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SPE’s Dallas office has temporarily moved to Allen, Texas, during a renovation of the Richardson office. The move took place during the weekend of 1-4 December and the Richardson building is completely vacant and now awaiting the start of the renovation. The expected construction start date is early February, and the final construction completion date is expected to be in November, with anticipated move in date to be around mid-December 2012.

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CONTACT: Dana Otillio (+1.972.952.9471, email dotillio@spe.org)

RICHARDSON, Texas, USA (2 November 2011)—The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 2011 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) was held this week in Denver, Colorado, and brought together approximately 9,400 oil and gas professionals from 57 countries around the world.

ATCE is one of the leading technical conferences in the upstream oil and gas industry, presenting current best practices and emerging technologies to the engineers, scientists, academia, managers and executives in attendance.Technical presentations covered shale and other unconventional reservoirs, long-term global energy strategy, environmental considerations, remote operations and other important regional and discipline-focused topics.  Read more »

Guidelines for Application of the Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS), which provides information and examples on use of the PRMS, is now available for free download. The new guidelines are the work of subject matter experts from SPE, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers, and the World Petroleum Council. Read more »

This year, the recipients listed below join the elite group of individuals who have reached the milestone of reviewing 100 or more technical papers–bringing to the total membership of A Peer Apart to 110 dedicated members.

2011 Recipients

• Roberto Aguilera, University of Calgary
• Rodolfo Camacho Velazquez, Pemex E&P
• Lee Y. Chin, ConocoPhillips Company
• Dimitrios G. Hatzignatiou, IRIS/UiS
• Jasper N. Ring, Chevron
• Hisham A. Nasr-El-Din, Texas A&M University
• Shauna G. Noonan, ConocoPhillips Company
• Burak Yeten, Chevron

Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy Meeting

The Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy, also known as the SPE Wellbore Positioning Technical Section, will hold its 34th meeting on Thursday, 3 November 2011 in Denver, Colorado, USA. The location will be the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, 650 15th Street, Denver, Colorado, USA 80202. Read more »

The 2011 Regional Award winners have been announced. Regional and section awards recognize members who contribute exceptional service and leadership within SPE, as well as making significant professional contributions within their technical disciplines at the SPE regional level. Awards are presented at the appropriate SPE region or SPE section meeting. Learn more about regional awards.

View the winners in the following regions:

• Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa
• Canada
• US
• Middle East
• Asia Pacific
• Latin America and Caribbean
• Russia and Caspian

Regional and section awards recognize members who contribute exceptional service and leadership within SPE, as well as making significant professional contributions within their technical disciplines at the SPE regional level. Awards are presented at the appropriate SPE region or SPE section meeting.

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Join the SPE Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section (DSATS) for a half-day interactive panel discussion on these and related topics. The event will be held in conjunction with the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition on Sunday, 30th October, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. (MDT) at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. Read more »

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), together with the Webinar Steering Committee (volunteers from the 2010 SPE Intelligent Energy Programme Committee) will be inviting several authors to participate in live webinars every month. The webinars are free and provide an insight into what will be presented at Intelligent Energy 2012. Read more »

Join us in congratulating the 2011 SPE International Award recipients!  The SPE Board of Directors approved the 2011 International Award recipients at their recent meeting. Fifteen international award committees recommended these winners to the board because of their outstanding and significant technical, professional, and service contributions to SPE and the petroleum industry. The winners were chosen from a pool of first-rate candidates. SPE President Alain Labastie will present the awards to the winners at ATCE in Denver.

• 2009 International Award Winners
• 2010 International Award Winners

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