systems leaves off — with oil in a trap — and learn how geoscientists and reservoir engineers answer three questions: how much is there, how fast will it flow, and how much can we recover? Short videos, interactive labs and quizzes take you from porosity and PVT to volumetrics, SPE-PRMS reserves, drive mechanisms, well performance, decline curves and a Niger Delta case study, at the level you need to explain confidently in a graduate interview.
- [Prospect Evaluation and Risking](https://mentor.energy/learn/prospect-evaluation) (geology, intermediate, 4-5 hours): Building on Introduction to Petroleum Systems and Reservoir Fundamentals, learn how exploration teams answer one question — should we drill it? — by mapping a trap, scoring its chance of success with five risk factors, sizing it as a low, best and high case, and turning chance and volume into expected monetary value. Short videos, interactive labs, quizzes and a synthetic Niger Delta case study prepare you to present and defend a drill-or-drop recommendation in a graduate interview or assessment centre.
- [Field Development Planning](https://mentor.energy/learn/field-development) (petroleum, intermediate, 4-5 hours): Building on Reservoir Fundamentals and Prospect Evaluation and Risking, learn how a discovery becomes a sanctioned development: appraising to narrow the range, choosing a depletion strategy and well count, sketching a production profile, selecting a development concept, and costing it through to NPV, IRR, payback and a Final Investment Decision. Short videos, interactive labs, quizzes and a synthetic case study that takes Prospect Ada's discovery to an FID recommendation prepare you to explain field development in a graduate interview and contribute in an assessment-centre group exercise.
- [Production Engineering & Optimization](https://mentor.energy/learn/production-engineering) (petroleum, intermediate, 4-5 hours): Building on Reservoir Fundamentals and Field Development Planning, follow the oil from the reservoir to the export line and learn how a production engineer keeps a field flowing: completions and sand control, nodal analysis, artificial lift, the flow station, flow assurance, surveillance and optimisation, and well integrity and HSE in the Nigerian setting. Short videos, interactive labs, quizzes and a synthetic case study that takes Ada four years past first oil prepare you to explain production engineering in a graduate interview and contribute in an assessment-centre exercise or a graduate production-engineering rotation.
- [Quantitative Interpretation: Rock Properties from Seismic](https://mentor.energy/learn/quantitative-interpretation) (geology, intermediate, 4-5 hours): Building on Reservoir Fundamentals and Prospect Evaluation, learn how geoscientists turn seismic amplitudes into rock properties — porosity, lithology, fluid and net-to-gross — through rock physics, fluid substitution with Gassmann, AVO and AVA, and seismic inversion, and how to risk a direct hydrocarbon indicator honestly. Short videos, interactive labs, quizzes and a synthetic case study that looks back at the Ada-1 discovery and de-risks the new Ada North prospect prepare you to explain quantitative interpretation in a graduate interview and work alongside a QI geophysicist.
- [From Engineering Graduate to Oil and Gas Ready](https://mentor.energy/learn/engineering-graduate-to-oil-gas-ready) (engineering, beginner, 4-5 hours): Engineering graduates in Nigeria keep hearing "we need someone with oil and gas experience". Most of that gap is vocabulary, safety habits, the standards, how work flows and being able to name the equipment, and this course closes it. Learn how the industry works and who does what; quality and inspection, from QA and QC to the ten-station OCTG inspection and repair cycle, NDT and traceability; the workshop and pipe-shop machines and how to describe them in an interview; HSE, permits and the JSA; supply chain and inventory; and Nigerian Content. A capstone pipe-yard turnaround gives you a portfolio piece for an assessment centre or a workshop interview. Foundation training: it does not replace accredited certificates such as NDT Level I/II, NEBOSH, IOSH, ISO 9001 auditor, CIPS or SAP, and every module points to your next accredited step.

## Mentors

Browse all: https://mentor.energy/mentors

- [Ibukun Adu](https://mentor.energy/mentors/b3a1f426-e141-43cd-ae23-3c2e7ce271e5): Energy Professional; 5 years; Energy Industry, Career Development
- [James Ukachukwu](https://mentor.energy/mentors/499a71a9-d218-4734-8a11-87a0fb67196b): Energy Professional; 5 years; Energy Industry, Career Development
- [Abiodun Awe](https://mentor.energy/mentors/7d0b10ee-6398-450b-b6c7-63d7311ee857): Exploration Geologist at Deepdrill Oilfield Overseas; 4 years; Petroleum Geology, Geophysics, Seismic Interpretation, Well Logging, Petrophysics
- [Jogun Ogedengbe](https://mentor.energy/mentors/12f1cbd3-da65-43d7-a3d1-eec41d355d83): Mentor at Chevron; 20 years; Energy Industry, Career Development
- [Emem Ekanem](https://mentor.energy/mentors/027bd2be-56cb-4a60-a83e-eeb76a448c0d): Geoscientist at Deepdrill Oilfield Services; 5 years; Petroleum Geology, Geophysics, Seismic Interpretation, Well Logging, Petrophysics
- [Alex Corrie](https://mentor.energy/mentors/e259b89b-e4bd-41a5-bee2-72415ccdbddd): Principal Mechanical Integrity Engineer at Exxon Mobil; 15 years; static equipment engineering, code calculations, fitness for service calculations, leadership, decision making
- [Emmanuel Aruna-Arthur](https://mentor.energy/mentors/31d7664e-f0b6-4003-98ef-7a19abcb57f6): Peer Mentor || Industrial & Production Engineer || Course completer (Career acceleration for Geoscientists) at Mentor.energy; 1 years; Energy Industry Enthusiast, Career Development, Team Management, Goal-Oriented Leadership, Systems design

## Articles

- [What Recruiters Actually Look for in Early-Career Geoscience CVs](https://mentor.energy/blog/what-recruiters-actually-look-for-in-early-career-geoscience-cvs): An application passes through three separate readers before anyone technical sees it — and each is looking for something different. Written from inside HR.
- [ND Western Graduate Trainee Programme 2026 — Now Open for Geoscientists & Engineers](https://mentor.energy/blog/nd-western-graduate-trainee-programme-2026): ND Western has opened its 2026 Graduate Trainee Programme for geoscientists and engineers — 2:1 minimum, under 26, NYSC inclusive. Applications close 11 June 2026. Here's who can apply and how.
- [Your Geoscience Degree Isn't the Problem. Your Job Search Is.](https://mentor.energy/blog/career-acceleration-for-geoscientists): A free, 5-module course built for Nigerian geoscience graduates — how the energy job market actually works, what you're worth, and a 90-day plan to get hired. Here's why we built it and how to start today.

## Key pages

- [Pricing](https://mentor.energy/pricing): free Scout plan; paid Explorer and Pioneer plans
- [Become a mentor](https://mentor.energy/become-mentor)
- [Resources](https://mentor.energy/resources)
- [About](https://mentor.energy/about)
- [Contact](https://mentor.energy/contact)