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Himchand Persad is a second year petroleum engineering honors student at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an international student from the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and is actively involved in a number of energy and community outreach ventures.

Thirty-seven SPE student chapters across the world have won the 2017 Outstanding Student Chapter Award. The award recognizes chapters whose programs, activities, and levels of participation distinguish them from other chapters. Scoring assigns weightages of 30% each for industry engagement and operations planning, 15% each for community involvement and innovation, and…

For startups in the upstream sector, knowing how to navigate through a technology's Minimum Viable Product stage is critical, but not always straight forward.

Note from the TWA Student Focus Section Editors: In this new “Student Chapter Spotlight” series, we aim to highlight the activities of SPE student chapters from around the world. We hope that these student chapter profiles will inspire the SPE community across the globe. If you are interested in featuring your chapter in this series, please contact us at spethewayahea…

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications from graduate students for doctoral dissertation/thesis research opportunities at DOE national laboratories. The program provides supplemental awards for PhD students to conduct part of their thesis research at a DOE laboratory for 3 to 12 consec…

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) announces that Chevron Corporation has committed USD 800,000 over 4 years to support SPE’s programs that are dedicated to increasing student participation and advancing energy education

SPE members from the SPE student chapter at Maharashtra Institute of Technology in Pune, India, recently hosted three Energy4me workshops in local schools. Their presentations benefitted 450 high school students from the region, and helped them learn more about the career options available in the oil and gas industry.

The Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) SPE Student Chapter team won the 2016 PetroBowl Championship held at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Dubai on 26 September. UFRJ becomes the first South American team to have won the championship. One hundred twenty-five student chapter teams participated in the six regional qualifiers held…

Schlumberger’s North America recruiting team hosted a selection of universities, including Rice University, Texas A&M, the University of Houston, and the University of Texas at Austin for a 1-day Engagement Workshop at its Sugar Land Campus facility located in Sugar Land, Texas. The participants took a tour of some of the different facilities housed at the campus, and…