The Importance of Technical Accuracy and Integrity: Two Oil & Gas Case Studies

As engineering professionals, we need to ensure we do not inadvertently allow our technical work to contribute to the erosion of public confidence and the integrity of our professions. In this presentation, David Phung reinforces the importance of technical accuracy and professional integrity. Using two related industry case studies and only publicly available data from oil and gas reserve reports, management conference call transcripts and other capital markets information, he demonstrates how our technical work can be unintentionally or intentionally misrepresented, with negative and far-reaching consequences. Although it was originally developed for a technical engineering audience, the subject matter will also be of interest to investors, lenders, regulators, auditors, and executives or board members tasked with corporate governance.