University of Texas student Mr. Clay Austin Pollard recently received the second annual James L. Ellis Memorial scholarship for the 2011-2012 school year. Clay is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin majoring in petroleum engineering and is from Tyler, Texas. He is a past recipient of the East Texas Section of the Society [...]
At the SPE Dallas Section meeting on 9 May, five Dallas section members received their 2012 Regional Awards. Distinguished Lecturer Dennis Dria gave the final presentation of his DL tour on “E&P Applications of Fiber Optic Technologies”.
2012 Winners African See photos Ayowole Onoopemipo Ogunleye University of Ibadan Asia Pacific Zi-chen Xu China University of Petroleum, Beijing Undergraduate Fajril Ambia Bandung Institute Of Technology, Indonesia Postgraduate European Antoine Bouziat Institut National Polytechnique De Lorraine Undergraduate/Master’s Jafar Fathi University of Stavanger PhD Canadian Vivek Swami University of Calgary Undergraduate/Master’s Seyed Reza Etminan University [...]
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African region student paper contest was recently held during the 2012 SPE Students Technical Conference and Exhibition (STCE) at the University of Lagos. Ogunleye Ayowole from the University of Ibadan student chapter took first place with paper “Development of a Vogel Type Inflow Performance Relations for Horizontal Wells”, making it the fourth time in a [...]
SPE’s Research and Development Technical Section was created by SPE’s R&D Standing Committee to stimulate R&D activities that improve our industry’s ability to find and to produce oil and natural gas. The Section’s objectives are: To expedite and to facilitate R&D activities with application in the exploration and production of hydrocarbons To provide a forum [...]
On February 13, an ambassador lecture was organized for SPE Novosibirsk State University student chapter. Young professional Valery Rukavishnikov, who has more than 3 years experience as a reservoir engineer and is now an educator at Heriot Watt University’s Tomsk Approved Learning Centre, delivered the lecture. The lecture consisted of two parts. The title of [...]
The 2012 SPE Western Regional Student Paper Contest was held in conjunction with the 2012 WNAR SPE conference on March 20th 2012 in Bakersfield, California. Dr. Reza Rastegar from Chevron served as the coordinator for this event. Various SPE sections stepped forward to provide travel and housing sponsorship for students from various schools to attend [...]
The 2012 Western Regional Meeting was hosted by the San Joaquin Valley SPE section in Bakersfield, California. About 500 technical professionals and 200 exhibitors attended the meeting. This year’s theme was ”Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, 100 year operations, tight shales, smart fields and the Pacific Ocean.” The conference featured two [...]
Here is an update from Los Angeles Basin Section Newsletter: LASPE did itself proud at the Middle School MESA Day, with our volunteers performing as science project competition judges, math test proctors, and giving presentations to students and teachers. Pictures tell the story, and all of our volunteers had a wonderful time, lots of fun, [...]