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Industry professionals gathered to take part in the 47th Nigerian Annual Conference and Exhibition with this year's theme of "Petroleum Industry Value Chain Optimization: The Inevitability of Midstream and Downstream Development."

The University of Indonesia and the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun came in second and third place, respectively.

PetroBowl is a fast-paced, quiz-bowl-style competition between SPE student chapters from around the world covering technical and nontechnical topics related to petroleum engineering. During the 2019 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Calgary, LSU emerged as the world champions.

The 2018 SPE International Student Paper Contests were held at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Dallas in late September and the following papers are announced winners. These papers will be published in the ATCE conference proceedings and on OnePetro, a multisociety technical library.

Students representing 32 SPE student chapters from across the globe have been selected to participate in the annual SPE student quiz competition, PetroBowl. Qualifier rounds among chapters were held in the Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and Russia, South America and Caribbean, Middle East, and North America SPE regions, and the following teams are invited participate in…

Forty SPE student chapters across the world have won the 2018 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 10% fo…

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.

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

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.