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New Scholarships for Petroleum Faculty

The SPE International Board approved an initiative to assist in recruitment, development and retention of PE faculty. Nominate a fellow member by 1 June.

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10 - 12 December | Kuwait City, Kuwait
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SPE Americas Unconventional Resources Conference

5-7 June | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

 

SPE Deepwater Drilling and Completions Conference

20-21 June | Galveston, Texas, USA

 

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Attend Getenergy 2012 to be held 13–14 June in London

Getenergy 2012 is an international conference where education and training experts can collaborate on learning and development issues relating to the upstream oil and gas industry. If you have an active role in choosing training for yourself, your company, or others, this is the event for you.

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Technical Section Activities

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New Separations
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A new technical section has been formed to focus on facilities- related technologies. The subject area for this new community is separations with an emphasis on gas/liquid and liquid/liquid process systems. Learn more about this new technical section.

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Web Event

Managed Pressure Drilling

Managed Pressure Drilling includes pressure control methods and technologies tailored to drill in previously un-drillable wells and reduce non-productive time in challenging wells such as HPHT, brown field redevelopment projects and exploratory wells. Current methods, technologies and recent improvements will be discussed.
Presenter:
Don Reitsma, Schlumberger

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