SPE News
These awards recognize those members who have contributed exceptional service and leadership to the Society, as well as those who have made major professional contributions to their technical disciplines at the regional level.
Twelve young professionals in the energy industry will join the board.
This article from the SPE Artificial Lift Technical Section highlights a positive reality of our industry, one that centers on connecting and collaborating for success.
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The Offshore Technology Conference Asia, originally scheduled for March 2020, will take place as a virtual event 2–6 November 2020.
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Every year, SPE recognizes members who have made an exceptional effort to ensure the technical excellence of the Society’s peer-reviewed journals. For their contributions, the following individuals are recipients of the 2020 Outstanding Technical Reviewer Award.
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John Etherington, a petroleum reserves champion and an SPE Distinguished Member, died 19 September. He was 76. -
SPE has made the difficult decision to stop printing and mailing JPT magazine as a cost-savings measure as of the November 2020 issue. For now, this change will be effective only through March 2021 but may extend as we consider future economic conditions and member response.
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Incorporating imagination into AI agents has long been an elusive goal of researchers in the space. Imagine AI programs that are able not only to learn new tasks but also to plan and reason about the future.
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This section lists with regret SPE members who recently passed away.
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SPE welcomes 132 members into the Legion of Honor, which observes 50 years of consecutive membership in the Society. Each honoree becomes dues-exempt and receives a commemorative plaque marking the milestone. The honorees are listed below under their respective sections.
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Most of you reading this are thinking, okay, he’s SPE President, he must know something I don’t know, see something I don’t see, etc. The truth is we are all in the same storm of pandemic+economic crisis=chaos.
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SPE has always weathered the ups and downs of serving a cyclical industry by adapting as necessary to continue providing our members with high-quality content in JPT and across our wide variety of offerings such as events, webinars, training courses, and other member programs.
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