2026 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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How AI-powered well planning is transforming field development by accelerating trajectory design, reducing drilling risk, optimizing costs, and helping engineers deliver safer, more efficient wells.
Learn how a five-step decision framework helps refineries select the right H2S removal technology by balancing compliance, risk, complexity, and cost.
Nima Daneshvarnejad, SPE, discusses how AI, IoT, and continuous methane monitoring can help improve well-integrity management and reduce emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells.
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Academic research can help bridge the gap between innovation and industry. In this interview, 2026 TWA Energy Influencer Sherif Fakher, SPE, reflects on his experiences in academia, SPE, and the importance of collaboration, innovation, and rethinking waste as a resource in the transition to a more sustainable energy future. -
Can hydrogen transform Nigeria’s energy future? By leveraging its vast natural gas, solar, and hydropower resources, Nigeria has a unique opportunity to overcome energy poverty, drive industrial growth, and emerge as Africa’s leading hydrogen economy.
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Texas A&M Researchers To Develop AI-Powered Drilling System To Accelerate Critical Mineral DiscoveryBacked by a $3.5 million US Department of Energy grant, Texas A&M researchers are developing an AI-enabled drilling system that can identify critical minerals in real time, reducing exploration time and costs for rare earth element deposits.
2026 TWA Energy Influencer Muhammad Karimi shares how he transformed academic research into a globally deployed energy technology, offering insights on innovation, entrepreneurship, oilfield digitalization, and the energy transition.
Marketing executive, entrepreneur, and author Kristine Sickels shares practical strategies to help early-career women engineers build confidence, speak up in meetings, and advocate for their achievements.
Discover how AI leader Fatai Anifowose transformed skepticism into innovation, sharing insights on artificial intelligence in energy, leadership, continuous learning, and the skills shaping the future of the industry.
Utkarsh Sinha, 2026 TWA Energy Influencer, is driving innovation at the intersection of reservoir physics and AI, combining research, patents, and industry leadership to develop practical machine learning solutions that improve reservoir and production engineering decision-making.
From Saudi Aramco boardrooms to leadership classrooms, and from a personal fitness journey to mentoring the next generation of professionals, Rehman Akhtar's career has been defined by continuous growth and reinvention.
How do energy professionals stay relevant through downturns, restructuring, and technological change? Discover four pillars of personal branding that build a reputation capable of compounding across every stage of your career.
Discover how the next generation of energy leaders is driving innovation and reshaping the future of the global energy industry in this SPE Live with 2026 SPE President Jennifer Miskimins and three young professionals, including Hitisha Dadlani, deputy editor in chief of TWA.
The 5-year multidisciplinary program will offer students the opportunity to earn a BS in engineering and an MS in business.
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A data-driven look at fuel savings, battery degradation, and net CO2 impact over a 10-year ownership period. -
In an industry that rarely slows down, memory can be a powerful engineering tool. Not in terms of nostalgia, but in perspective. Many of the activities that constituted daily operations have been so deeply transformed that new generations of engineers may never have experienced them before.
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As upstream operators move beyond isolated experiments, the hardest part of the AI journey is not building a model, it is making it stick.
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How 7 decades of AI research, including the emergence of agentic AI, are reshaping oil, gas, renewables, and the grid.
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This article explores how AI is transforming oil and gas operations, including its real impact on methane reduction, predictive maintenance, energy efficiency, and whether it truly delivers measurable sustainability gains or just adds complexity.
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Marketing executive, entrepreneur, and author Kristine Sickels shares practical strategies to help early-career women engineers build confidence, speak up in meetings, and advocate for their achievements.
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In this interview, Sushma Bhan, energy data, AI leader, and technical director of the SPE Data Science and Engineering Analytics Technical Section, shares lessons from 3 decades at Shell, discussing digital transformation, the future of AI in upstream operations, leadership development, and career advice for the next generation of energy professionals.
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The Wonderful World of Oleum is an inclusive storytelling initiative that evolved from a volunteer-written book into a global, multi-format project that humanizes the energy industry, fosters connection, and inspires diverse audiences, especially young people, to explore STEM careers.
