Runar Nygaard Named New Director for MPGE

Runar Nygaard accepted the position of Director of the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering this past summer. Nygaard is originally from Norway but joins Mewbourne from Oklahoma State University. At OSU, he was the Petroleum Engineering Program Director and held the Harold Courson Chair in Petroleum Engineering. Earning a doctorate degree in Geomechanics in […]

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MPGE Places 2nd in HSSE Contest

From April 18-20, SPE International hosted their annual Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social Responsibility Conference (HSSESR) in New Orleans, Louisiana. This conference brings together health, safety and environment professionals to share ideas, network and learn from experts in industry, government and academia. Running concurrent with the event is the HSSE Student Challenge, a competition […]

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OU Showcases Research & Takes First Place

A team of OU students and faculty attended the 2017 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Tex., and showcased their current research project Virtual Reality Offshore Operations Training Infrastructure for Enhancing Expert Containment, Decision Making, and Risk Communications. This is a cross-disciplinary study that focuses on minimizing risk by identifying factors that contribute to it. As […]

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MPGE Grad Students Place in Research Competition

Maxine Weiss Research Presentation

Each year, OU’s Graduate College provides students the opportunity to present their current research to gain experience and to share with the OU community their excellence scholarship skills through participation in Graduate Student Research and Creativity Day (SRCD). This year’s event was held on Friday, February 24 in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom of the […]

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