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SPE Kuala Lumpur Section Young Professionals Committee, in collaboration with MattEnergy, launched an integrated mentoring program for university students and recent graduates called SPE Energy Mentor Program. The program aims to offer a unique opportunity for mentoring, coaching, and advisory services provided by young professionals to young professionals. A total of…

The Hildebrand Department of Petroleum Geosystems and Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin has published several composite sheets containing equations and formulas of importance in petroleum engineering disciplines on its website. They are available in a downloadable pdf format for students to save as a reference material. The documents are published on the …

The addition of human-factors questions to the pool of questions will provide future engineers across the energy sector with an opportunity to gain more knowledge on human factors, human-factors-related regulation, industry guidance, and organizations promoting human factors.

SPE Aberdeen recently announced the recipients of 2021 section scholarships for students from Heriot-Watt University, Robert Gordon University, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Dundee, and the University of Strathclyde. A total of 18 students pursuing undergraduate, master’s, or PhD degrees related to the petroleum industry benefited from the program. Stu…

Fifteen SPE student chapters have been selected for this recognition.

The newest member of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) SPE Student Chapter in Brasil, Catarina, is a chatbot based on artificial intelligence. The main responsibility of the virtual assistant is to provide support in different tasks such as helping members in topics related to chapter information and activities, and in making SPE resources easily available. T…

The Covid-19 pandemic nearly stopped the PetroBowl event from happening. A software built by SPE members created an opportunity to continue the competition virtually.

I see it like this: Two students took action to start pushing our industry to more openly share basic information about what we do and how we do it, so that we as an industry can benefit by learning from each other.

The chapter established a strategic alliance with a local community in rural South Sulawesi, Indonesia, for sustainable economic growth.

A total of 85 engineering and geoscience students, 50% of them women, were honored with the 2020-2021 scholarships by the section.