Experience the Energy: 
Take the Challenge

See how your skills measure up against some of the qualifications for the most exciting jobs in the energy industry to receive customized career recommendations.

Explore what it might be like to be an energy worker

Experience the Energy: Take the Challenge is an extended reality (XR) experience using mini games to explore careers in the energy industry. Virtual reality technology immerse you in a blended virtual and physical gaming environment.

This unique series of mini games offers a fresh look at occupations in Canada’s energy sector with fun and informative experiences for you to learn about new career possibilities. Engage in tasks such as drilling wellbores, shooting seismic charges, adjusting equipment valves and conducting worksite hazard assessments.

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Test yourself to find your fit

Try your hand at drilling, adjust valves to maintain pressure, and send Appo, a one-of-a-kind robot assistant, into the field to look for hazards. Play our eight virtual reality (VR) games and find what occupations are your best fit in Canada’s energy industry.

FIT FOR DUTY

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Swipe right to build your safest team

KEEP THE NEEDLE IN THE MIDDLE

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Keep the pressure needles in the safe zone

Find, dig, charge

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Locate the seismic charges and go out with a bang!

HAZARD HUNT

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Help Appo the robot to find hazards at your worksite

DISPATCH

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Monitor and track your fleet to their destinations

UNDER PRESSURE

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Test your memory as you teleport between rooms to adjust the equipment pressure

PULLING PIPE

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Build a path to connect the pipe as quick as you can

VALVE ASSEMBLY

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Race the clock to reassemble valves in the right order

DRILL OPS

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Navigate a drill bit underground to see how deep you can go

Learn more about your recommended career

When you complete “Take the Challenge” and find out which career bet align with your skills, visit the career spotlight below to learn more!

If there is structural iron at a work site, you can thank an Ironworker. They are involved in almost every part of construction in the oil and gas industry working on projects ranging from LNG export facilities to natural gas processing plants to offshore rigs.
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Construction Craft Workers are a second set of hands for welders, carpenters, insulators, concrete finishers, boilermakers and ironworkers who work in oil and gas-related construction.
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Welders fuse metal parts together – a vital function when it comes to oil and gas-related construction, operations or maintenance projects.
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Valve Technicians install, maintain, inspect, test, dismantle, clean and repair the valves that control the flow of oil and gas fluids. This is an essential job in the oil and gas industry because without valves, oil and gas simply wouldn’t flow.
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Environmental Technicians bring the environment back to engineers and scientists in the office. They monitor and test natural habitats to understand, measure and remediate any industry impacts. Not only do they care about the environment, they also want to be part of the solution.
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Being a Well Services Labourer is a great place to start in the oil and gas industry. From the onset to the completion of a well, they assist with well service machinery while learning the ropes of the well services world.
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Between Wellsite Operators and their wells, you’ll find Well Testing Operators. Looking at everything from wellbore pressure to saline percentages, Well Testing Operators gather the information that helps Operators determine well performance and identify production issues.
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Rig Managers are responsible for every aspect of a rig operation, from setup to takedown. They’re responsible for the safety and leadership of their crews. And they’re responsible for all daily paperwork and other business matters. They’re hands-on leaders in the world of oil and gas.
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Seismic Labourers are part of a specialized crew responsible for finding geophysical data for oil and gas operations or exploration. They hike mountains and traverse the countryside, then take a peek beneath them to look for oil and gas.
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Field Dispatchers are the logistics masterminds in the field. They look at the big picture and make sure all the parts fit together at the right time.
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