The SPE Podcast

SPE Live Podcast: Pre-ATCE series: Fueling Innovation. Navigating the Oil & Gas Startup Journey

Coming up with an idea and developing an initial product are only the first challenges a startup faces; getting that product into the market and getting feedback from early customers are important next steps.
This SPE Live explores the different approaches to getting products in front of oil and gas customers. It will also look at how to structure those initial engagements, how to translate initial diligence discussions into trials/evaluations, and where one can get feedback on the product and progress to the next stages in the sales cycle. Large, independent, and national oil companies can be intimidating first customers, but many have programs or organizations designed to specifically engage with startups and small companies.
Speakers:
Bryant Mueller, SVP Sales – Western Hemisphere at Datagration.Ervell Boyd, Energy Ventures Analyst at Devon EnergyJosh Evans – CEO at HiVolt EnergyModerated by Nayeem Chowdhury

SPE Live Podcast: Plug and Abandonment – What’s the Big Deal?

Join us for an SPE Live on a brief introduction to the content that will be discussed at the upcoming SPE Virtual P&A Workshop. This event is intended to identify the technical and regulatory challenges our industry faces and discuss how we are tackling these now and planning for the future. During this SPE Live, we will have industry experts engage in long term well integrity methods and challenges to securing wells during final plugging and abandonment to ensure isolation and protection to the environment. We’ll also talk about adoption of new technologies and why the industry struggles to try new things, especially in the P&A space. Come see a glimpse of the incredible presenters we will have in the coming weeks!
Speakers:
Saulo Aleluia Barcelos, P&A Advisor, Petrobras
Matteo Loizzo, Consultant
Moderated by Bart Joppe, Well Abandonment Leader at Baker Hughes
Additional Resources:
SPE Webinar Series: Virtual Workshop – Transatlantic Plugging and Abandonment Operations

SPE President's Podcast with Terry Palisch: "Creating Our Energy Future" - The Importance of Supporting Academia and Students in Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities in the Industry - May 2024

For his May podcast, Terry focuses on the academic side of things, what the future holds for petroleum engineering, and the importance of supporting our universities and students.

SPE Live Podcast: Fostering Future Leaders - The Impact of Mentorship on Women in Leadership

Join us for an SPE Live on Diversity & Inclusion addressing the advantages of mentoring programs for women. Our guests will discuss why companies are implementing these programs, share lessons learned, and share recommendations for starting this practice.
Speakers:• Celina Gioja, Diversity and Inclusion Professional at Celi Gioja• Emily Firth, Europe Market and Business Analyst at Halliburton
Moderated by Miral Tawfik, Reservoir Engineer at Chevron
Additional Resources:
SPE eMentoring Program

SPE Live Podcast: Hydrogen as Part of the Energy Mix – Commercial and Technical Perspectives

A hydrogen economy envisions using hydrogen as a clean, low-carbon, and versatile energy carrier and fuel. It offers benefits in terms of energy security, public health, and economic development. Initially, Blue Hydrogen manufactured from natural gas in combination with CCS could help diversify our market options while helping to reduce greenhouse emissions. It has the potential to generate new job opportunities for many of us in the O&G Industry.
The global market for hydrogen and fuel cells is expected to grow from $5.5 billion in 2018 to $42.5 billion by 2026. However, Hydrogen is certainly not a silver bullet. A rapid expansion in hydrogen usage also requires that we collectively address several challenges and barriers especially in the areas of storage and transportation. Hydrogen and Ammonia should be seen as complementary energy delivery options that will rapidly expand alongside LNG, renewable, modular nuclear reactors, geothermal and small-scale hydro-projects.
This SPE live will introduce the SPE Hydrogen Technical Section and discuss H2 as part of the energy mix, addressing the investment landscape and technical challenges and opportunities.
Moderated by Zachary Evans, Sales Director Underground Storage, DarkVision.
Speakers:
Thomas Major, Managing Partner at MB Energy PartnersPedram Fanailoo, Director for the Low Carbon Segment for North America at DNVAdditional resources via OnePetro Publications:
Pore-Scale Investigation of Caprock Integrity in Underground Hydrogen StoragePredictive Power of Theoretical Adsorption Models for Hydrogen/Coal System: Implications for Hydrogen GeostorageMultiscale Model for Hydrogen Transport and Storage in Shale ReservoirsIn-Situ Hydrogen Production from Natural Gas Wells with Subsurface Carbon Retention (Open Access)

