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Strengthening Ways To Disseminate Knowledge with Shauna Noonan

“To collect, exchange, and disseminate technical knowledge” are not only the first seven words of SPE’s mission but also what our society has excelled at over its storied history. — Shauna Noonan, 2020 SPE President
Each month, Shauna joins The SPE Podcast to discuss her President's Column and to share her SPE journey. We'll end each of these podcasts asking the audience an interactive question.
More from Shauna Noonan
Strengthening the Tools and Methods We Use To Disseminate Knowledge to Members
Strengthening the Quality of SPE's Technical Content
Reinforcing Core Strengths, Delivering Membership Value
Q&A With 2020 SPE President Shauna Noonan
2020 SPE President Promises to Focus on Strengthening Organization’s Engineering Core
 
From Shauna's December President's Column:
SPE is evaluating how we disseminate our content to make it more visually engaging, bite-sized, and, of course, available through mobile devices. This evaluation includes reviewing the traditional way of publishing technical content through manuscripts. Many students and young professionals want to receive content at a high level first, such as a one-page summary with conclusions, and then can elect to access the full paper if they need the details. SPE may be able to use videos, podcasts, webinars, and other formats to accomplish this.
One of my five focus areas during my time as your President will be to strengthen the tools and methods we use to disseminate knowledge to members. My objectives in this area are to create and elevate SPE initiatives to provide quality content in a variety of formats, such as print, video, and audio, so it is more engaging and consumable for all our members. I will also ensure that we will deliver on SPE’s Strategic Plan goals of having technical dissemination and exchange methods for easy access and delivery of content and tools through mobile devices.   
Our society is membership-driven, and our programs are designed to serve the needs of our diverse and talented membership. To ensure that our society remains relevant for years to come, we need to anticipate the needs of our future members so they are prepared to drive the next wave of innovations and technological advancements for our industry.
 
Question of the Month
What industry podcasts are you listening to?
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SPE Talks Tech: 2020 Technology Watch List

With 2020 on the horizon, JPT editors put together our Top 10 list of technologies and ideas to keep an eye on in the coming year.
Trent Jacobs and Steve Rassenfoss cover emerging technology for the Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT), SPE's flagship publication. With SPE Talks Tech, our writers debate and discuss the hottest topics in the technical arena of the oil and gas industry.
Mentioned in this podcast
SPE International App: https://www.spe.org/en/members/speiapp/
SPE Membership Join/Renew: https://www.spe.org/en/members/
URTeC: https://urtec.org/
SPE Events: https://www.spe.org/en/events/about-events/
Trent Jacobs 📨 tjacobs@spe.org
Steve Rassenfoss 📨 srassenfoss@spe.org 
 2020 Technology Watch List
Subject Matter Experts (SME)
Refracs driven by frac hit defense – pre-loading is popular, too
Black gunk – frac fluid downsides
Split fracturing – not new, but renewed interest
Gas surges
Texas Two-Step – zipper frac within a zipper frac?
Don't call it AI
Fracture connections – DFIT response 1,000ft away
BOPs and the Macondo Anniversary
A new pressure diagnostic from Devon?
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SPE Talks To: Kirstie Boyle

Business Development VP Kirstie Boyle joins The SPE Podcast to talk startups. Recently part of a $4.5-million funding round, Kirstie discusses fine-tuning pitches, making complicated concepts relatable, options for spending investor money, entrepreneurial success stories, and why startups aren't for everyone.
Kirstie is a member of SPE's Women in Hydraulic Fracturing, a United Nations award-winner, a dock jumping competitor, and the VP of Business Development for Interface Fluidics, an SPE Startup Village Rising Star recipient. The startup features nanotechnology that, within just a few hours of testing, can tell an oil and gas company whether its chemical selection will increase yield, or damage the reservoir. 
More From Kirstie Boyle
Interface Fluidics: https://interfacefluidics.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstieboyle/
OnePetro: Novel Oil Flow Enhancement Chemistry for Unconventional Formations Evaluated and Optimized by Cutting-Edge Methodology
Mentioned in This Episode
JPT: Reservoir-on-a-Chip Technology Opens a New Window Into Oilfield Chemistry
ATCE Startup Village: http://www.atce.org/schedule/atce-startup-village
Startup Village: Startup Village Success Story: Interface Fluidics (Video)
ATCE: http://www.atce.org/welcome
SPE Bookstore: https://store.spe.org/ (Members get up to 50% discount!)
SPE International App: https://www.spe.org/en/members/speiapp/
CARE Canada: https://care.ca/
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SPE Talks To: Andrew Pepper

