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More than 400 students from 20 SPE student chapters across the US, Mexico, and Canada gathered at the annual SPE North America Student Symposium (NASS) held at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge during 21–24 February.

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Back in 2013, Reinel Echavez and his colleagues at the Universidad de Oriente (UDO) SPE student chapter were looking for options to improve student communication and networking with the regional oil companies. Keeping this in mind, when Echavez made the transition to a professional position in 2017 as a reservoir engineer at Petrocedeno (a joint venture between PDVSA,…

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[In the picture: Haruna Inuwa (left) with fellow attendee at the NAICE 2017 Conference.]

Today, the buzzword in drilling is about drilling a well autonomously. This focus led the SPE Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section (DSATS) to establish the Drillbotics Competition 3 years ago. Last year, seven universities participated in the competition for the opportunity to design and deploy a rig that must drill hands-free.

This past October, SPE Cares held its Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) volunteering event in San Antonio, Texas. Since its founding in 2015, each year the SPE Cares group holds a community service event during ATCE to give back to the local community where the conference is held. The non-profit organization supported this year was the Hemisfair Park C…

SPE conducted the 2017 International Student Paper Contests (SPC) during the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) held in San Antonio, Texas, in October. The technical paper contests are conducted under the Undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD categories, with each category having three winners. This year’s winners are:

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) SPE student chapter won the 2017 PetroBowl championship, defeating the University of Benin team. UNAM was also the winner of the championship in 2015. The University of Oklahoma team came in third.