Society of Petroleum Engineers
| Founded | October 6, 1957 |
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| Type | Professional organization |
| Origins | The Petroleum Division of the AIME |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Method | Conferences, publications, training |
| Members | 127,000 |
Key people | Simon Seaton (CEO/Executive Vice President), Terry Palisch (2024 President), Olivier Houzé (2025 President), Med Kamal (2023 President), Kamel Ben Naceur (2022 President), Mark Rubin (former CEO, ret July 2023) |
| Employees | 270 |
| Website | www |
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit professional organization.
SPE provides a worldwide forum for oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) professionals to exchange technical knowledge and best practices. SPE manages OnePetro and PetroWiki, in addition to publishing magazines, peer-reviewed journals, and books. SPE also hosts more than 100 events each year across the globe as well as providing online tools and in-person training opportunities. SPE's technical library (OnePetro) contains more than 314,000 technical papers—products of SPE conferences and periodicals, made available to the entire industry.
SPE has offices in Dallas, Houston, Calgary, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur. SPE is a professional association for more than 127,000 engineers, scientists, managers, and educators. There are about 59,000 student members of SPE.