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Please join SPE in congratulating the 2012 SPE International Award recipients.  The SPE Board of Directors approved the 2012 International Award recipients at their recent meeting. Seventeen 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 Ganesh Thakur will present the awards to the winners at ATCE in San Antonio Texas.

• 2010 International Award Winners
• 2011 International Award Winners

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Richardson, Texas, USA (16 February 2012) – The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is pleased to announce the release of its newest magazine – Oil and Gas Facilities. Read more »

SPE Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section (DSATS) and IADC Advanced Rig Technology (ART) Committee will offer a special session on Advancing Automation in Well Construction by learning from the experience of other industries

When: 5 March 2012, 1300 – 1700 PST
Where: Town and Country Resort and Convention Center  |  San Diego, California USA
Sponsored Reception by Integrated Drilling Equipment from 1700-1900 PST

There is no charge to attend this important meeting.  However, due to limited seating you must register to attend.Registration for spouses attending the reception is also required.

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You are invited to attend this special session immediately preceding the IADC/SPE Drilling Conference (6-8 March 2012).   This half-day event features three exciting speakers addressing innovative applications of automation:

• Mike Withers, VP Ride Engineering, Disney Imagineering
  Developing Automated Rides – Automation successfully applied in environments with high safety and reliability requirements without specialist operators.

• Bertrand du Castel, Fellow, Schlumberger
  The Driller’s Brain: Human-Centered Oilfield Automation – The development of rig-state and drilling-state activity definitions that create the basis for understanding, implementing, and enhancing drilling systems automation operations

• Arjun Singh, University of California Berkley
  Extreme Aerobatic Autonomous Helicopter Flight – Learning algorithms that extract intended trajectory and create a high-accuracy dynamics model, termed automation through apprenticeship learning.

John de Wardt (President, DE WARDT & COMPANY), program Moderator, organized this event with Mario Zamora, Technical Advisor, Schlumberger.

Session includes SPE DSATS and IADC ART activities recap and 2012 election of DSATS officers. We look forward to seeing you there!

Fred Florence
Chairman, Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section

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 »

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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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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »