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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Highlighting news on the recent SPE Board of Directors meeting in Saudi Arabia and SPE’s utilization of artificial intelligence now and its plans for the future. -
An energy transition symposium was held in February in Washington, DC, to inform and engage policymakers and the policy community in the US capital from the perspective of the engineers and geoscientists who currently work to supply 60% of the world’s energy.
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The selection was made after a 6-month global search led by an SPE Board-appointed search committee.
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Starting in January 2024, SPE Journal, SPE Drilling & Completion, SPE Production & Operations, and SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering will consolidate into a single journal, SPE Journal.
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The Emerging Leaders Program recognizes young professionals with fewer than 10 years of experience in the offshore energy sector. This year’s class will be honored during a special ceremony during the conference on 2 May.
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Olivier Houzé is the nominee for 2025 SPE President. He and six others make up the new slate of nominees recommended for positions open on the SPE International Board of Directors.
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This section lists with regret SPE members who recently passed away.
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Director of EnergyNow, Advisor for Energy Development Corporation, and active SPE member, died February 18.
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A total of 15 companies, including seven small businesses, were recognized this year for their breakthrough hardware and software technologies.
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The SPE Board has approved a new policy allowing AI-generated content to be used within SPE publications but under specific conditions.
