SPE Uganda

Past Professional Lectures

2025 Professional Lecture

Koninx, drawing on his career as a petroleum engineer, walked attendees through frameworks for making sound decisions under technical and economic uncertainty — core to Uganda’s developing oil and gas projects. Part of SPE Uganda’s push to build strategic decision-making skills across the sector.

2024 Professional Lecture

This recently conducted webinar shed light on groundbreaking directional drilling techniques that are shaping the future of Uganda’s oil development efforts. Focusing on the Tilenga oil field, the presentation delved into well trajectory design, advanced drilling methodologies, and precise wellbore surveying strategies that underpin the success of this ambitious project.

2023 Professional Lecture

This presentation began with an overview of pipeline installation methods known as Trenchless Technologies, which offer significant advantages in minimizing surface disruption, preserving ecosystems, and reducing environmental impact.

2022 Professional Lecture

When organizations everywhere are racing to embrace Digital Transformation, it is easy to get excited about the claimed possibilities and to overlook the fundamentals.

2021 Professional Lecture

This lecture comprehensively examined the different legal systems and their attendant contracts used to develop hydrocarbons in the oil and gas industry before focusing on the model Production Sharing Agreement, which is currently the contract of choice in Uganda.