During the recently held 2020 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), winners of SPE regional student paper contests competed for the international prize in three categories: undergraduate, master's, and PhD. The contests were broadcast around the world to the judging panel. Winners were announced at the Student Award Ceremony held the next day.
SPE coordinates 14 regional contests at the undergraduate, master's, and PhD levels. Students compete against other students in their region for the opportunity to advance to the International Student Paper Contest held during ATCE. Contestants enter an abstract of their paper and present it on the day of the competition. The papers of the regional winners who proceed to the International Student Paper Contest at ATCE will be published in the conference proceedings and on OnePetro.
Below are the list of winners of the 2020 contests.
Undergraduate
Name | Degree/University | Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|
1st Place | Jacob Reed Jaffray | BEng in Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas At Austin | New Model Development for Polymer Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) |
2nd Place | Lucas Andre Dos Santos | Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro | Finite Element Buckling Analysis Of Drill Strings Confined In Vertical Wells |
3rd Place | Patrick Ivan | BEng Petroleum Engineering Institut Teknologi Bandung | Multi-Scenario Well Placement Optimization under Uncertainty in Waterflooding |
Master's
| Name | Degree/University | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
1st Place | Jose Hernandez Mejia | Master in Petroleum Engineering at University of Texas at Austin | Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Rapid Flash Calculations |
2nd Place | Fahad Alwarda | Master in Petroleum Engineering at University of Houston | Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying ISIP and Friction Losses from Stage by Stage Hydraulic Fracture Treatment Falloff Data |
3rd Place | Fangya Niu | Master in Petroleum Engineering at Pennsylvania State University | Investigation of Pressure Dependence of Contact Angle Measurement in CO2/Brine Systems |
PhD
| Name | Degree/University | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
1st Place | Yimin Liu | PhD in Energy Engineering at Stanford University | 3D CNN-PCA: A Deep-Learning-Based Parameterization for Complex Geomodels |
2nd Place | Hussain Albahrani | PhD in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University | An Automated Drilling Geomechanics Simulator Using Machine-Learning Assisted Elasto-Plastic Finite Element Model |
3rd Place | Maissa Souayeh | PhD in Petroleum Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University | Investigating factors that might control inaccessibility and potential wettability alteration of low salinity polymer in oil-wet carbonates |