This post was written by Jack Borer, a MPGE Senior. He was a part of the team that traveled to Alberta to compete in the Alberta Energy Challenge. Below is a summary of his experiences. Landon Wright, Najia Bilala, Ishank Gupta and I were given the opportunity by the University of Oklahoma’s MPGE to participate […]
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Study Abroad: Romania
This summer I went to Romania and took the Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance of Drilling Equipment, a class taught by Dr. Catalin Teodoriu. The most notable parts of the trip were the company and site visits, the class set-up and the cultural aspects. No other class that I’ve been on has taken us to as […]
OU Participates in Alberta Energy Challenge
For the fourth year in a row, OU has been represented by a team of students in the Alberta Energy Challenge, an international business case competition that focuses on the unique challenges and opportunities within the energy sector. Taking place on the beautiful campus of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, teams research and develop […]
Romania: A Weekend at the Black Sea
Amanda Knaup tells us about the groups visit to the Black Sea. You may notice an additional person in the pictures. That is Adonis Ichim, one of Teodoriu’s graduate students who met up with the group while presenting with Dr. Teodoriu at the conference. We traveled to Constesti on the coast of the Black Sea in order […]
Sooners Abroad
During Spring Break, MPGE Associate Professor Catalin Teodoriu visited Clausthal University of Technology (TUC) in Germany, where he had previously served head of Drilling Technology, Completion and Workover, to examine and celebrate three new petroleum engineering Ph.D.’s—two as advisor and the third as a committee member. The visit allowed Teodoriu to come full-circle with students […]
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 […]
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 […]
MPGE Students Discover the Wonders of Peru
In May 2015, Profs. Deepak Devegowda and Xingru Wu traveled to Lima, Peru with a group of 20 MPGE students led by Yoana Walschap, MCEE Study Abroad Liaison, and one extra coordinator, Naïla Williams. The two electives courses, Improved Recovery Techniques and Well Test Analysis, were taught not only to the OU students but to 34 […]
OU Places Third in Energy Challenge
September 24-28, three MPGE students (Bryce Fugate ,Kirke Suter, and Faye Reiley) along with one Energy Management student (Avery Marczewski) represented OU at the Alberta Energy Challenge (AEC). The AEC is an international business case competition hosted by the University of Alberta in Edmonton. This year’s competition included twelve teams from four countries. After an […]
Summer Study in Colombia
This past summer, MPGE faculty Deepak Devegowda and MCEE staff Yoana Walschap traveled with a group of fifteen petroleum engineering undergraduate students to Colombia to attend an Improved Recovery Technique course, along with students from Colombia National University, being taught by Dr. Devegowda. The trip not only offered students the opportunity to learn petroleum engineering […]