SPE President's Podcast with Terry Palisch: "Creating Our Energy Future" - How Members Can Help Improve The Industry's Public Image - April 2024

For his April podcast, Terry focuses on how SPE engages with our external stakeholders, and more importantly, how we can help improve the industry's public image through programs like Energy4me.

SPE Live Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Systems and Drilling

During the last few years, there has been an increasing focus on automation solutions for drilling, with many of these solutions already in the market. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are usually part of these solutions.
During this SPE Live, we focus on AI systems that are targeting higher levels of automation, some reaching all the way to autonomy. One requirement for such systems to be taken into use is to be trustworthy. But what does this mean and how to achieve it?
At the same time, drilling involves multiple providers, which reflects on the data and information flow, hence adding a new level of complexity for any automation solution. In drilling automation, usually several automation solutions from different providers need to seamlessly work together to ensure safe drilling operations. This raises several challenges when it comes to the stability of such a multi-agent system.
The Verification and Validation subcommittee of the SPE Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section is focusing on how to address the verification and validation of the interplay in a multi-agent architecture with multiple providers and we discuss some of the current activities in this subcommittee.
Speaker: Rodica Mihai, Senior Researcher in the energy modelling and automation group, at Norwegian Research Centre
Moderated by Deep Joshi, Data Scientist at Quantum Capital Group.
Additional Resources:
JPT – Drilling Automation
JPT – Drilling

SPE Live Podcast: Well Intervention: Industry Trends, Innovations, and Technologies Support

Join us for an SPE Live episode on well intervention. Learn about the latest industry trends, innovations, and technologies with a preview of the SPE/ICoTA Well Intervention Conference and Exhibition on 19-20 March 2024, being held in the Woodlands, Texas - USA. 
A Q&A session will then follow with questions from the audience, answered by our guests:• Pierre Ramondenc, Coiled Tubing Domain Head at SLB• Eddie Valverde, VP of Corporate Development at Emerald Surf Sciences• Luis Castro, Asset Surveillance and Intervention Leader at Baker Hughes.
Moderated by: Carlos Torres, Founder and Owner at Royal Oaks Energy Services

SPE President's Podcast with Terry Palisch: "Creating Our Energy Future" - Maximizing Your Membership by Leveraging SPE'S Multimedia Content - March 2024

In this month's podcast, Terry discusses the content created and delivered by SPE'S Multimedia team available to SPE members to help enhance their professional growth and technical expertise. 

SPE Live Podcast: The Future of Well Integrity

Join us for an SPE Live episode on “The Future of Well Integrity” with a preview of the biennial SPE Europe Well Integrity Workshop on 5-6 March 2024, being held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We will retrace 2023 from the Well Integrity Technical Section perspective and provide a summary of great discussions held at the annual dinner at ATCE. We will also briefly introduce the upcoming SPE Workshop “The Future of Well Integrity” and provide a short summary of each session:
 Setting the Scene for Well Integrity in the Energy Transition
Leading practices within Well Integrity
Understanding and Managing Risk
The Challenges of Regulating Well Integrity
Well Integrity for CCS
Digital Well Integrity
Measuring What Matters
Future-Proofing Well Integrity
A Q&A session will then follow with questions from the audience, answered by our guests:
Michael Edwards , Founder and President at Edwards Energy Innovation, and Senior Executive Advisor at Partners in Performance.
Kenny MacAllister, Managing Director, SealTite
Kareem Shafi, Carbon Storage Manager, Global CCUS Projects, DRAX
Moderated by: Pierre-Edouard Vincent, Completions and Well Interventions Manager, Trident Energy. SPE Europe Well Integrity Workshop

