Jennifer Miskimins

Jennifer L. Miskimins, 2026 SPE President, is a professor and the department head of the petroleum engineering department at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines), where she holds the F.H. Mick Merelli/Coterra Energy Distinguished Department Head Chair.

She has over 35 years of experience in the petroleum industry, starting with Marathon Oil Company as a production engineer and production supervisor. Miskimins began teaching at Mines in 2002 and has held various appointments since then. From 2013 to 2015, she held a part-time appointment at Mines while working at Barree & Associates. In 2016, she returned full-time to the university and has served as the department head since 2019.

Miskimins served as the first Completions Technical Director on the SPE International Board of Directors from 2015 to 2018. She was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2010–2011 and 2013–2014 on hydraulic fracturing in unconventional reservoirs. She was awarded the 2014 SPE Completions Optimization and Technology Award, the 2022 SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, and is an SPE Distinguished Member.

Miskimins has served on numerous conference organizing committees, including chairing the 2023 and 2024 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Conference and Exhibition, and as a technical editor for SPE journals, including serving as the executive editor of the Production & Operations Journal for 3 years. She was the editor in chief for the 2019 SPE Monograph update “Hydraulic Fracturing: Fundamentals and Advancements.” Miskimins served on the AIME Board of Trustees from 2018 to 2024 as an SPE trustee and was the 2022 AIME President.

She holds a BS from the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology and MS and PhD degrees from the Colorado School of Mines, all in petroleum engineering.