Distinguished Lecturer

The SPE Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Program is a prestigious opportunity to share your insights on global trends, challenges, and innovations with SPE sections worldwide. The nomination window for the 2026–2027 DL season is now open through 15 March 2025.

Speakers from various disciplines and professions focus on industry trends, challenges, technology applications and advances. Scheduled DL events are in-person meetings only.

Speakers from various disciplines and professions focus on industry trends, challenges, technology applications and advances. Scheduled DL events are in-person meetings only.

So far, digital twins have focused mainly on mimicking small, well-defined systems. Integrated asset models, however, tend to address the bigger picture. In this video, Distinguished Lecturer Kristian Mogensen addresses whether we can take the best from both worlds, whether we need to, and how to go about developing such a technical solution.

With speakers from various disciplines and professions, the program focuses on industry trends, challenges, and technology applications and advances.

With speakers from various disciplines and professions, the program focuses on industry trends, challenges, and technology applications and advances.

As SPE’s Distinguished Lecture series wraps up its SPE section presentations for 2020–2021, a new series of virtual presentations stretches through the summer, providing access for all SPE members.

Each year, SPE selects professionals, nominated by their peers, to share their knowledge and expertise with SPE members through visits to local sections.

Maintaining a social license to operate is critical for the oil and gas industry to continue to provide energy for the world. Fernando Benalcazar recently completed his Distinguished Lecturer tour, during which he spoke on “Oil and Gas Operations—Integrating the Realities of the Social License.”

With speakers from a variety of disciplines and professions, this season’s Distinguished Lecturer topics focus on industry trends, challenges, and technology applications.