SPE Live Podcast: Innovation in Hydraulic Fracturing

Join us for an SPE Live episode on “Innovation in Hydraulic Fracturing” with a preview of the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition on 6-8 February 2024, being held in the Woodlands, Texas – USA.
We will retrace 2023 from the Hydraulic Fracturing Technical Section perspective and briefly introduce the following topics (to learn more, register to attend the 2024 HFTC)
• Stimulation and completion designs• Diagnostic utilization• Computational fluid dynamics• Machine learning algorithms
A Q&A session will then follow with questions from the audience, answered by our guests.– Karen Olson, SPE Completions Technical Director, and Senior Completions Advisor at Well Data Labs– Mike Mayerhofer, Director of Technology at Liberty Energy– Kyle Haustveit, Manager of Devon Energy Ventures
Moderated by: Peggy Rijken, Chapter Manager, Geomechanics in the Chevron Technology Center
Additional Resources:
SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and ExhibitionOnePetro Publications:  Hydraulic Fracturing  and Hydraulic Fracturing Fundamentals and Advancements

SPE President’s Podcast with Terry Palisch: “Creating Our Energy Future”—The Value of Publishing Technical Papers for Your Career - February 2024

In this month's podcast, Terry will continue his discussion about the ways SPE connects our members to technology by focusing on SPE papers, JPT journals and other SPE publications.

SPE Live Podcast: Gaia Talk: COP 28 - Oil and Gas Insights from the Blue Zone

As the need for global climate action gains scale and urgency, COP 28 provides a vital opportunity for countries to take stock of their progress, strengthen ambition and agree actions that increase the chances of meeting the aims of the Paris Agreement. This COP also marks a significant change of direction through its more inclusive approach to the oil and gas industry, which comes with high expectations. So how did it go and what does it mean for the oil and gas industry? COP28 is now upon us, and three key issues are playing out in the pre-negotiations and are likely to loom large over the proceedings.
Setting a target to triple renewable energy supply globally by 2030.
Agreeing language in the COP decisions on the ‘phase out of fossil fuels’.
Operationalizing the Loss and Damage fund, agreed in principle at COP27, but so far without any details on implementation.
Join us for a post-COP SPE Live Gaia Talk to hear how these issues landed and what the outcomes might mean for the oil and gas industry.
Moderated by Trey Shaffer, SPE Sustainable Development Technical Section & Gaia Chair, and ERM Senior Partner
Speakers:
David Hone, Shell
Brian Sullivan, Ipieca
Arthur Lee, Chevron

SPE Live Podcast: The Role of Pressure Transient Analysis in CCUS Projects

Pressure transient analysis (PTA) is an important tool for petroleum engineers to characterize and evaluate oil and gas reservoirs. This is particularly true during the exploration and appraisal stages of a project to understand the nature of the reservoir and derive some of its critical properties but is also very valuable as a monitoring tool to track the evolution of properties altered by production operations or fluid fronts. The associated literature is rich in models, tools and methodologies that have been built over decades.
Similar questions need to be answered in CO2 injection projects to characterize injectivity, formation petrophysical properties, reservoir extent or fluid front movements, however PTA does not appear to have garnered much interest for those applications. Be it in saline aquifers or in depleted oil and gas reservoirs, the application of PTA techniques either as evaluation or monitoring tools does not appear to have been studied extensively, even though physical phenomenon can potentially be more complex considering relative permeability changes, miscibility effects, phase changes, geochemical or geomechanical effects that can impact CO2 injection processes.
This SPE Live aims at reviewing the state of the art and the current limitations of PTA usage for CCUS applications, determining areas of future research to better understand the impact of the physical phenomena involved, as well as outline best operational practices and interpretation tools that would unlock the value of transient flow tests in that field.
Moderated by Florian Hollaender, Scientific Advisor at SLB.
Speakers:o Mehdi Zeidouni, Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Louisiana State Universityo Anton Shchipanov, NORCEo Jordan Mimoun, Empire Well Test Consulting

SPE President’s Podcast with Terry Palisch: ”Creating Our Energy Future” - January 2024

In this episode, SPE Completions Technical Director Karen Olsen joins Terry Palisch to talk about how SPE facilitates technical collaboration, particularly with respect to the SPE Technical Sections.

