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Please note that the JPT Editorial Review Committee is currently interested in receiving submissions from
SPE Young Professionals only. We are grateful to have received hundreds of previous applications and will be reviewing them soon.
About the CommitteeMembers of the
JPT Editorial Review Committee work with SPE staff to survey the thousands of technical papers submitted to the Society each year to identify innovative, high-interest technical information for publication in
JPT. Through shortened versions, or summaries, of papers, the journal covers a broad spectrum of technological advances by featuring the essential information from 12 papers in each issue.
The committee consists of a chairperson and 47 other SME members who serve 2-year terms. Members may be asked to serve additional terms if their area of expertise is needed.
Qualifications and Experience
- Must be an SPE member
- Must have excellent working knowledge of the specialty topic and preferably be a recognized industry expert on the topic
- Must have several years of oil and gas industry experience
- Must be able to compose an approximately 300-word introduction for the feature accurately describing the state of the technology
- Should have authored SPE technical papers
- Service on an SPE meeting technical session review committee is valued
Expected Time Commitment
- Under normal circumstances, a face-to-face meeting is held each year during the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition as well as one or two teleconferences over the course of each year.
- Each committee member is responsible for reviewing between 50 and 250 paper abstracts and 10 to 15 full-length papers annually to select three papers for highlighting in JPT.
- Members also prepare an approximately 300-word introduction for the feature accurately describing the state of the technology. This selection and writing process requires several hours spread over an 8-week period, once per year. SPE staff sorts all papers into appropriate features as they are processed into the SPE paper-management system for each conference to assist the reviewer.
Deliverables and ExpectationsEditorial Committee members review selected abstracts and/or papers received by SPE and identify high-interest, broad-based, practical papers applicable to planned JPT themes and current issues for consideration for publication in abbreviated form.
Notification:
September 2021