... and Demographic Challenges Recent Challenges Related to the 2015 Downturn and the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic SPE’s membership statistics are summarized in Table 1. In the recent past, between 2015 and 2021, SPE lost one-third of its professional members (dropping from 99,000 to 66,000). Professional membership has...

... years, I have been asking three questions: How many regularly read JPT ? How many read papers from OnePetro? How many have watched an SPE webinar? It is usually our more senior members that raise their hands to these questions. The average age of our professional membership varies among regions, which...