On behalf of the committee, we are honored to welcome you to the 2017 SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (LACPEC), 17-19 May 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Be part of this important event and submit your technical advancements. Learn more about paper proposals here. If your paper is selected, you will present your work during the event, and your paper will be published in the proceedings, as well in the online library OnePetro, a multisociety library that covers a broad range of E&P literature. In order to continue the success, we invite you to participate and to have the opportunity to view emerging and peripheral technology related to the oil and gas sector in the Latin American and Caribbean region. As your chairpersons for LACPEC 2017, we look forward to your paper proposals and to seeing you in Buenos Aires!