Students/Education
The event in Houston on 14 January 2026 will bring together top economists and industry leaders—and debut its inaugural Energython, "Molecule to Megabyte," a business case challenge focused on gas-to-data-center solutions.
The new facility is named in honor of Autry C. Stephens, UT alumnus, who founded Endeavor Energy Resources.
By strengthening their problem-solving under pressure, teamwork, leadership, English fluency, and resilience, students at the University of Buenos Aires secured victory at the 2025 PetroBowl competition—becoming the first team from Argentina to do so.
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For us, the SPE Student Chapter at the Mining U., Leoben, Austria, our main task is to organize events for the petroleum engineering and applied geophysics students. We are a group of 15 students active in organizing company presentations, other presentations regarding the petroleum industry, field trips, barbecues, and other events. It is important for us to offer a … -
In this issue, we would like to dig deeper into the role of young professionals and students in the future of our industry. SPE membership demographics (Fig. 1) should raise awareness of the projected future shortage of skilled professionals. This figure is indicative of the total population in the oil and gas industry. Similar trends in age distribution have been obs…
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The Student Link column raises awareness about actions that are being taken by young professionals and SPE student chapters around the world to extend the reach of the benefits of SPE membership to students. One of the main objectives of Student Link is to increase the number and quality of initiatives from young professionals toward students and vice versa. To achiev…
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Ron Dusterhoft, Halliburton, and Jim Giddens, Valley Forge Technical Information Services, offer a primer on writing solid technical papers.
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The simple approach is to treat others as you would like to be treated. In September 2004, Bill Robb of Profit Improvers Ltd. presented an enjoyable interactive session on this subject to 25 Aberdeen young oil and gas professionals.
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One of the most eagerly anticipated presentations of the Sixth SPE Colloquium on Petroleum Engineering Education (CPEE), held in Colorado in August 2004, was the talk given by Jill Evans, Marathon, and Kelda McFee, Shell, on the results of a survey that they conducted of young SPE members. The colloquium was attended by representatives of both industry and academia. T…
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Roughneck Camp is one of the legacy events established by the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) of the SPE Gulf Coast Section. Roughneck Camp invites “new” technical professionals (engineers, geologists, geophysicists, et al.) in the Houston area to network and learn about the benefits SPE has to offer young members. The program is designed to assist students entering th…
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This Student Link column is designed to raise awareness about actions being taken by YEPP and SPE chapters around the world to extend the reach of SPE benefits to students. It will highlight new and ongoing programs that promote and ease the transition from being an active member of an SPE student chapter to being an active member of an industry SPE chapter. Just as Y…
