Our Scope

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is a global professional organization serving the oil and gas industry, with 24 technical sections, including the SPE Hydrogen Technical Section. Hydrogen, a versatile and clean energy carrier, with its various color classifications, plays a key role in the energy transition. The SPE Hydrogen Technical Section aims to advance knowledge, drive innovation, and foster collaboration in hydrogen production, storage, and utilization to support a sustainable energy future.

We use the term “energy carrier” to denote all aspects of the hydrogen supply chain including production, transport, storage, and use. Ammonia and other compounds of hydrogen are also included for their potential as an energy carrier solution. There is also increasing interest in the "Natural" Hydrogen as an energy source. Hydrogen will play a part to sustainably meet our energy needs in the future, and you are invited to join our new technical section to help make it so.

• • Capability development through on-line events, online networking, workshops, and conferences.
  • Transfer of knowledge and best practices through meetings, events, communications, articles in SPE publications; technical papers and presentations; and SPE Connect.
  • Close ties with other SPE Sections and regions that complement and enhance current energy transition initiatives within our industry.
  • Closer links between the energy industry and academia.
  • Promotion of professionalism, certification, and Distinguished Lecturer programming applicable and nomination of worthy candidates for SPE Awards in the domain.
  • Engagement of young professionals seeking to make a career contribution to the development of a sustainable energy future.
  • Collaborations with other professional organizations working on Hydrogen R&D, Commercialization, Transportation and Delivery to the end-users.

MENA H2TS Work Group - LinkedIn

Dr. Phaneendra B. Kondapi - Chairperson

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.

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.