2025 TWA Energy Influencers
These outstanding young professionals are being celebrated for their work discovering, innovating, and sharing their knowledge, positively influencing and inspiring others. Read more here.
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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.
For more than a century, LSU has shaped petroleum engineering education, but few assets showcase its impact like the PERTT Lab. With six deep test wells and rare reservoir-depth gas-injection capabilities, the facility is helping drive breakthroughs in well control, carbon-dioxide injection, and next-generation energy technologies.
SPE President Jennifer Miskimins lent her expertise to Science Friday’s conversation about Venezuelan oil, explaining the reality of what it would take to extract and refine it.
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EZOps will integrate its Mobile Oilfield Management platform into the college’s energy technology program, giving students hands-on experience with digital tools used in modern oilfield operations. -
Researchers are studying how excessive groundwater extraction is causing global and regional aquifer depletion and land subsidence.
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By integrating AI into every layer of the energy ecosystem, from renewable forecasting to dynamic pricing, the path toward secure, sustainable, and affordable energy becomes not just possible but achievable.
As the energy industry rapidly evolves, organizations must treat workforce development, cross-cultural leadership, and talent mobility as core strategic systems to build a resilient, future-ready global workforce.
Chinecherem Ezembadiwe, SPE, shares his journey as president of SPE Federal University of Technology Owerri Student Chapter.
Fifty high school students will be invited to a 2-day energy education workshop, where they will be introduced to energy-sector careers and technical skills available in their own region.
The software will enhance education and research across energy, geothermal, mining, and geotechnical engineering by giving students and faculty hands-on access to industry-standard tools used worldwide.
The program is designed specifically for STEM students without an engineering background and prepares students to work in energy- and sustainability-focused fields.
Marie-Hélène Pelletier presents a proactive framework for building resilience, managing uncertainty, and maintaining performance as AI reshapes work and life.
Young professionals across Africa gathered to harness technology, talent, and collaboration at the SPE Africa Young Professionals Workshop.
Learn how the SPE Lagos and Warri sections help graduating student members smoothly transition into professional membership through structured programs, mentorship, networking, and community-building initiatives.
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PE Ltd.'s software will allow students and faculty to work directly with modeling technologies and build real-world, job-ready skills. -
Founding dean of Missouri S&T’s Kummer College, James D. Sterling, sat down with Joshua Schlegel, associate professor and associate chair of nuclear engineering and radiation science, to discuss why nuclear power is making a comeback and what its resurgence means for the future of energy.
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Mark your calendars for the first SPE Live featuring the 2025 TWA Energy Influencers.
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Maldonado serves as controls and systems engineering lead at Aker BP.
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The oil and gas sector stands on the edge of a digital revolution, yet legacy systems and resistance to change continue to hold it back. I reflect on my experience in digital drilling and argue that the industry’s biggest barrier isn’t technology itself, but the culture that surrounds it.
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By strengthening their problem-solving under pressure, teamwork, leadership, English fluency, and resilience, students at the University of Buenos Aires secured victory at the 2025 PetroBowl competition—becoming the first team from Argentina to do so.
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SPE Africa's first Beyond the Borders program, held during the 2025 Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition in Lagos, brought together young professionals from seven African countries to foster collaboration, leadership, and professional growth.
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Emuobosa Patience Ojoboh, SPE, shares how unexpected academic challenges changed her career path and how, throughout it all, SPE served as her anchor through uncertainty.
