Research & Development Competition
The oil and gas E&P industry faces big challenges to meet the world’s
growing energy needs. And we don’t have all the answers. For that reason, the
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is holding an R&D Competition
specifically to encourage researchers from the basic sciences and other
engineering disciplines to engage in our challenges. The competition focuses on
six Grand Challenges identified by the SPE R&D Committee (follow the links
to additional detail on each challenge):
Increasing recovery factors from
oil and gas fields
In-situ molecular
manipulation
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