Fluid saturation isn't what it used to be when it comes to unconventional reservoirs. Our guest is among those sharing new research to discuss the shale sector’s changing perspectives on the importance of mobile hydrocarbons vs. immobile hydrocarbons. Petroleum Geoscience innovator Andrew (Andy) Pepper joins The SPE Podcast this week with his take on how unconventional reservoir evaluation can be improved. One lingering question: can oil and gas companies trust their logs?
More From Andrew Pepper
OnePetro: Saturation Isn’t What It Used to Be: Towards More Realistic Petroleum Fluid Saturations and Produced Fluid Compositions in Organic-Rich Unconventional Reservoirs
This !s Petroleum Systems: https://www.thisispetroleumsystems.com/
Mentioned in This Episode
JPT: Permian Basin Production Will Grow as Long as Well Productivity Allows It
URTeC: https://urtec.org/
SPE Bookstore: https://store.spe.org/ (Members get up to 50% discount!)
SPE International App: https://www.spe.org/en/members/speiapp/
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SPE Talks To: Shauna Noonan – Strengthening the Quality of SPE’s Technical Content

"Our Society has a wealth of technical content, and it is rapidly growing."
2020 SPE President Shauna Noonan outlines four (4) objectives to strengthen the quality of SPE's technical content. 
Each month, Shauna will join The SPE Podcast to discuss her President's Column and to share her SPE journey. We'll end each of these podcasts asking the audience an interactive question.
 
More from Shauna Noonan
Strengthening the Quality of SPE's Technical Content
Reinforcing Core Strengths, Delivering Membership Value
Q&A With 2020 SPE President Shauna Noonan
2020 SPE President Promises to Focus on Strengthening Organization’s Engineering Core
 
From Shauna's November President's Column:
Our Society has a wealth of technical content, and it is rapidly growing. The value of that technical content derives from the quality of it. Having high-quality content will continue to strengthen SPE’s professional reputation, which is critical when entering new and emerging markets, attracting new members, and, most importantly, maintaining and engaging our current members and corporate sponsors. Our technical content that is consumed daily by our members is also the source of knowledge for the incoming generation, and we need to ensure that it is of the highest quality for our future innovators and leaders to excel.
To strengthen the quality of SPE’s technical content, I have outlined the following objectives:
Increase the awareness and use of all the tools and methods provided to authors to create high-quality papers
Educate program committees about their roles and responsibilities toward working with authors to ensure technical quality
Establish methods by which to track technical quality within SPE’s published and presented content
Support and develop a better process for formal peer review.
There are many ways we will work on strengthening the quality of our technical content. This is something that I am very passionate about and will champion as your SPE President. I am proud of the wealth of technical knowledge our Society has gathered over decades and grateful to all our members who contribute to our technical repositories. Our SPE logo is a symbol of technical excellence, and we all need to ensure our Society’s content and programs are worthy of that stamp of quality.
 
Question of the Month
What attributes do you think makes a high-quality paper?
Please send your response to president@spe.org.
 
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SPE Talks To: Yogashri Pradhan

In this episode, we discuss how to market yourself and grow your career. A reservoir engineer for Endeavor Energy Resources, LP and a very active SPE member, Yogashri Pradhan joins on The SPE Podcast sharing tips and tricks to grow your network.
More From Yogashri Pradhan
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/yogashripradhan/
JPT: Did I Make the Right Career Choice?
JPT: Permian Operators Collaborate to Improve Understanding and Performance of Unconventional Reservoirs
OnePetro: Lessons Learned From Existing Horizontal Fractured Wells on University Lands in the Midland Basin: Rate Transient Analyses vs Completion and Field Development Optimization
OnePetro: Evaluating the Impact of Frac Communication Between Parent, Child, and Vertical Wells in the Midland Basin Lower Spraberry and Wolfcamp Reservoirs
Mentioned in This Episode
SPE Gulf Coast Section: https://www.spegcs.org
SPE Women in Energy Committee: https://www.spe.org/en/volunteer/women-in-energy/
SPE Cares at ATCE: http://www.atce.org/schedule/spe-cares
SPE Members in Transition:https://www.spe.org/en/members/transition/
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SPE Talks To: Nathan Meehan

The End of Petroleum Engineering As We Know It. Author of 2019's most-downloaded OnePetro® paper and 2016 SPE President, Nathan Meehan joins The SPE Podcast this week. What does Meehan mean by his eye-catching headline? In this episode, host Trent Jacobs explores the depths of the popular paper, looking for an answer to "should I pursue a career in petroleum engineering?".
More From Nathan Meehan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fracmeister/
OnePetro: The End of Petroleum Engineering as We Know It
Mentioned in This Episode
SPE Bookstore: https://store.spe.org/ (Members get up to 50% discount!)
Journal of Petroleum Technology: https://pubs.spe.org/jpt/jpt-main-page/
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SPE Talks Tech: Real-time fracturing, pressure monitoring, and cube drilling

Trent Jacobs and Steve Rassenfoss cover emerging technology for the Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT), SPE's flagship publication. With SPE Talks Tech, our writers debate and discuss the hottest topics in the technical arena of the oil and gas industry.
Correction: During the Podcast, Stephen Rassenfoss incorrectly named Kevin Raterman, the ConocoPhillips reservoir engineering advisor, who lead work at the company’s test site in the Eagle Ford, that did extensive research on hydraulically fractured reservoirs.
In this episode: US and Canadian shale are looking to move away from cookie-cutter fracturing, starting a big debate about how much customization can the sector practically do.
JPT: To “Right Size” Fractures, Producers Adopt Robust Monitoring and Custom Completions
 
