Shauna Noonan

2020 SPE President Occidental Petroleum

Ms. Noonan served as 2020 SPE President, and was previously Technical Director for Production and Operations on the SPE Board of Directors. Before joining Oxy, she was employed by ConocoPhillips and Chevron.

SPE News

SPE Strong: Getting Stronger

I am both sad and joyous that this will be my last JPT column as your SPE President.

July 31, 2020 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
SPE News

Strengthening the SPE Conference Experience

Of all the programs that SPE offers, the most rewarding and enjoyable ones for me personally are the conferences. I love walking the floor of an exhibition hall, discovering the latest technology advancements, and listening to the various product demonstrations.

June 30, 2020 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
SPE News

Strengthening Our Core Disciplines

From the beginning, SPE has focused on knowledge dissemination in four fundamental areas, which I refer to as the core disciplines: drilling, completions, reservoir (including geosciences), and production operations.

May 31, 2020 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
SPE News

SPE Staying Strong

No company or organization could have predicted our industry would be facing a viral pandemic, coupled with oil prices at their lowest levels in almost 2 decades. This is a time to put our heads together and come up with a new plan. This is what oil and gas does best.

April 30, 2020 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
SPE News

There Is No Silver Bullet: Strengthening the Fundamentals

This month’s column is dedicated to technology evaluation, an area where I have spent the majority of my career.

March 31, 2020 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
SPE News

Strengthening Knowledge Transfer in Unconventional Resources

As an industry, we need to eliminate the mindset of “if it is not invented here, it won’t work.”

February 29, 2020 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Human resources

The Influential Yet Delicate Balance of Mentoring

One of my focus areas as SPE President is strengthening the feedstock of incoming talent into our industry.

January 31, 2020 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Human resources

Strengthening the Feedstock of Incoming Talent for the Oil and Gas Industry

In my first column of the new year, I want to discuss my focus area of Strengthening the Feedstock of Incoming Talent because I believe that our industry needs a change in direction in order to succeed with this ambitious goal.

December 31, 2019 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Strengthening the Tools and Methods We Use To Disseminate Knowledge to Members

“To collect, exchange, and disseminate technical knowledge” are not only the first seven words of SPE’s mission, but also what our society has excelled at over its storied history.

November 30, 2019 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology
SPE News

Strengthening the Quality of SPE’s Technical Content

Our Society has a wealth of technical content, and it is rapidly growing.

October 31, 2019 • Shauna Noonan • Journal of Petroleum Technology

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