Student Honored with Rock Mechanics Research Award

Ph.D. student from OU Reservoir Geomechanics Group Honored with Rock Mechanics Research Award from American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) Ph.D. candidate Zhi Ye from OU Reservoir Geomechanics & Seismicity Research Group received the American Rock Mechanics Association’s (ARMA) prestigious “Rock Mechanics Research Award” at the Annual Meeting held last June in Brooklyn, New York. The […]

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Students Receive Society of Petroleum Engineers Scholarship

The Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering would like to announce five students who received the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) scholarship from the Dallas Section. A total of $11,500 was awarded for the 2019-2020 Fall and Spring semesters. Students awarded are Katelyn Ashcraft, Ducha Hapsari, Rahmat Ashari, Ammar Chaudhry, and Jinyoung Park. Should […]

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Mr. Perez Valencia Earns Award

Felipe Perez Valencia was awarded second place at the Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) Workshop and Symposium. The sixth LAMMPS Workshop and Symposium was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Continuing Education Building. Valencia gathered the LAMMPS users community that uses molecular dynamics in several different disciplines. For the […]

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OU in Oklahoman

Congrats to Drs. Salehi, Teodoriu and Ahmed! Their research was featured in the front page of the business section of the Oklahoman! The member are working with shape memory polymers that have smart lost circulation materials. The polymers expand into rock fractures near the bore of a well that is being drilled to tap that […]

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