In July 2017, SPE’s Board of Directors initiated a process to produce an updated strategic plan for the organization. They gathered input both internally and externally to help them define the organization’s strategic direction. This plan does not cover everything that SPE does—it was assumed that we would continue to provide high quality service to the membership. This plan focuses on four areas where the Board believed that SPE could potentially do more to move us to a new level of success and provide additional service to both members and industry. This strategic plan was approved by the Board in March 2018.

Preview for all for October; beginning Nov. login required; access for those who received print JPT Primarily used in a few US states, waste-slurry-injection technology could help operators reduce cost, while also potentially reducing their carbon footprint. But the process may still present technical and environmental challenges. ConocoPhillips Promises Big Changes as It Acquires Concho in $9.7-Billion Deal ConocoPhillips promised more than just growth and costs savings when it announced a deal to acquire Concho. Shell has selected Bentley Systems, a provider of software and digital twin cloud services, to help streamline its capital projects and decrease time to first oil. Marking the end of a 2-year existence, Riviera is preparing for liquidation and dissolution.

Jeff Spath has been named the head of the petroleum engineering department at Texas A&M University. Tests showing increased recoveries in the Bakken formation using CO2 could have significant implications for the upstream oil and gas industry.

Fill out the online nomination form and review the information on supporting documents. The 2020-21 nomination cycle will open in mid-October.

Diamond-tipped cutters are the leading edge for technology development as companies seek an advantage that will allow customers to drill faster and longer before changing bits. The variables defining drill-bit performance cover a lot of ground. There is a lot of attention given to cutters studding diamond drill bits, but just as important are what is in the rest of the drillstring and the decisions made by the driller.

Understanding the history of innovation and invention in petroleum engineering is essential to shaping the industry's future. The Engineering and Technology History Wiki is a comprehensive collection of oral histories, milestones, and archival documents pertaining to the history of technology, developed by a partnership between the United Engineering Foundation, AIChE, AIME, ASCE, ASME, IEEE, SPE and SWE. They are personal, informal memoirs, as opposed to a scholarly history of a topic or innovation. Your stories will impact professionals for years to come. Learn how to contribute at www.ethw.org

You must submit at least one recommendation and documentation for entry exams (if applicable). U.S. law prohibits provision of certain services to individuals residing in embargoed countries; therefore, not all applicants may be eligible to participate in the Imomoh Scholarship program. Egbert Imomoh is the Non-Executive Chairman and co-founder of Afren plc. His petroleum industry career began in 1968, when he joined Shell as a petroleum engineer in Nigeria after completing training in The Netherlands. During his career, Imomoh has worked in Nigeria, the UK, and The Netherlands.

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The contest has grown in size and popularity since its debut in 2002, and in 2015 was taken global with the introduction of six regional qualifier contests. Regional qualifier competitions now take place in the Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, South America and Caribbean, Middle East, and North America SPE regions, and the top 32 teams are invited to the PetroBowl Championship at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.

In this paper, after a review of the fundamentals of wettability alteration, a discussion of nanomaterials used for wettability alteration is provided. For the planning of an enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) project in a major mature oil field in east Malaysia, an extensive routine-core-analysis (RCA) and special-core-analysis (SCAL) program has been performed on unconsolidated clastic reservoir rocks.