Risk management
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.
In complex energy projects, technical excellence alone is not enough—successful delivery depends on disciplined execution skills such as scope clarity, realistic scheduling, stakeholder coordination, and proactive risk management, particularly for young professionals turning concepts into real-world results.
The event on 14 January in Houston will bring together leading economists and industry leaders and will debut the North American edition of Energython, “Molecule to Megabyte,” a business case challenge for students focused on gas-to-data-center solutions.
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This article introduces a tender strategy framework—a four-pillar model built on nearly 2 decades of international upstream experience—that integrates engineering rigor with business strategy to improve contract awards, strengthen transparency, and deliver lasting project performance. -
The SPE Asset Management Technical Section (AMTS) is teaming up with the University of Houston to launch a pilot program that advances asset management practices and supports the growth of energy professionals worldwide—setting a model for future collaborations between universities and SPE technical sections.
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The SPE Management Technical Section has been officially renamed the Asset Management Technical Section. The new name better reflects the section’s focus on asset management as a core discipline in the upstream oil and gas industry.
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This article provides an overview of risk-based measurement, monitoring, and verification (MMV) for efficient, long-term CO2 storage.
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Delve into a method designed to analyze and solve problems in the offshore equipment inspection process in this article.
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SPE has established three new technical sections—the Management Technical Section, the Methane Emissions Management Technical Section, and the Data Science & Engineering Analytics Technical Section.
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A technical synopsis of major considerations for unconventional wells facing prolonged shut-ins. The review includes deciding factors for kill fluid selection and risks of incompatible fluid mixing.
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In North America’s most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas production.
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If a boom in electric vehicle sales takes place, a group of auto experts suggest it would represent a larger immediate threat to electricity supply than it would to oil demand.
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Industry regulators in Oklahoma have rolled out broad new restrictions on more than 600 disposal wells as part of the largest action of its kind taken in response to earthquakes.
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