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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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