SPE News
Each year during its Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), SPE honors members whose outstanding contributions to the Society and the petroleum industry merit special distinction. Recipients will be recognized at the Annual Awards Banquet on 22 October.
This section lists with regret SPE members who recently passed away.
After years of market shocks, technological breakthroughs, and rising uncertainty, ATCE 2026 will provide new insights on how industry leaders and technical experts are preparing for the next era of the upstream business.
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The SPE Board of Directors has realigned the Production & Operations and Projects, Facilities & Construction technical disciplines under one Technical Director. -
Please congratulate SPE’s Regional Award recipients for 2016.
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2017 SPE President Janeen Judah shares the goals for her presidency and the strategies she has planned to guide SPE through the downturn. Seconded to this position from Chevron, Judah will take office during the 2016 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE).
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Winners of the 2016 SPE International Awards are announced. Recipients will be recognized during the Annual Awards Banquet at the SPE annual conference.
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Kenneth George Nolte, SPE, died 6 July 2016. He was 74 years old. He was recognized as a legend of hydraulic fracturing and was most known for his contribution to the Nolte-Smith Plot, which revolutionized the interpretation of net-pressure behavior during and after hydraulic fracture treatments. Nolte’s work in his earlier years also made a significant contribution t…
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SPE welcomes 97 members into the Legion of Honor, which observes 50 years of consecutive membership in the Society.
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Spady, an active SPE member since 1986, is the first Canadian to be elected President.
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Hubert (Hugh) L. Elkins, an industry pioneer in offshore drilling equipment and technologies, died 18 March 2016. He was 81.
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Edgar Rangel-German, SPE, commissioner of Mexico’s regulatory agency National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) and one of the key members behind the implementation of Mexico’s recent energy reform for hydrocarbons, died 23 March. He was 42.
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In March 2016, the SPE Board of Directors created a separate technical discipline for Completions.
