SPE Distinguished Lecture: A Decade of Modernization (Following a 111-day Blowout)

Hotel Xenia, Autograph Collection, London, SW5 0TL

Wed 6th May 2026

The SPE Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Program is a prestigious Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) initiative that selects top industry experts to share their knowledge on energy trends, challenges, and technical innovations with SPE members globally through presentations at local section meetings.

SPE London Section will host Alan Walker from Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah to talk about an incident happened at Aliso Canyon, 30 miles from Los Angeles and its lessons learnt from the incident. The talks will cover ​the investigation, the mitigation and what had changed (modernization).