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Your SPE: Dateline October 2008: Planning for the Year Ahead

2008; Society of Petroleum Engineers; Volume: 60; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2118/1008-0012-jpt

1944-978X

Leo Roodhart,

Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management

President's column I start my term as 2009 SPE President with the good fortune to follow in the footsteps of Bill Cobb and the long chain of Presidents who came before him who have provided strong leadership and clear vision to the Society. It is thanks to these people that SPE is what it is today: the largest and most inter-nationally diverse professional society serving our industry. Like Bill and other presidents, my primary goal will be to give direction to the Long Range Plan, a plan that has been made and is owned by the entire Board of Directors. However, all presidents—and I am not different—also set out on their journey with personal aims, and have only 12 months to start to make them a reality. As I said in my JPT interview last month, one of my main objectives is to continue the drive for true globalization. We will be truly global when every member feels that SPE is not only the local section or a loosely connected group of national or regional organizations, but rather a single organization of professionals, united for a common purpose, that belongs to each and every one of us. "Your SPE" means it does not matter what job you do, where you are located, or what nationality you are—SPE is yours. My priority will be to interact with our members by visiting as many regions and sections as possible to listen and report back to both all of you and the SPE Board of Directors. My monthly column will take the form of a "paper blog" in which I will describe my visits to sections around the world, share their good ideas, and seek solutions to local challenges. In support of this, I asked staff to set up a "debating forum" on SPE's home page: the President's Forum. Your feedback through this new forum will provide invaluable support to this effort. It is my vision that all members can debate and react to my column on this platform and I can join in to learn more about your needs and issues. I don't know whether this will work, but we will give it a try! With 170 local sections worldwide and regional offices in London, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, and Moscow, I have a hectic schedule ahead of me. In the next few months I will be visiting Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the U.S., the Middle East, and Malaysia. My first blog will feature a recent trip to China, which offered many fascinating insights.