Society of Petroleum Engineers

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is a not earn profit  professional organization whose mission is to collect, disseminate, and conversation practical awareness concerning the exploration, development and production of oil and gas resources and related technologies for the unrestricted benefit and to provide opportunities for professionals to magnify their technical and professional competence.

 SPE affords a worldwide forum for oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) professionals for the interchange of technical knowledge and a professional home for more than 165,000 educators, scientists, managers, and engineers . SPE's practical library contains more than 200,000 technical papers — products of SPE conferences and periodicals, through available to the entire industry. SPE has offices in Lumpur, Houston, London, Dubai, Moscow and Calgary Lumpur.

The antiquity of the SPE instigated well before its actual establishment. During the decade subsequently the 1901 discovery of the Spindletop field, the American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME) saw a growing need for a forum in the flourishing new field of petroleum engineering. As a result, AIME formed a permanent committee on oil and gas in 1913.

In 1922, the commission was delayed to become one of AIME’s 10 professional divisions. The Petroleum Division of AIME continued to develop throughout the next three periods. By 1950, the Petroleum Division had become one of three dispersed branches of AIME, and in 1957 the Petroleum Branch of AIME was expanded once again to form a proficient society.The first SPE Board of Directors summit was held 6 October 1957, making 2007 the 50th anniversary year for SPE as a proficient society.

Launched in March 2007, OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that allows operators to search for and access a broad assortment of technical nonfiction related to the oil and gas exploration and fabrication industry. OnePetro is a multi-association effort that reproduces participation of many organizations. The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) functions OnePetro on behalf of the contributing organizations. SPE provides the computers and technology on which OnePetro controls and offers customer service provision.

OnePetro currently contains more than 200,000 documents, with more being further habitually. The number of documents is estimated to grow as additional organizations choose to make their resources available concluded OnePetro. OnePetro is the first online offering of documents from some organizations, manufacture these materials widely available for the first time.