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Europe
As the newly appointed Regional Director for Europe, my first update aimed at briefly introducing myself. In this second update, the first of 2024, I am excited to wish and very happy 2024, but most importantly unveil our comprehensive strategy for the next three years. Rooted in the principles of transparency, this roadmap, will not be reserved for discussions within the boardroom. It is also openly shared with you, our valued members, and at the same time present it to the overall SPE board this January. SPE President Terry Palisch is joined by Dana Otillio, vice president of SPE's marketing and communications, to discuss how members can maximize their membership by leveraging multimedia content.
Daniel Merino-Garcia, Project InnerSpace, moved from the oil and gas industry into the geothermal energy sector in 2023 after 20 years working for European oil and gas companies in research and technology development in the areas of production engineering, flow assurance, and fluid characterization. He has authored or coauthored more than 40 technical articles. Merino-Garcia holds a graduate degree in chemical engineering from Valladolid University (Spain) and a doctorate in petroleum engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.
Adeshina Badejo is a petroleum engineering PhD student at Texas A&M University under the Texas A&M at Qatar Strategic Research Initiatives Program. He has a strong interest in reducing the environmental impact of the continued use of fossil fuels. His research focuses on flow assurance challenges of the CO2 value chain from the extraction point to the subsurface injectivity point with the integration of machine learning. Badejo has been actively involved with SPE since 2016 as a volunteer. He led the Heriot-Watt University PetroBowl team to the regional qualifiers in Zagreb, Croatia, and received the 2023 SPE Aberdeen Section Student Bursary Award. He also served as the 2018–2019 SPE Programs Chairperson during his undergraduate studies and co-initiated the inaugural edition of The Industry Discourse, a student-led energy conference. He holds a master’s degree in subsurface energy systems from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and a bachelor’s degree in petroleum and gas engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
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If a contest or a division is not held in your assigned region, you can request to present your paper in an assigned alternate region. Every region has only one alternate region. To make an alternate region paper request, or if the alternate region is not holding a contest, please contact spc@spe.org.
Organization of the PetroBowl Regional Qualifiers are planned collaboratively with SPE International and the Regional Directors who operate within each PetroBowl Super Region. Each "super-region" will select up to five teams to represent them at the PetroBowl Championship. In addition to the teams from each region, the first and second place Chapters from the previous year's Championship are also invited to defend their title. A total of 32 places are available for the Championship. Regional Qualifiers will be a mix of physical and virtual events depending on suitability for the region.
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- South America > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro (0.18)
Rapid methane reductions are critical to limit global warming in the near term, and more than 150 countries have signed the Global Methane Pledge--a collective agreement to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030. National policies and significant funding have been announced to support this ambitious initiative, yet there is a lag in credible data to inform and demonstrate progress. The fossil fuel industry, which contributes 15–22% of the global methane budget, is expected to make rapid reductions. Under the International Energy Agency's Net Zero by 2050 scenario, 75% of methane emissions from fossil fuel operations must be eliminated between 2020 and 2030. Global policy approaches to realize these reductions vary.
Earlier this year, GA Drilling and ZeroGeo Energy unveiled plans for a 12-MW geothermal power plant in Lower Saxony, Germany, named "Projekt Thermo." This partnership, formalized by a memorandum of understanding in February, aims to lead to a series of geothermal projects across Europe. ZeroGeo, a Swiss-based energy company founded in 2021, will be the project's operator having secured two geothermal exploration permits in Lower Saxony where it completed a geophysical campaign in early 2023. Notably, this campaign featured a 5000-km² aerial full tensor gravity gradiometry survey, marking its first application in Europe for geothermal prospecting. Projekt Thermo will be the first commercial project for ZeroGeo and its partner GA Drilling which will be debuting its "anchorbit" technology to provide enhanced drilling stability.
The year has commenced with many value adding activities in the various Sections across Africa. I hope you are finding them useful and engaging. The organizers put a lot of effort to providing our members with a wide variety of content across the continent both in-person and virtual so that our members gain the full advantage of their SPE membership. March 8th was International Women's Day, and it was gratifying to see the different sections roll out targeted activities to celebrate with the Women of SPE! Most exciting was a collaborative event hosted by FOUR Sections: Ghana, Vienna, Warri and Maputo!
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- Europe > Austria > Vienna (0.26)
- Africa > Mozambique > Maputo City > Maputo (0.26)
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Lucy MacGregor is a leading researcher in multi-physics analysis with particular expertise in the integration of electromagnetic methods into reservoir characterization workflows. She served as SEG Honorary Lecturer in Europe in 2011 and as Distinguished Lecturer in 2021. Lucy has a PhD from the University of Cambridge for research in the field of controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) methods and over 25 years of experience in marine EM surveying and its application to the detection and characterization of fluids in the earth. Following her PhD, she was a Green Scholar at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography working on marine electromagnetic methods, before returning to Cambridge as a Leverhulme Trust/Downing College research fellow. In 2000 she moved to the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton as a NERC research fellow to continue her work, and she took part in the first survey targeting CSEM at hydrocarbon reservoirs.
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Jack Petrovich Dvorkin earned his PhD in 1980 and MS and BSc in 1974 in Continuum Mechanics and Mathematics, all from Lomonosov Moscow University. Currently, he is a faculty member and program leader for Rock Science Program at the College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences at King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia, College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences. In 1989-2017, he worked as a senior research scientist in Rock Physics Laboratory at Stanford University. Between 1974 and 1989, he worked in the petroleum industry in the USSR. He has co-authored 180 scientific papers, six books, and nine U.S. patents.
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- Geology > Rock Type > Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Rock (0.73)
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