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A campus competition started our students in the SPE Gulf Coast Regional Student Paper/Presentation Contest. Sponsored by Schlumberger, the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering competition was held on October 27th. Winners of the top two prizes in these contests will go on to compete at regional level of competition, to be held in Baton Rouge at Louisiana State University in March of 2007. At the PhD level Yinghui Li placed first with “A Globally Converging Method for Conventional Flash Calculations.”
In second place is Arash Dahi Taleghani with his presentation on “Fracture Pattern Evolution in Folded, Multi-layer Systems.” The third place prize was awarded to Okhtay Taghizadeh who presented a paper entitled, “Grain-scale Immiscible Displacement of Extremely Viscous Fluid.”
Placing first in the MS division competition is
Nathan Vrubel who presented “Model-Independent Statistical Interpretation of Well Logs.”
Yonghwee Kim was awarded second place for his paper “Probabilistic Framework Based History Matching Algorithm and its Software (Pro-HMS).” In third place is Waleed Fazelipour who presented his work, “Implementation of Asphaltene Precipitation Model into a Fully Implicit, Equation-of-State Compositional and Parallel reservoir Simulator.”
In Undergraduate competition Mark Neuhold ranks first with his entry, “Offshore Production Module (Spool) Trial-Fit and Module Loadout”. In second place is Md Imran Md Hashim, who presented “Gas Lift Optimization – Larut Field, Malaysia.” Placing third is Vaibhav Sharma with “Reserve Analysis on XMen Field.”
Congratulations to all of the students who participated, and particularly to the nine winners.
Prize money was awarded at all three levels of competition; each first place winner won $500, each second place winner won $300 and each third place winner won $200. In the
event that first or second place winners are unable to attend the next level of competition,
the third place winner will act as alternate, and will go on to compete again.
The SPE Paper Contests are held to encourage student engineers to do research
and publish at an early point in their education.
Each year the regional sections of the student chapters of SPE hold
paper/presentation contests. The requirements state that the paper should be
the original work of the author in planning the investigation, performing the
work, interpreting the results and preparing the presentation/paper. The
subject of the paper must be related to petroleum engineering which is defined
as the application of basic and engineering sciences to the finding,
development, and recovery of oil, gas and other resources from wells.
The first place winners from each of the eight regional contests then advance to compete in an international contest to be held at the Annual Fall Meeting.
We wish our students good luck in the next round of the competition!
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