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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Professor Emeritus Shah at Work in India

In August 2015, Professor Subhash Shah retired from MPGE after 22 years, but that hasn’t stopped him from working. In January, Shah was named as the Shell Total Chair Professor in Petroleum Engineering for Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. In this new role, Shah is responsible for establishing the Drilling and Simulation Laboratory at […]

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February Faculty Update

Assistant Professor Saeed Salehi sits on the Steering Committee and is the Finance Committee Chairman for SPE’s International Conference and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control to be held at Lafayette, LA February 24-26. While there, he will also be presenting his paper, SPE-179016: An Integrated Study of Mud Plastering Effects for Reducing Filtrate’s Invasion. Salehi will also present a […]

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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 […]

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