Students/Education
Emuobosa Patience Ojoboh, SPE, shares how unexpected academic challenges changed her career path and how, throughout it all, SPE served as her anchor through uncertainty.
Three Namibian engineering graduates have been awarded fully funded scholarships worth more than $40,000 to attend a specialized ROV pilot technician training program at the Netherlands Maritime University College in Malaysia. After completion of the training, Subsea7 will provide the graduates with on-the-job training, integrate them into its global offshore workforc…
UT-Austin's Matthew Balhoff, SPE, shares his advice to students and young professionals in the industry to help maximize their academic experience and early careers.
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Kun Xie, SPE, was awarded the 2017 Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship. Xie is currently a PhD student majoring in petroleum and natural gas engineering in Northeast Petroleum University (NEPU) in China. Xie holds a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering and a master’s degree in oil and gas development engineering from NEPU. He has published 17 technical … -
Michael Song, a final year petroleum engineering student at Curtin University, Perth, Australia, and 2016 president of the Curtin University SPE chapter won the Orica Mining, Oil, and Gas Award in the GradConnection’s Top 100 Future Leaders competition. GradConnection is a recruitment platform that links students and graduates to employment opportunities.
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The oil and gas industry has a remarkable story to tell. SPE’s energy education public outreach program Enery4me highlights how energy works in our everyday lives to school students and teachers and promotes the career opportunities in the upstream petroleum sector.
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The VIII International Youth Scientific and Practical Congress “Oil and Gas Horizons” took place during 23–25 November 2016 at the Gubkin University, Moscow. The congress was organized by the SPE student chapter of the university. More than 150 graduate and post graduate students from 37 universities and 18 countries participated in the congress.
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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
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Your bit is at 76° inclination, your true vertical depth (TVD) at that 8200 ft, and your target is 90° and a TVD of 8320 ft.
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In this video, NPR’s Skunk Bear used a geologist’s idea to measure Earth’s history in football yards. If every inch of the field is 1.3 million years, near which yard line did humans arrive?
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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.
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The 2016 SPE International Student Paper Contest was held at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Dubai and the following papers are announced winners. These papers will be published in the ATCE conference proceedings and on OnePetro, a multisociety technical library for the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Winners of the 14 SPE…
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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…
