SPE News
Leaders of SPE’s Artificial Lift Technical Section outline the group’s mission, recent technical highlights, and a growing slate of global events shaping the future of artificial lift.
SPE’s newest technical community, the Critical Minerals Technical Section, aims to connect petroleum expertise with emerging opportunities to extract lithium, rare earth elements, and other critical minerals from subsurface reservoirs and industrial brines.
Initiative identified as the single highest-priority action to support geothermal capital market creation following a 2-year expert analysis of financial barriers to exponential-scale geothermal development.
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In this inaugural episode of his vodcast and column, 2025 SPE President Olivier Houzé shares his insights on the challenges facing our Society and its members, as well as his vision for his presidency. -
This year, 10 individuals join this elite group, bringing the total membership of A Peer Apart honorees to 221 dedicated members.
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This paper presents a clear and consistent method for determining dead and live crude EACNs using a single reliable method, highlighting a graphical way to determine the optimal salinity and its uncertainties using real data.
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The Student Chapter Development Workshop aims to foster global collaboration, knowledge exchange, and professional growth among young petroleum engineers, focusing on leadership and sustainable development in the energy sector.
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This paper presents a unique investigation into determining the sufficient concentration of hardness ions required to significantly reduce the adsorption of acrylamide-tertiary-butyl-sulfonate-based polymer with a focus on mitigating polymer retention in carbonate formations using softened brine.
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A best practice for nominating SPE members for awards is to form a nomination posse—a committee of 4 to 5 people that works to match candidates with the awards that best suits them. Providing respect and recognition for your colleagues is a wonderful way to find purpose in your own career.
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A comprehensive study looks at the sealing efficiency of eutectic bismuth-tin alloy plugs in wells slated for plugging and abandonment through laboratory testing, microscopy analyses, and numerical simulations.
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The highly anticipated SPE/IADC Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference was held in Bangkok and gathered over 1,000 professionals from the drilling and well technology communities across more than 30 countries.
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The SPE IOR-EOR Terminology Review Committee has opened a period for public comments on a draft technical report.
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The Management Technical Section has been selected to receive the 2024 Presidential Award for Outstanding Technical Section, and the Data Science and Engineering Analytics and Hydraulic Fracturing Technical Sections have been awarded the Technical Section Excellence Award for 2024.
