2026 TWA Energy Influencers: Nominations Open
Recognize an outstanding oil and gas professional under age 35 who demonstrates excellence, integrity, and impact through innovation, sustainability, safety, or social responsibility—submit your nomination by 1 July 2026. Nominate someone today.
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Lean Six Sigma, through its DMAIC framework, offers a data‑driven approach for reducing waste and variation in oil and gas operations and is explored here as a practical solution for improving drill-bit inventory and lease management despite limited industry adoption.
Oluwadamilola Omotosho, SPE, shares how SPE student chapters can transform everyday activities into compelling, award‑winning annual reports.
SPE has restructured its global events organization to better align with evolving business priorities and regional needs, strengthening regional leadership with the appointments of Michelle Tan and Michael Ryan as vice presidents for the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, respectively.
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Liu shares her career experiences as it spans biomedical engineering, multiphase flow measurement in oil and gas, and emissions quantification. -
Geoscientists are shifting from primarily discovering and extracting resources to integrating knowledge, guiding sustainable decisions, and using Earth’s history to help balance resource development with long-term planetary health.
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Mark your calendars for the final SPE Live featuring the 2025 TWA Energy Influencers.
The 11-day, hybrid event will cover technical fundamentals and the basics of upstream operations.
TWA Energy Influencers Natan Battisti, Cassandra Dewan, and Pushpesh Sharma reflect on the significance of the TWA Energy Influencers award and how it has helped their professional journey. The deadline for 2026 nominations is 1 July.
The 'Future of Energy' podcast provides a platform for students to interview industry experts on how technologies function, how they are funded, and how they are implemented in practice.
Nicole Johnston shares practical advice on how women can navigate workplace challenges, avoid non-promotable work, advocate for themselves, and build the skills and relationships needed to advance into leadership roles.
The event will take place on 22 July and is available both virtually and in person, offering students a firsthand look at what an engineering career entails.
The symposium will offer technical short courses, keynote sessions, a career fair, and more, designed to equip students and YPs with the skills needed in the energy industry.
Petroleum engineering tops the pay scale among engineering majors, with new graduates projected to earn an average starting salary of $100,750, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
The event, taking place on 2 April, will explore the theme "Beyond Automation: AI as the Catalyst Reshaping the Oil and Gas Industry."
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This article examines how domain experts can use no-code ML platforms to explore decision-relevant problems, validate hypotheses, quickly build prototypes, and engage more effectively with data science teams when solutions transition toward production. -
Over the past decade, oilfield service companies have transformed logging-while-drilling (LWD) development into a faster, collaborative, system-level process that delivers improved reliability from the first run and makes development philosophy as important as the technology itself.
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AI-driven analytics and digital platforms are reshaping offshore operations, enabling smarter, faster decision-making.
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Digital transformation in oil and gas depends less on adopting advanced technologies and more on maturing data so people and processes can reliably convert raw information into aligned, asset-level value.
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Agentic AI can enhance subsurface workflows when its autonomy is deliberately designed around physics, data integrity, and accountable decision-making through architectures that separate reasoning, computation, interpretation, and validation.
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Nicole Johnston shares practical advice on how women can navigate workplace challenges, avoid non-promotable work, advocate for themselves, and build the skills and relationships needed to advance into leadership roles.
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The event will take place on 22 July and is available both virtually and in person, offering students a firsthand look at what an engineering career entails.
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This episode uncovers how the oil and gas industry can move beyond legal compliance to build inclusive cultures that authentically support employees with disabilities at every level.
