Getting Back to Fundamentals with Shauna Noonan

"We need to recognize the importance of learning the technical fundamentals. There is no magic solution or silver bullet that could ever replace them." In this episode, Shauna Noonan discusses technology evaluation, an area where she has spent the majority of her career. Each month, Shauna joins The SPE Podcast to discuss her President's Column and to share her SPE journey. We'll end each of these podcasts asking the audience an interactive question.   From this Episode SPE Connect: https://www.spe.org/en/industry/spe-connect/ SPE International App: https://www.spe.org/en/members/speiapp/ SPE Web Events: https://webevents.spe.org/ SPE Industry Resources: https://www.spe.org/en/industry/ OnePetro | Downhole Beam Pump Operation: https://www.onepetro.org/journal-paper/PETSOC-05-05-05 OnePetro | 155 Years of Artificial Lift: https://www.onepetro.org/journal-paper/SPE-1014-0101-JPT   More from Shauna Noonan (Twitter @shauna_noonan) There Is No Silver Bullet: Strengthening the Fundamentals Strengthening Knowledge Transfer in Unconventional Resources The Influential Yet Delicate Balance of Mentoring Strengthening the Feedstock of Incoming Talent for the Oil and Gas Industry Strengthening the Tools and Methods We Use To Disseminate Knowledge to Members Strengthening the Quality of SPE's Technical Content Reinforcing Core Strengths, Delivering Membership Value Q&A With 2020 SPE President Shauna Noonan 2020 SPE President Promises to Focus on Strengthening Organization’s Engineering Core   From Shauna's April President's Column: While I have been a champion for innovation and technology development, I have also applied critical thinking in forming my opinion of such claims. The first questions I always ask myself are: “Do I need this new technology?” “Do I understand the root cause of the problem well enough to determine if applying existing technology and accepted practices cannot solve it?” To adequately answer these questions, a good understanding of the fundamentals, such as fluid or mechanical dynamics, is often needed. Is this new tool or method genuinely innovative, or has it been born out of engineering ignorance?   Question of the Month The Research and Development Technical Section will be reviewing SPE’s five grand challenges that our industry needs to overcome. What additional technical challenges do you think we as an industry must focus research on? Please send your response to [email protected].   We hope you enjoy the SPE Podcast… and take away something useful to your job and career along the way.  Your feedback is welcome, along with ideas for topics you would like to see us cover in future podcasts. You can also send your feedback to [email protected]. Like what you are hearing? Give us a 5-star rating and leave a review – we love reading what you have to say. You can also get connected with SPE on all social media, just use #SPEpodcast.   Society of Petroleum Engineers on Social LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube More Information Event Calendar | Membership | Publications | Training | Resources   Thanks for listening!