Current Distinguished Lecturers: 2026-2027 Season
Enhance your knowledge and grow professionally by hearing these experts in their fields.
Anke Wendt | SLB
Geomechanical Insights for Operational Excellence—Does Strain Matter?
SPE Discipline: Reservoir
Bertrand Theuveny | SLB
Cleanup and Flowback—The Art of Well Startup, Cleanup, and Flowback: From Deep Water to Unconventional
SPE Discipline: Production and Operations
Chiara Cavalleri | SLB
Log-Based Permeability: What Are We Measuring?
SPE Discipline: Reservoir
Chris Fair | Oilfield Data Services Inc.
Proactive Reservoir and Production Engineering Surveillance
SPE Discipline: Production and Operations
Eric May | University of Western Australia
Cool Learnings: How LNG Fundamentals Are Advancing the New Energy Technologies of Liquid H2 and CO2 Transport
SPE Discipline: Projects, Facilities, and Construction
Helena Wu | Santos Ltd.
Direct CO2 Capture from Air: A Perfect Partner for CCUS?
SPE Discipline: Asset Management
Indira Saripally | Occidental Oil and Gas Company
Overlooking Value? An Optimized Approach To Revitalize Mature Fields
SPE Discipline: Reservoir
Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail | Inflow Control
New Frontier of Autonomous Inflow Control Technology
SPE Discipline: Completions
John Howard | Altus Well Experts
Casing Design for a New Era: Historical Insights and Future Challenges
SPE Discipline: Drilling
John Schopp | Schopp Energy LLC
What Petroleum Engineers Should Know About Climate Science
SPE Discipline: Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability
Josue Franca | Petrobras
From Human Error to System Resilience: Rethinking Safety and Human Performance in Complex O&G Operations
SPE Discipline: Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability
Justo Matheus | SLB
Everything Is an Optimization Problem: The Next Frontier Using Data and Models
SPE Discipline: Data Science & Engineering Analytics
Lee Hyson | Gaia Earth Group
Modern Openhole Wireline Operations: Safer, More Efficient Outcomes With Proactive, Holistic Planning
SPE Discipline: Drilling
Mark Pearson | Liberty Resources LLC
Global Low-Permeability Field Development: To Go Horizontal or Not?
SPE Discipline: Completions
Matthew Billingham | SLB
Well Interventions: Untapped Potential and the Path Past Industry Barriers
SPE Discipline: Production and Operations
Michael Poythress | Retired
Operational Excellence: How To Increase Profits at Any Oil Price—A Higher Level, Deep Dive Into Sucker-Rod Pumping Fundamentals
SPE Discipline: Production and Operations
Michael Romer | ExxonMobil
Gas Lift Tricks You Can Use: Innovation Adventures in Gas Lifting
SPE Discipline: Production and Operations
Neil Haddock | US Synthetic
Developing Polycrystalline Diamond Cutters for Hard Rock and Geothermal Drilling
SPE Discipline: Drilling
Oliver Mullins | Mullins Reservoir Solutions
History Matching Reservoir Charge; Forecasting Complex Fluid Distributions and Tar Mats With Reservoir Simulation
SPE Discipline: Reservoir
Olivier Sissmann | IFP Energies Nouvelles
Investigating the Potential of Geologic Hydrogen Source Rocks and Reservoirs in Continental Settings
SPE Discipline: Reservoir
Richard Tondel | Equinor ASA
Let There Be Light! Creating Value From Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing
SPE Discipline: Production and Operations
Russell Farmer | ADNOC
Navigating Uncertainty for Value With Examples From Petrophysics
SPE Discipline: Reservoir
Ruth Thomas | Well-Safe Solutions
The Subsurface Secret to Optimized Well Abandonment
SPE Discipline: Reservoir
Samba Ba | SLB
Building an Industry 4.0 Agentic AI for Autonomous Directional Drilling
SPE Discipline: Drilling
Sanjay Vitthal | Shell
From Land to Sea: Successful Completions Technology Transfer From Onshore to Offshore Wells (Past, Present, and Future?)
SPE Discipline: Completions
Shripad Biniwale | SLB
Beyond the Hype: Transforming Subsurface and Production With AI Innovations
SPE Discipline: Data Science & Engineering Analytics
Tim Benish | ExxonMobil
Accelerated Learning in the Unconventionals Through Integrated Field Experiments With Instrumented Monitor Wells
SPE Discipline: Completions