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RDD Director’s Blog—Speaking About Unconventional Reserves

Ashlae Shepler — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:33:06 +0000

The January issue of JPT integrates the Technical Directors outlook, where I referred to issues related to the production analysis and reserves booking of unconventional plays. I have already received quite a few feedbacks, most of them (not all of them!) positive, and I would like to develop a little bit more on this issue.

Welcome to New Technical Director: Reservoir Descriptions and Dynamics

Ashlae Shepler — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:45:38 +0000

Olivier Houzé is the managing director of KAPPA Engineering. He joined Flopetrol-Johnston in 1983, and served as a well test field engineer in the Middle East and a software project leader in France. He cofounded KAPPA in 1987 and has been its managing director since 1991. Houzé has been involved in numerous SPE forums and [...]

Welcome to New Technical Director: Productions and Operations

Ashlae Shepler — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:42:12 +0000

I am excited and honored to be serving as SPE’s Technical Director for Production and Operations (P&O). My entire 20-year career has covered all aspects of P&O, ranging from supervising fracturing treatments in Northern Canada to completing failure analysis investigations on electric submersible pumping systems in South America. Call me biased, but I cannot imagine a better discipline [...]

RDD Director’s Blog – September 2012

Ashlae Shepler — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:50:33 +0000

With high oil prices, the field application of EOR has been on the rise. Please join me at ATCE in San Antonio where I will be moderating a special session titled “EOR – Out of the Lab and Into the Field.” This session will cover some innovative applications of EOR; innovative in not just what was [...]

RDD Director’s Blog – July 2012

Kevin Higgins — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:39:32 +0000

On behalf of the Technical Directors (TD), I would like to draw your attention to a new article series in JPT called the Young Technology Showcase. This showcase is part of the TD’s Technology Pipeline strategy and is focused on bringing young technology to the SPE membership. Young refers to early in the technology life [...]

While Surfing – A blog by Ahmed Abou-Sayed

Kevin Higgins — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:59:54 +0000

If you are here then, like me, you must be curious on what is the P&O community is up to? Well that is the idea of this place (page) and its linked websites. As the Production and Operations Technical Director, it pleases me to welcome you to your window on the production and operation world [...]

Welcome to the Drilling and Completion discipline page

Kevin Higgins — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:51:26 +0000

Welcome to the Drilling and Completion discipline page, your home for news, links to recent articles and events of interest to drilling and completion professionals. Consistent with our society’s mission for collecting and disseminating technical information, this page is intended as a hub giving quick overview of happenings in the Drilling and Completion area. Links [...]

New SPE magazine, Oil and Gas Facilities, now available

Kevin Higgins — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:42:26 +0000

As SPE Technical Director for Projects, Facilities, and Construction (PFC), I invite you to take a look at Oil and Gas Facilities, SPE’s magazine dedicated to our discipline. Oil and Gas Facilities focuses on the projects, systems, and technologies of facilities engineering. Feature articles give timely reports on PFC-related news, technical advances, and people, and [...]

New M&I technical director Cindy Reece shares her top three goals for 2012

Kevin Higgins — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:32:39 +0000

I am very honored to serve as your new Management and Information (M&I) Technical Director. Many thanks to Kamel Bennaceur for progressing this technical area and for his service to SPE as the former M&I Technical Director. I plan to use this space as a blog area to keep you apprised of what I’m focusing [...]