SPE News
Seven young professionals were selected to represent SPE at the 2026 Emerging Leaders Alliance Conference.
The events will be co-located 3–5 May 2027 at Reliant Park in Houston, Texas.
This article from the SPE Methane Technical Section features Arvind Ravikumar of the University of Texas at Austin and focuses on how the Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab is integrating satellite observations, facility-level measurements, operational data, and emissions inventories into more credible methane accounting for oil and gas systems.
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Dennis Hahn, SPE, former chair of the SPE Canada Board, the SPE Calgary Section, and director of the SPE Canadian Educational Foundation, who was active with SPE at both the section and international levels, died 2 March in Bolivia, where he was teaching a completions course. Hahn, a completions manager at Repsol based in Calgary, was an expert in high-pressure/high-t… -
Sam Gibbs, the inventor of the wave equation method used in the rod pumping diagnostic and predictive software, and an SPE Legend of Artificial Lift, died 17 February. Gibbs earned his BS in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University in 1954 and worked for Shell Oil Company briefly before being drafted into the US Army. Upon returning, he took a leave of absence f…
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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.
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Rui Vasco Sitoe, associate professor in the petroleum engineering department at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Maputo, Mozambique died 23 February. He was the primary faculty member for the drilling discipline. Sitoe was one of the founders and coordinators of the master’s of science in petroleum engineering program (MSPE) at UEM, the first of its type in …
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J.G. (George) Savins, SPE, an SPE Legion of Honor member and technology inventor in the field of rheology, died 11 January. Awarded a BS in chemistry in 1949, Savins started his career as a chemist at the FRL Research and Development Group. His career then gradually evolved to cover diverse research interests and saw significant technical achievements in fluid flow an…
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Ben H. Caudle, SPE, professor emeritus and former chair of The University of Texas at Austin’s Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and a former member of the SPE Board of Directors, died 6 February at the age of 95.
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Charles Oliver (Doc) Stokley, longstanding SPE member and innovator in the field of oil and gas packer technologies, died 3 December. His design achievements in oil and gas packers left a lasting impact on the industry and improved the safety of well completion operations. Stokley began his career at Schlumberger as a field logging engineer in Texas. He later worked a…
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It is an honor for me to serve as the SPE president for the next 12 months. Without hesitation, I knew that I would devote my year as president to a theme related to energy sustainability.
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2019 SPE President Sami Alnuaim shares the main goals for his presidency, and thoughts on the role SPE can play in empowering members during the industry recovery.
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The 2018 Legends of Artificial Lift are announced. Recipients will be honored at the 2018 SPE Artificial Lift Conference and Exhibition to be held in The Woodlands, Texas.
