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		<title>East Texas Section Awards James L. Ellis Memorial Scholarship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 22:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariya Saakova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dallas Section Members Receive 2012 Regional Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Preston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#38;P Applications of Fiber Optic Technologies&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>View the Regional Paper Contest Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Jafar Fathi University of Stavanger PhD Canadian Vivek Swami University of Calgary Undergraduate/Master&#8217;s Seyed Reza Etminan University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attend Getenergy 2012 to be held 13–14 June in London</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariya Saakova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getenergy 2012 is an international conference where education and training experts can collaborate on learning and development issues relating to the upstream oil and gas industry. If you have an active role in choosing training for yourself, your company, or others, this is the event for you. Learn more.]]></description>
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		<title>2012 SPE Western Regional Student Paper Contest Winners Awarded</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariya Saakova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Western Regional Meeting Successfully Held in Bakersfield, California</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariya Saakova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s theme was ”Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, 100 year operations, tight shales, smart fields and the Pacific Ocean.&#8221; The conference featured two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LASPE Volunteers Help Make Middle School Mesa Day a Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariya Saakova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Welcome to Our Newest SPE Student Chapters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariya Saakova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce and welcome to SPE the following new student chapters! Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz in Bolivia Federal University of Bahia in Brazil Universidade Estacio de Sa in Brazil Anna Universit in India AMET University in India Mehran University, Khairpur Mir’s in Pakistan Coventry University in United Kingdom Contact information for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First SPE Student Summit Hosted by Texas A&amp;M Sets Foundation for Students&#8217; Professional Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariya Saakova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SPE Student Chapter of Texas A&#38;M University recently hosted their first SPE Student Summit. The two-day event was attended by more than 130 undergraduate and graduate petroleum engineering students and was represented by six universities. The summit&#8217;s topics were chosen specifically with young engineers in mind, and lectures were delivered by 20 experts in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billings Petroleum Section&#8217;s Offers Generous Support to a Regional Science Bowl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariya Saakova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Billings Petroleum section recently provided outstanding support to the Big Sky Regional Science Bowl, a component of the US Department of Energy National Science Bowl program. The Bowl was held February 3-4, 2012, in Billings, Montana, and attracted a total of 210 students. The section donated five lock-out buzzer systems to use for future competitions, a [...]]]></description>
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