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JPT asked several active SPE members about the appeal of petroleum engineering, the significance of the work they do, and what the future may hold. Here are some of their answers.

Short of choosing a life partner, deciding on a profession may be the most important decision any of us ever makes.

All completion systems should enable the safe and profitable extraction of reserves. To maximize the useful life of the completions system, reliability of components, configurations, and processes should be maximized.

Last year, the SPE Board of Directors approved a new 5-year Strategic Plan, a blueprint to provide guidance on how the association can meet the needs and expectations of its members and the industry over the next several years.

The oil and gas industry faces three key questions with regard to sustainability.

The ecosystem in which an algorithm must live in order to deliver value must be viewed as a whole. The algorithm can be viewed like a car’s engine. It’s rather important, but it’s not a car yet.

Digitalization leads oil and gas research and development investment priorities, according to DNV’s 2019 annual outlook.

While the visual element is key, the core strategic component of data visualization is the ability to unlock the story in the data.

Instinctively, we feel that greater accuracy is better and all else should be subjected to this overriding goal. This is not so. While there are a few tasks for which a change in the second decimal place in accuracy might actually matter, for most tasks, this improvement will be irrelevant.

The discovery is world’s third-largest natural gas discovery in the past 2 years.