TheOilCommunity

About Us

TheOilCommunity was created by the team at ThinkBeyond, a small team of people with a grand vision and an entrepreneurial spirit. We don't have the backing of a major corporation, and our entire website is self-funded.

While ThinkBeyond LLC is incorporated in the USA, our people are spread over North America and Australia, and have a diverse range of backgrounds, with skills in Accounting, Business, Engineering, Graphic Design, Marketing, and Website Development.

Within the oil & gas industry, the impending retirement and handoff to the next generation of employees has been referred to as "the big crew change". The US Department of Labor refers to it as the "demographic cliff". This is in reference to the fact that the industry will lose up to 50 percent of its current workforce over the next five years, and perhaps 80 percent by 2018.

A huge amount of knowledge exists only in the minds of the older employees who are about to retire, and as a result there is an increasing need for greater capture and sharing of knowledge and insight.

We believe that the next generation of social media and related collaboration tools can help maximise productivity and better facilitate knowledge capture and sharing in preparation for "the big crew change".

Our goal is to go beyond first generation networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, by delivering content specific to the Oil sector, and a include wide range of collaborative tools for learning, career development, and lifestyle.

One website where Members can network, reconnect, share knowledge, collaborate with their peers, find information, watch videos, read reports, articles, and industry news, and then customize all their settings to they receive only the information they're interested in.

One community bringing together industry professionals, students, academics and corporations, encouraging healthy technical debate, higher graduate intake, and a revolution in recruitment by connecting job seekers and employers directly.

We encourage Member feedback, and will continue to evolve and deliver what the community is seeking.

So we hope you'll share our vision and join the evolution.


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	About Us TheOilCommunity was created by the team at ThinkBeyond, a small team of people with a grand vision and an entrepreneurial spirit. We don't have the backing of a major corporation, and our entire website is self-funded. While ThinkBeyond LLC is incorporated in the USA, our people are spread over North America and Australia, and have a diverse range of backgrounds, with skills in Accounting, Business, Engineering, Graphic Design, Marketing, and Website Development. Within the oil & gas industry, the impending retirement and handoff to the next generation of employees has been referred to as "the big crew change". The US Department of Labor refers to it as the "demographic cliff". This is in reference to the fact that the industry will lose up to 50 percent of its current workforce over the next five years, and perhaps 80 percent by 2018. A huge amount of knowledge exists only in the minds of the older employees who are about to retire, and as a result there is an increasing need for greater capture and sharing of knowledge and insight. We believe that the next generation of social media and related collaboration tools can help maximise productivity and better facilitate knowledge capture and sharing in preparation for "the big crew change". Our goal is to go beyond first generation networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, by delivering content specific to the Oil sector, and a include wide range of collaborative tools for learning, career development, and lifestyle. One website where Members can network, reconnect, share knowledge, collaborate with their peers, find information, watch videos, read reports, articles, and industry news, and then customize all their settings to they receive only the information they're interested in. One community bringing together industry professionals, students, academics and corporations, encouraging healthy technical debate, higher graduate intake, and a revolution in recruitment by connecting job seekers and employers directly. We encourage Member feedback, and will continue to evolve and deliver what the community is seeking. So we hope you'll share our vision and join the evolution.