Vital to student life within MPGE are our student organizations. They provide key programing to engage and support their peers such as providing tutoring, mentoring, opportunities to attend presentations and meet with industry professionals and social events to bond and network. Two organizations recently held elections, OU SPE and WPGE. Please join us in congratulating […]
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103rd E-Week Was a Hoot and a Holler
February 21-27 saw the 103rd Engineers Week celebrations on OU’s Norman campus. Throughout the student led week, petroleum engineering students were found at taking part in a variety of events to honor the engineering profession and those pursuing it at OU. E-Week kicked-off, as it always does, with the annual Road Rallye on Sunday, co-hosted, this […]
OU SPE Prepares for Career Fair
In preparation for the Spring Career Fair on February 17, OU SPE hosted a resume workshop. Members of OKC SPE volunteered their time to meet with OU students in order to review their current resumes and offer advice on how to best present themselves and their talents. The group also provided dinner from Cane’s for […]
OU SPE Co-hosts SPE Student Symposium
February 4-6 OU SPE, along with the University of Texas at Austin, co-hosted the 5th annual SPE Student Symposium in Houston, TX. The theme, The Road to U.S. Oil and Gas Independence, focused on the challenges faced with unconventionals production and operation in the current price market. This overriding topic was reinforced through workshops, roundtables and panels […]
1st Annual OU SPE Graduate Student Paper Contest Held
On Saturday, February 6, OU SPE held its first Graduate Student Paper Contest in Sarkeys Energy Center. Twenty students participated from both the master’s and Ph.D. programs. MPGE faculty Deepak Devegowda, Siddarth Misra, Rouzbeh Moghanloo, and Saeed Salehi volunteered their time to serve as judges. The quality of the presentations and the research being done […]
Faculty to Present at Conferences
Professors Carl Sondergeld and Chandra Rai, along with Assistant Professor Siddharth Misra and Research Associate Younas Dadmohmashi, have been invited to present their research work, Simultaneous Estimation of Intrinsic Permeability, Effective Porosity, Pore-Volume Compressibility, and Klinkenberg-Slip Factor of Ultra-Tight Rock Samples Based on Laboratory Pressure-Step-Decay Method, at the SPE Low Perm Symposium in Denver, Colorado May […]
BP COO Visits OU
On Monday, November 9, BP COO of Developments and Technology, James Dupree, visited OU. He spoke to a crowded room of students over lunch about “Demand, Supply and the Current Environment.” His talk explained BP’s vision and reach within the industry and, also, how its diversification has helped it to remain strong. Dupree holds bachelor’s […]
Oktoberfest: Raising Awareness with a Pie in the Face
On Friday, October 30, OU SPE hosted Oktoberfest in the ROTC Armory on campus. The event was designed as a benefit to kick-off their Relay for Life fundraising. In spite of the rain, around 80 people were in attendance. The highlight of the evening was the Pie in the Face event. Student leaders, MPGE faculty, […]
ATCE 2015: Houston
Registration totals exceeded expectations as 13,500 global exploration and production professionals gathered at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) flagship event the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston over three days 28-30 September. This year’s event, despite the challenges currently being seen in the industry, was […]
OU Hosts Petrobowl Qualifer
On Saturday,February 7, The University of Oklahoma campus welcomed SPE International as the host of the first North American Regional Petrobowl Qualifier. Due to the increasing popularity of the annual competition, SPE moved towards a format that supported regional events to determine which teams would compete in the Petrobowl Finals held during ATCE. Twenty universities […]