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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This paper presents the development of a robust, physics-based, and data-driven workflow for modeling mud loss in fractured formations and predicting terminal mud loss volume and time, as well as equivalent hydraulic fracture aperture. -
This comprehensive study on microbial control in unconventional facilities allows for the integration of molecular microbiology, chemical treatments, and production engineering to develop specific strategies to control microbial communities and reduce corrosion rates that affect the integrity of the facilities.
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This month’s column recaps the top five objectives for the 2025 SPE President and introduces a new discussion on the future of the SPE name.
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The Data Science and Engineering Analytics Technical Section has been selected to receive the 2025 Presidential Award for Outstanding Technical Section, and the Hydrogen and Sustainable Development technical sections have been awarded the 2025 Technical Section Excellence Award.
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This section lists with regret SPE members who recently passed away.
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The visit included hosting an inaugural Energy4me session, joining ANP’s 17th anniversary party, and visiting the historic village of Balibo on the Indonesian border with SPE’s Timor-Leste student chapter officers.
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Eight SPE sections across the world have won the 2025 Presidential Award for Outstanding Section.
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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.
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Join us in congratulating the International Award recipients.
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This paper studies the effect of salinity and hardness on partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide rheology in sandstones with relevance to polymer flooding models and simulations.