SPE Live Podcast: A New Era of Production Optimization

Optimization of producing oil and gas wells has always been important for managing operating expenses and continues to be an important part of production management. Production surveillance and inflow and outflow flow assurance remain key technology areas. As our industry increasingly focuses on the climate impacts of our operations, there is a growing emphasis on optimizing emissions from our operations and on the usage of water. New areas of energy development such as carbon capture and storage, geothermal energy, and subsurface energy storage are built upon skills developed from years of oil and gas production. Digitalization has become an integral part of our ways of working.
This SPE Live focuses on production optimization of producing oil and gas wells, and explores use of similar techniques and skills for new energy applications. Experts address both the status of golden oldies such as flow assurance and artificial lift, and the impact of developments in digitalization and sustainability. The panel also previews the upcoming SPE Workshop on Production Optimisation in Oil and Gas Assets, to be held 23–24 January 2024 in Vienna, Austria.
Speakers:• Anthony Allison, Senior Artificial Lift Advisor, Oxy• Wouter Botermans, Petroleum Engineer, B-PES• Akos Kiss, Production Technologist, OMV
Moderated by Kees Veeken, Principal Consultant, Mature Gas Well Technology
SPE Workshop: Production Optimisation in Oil and Gas Assets

SPE Live Podcast: Addressing the Energy Challenge With Fiber-Optic Sensing

Over the last three decades, the world of fiber-optic sensing has undergone a remarkable transformation, propelling us from the pioneering days of distributed temperature sensing (DTS) in the 1990s to the cutting-edge inclusion of optical-based pressure gauges, seismic accelerometers, flowmeters, and an array of innovative point sensors in the 2000s. Fast forward to the 2010s, and the introduction of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has further revolutionized the optical sensing system, encompassing fibers, cables, sensors, deployment, processing, and interpretation technologies.
The result? Astoundingly improved and novel quantitative well and reservoir monitoring that has not only elevated early project stages but also enriched the entire asset lifetime.
Join us for this SPE Live on Addressing the Energy Challenge with Fiber-Optic Sensing as a preamble of the SPE Workshop Fiber-Optic Sensing Applications for Field Development, Integrity & Optimisation, where we’ll delve into the world of fiber-optic monitoring technologies, unlocking their immense potential in optimizing reservoir and field development and operations.
Speakers:• Andres Chavarria, LUNA OptaSense• Pierre Bettinelli, SLB• Garth Naldrett, Silixa
Moderated by Dennis Dria, Myden Energy Consulting

SPE President’s Podcast with Terry Palisch: ”Creating Our Energy Future” - December 2023

In this podcast episode, SPE President Terry Palisch talks about the benefits of joining and being involved with the local SPE sections.

SPE Live Podcast: Generalist vs. Specialist: Winner Doesn’t Do It All!

We are excited to host four 2023 Energy Influencers selected by The Way Ahead for outstanding technical, entrepreneurial, and service contributions by young professionals. In this SPE Live, we discuss with our guest speakers what made them choose their respective career paths as generalist or specialist.
Our guests, Akos Kiss, Barasha Deka, Gabrijel Grubac, and Tarek Nigim have years of experience championing niche technologies in the fields of production and completions, have authored multiple patents and publications, and are ready to share their perspectives and answer your questions.
Moderated by: Indira Saripally, Reservoir Engineer at Occidental Oil and Gas Co.
TWA Energy Influencers 2023.

SPE Live Podcast: Leadership Development Impacts Career Transition and Progression

Engineering professionals must possess both technical and leadership skills to succeed in their careers. Mastering communication, understanding finance fundamentals, and being knowledgeable about sustainability are all key aspects of leadership. The panelists will discuss the importance of developing these skills for career transition and/or progression.
Speakers:
• Jeanne Perdue, Technical Writer at Occidental Petroleum• Shree Vikas, Manager, Market Intelligence & Business Analysis at ConocoPhillips
Moderated by:
Patricia E. Carreras, General Director at Blue Moon Strategies