The 1 st meeting of the German SPE section was on 14 June 1990. Since then more than 60 presentations, field trips and the famous barbecues had been carried out. To reach this target regular presentations and meetings of SPE members and guests are held. Papers are presented by SPE Distinguished Lecturers as well as by employees of the German Petroleum Industry or the oil and gas service industry being able to report about interesting events in the petroleum industry. Especially due to the Distinguished Lecturers the audience will always come into contact to outstanding people of the international petroleum industry and will be provided by the latest developments of special events in our industry.
All events are also social events with a combination of presentations and a dinner.
So you always will have sufficient time to talk to colleagues from other companies and for exchange of ideas. Field trips to interesting projects of the petroleum industry in Germany or other facilities give everybody a chance to become familiar with things he will not see during his daily work. Both societies have at least one event per year together for better cooperation. The German section of SPE is one of the 145 sections in 54 countries. There are two Student Chapters, one at the Clausthal University and one at the Freiberg University .