On Tuesday, January 26, Walter Jackson “Jack” Sleeper, Jr. passed away in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Sleeper was a long-time supporter of MPGE and its programs and a great friend. Sleeper was born August 6, 1929 in Wagoner, Oklahoma. He graduated from Wagoner High School and entered the Navy in 1947. While stationed as an air […]
Month: January 2016
A New Approach to Drilling and Completions
PE 4323, Drilling and Completions II, a senior level course in OU’s petroleum engineering curriculum, was taught by MPGE associate professor Catalin Teodoriu during the 2015 fall semester. This was Teodoriu’s first time teaching the course, and he introduced a new component to enhance the learning process, group oriented design projects. Students were asked to […]
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 […]
Arlie Skov
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Arlie Skov. Mr. Skov was an active alumnus of MPGE, earning a BS in Petroleum Engineering in 1956; followed by a post graduate degree in Advanced Management from the University of Virginia in 1966. Mr. Skov’s career includes various technical and managerial positions at […]