The President’s Award for Section Excellence recognizes SPE sections who display exemplary efforts in technology dissemination, section operations, member benefits, society and community benefits and innovation. The awards are presented to an officer of each section during the President’s Luncheon at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 2012 President’s Award for Section Excellence Aberdeen [...]
Congratulations to Mojtaba Pordel Shahri! He has been awarded the 2012 Henry Dewitt Smith Fellowship. Mojtaba received his BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering, and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in petroleum engineering. He earned the 1st rank in both undergraduate and graduate studies in 2008 and 2010 among all the students. [...]
The IPTC Education Week will be held 24 – 28 March 2013, organised for the benefit of 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students in science, geoscience and engineering from qualified institutions across the eastern hemisphere. It is anticipated that some 75-100 of the best students will be selected to participate in the IPTC Beijing Education [...]
On April 21, 2012, the SPE Student Chapter CUPB held a technical lecture titled “Water Cresting Control with Bilateral Water Sink Technique in Horizontal Wells for Heavy Oil with Bottom Water”. The guest speaker was Dr. Qin Wenting, a graduate of Louisiana State University, and her main research interest included the exploration of heavy oil [...]
On April 14th, the Career Guidance Seminar (CGS 2012) was held for the second year with more than 100 students in attendance. CGS was sponsored by an SPE section and student chapter, and University Alumni Association. The theme was “Future of the Oil and Gas Industry”. The morning speakers gave presentations followed by a forum [...]
2012 Winners African See photos Ayowole Onoopemipo Ogunleye University of Ibadan Asia Pacific Zi-chen Xu China University of Petroleum, Beijing Undergraduate Fajril Ambia Bandung Institute Of Technology, Indonesia Postgraduate European Antoine Bouziat Institut National Polytechnique De Lorraine Undergraduate/Master’s Jafar Fathi University of Stavanger PhD Canadian Vivek Swami University of Calgary Undergraduate/Master’s Seyed Reza Etminan University [...]
We are pleased to announce and welcome to SPE the following new student chapters! Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz in Bolivia Federal University of Bahia in Brazil Universidade Estacio de Sa in Brazil Anna Universit in India AMET University in India Mehran University, Khairpur Mir’s in Pakistan Coventry University in United Kingdom Contact information for [...]
On the night of February 15th, five representatives of the CUPB SPE student chapter took part in the monthly meeting of SPE-NCI in Lido hotel. The corporate SPE members were managers and technicians mainly from Schlumberger, Newfield, Shell, ConocoPhillips, China Oil Field Services Limited and other famous petroleum companies. The theme of this meeting was [...]
Distinguished Lecturers are nominated by their peers, and selected by the Distinguished Lecturer Committee for quality, timeliness and relevance of presentations. We solicit nominations from each region of the world to cover all disciplines. Do you know someone who is an authority in their field and an experienced public speaker? Nominate by 31 March. The process is [...]
Working alongside the SPE Young Professionals Coordinating Committee, SPE has launched the Young Members Video Library. The library contains a collection of video resources for your learning and development. Topics range from career advice and personal skills to industry training and more. The library will continue to grow over the coming months, so keep checking back [...]

