A virtual assistant called ATHENA has been developed to support the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Community of Practice. The system improves productivity and performance equality among its users by facilitating knowledge capture, retrieval, and dissemination. A first prototype was evaluated with 75 professionals from SPE, showing significant improvements over a state-of-the-art baseline system. However, areas for improvement were also identified. The authors describe technical advances made to the system, including multi-document retrieval and proactive dissemination, which have resulted in better performance than the baseline system. ATHENA has been integrated into the SPE Research Portal and is being deployed for use by the society's membership. --- Why it matters: This research matters to engineers working on well-planning tasks because it shows how a virtual assistant can improve productivity and reduce inequality among team members. The technical advances made to the system could also be applied to other knowledge-intensive tasks in the oil and gas sector. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19199