Alain Labastie

Alain Labastie was 2011 SPE President and is a trustee of the SPE Foundation. His career has included the positions of engineering adviser, EOR Technologies, for Total and numerous positions in reservoir engineering, primarily in R&D and technology development. Labastie served on the SPE Board as director for the South, Central, and East Europe region before becoming SPE President and is a former chairperson of the JPT Editorial Committee. He has been involved in numerous SPE committees, including the Distinguished Lecturer, Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, International Petroleum Technology Conference and Exhibition, Europec Technical, and Forum Series committees. Labastie also chaired the SPE France Section and has been an SPE representative for the Offshore Technology Conference. He earned an engineering degree from Ecole des Arts et Métiers and a petroleum engineering degree from Institut Français du Pétrole.