The annual SPE Middle East Students PetroBowl was held in March 2012 at the British University in Egypt for the first time. Petrobowl is a college-bowl-style student competition which brings together the most outstanding students from universities around the Middle East and North Africa. Competing teams were challenged to answer both technical and nontechnical questions [...]
“Petroleum Day” is a bi-monthly event established by the SPE PUC-Rio Student Chapter where invited special guests talk about their work and industry experience. It is also an opportunity to talk about SPE, and, recently, the Pascoal Action. The lecturer was Ruben Caligari, former Regional Director for South America and the Caribbean. Record 88 students attended the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On February 9, an ambassador lecture was organized for the benefit of student members at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Young professional Oloruntobi Sunday Olalere, who has more than 6 years experience as a drilling engineer and is now a drilling supervisor with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), delivered the lecture. The title of [...]
Mr. Jai Prakash Kohar, SPE-RGCE Student Chapter President, participated in the 2011 International Petroleum Technology Conference and Education Week in Bangkok, Thailand on 4-9 February. Jai received the first place winner award for a group project titled “Marginal Fields Development”. The program also gave him an excellent networking platform on which to meet individuals from [...]
It was an honor for SPE British University student chapter to arrange the “Student Lecture Tour” which was conducted for the first time in North Africa. The BUE student chapter hosted the event in co-operation with the EAGE (The European Association for Geoscientists and Engineers). Dr. David Roberts, Former Head of Geology at Staffordshire University, [...]
