SDTS and GAIA: Empowering Petroleum Engineers for a Sustainable Future
As the energy landscape evolves, petroleum engineers play a crucial role in shaping a responsible and innovative industry. This presentation introduces the Sustainable Development Technical Section (SDTS) and its flagship GAIA Program, designed to foster open discussions, technical excellence, and best practices in sustainable development.
The SDTS leads the SPE GAIA Program, ensuring its integration across SPE's global ecosystem—spanning Sections, Chapters, Committees, Technical Sections, Events, and Publications. GAIA champions the vital role of Oil & Gas in enabling a diverse and clean energy future, ensuring humanity thrives within planetary boundaries.
Join us to explore how petroleum engineers can actively contribute to the industry's transformation while driving sustainable solutions that benefit society and the profession alike.
Registration closes on September 24, 2025 at 8AM MDT.
Date/Time
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Registration: 11:45 AM MDT
Start Time: 12:00 PM MDT
End Time: 1:00 PM MDT
Location
Mountain View Room | The Bow, Floor 54
500 Centre St S, Calgary, AB T2G 0E3
*This event will be hosted in-person only, and will not be recorded.
Speaker Bio
Dan Burt
Senior Coordinator - Climate Change & Air, ConocoPhillips
Dan Burt is a professional engineer and sustainability professional who collaborates with researchers, academics, technology developers, regulators and industry to develop cost-effective solutions to climate change risk and performance. His specialties include GHG inventory quantification, reporting methodologies, strategy, translation, technology, abatement solutions, CCS/CCUS, fugitive emissions, and life cycle assessment, as well as production facilities, project management and construction, natural gas processing, production enhancement and process optimization.
Highlights:
- SPE member since June 1996
- Experience: Over 28 years in the oil and gas industry –
- 9 years in sour gas plant and field Operations Support Facilities Engineering
- 3 years of Oil and Gas Facilities project management
- 16 years in Sustainability and GHG emissions, including 1.5 years in production / economics / environmental software development
- 2 university work terms – onshore Ops Support and offshore Pipeline installation
- Education:
- Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Petroleum Engineering
- Master of Science in Energy and Environmental Systems
- Doctoral Candidate in Social Science of Energy Systems
**Please Note
Lunch will be served. Please be sure to include your dietary restrictions during the online registration process so we can do our best to accommodate.
An event reminder will be sent the day before and the morning of the event.