2026 Awards_Technical Award Subcommittees

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About the Subcommittees

These award subcommittees are charged with reviewing candidate nominations and making award recipient recommendations to the SPE Board of Directors. The SPE technical awards subcommittees are:

• Completions Optimization and Technology Award
• Data Science and Engineering Analytics Award
• Drilling Engineering Award
• Formation Evaluation Award
• Health, Safety, and Environment Award
• Management Award (this is a Technical “Management” Award and is not intended for the management of people, projects, or organizational units)
• Production and Operations Award
• Projects, Facilities, and Construction Award
• Reservoir Award
• Sustainability and Stewardship in the Oil and Gas Industry Award

These subcommittees are composed of 7 to 13 SPE professional members in good standing who have an appreciation of service, service experience, expertise, and interest in the awards they are judging, and are often prior technical award recipients. The incoming SPE President approves technical award subcommittee members. 

Qualifications and Experience

• Current SPE professional member with an unbiased vested interest in SPE (required)
• Appreciation of service, service experience, and interest in serving on an award subcommittee (required)
• SPE member for at least 5 years (recommended)
• Recipients of the SPE technical award being judged (recommended)

Expected Time Commitment

• Three-year term for members
• One-year term for the chair, typically an existing actively engaged award subcommittee member in the 3^rd year of their term
• Ability to meet approximately three teleconference deliberations between March and May

Deliverables and Expectations

• Subcommittee members must act in the best interest of SPE and actively participate.
• No travel required. Communication will take place via teleconference and email.
• Nomination reviews take place online and during deliberation teleconferences.
• Deliverable - Recipient recommendation(s) to the SPE Board of Directors for final approval
• Applicants will be notified by the end of August.