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PETRONAS, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) recently collaborated on how best to leverage the collective strengths, expertise, knowledge of the industry, academia, and professional association.

Artificial intelligence can do some things faster and better than humans can. But that may allow engineers to focus on higher-value tasks.

Hon-Chung Lau, professor of petroleum engineering at the National University of Singapore, offered a short guide to a successful career in petroleum engineering at the 2019 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.

The industry is becoming increasingly complex, leading to changes in how universities approach education for undergraduate study.

Speaking on the final day of ATCE 2019 in her home province of Alberta, Shauna Noonan unveiled the theme of her 2020 SPE presidency, “SPE Strong: Strengthen the Core.”

Many leaders of petroleum engineering schools from around the world have never met but SPE’s technical director for academia would like to change that.

The world’s largest oil company says it has doubled the number of women working for it in the last decade and is spearheading a number of initiatives to grow the trend.

Crude prices may be rebounding, but undergraduate enrollment in US petroleum engineering programs continues to dive. Will there be a shortage of young, qualified PE graduates in the coming years?

An operator partnered with the drilling-automation research group at The University of Texas at Austin to develop a work flow for big-data analysis and visualization. The objectives were to maximize the value derived from data, establish an analysis toolkit, and train students on data analytics.

Technical Directors have a range of things to work on for 2018 that add value at a time when resources are scare.