The President’s Award for Section Excellence recognizes SPE sections who display exemplary efforts in technology dissemination, section operations, member benefits, society and community benefits and innovation. The awards are presented to an officer of each section during the President’s Luncheon at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 2012 President’s Award for Section Excellence Aberdeen [...]
Congratulations to the SPE Colombian Section celebrating 45 years! The SPE Colombian Section is celebrating 45 years of excellence. To celebrate this big milestone the section organized a reception on July 5 in Bogota, Colombia. During the reception, attended by over 180 members, they awarded their outstanding members in the following categories: Excellence, Integrity, Professionalism, [...]
Indian Institute of Technology Madras announces the International Workshop on Natural Gas-Hydrates: Exploration and Production. “What We Learnt and the Path Ahead” 7-9 August 2012 IIT Madra Research Park, Chennai, India Inauguration of SPE Student Chapter IITM Under the patronage of Satish Pai, Vice President, Operations: Schumberger Oilfield Services By way of IITM Alumni Affairs [...]
Congratulations to Mojtaba Pordel Shahri! He has been awarded the 2012 Henry Dewitt Smith Fellowship. Mojtaba received his BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering, and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in petroleum engineering. He earned the 1st rank in both undergraduate and graduate studies in 2008 and 2010 among all the students. [...]
The IPTC Education Week will be held 24 – 28 March 2013, organised for the benefit of 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students in science, geoscience and engineering from qualified institutions across the eastern hemisphere. It is anticipated that some 75-100 of the best students will be selected to participate in the IPTC Beijing Education [...]
An Applied Technology Workshop (ATW) on Petroleum Reserves & Resources Estimation – PRMS Application Guidelines Document was held in Lima, Peru on 23-24 May. Satinder Purewal with EER (AS) and Victor Huerta with Repsol Peru were the co-chairs for this workshop that had 8 Technical Sessions and brought together 98 attendees from 16 countries. Each session [...]
We welcome the following new student chapters to SPE. Congratulations! Escuela Militar de Ingenieria in Bolivia Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil Universidade Federal de Pelotas in Brazil Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria Federal University of Sergipe in Brazil Indian Institute of Technology in India Makerere University in Uganda
Petroquiz This year, with more than 400 attendees and 20 student chapters represented, the University of Ibadan emerged as the winner at Petroquiz in Nigeria. Finalists were the University of Port Harcourt, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Igbinedion University, and the University of Ibadan. Petroquiz tests students’ knowledge in reservoir engineering, drilling engineering, geology/geophysics, mathematics, SPE, and [...]
We are pleased to announce that SPE has two new sections: Northwest Russia Section Saint Petersburg, Russia Lisbon Section Lisbon, Portugal Congratulations! See list of all sections »
On April 21, 2012, the SPE Student Chapter CUPB held a technical lecture titled “Water Cresting Control with Bilateral Water Sink Technique in Horizontal Wells for Heavy Oil with Bottom Water”. The guest speaker was Dr. Qin Wenting, a graduate of Louisiana State University, and her main research interest included the exploration of heavy oil [...]
