SPE Buenos Aires Section

March 2014

Jeff Spath, 2014 SPE President

SPE’s Global Membership110,000 + members in 141 countries

• 190 professional sections

• 281 student chapters

To collect, disseminate, and exchange technical knowledge… and to provide opportunities for professionals to enhance their technical and professional competence.

SPE Mission

Capability development (to support industry in dealing with

the big crew change)

Knowledge transfer

Promoting professionalism and social responsibility

Public education about petroleum engineering profession and

industry issues

Accelerate competency development

Support faculty development and retention

Fill faculty gap with experienced professionals

Facilitate lifecycle learning strategies (for any career stage)

Assess competency

AVAILABLE SUPPLY OF GRADUATES VS DEMAND PER REGION

NORTH AMERICA

EUROPE

RUSSIA & CASPIAN

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

LATIN AMERICA

ASIA Including CHINA

SUBSAHARIAN AFRICA

0

-250

200 300

750

-300

100

-400

300

-2002200

Geoscentists

Petroleum Engineers

1300

210

Maintain and enhance technical quality within SPE programs

Make knowledge available on-demand and in user friendly ways

Take full advantage of communications technologies

Complete and promote use of PetroWiki

Serve as a curator of content

Facilitate mentoring

Sharing Technical Knowledge: Online Resources• OnePetro

– 65,000+ SPE technical papers/130,000+ total

– 3 million downloads/year

• PetroWiki

Emphasize SPE professional code of conduct

Incorporate ethics and ethics education in SPE programming

Provide certification – general as well as discipline specific

Promote safety and environmental protection as high

priorities with our membership

Maintain integrity and independence of SPE

Attract young people to the industry

Develop public awareness programs based on technology

Serve as a technical authority/trusted source of unbiased

information

Leverage membership to provide expertise on technical issues

Informing the Public

Hydraulic fracturing website devoted to providing factual, transparent information about hydraulic fracturing.

EMERGING REGIONS

Caspian Deepwater

Ecuador MyanmarEast Africa

Arctic

COLLABORATION

Key Success Factors for Unconventional Development

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High potential resources

Enabling fiscal & regulatory regime

Land access & operability

Open & extensive gas distribution network

Growing demand

Fair price

Capable service sectorSuccessful

Unconventional Development

Little competition from conventional