Students/Education
Victor Mugambe, SPE, shares his journey from competing in the PetroBowl to serving as a Student Liaison Officer for the SPE Uganda Section helping future PetroBowl competitors.
The university has created a unique center to consolidate the efforts of more than 60 researchers working across the hydrogen value chain, including production, storage, transportation, and utilization.
The Kenyan university has has joined the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service to widen student access to its specialized oil and gas programs.
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At the recently held Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, several universities from around the word showcased their current and planned research projects that are relevant to offshore technology in a special event called University R&D Showcase. -
As the petroleum engineering discipline embarks on its second century of existence, what changes will academia make to keep up with the times?
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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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Being involved with SPE has been the better choice in my career, both as a student and as a young petroleum engineer. My SPE member connections were helpful in academics and provide me an opportunity to enhance soft skills. A big step for me as a student was becoming the president of the Surcolombiana University SPE Student Chapter; everything started there. Now 2 yea…
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NUS Engineering is working on a hybrid UAV, which combines the features of a helicopter and an airplane.
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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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Heriot-Watt University announced that it was awarded £1.25 million by BP to continue its energy economics research and as the partner for its annual energy benchmark reports, the BP Statistical Review of World Energy and the BP Energy Outlook.
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[In the picture: Haruna Inuwa (left) with fellow attendee at the NAICE 2017 Conference.]
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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.
