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The Global HSES Community Meets in Abu Dhabi!
1,000+ Industry Professionals | 100+ Expert Speakers | 30+ Countries
Get ready for three days of impactful discussions, expert insights, and global networking at the SPE International Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Conference and Exhibition, taking place 18–20 January 2027 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Under the theme “Intelligence in Action: Safer People, Thriving Planet,” the conference will bring together industry leaders, technical experts, and HSE professionals from around the world to explore the challenges, innovations, and practical solutions shaping the future of HSE and sustainability. Discover four Plenary Sessions, 16 Special Sessions, and 26 Technical Sessions addressing critical industry challenges across safety, health, environment, and sustainability.
Be part of the conversations driving safer, smarter, and more sustainable operations.
Early Bird Deadline ends 4 December 2026.
SPE-CEDEP-IOGP Safety Leadership Academy
The SPE-CEDEP-IOGP Safety Leadership (SLA) is a collaboration between SPE, CEDEP Executive Education, and IOGP. This unique and highly differentiating safety leadership academy is tailored for the Oil & Gas industry.
Join world-class experts from across the industry and beyond for this disruptive safety leadership academy. Explore and learn to master advanced leadership concepts and safety management practices that will help participants develop the mindset, skills, and culture required to cultivate and sustain the honest conversations needed to ensure theories enable practice.
Participants will develop leadership capabilities for changing the safety paradigm and to help those on their journey to making zero harm the way we work.
The program is designed as a learning journey convening cohorts mixing HSE and Operations, Operators and Contractors, with each bringing their real safety challenges into the learning environment. The SLA includes individual and group coaching, going beyond traditional safety leadership and preparing managers to lead in a transforming, volatile and complex world.
If interested, ask your head of HSE learning or HSE discipline lead to reach out to via email.
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SPE Gaia Sustainability Program
The SPE Gaia Sustainability Program, created by the HSE and Sustainability technical discipline, aims to enable all individuals in the oil and gas industry to act in the service of sustainable socio-economic development through their professional societies—empowering those at all levels within organizations to create actions to address the planet’s sustainability challenges. Learn more
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