Dr. Phaneendra B. Kondapi - Chairperson
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Welcome to SPE Hydrogen Technical Section! Started in 2022, H2TS is one of the latest technical sections championed by Bob Pearson, serving SPE members in enhancing their interest in the growing adaptation of Hydrogen as a clean renewable energy. Our mission is to engage and collaborate partnerships between academia, industry, and SPE, and proactively engage students’ interests through diverse educational activities, introduce continuing education programs, facilitate knowledge sharing and best practices, collaborate with other technical sections within SPE and improve H2TS visibility and influence. |
The H2TS has grown under the leadership of founding chair Prof. Chris Kalli and PF Technical Director Hamad Marri, for the last two years and we continue to forge closer links between the energy industry and academia, help the industry by sharing knowledge and creating networking opportunities to all oil and gas and energy transition professionals through various activities in 2025.
Looking forward to engaging with you all in driving the Hydrogen Technical Section to the benefit of the SPE membership, industry and academia.
Chris Kalli - past Chairperson
Early on in my career, I once heard a former CEO of a major oil company characterize the role of the petroleum engineer as the bridge between geoscience and profit; our mantra was “find more, produce more and cost less”. I was enthused by the simplicity of our mission and excited by the many challenges of making it happen.
As petroleum engineers, we can be rightly proud of our achievements in tackling the technical, commercial and safety challenges to deliver abundant affordable energy to the world. But our world has changed. There are new challenges that require a tectonic shift from the old paradigms.
Petroleum engineers represent a well proven intellectual resource with skills that are highly transferrable to meet a new set of challenges to continue to supply the energy needs of the world going forward. The use of Hydrogen as an energy carrier has its own challenges and, although different, these are certainly no greater that those petroleum engineers have faced and overcome in the past.
Hydrogen will play a part, as an energy carrier, to sustainably meet our energy needs in the future and I would like to invite you to join our new technical section to help make it so.