The following post was written by OU SPE Secretary, Kate Oransky. OU SPE hosted their 3rd Annual Oktoberfest raising money for Relay for Life. This year they partnered with E-Club and collected money for the Oklahoma Science and Research Fair Fund. On Friday, October 20, OU SPE co-hosted our annual Oktoberfest fundraising event with Engineer’s […]
Author: Dalton Brasington
Research Update: October 2017
MPGE professors and students were recognized for their research in October issue of JPT articles “Shale EOR Works, But Will It Make a Difference?” and “”Technique Blends Dimensionless Numbers and Data Mining to Predict Recovery Factors” Deepak Devegowda Xingru Wu Chandra Rai Carl Sondergeld Son Dang Ankita Sinha Pryank Srivastava
ATCE 2017: San Antonio
ATCE 2017 in San Antonio, Texas has just ended and the University of Oklahoma was there in full force. Here are some of the highlights from the conference, and a student perspective. See more pictures on our Facebook. Our PetroBowl team took 3rd place overall in the international competition. OU was the highest placed team […]
Alumni – Come Back to Campus
For the first time – OU SPE is partnering with the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy’s “Tailgate on the Plaza” for a tailgate full of fun. OU SPE invites all alumni back to meet current students, faculty, staff and other alumni. There will be plenty of food thanks to Dover Artificial Lift, who has […]
Summer with Sarah: Studying Abroad and an Internship
Sarah Zink is a petroleum engineering senior. She also serves as the President of the OU Student Chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Here is her account of her time in Madrid, Spain and coming back to an internship with XTO Energy. This summer I was able to both study abroad to Madrid, Spain […]
2017 Alberta Energy Challenge

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 […]
SPE Distinguished Lecturer Visited OU MPGE
The following post is written by Zhi Ye, a Ph.D. student in MPGE. Invited by OU Chinese Petroleum Association (OCPA), SPE Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Tao Yang visited OU MPGE on Sep. 21, 2017. Dr. Yang is a world-known and recognized reservoir technology specialist and has global reservoir engineering consulting experience for more than 200 […]
Frist True-Triaxial Compression Tests on Cubical Shale Samples Carried Out by the Reservoir Geomechanics & Seismicity Research Group
The following post was written by student Alex Vachaparampil. For your research to be featured on the MPGE blog – please email dbrasington@ou.edu. The reservoir rock response to stresses play an important role in various petroleum engineering applications including wellbore stability analyses, stimulation, and calibration of well logs for reservoir geomechanics modeling. Hitherto, most laboratories […]
Summer 2017 Externship Program

The summer of 2017 brought the first ever MPGE Externship program for students to gain valuable internship experience with our industry friends and partners, all while on campus here in Norman. The program was truly a huge success with 20 projects being completed over the course of the two month program. All in all, 12 […]
Romania Wrap-Up

This post is a day-by-day breakdown of the Summer 2017 Romania Study Abroad trip led by Dr. Catalin Teodoriu. The summary of the days and the pictures in the post were all written and taken by students in the program. This should provide an accurate account of what to expect from the course. Summers […]