After a three-year hiatus, the University of Oklahoma’s Society of Petroleum Engineers (OU SPE) brought back the annual golf tournament fundraiser. The event was hosted Friday, September 7th at Winter Creek Golf and Country Club in Blanchard, OK. Despite the all-day rain, over 70 professionals from the energy industry, stretching from OKC to Midland and […]
Author: Kierstin Kite
OU AADE Hosts Informative Tech Talks for Students
On August 23, the OU AADE section was pleased to have Mr. David Rosby-Lead, Cement Engineer; Mr. Brian Pfeiff, Senior Technical Advisor and Mr. Dillon Bellamy, Technical Professional and OU Alumni lead a tech talk for the students of MPGE. More than 70 students attended the event. The talk was about Halliburton service lines and […]
MPGE Research Continues to Make Headlines
Research from MPGE faculty and staff continues to make headlines. Team members Dr. Saeed Salehi, Dr. Catalin Teodoriu, Raj Kiran and Azeem Raza have been conducting research on human factors in safe drilling operations using eye-tracking technology. Their research was previously published in Drilling Contractor Magazine, and has now been featured in The Way Ahead, a […]
OU Reservoir Geomechanics Group Summer Research Presentations
The OU Reservoir Geomechanics & Seismicity Research group had a very busy summer with some high-impact experimental and numerical research on reservoir geomechanics. The group also attended three major conferences to present its research. The Group played an active role in the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) 52nd Conference held in Seattle, Washington, June 17-20. […]
Two MPGE Alumni Receive Regents’ Alumni Award
Two MPGE alumni received the Regents’ Alumni Awards for their dedication and service to OU in a ceremony on Friday, May 11, on the Norman campus. Robert S. McKenny, Sr. of Southlake, Texas, graduated from OU in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. While at OU, he was both president and vice president of […]
Students Use Classroom Knowledge for Real World Applications
Associate Professor Dr. Teodoriu led MPGE students through projects culminating in the construction of small models and demonstrations. For the third consecutive year these two graduate courses, Horizontal Well Technology and Advanced Drilling Technology, had student teams that competed against their peers in presenting their final projects around drilling engineering. Horizontal Well Technology students chose […]
MPGE Faculty and Students Present at 37th OMAE Conference
MPGE faculty and students attended the 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering in beautiful Madrid, Spain from June 16-23. Attending this conference has been a long-standing tradition for MPGE faculty and students, and this year Drs. Catalin Teodoriu and Saeed Salehi attended along with MPGE Ph.D. student, Raj Kiran. Drs. Saeed Salehi […]
OU Drillbotics Team Takes Second Place in International Competition
Written by: Jack Borer The University of Oklahoma is proud to announce that its 2018 Drillbotics team has been awarded 2nd place in this year’s Drillbotics International Student Competition. Ten teams from four countries (Canada, Norway, Germany, and the United States) participated in this year’s challenge, which tested the wit and determination of all those […]
MPGE Faculty Member Honored with Two Prestigious Awards
Dr. Siddharth Misra was awarded the Early Career Award by the Department of Energy and the Petroleum Research Fund granted by the American Chemical Society. Dr. Misra is one of only 84 scientists from around the nation selected for the Early Career award that will fund his research for the next five years. According to the […]
OU SPE Annual Golf Tournament
The University of Oklahoma, Society of Petroleum Engineers Golf Classic is returning this year! The 16th annual tournament will be held on Friday, September 7th, 2018 at Winter Creek Golf Course in Blanchard, OK. As in the past, this year’s tournament provides you an opportunity to meet outstanding students and catch up with old colleagues […]