Although hydrocarbon resources are still abundant, an ever increasing pace of investment and technology will be required to extract and bring these resources to market.  To meet this challenge, the oil and gas industry must continue to attract and develop the brightest minds in engineering, recognizing that the students of today will be the authors of the next chapter in our industry. With Texas playing such a crucial role in the energy industry, it’s important to drill responsibility. With that in mind, the Texas Railroad Commission oversees the oil and gas, pipeline and surface mining industries.  

Plan to attend an inspirational evening where we will celebrate the multi-faceted achievements of several generations of superstars in the energy industry.

The audience will include:

• SPE-Gulf Coast Section Scholarship and Houston SPE Auxiliary winners, who are high school seniors planning to pursue engineering degrees, and their parents;
• SPE-Gulf Coast Section Scholarship renewals, who are petroleum engineering majors who are current college students, and their parents;
• SPE-GCS special award winners from the Science Engineering Fair of Houston in the Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Earth & Space Science, and Environmental Science, who are middle school and high school students, and their parents and teacher;
• SPE-GCS Scholarship winners for the Communities in School Houston program, a program for “at risk”  high school seniors, and their parents;
• SPE-GCS Young Professionals Board members, who are SPE members with less than 10 years industry experience. The YP Board was designed to identify and develop future leaders for SPE, to recognize and affirm the leadership potential of young members and to strengthen SPE through YP initiatives;
• SPE-GCS Legion of Honor members, who have 50 years of SPE membership;
• SPE Auxiliary members, which is the SPE spouses’ organization;
• Various winners of SPE section and regional awards who will be recognized for volunteerism; and
• SPE members and their spouses.

SPE-GCS is requesting that companies sponsor tables at the banquet.  This sponsorship will entitle the sponsor company to two seats at a table and a marquee on that table.  The sponsor company will also be recognized in the program for their contribution to the evening.  The cost for sponsoring a table will be $550 donated to the SPE-GCS, a non-profit organization.

Thank you to the 2009 Awards Banquet table sponsors: Anadarko, BHP Billiton, Devon, Chevron, Quantum Energy, V&M, Southwestern, Shell, Schlumberger, National Oilwell Varco, Pinnacle and ExxonMobil. Without their support, the event would not have been such a huge success.