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 […]
PE 4323, Drilling and Completions II, a senior level course in OU’s petroleum engineering curriculum, was taught by MPGE associate professor Catalin Teodoriu during the 2015 fall semester. This was Teodoriu’s first time teaching the course, and he introduced a new component to enhance the learning process, group oriented design projects. Students were asked to […]
The inaugural edition of PE 5970 Completion and Workover, offered by Associate Professor Catalin Teodoriu, has been a success. This is a new course within the University of Oklahoma (OU) Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering (MPGE) graduate curriculum that was developed over the span of a decade by Teodoriu and taught at four […]
Curtis W. Mewbourne, MPGE alumni and namesake of our school and college, has been honored by the Permian Basin Petroleum Association as 2015’s Top Hand. Mr. Mewbourne was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in November 1935. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in January 1958, where he has been […]
On Friday, October 30, OU SPE hosted Oktoberfest in the ROTC Armory on campus. The event was designed as a benefit to kick-off their Relay for Life fundraising. In spite of the rain, around 80 people were in attendance. The highlight of the evening was the Pie in the Face event. Student leaders, MPGE faculty, […]
After 22 years at OU, Dr. Subhash Shah has retired. On Friday, September 18, MPGE faculty, staff and students, along with industry colleagues, friends and family, came together to honor the distinguished career of and to pay tribute to Dr. Shah. There are very few people who had Dr. Shah as a professor that didn’t […]
The University of Oklahoma was invited to take part in the Alberta Energy Challenge (AEC). AEC is hosted by the University of Alberta School of Business and is an international energy case competition between nine universities. Teams from the United States, Canada and Egypt were participants for this year’s competition. For the second year in […]
Registration totals exceeded expectations as 13,500 global exploration and production professionals gathered at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) flagship event the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston over three days 28-30 September. This year’s event, despite the challenges currently being seen in the industry, was […]
In May 2015, Profs. Deepak Devegowda and Xingru Wu traveled to Lima, Peru with a group of 20 MPGE students led by Yoana Walschap, MCEE Study Abroad Liaison, and one extra coordinator, Naïla Williams. The two electives courses, Improved Recovery Techniques and Well Test Analysis, were taught not only to the OU students but to 34 […]
Twenty-four students along with one faculty from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) in Gandhinagar, India visited OU’s Norman campus between July 5 and July 27 as part of PDPU’s International Exposure Program. The goal of the program was to provide students an experience typical of what is common for our own students each semester. They […]