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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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SPE’s third-largest section continues to reinvent itself. Chaired by Laura Weeden of Canwhite Sands, the section prides itself on following the SPE International mission and vision. The section boasts 11 special interest groups (SIGs) overseen by Silviu Livescu of Baker Hughes and run by approximately 40 dedicated volunteers who organize weekly technical events. In ad…
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Small plastic cups filled with different colors of sand, a Slinky spring toy, two foam cups, a sponge, plastic straws, and a plastic baggie. These elements may sound like items on a scavenger hunt list, but they are supplies needed for a completely different type of endeavor—discovering a career in the oil and gas industry.
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Clarence N. (Tom) Tinker, life member of SPE, and a geology evangelist died 11 March.
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SPE is actively monitoring the situation and potential impacts on future activities. The health and safety of our members, attendees, and staff is our highest priority, and that will guide our decision-making.
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Stanley Thurber, a longstanding SPE member and a well-known mentor in the reservoir engineering community, died 20 February.
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SPE’s technical sections offer communities rich with industry expertise. And your engagement adds to the wealth of knowledge to be shared.
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As an industry, we need to eliminate the mindset of “if it is not invented here, it won’t work.”
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