In this episode: Using pressure monitoring to see what production in reservoir engineering really looks like.
JPT: To Spark Real-Time Revolution, Fracture Diagnostic Firms Partner Up and Innovate
 
In this episode: A technique being adopted across the Permian that may be falling short of expectations, Trent and Steve talk about cube developments.
JPT: “Dominator Project” Raises Key Questions About Future of Cube Drilling
 
Mentioned in this podcast
SPE International App: https://www.spe.org/en/members/speiapp/
SPE Connect: https://www.spe.org/en/industry/spe-connect/
URTeC: https://urtec.org/
SPE Events: https://www.spe.org/en/events/about-events/
Trent Jacobs 📨 tjacobs@spe.org
Steve Rassenfoss 📨 srassenfoss@spe.org 
OnePetro: Post-Fracture Pressure Decay: A Novel (and Free) Stage-Level Assessment Method 
 
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SPE Talks To: Shauna Noonan – Strengthen the Core

2020 SPE President Shauna Noonan discusses her SPE journey and unveils the theme for her presidency. Each month, Shauna will join The SPE Podcast to share her President's Column. We'll end each of these podcasts asking the audience an interactive question.
 
More from Shauna Noonan
Reinforcing Core Strengths, Delivering Membership Value
Q&A With 2020 SPE President Shauna Noonan
2020 SPE President Promises to Focus on Strengthening Organization’s Engineering Core
 
From Shauna's October President's Column:
My involvement in SPE has proven to be essential at each pivotal point in my career. As a young engineer, I would gladly pay for my own SPE membership even though I was counting pennies. I considered the annual dues an investment in my career, which continued to pay off repeatedly. I took on many different roles within SPE during my 29 years as a member—embracing positions that would develop my technical knowledge and soft skills, such as leadership and communication. So many doors of opportunity have opened for me because I interacted with my fellow members and utilized what SPE had to offer. The time spent on those SPE activities has always been a wise investment.
As your president, I want to expand the value an SPE membership brings to both members and to companies that support their employees’ involvement in SPE. Our society is strong, yet I believe there are opportunities for improvement in the following areas:
Gain recognition as the technical and unbiased source of information about our industry
Develop trust within our industry and with the public
Expand the value of membership and attract new members
Illustrate value of attending SPE events against competitor events
Increase manuscript citations and engage those from outside our industry who want to publish with SPE
The theme of my presidency is “SPE Strong: Strengthening the Core.” For the society to continue to grow and expand, we must ensure that the core attributes that have allowed SPE to flourish remain extremely strong, both now and in the future. Based on feedback I have received from fellow members over the past few years, I plan to focus on the five areas summarized below and detailed further in my upcoming columns.
 
Question of the Month
Why did you become an SPE member?
Please send your response to president@spe.org.
 
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SPE Talks To: George King

A completions advisor for Viking Engineering with almost 50 years of experience, George King appears on The SPE Podcast. King joins host Trent Jacobs, JPT Digital Editor, to discuss casing failures and horizontal wells.
More From George King and Trent Jacobs
OnePetro: Horizontal Well Frac-Driven Interactions: Types, Consequences, and Damage Mitigation
JPT: To Solve Frac Hits, Unconventional Engineering Must Revolve Around Them
JPT: To “Right Size” Fractures, Producers Adopt Robust Monitoring and Custom Completions
JPT: “Dominator Project” Raises Key Questions About Future of Cube Drilling
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Welcome to the SPE Podcast

Hello, and thanks for listening to The SPE Podcast.
 
This is an exciting time for SPE, as we launch our podcast series. The basis for our show is to share. Share technical information, share soft skills, share stories that make a difference in the global oil and gas industry.
So, what can you expect to hear in these podcasts? SPE is an extensive organization, offering numerous programs and services for our members. Our staff is also well-versed in a broad range of technical topics. Basically, there is a lot of strong, beneficial content to choose from.
Many SPE podcasts will be in the form of interviews with industry experts about technical subjects. Others will include career advice, messages from SPE’s President, stories about the contributions of our industry to society, sustainability topics, and more.  We will use the episode title to let you know which type of podcast to expect. To give you an idea, one of the early podcasts features petroleum engineer and well solutions expert, George King. This podcast is titled “SPE Talks To: George King”. In the show notes of each episode, you can learn more about the specific content being discussed. The show notes also include links to key resources that will be of value to you.
Make sure to subscribe to get updates when we premiere new episodes. For now, we will debut a new podcast every one-two weeks on Tuesdays.
This is a great opportunity that we embrace. Just as our industry is undergoing a digital revolution, SPE is adapting to keep pace.  Embracing new mediums, such as podcasts, it part of that change.  We need to be where our members and oil and gas professionals are looking for information – and that includes podcasts.
We hope you enjoy the SPE Podcast… and take away something useful to your job and career along the way.  Your feedback is welcome, along with ideas for topics you would like to see us cover in future podcasts. You can also send your feedback to podcasts@spe.org.
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