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 […]
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MPGE Students Discover the Wonders of Peru
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 […]
2015 Status Report Now Available
MPGE’s 2015 Status Report, which details the activities of students and faculty, is now available on-line.
2015 Student Awards Night
On Thursday, April 16, MPGE hosted its annual Student Awards Night at OU’s Lloyd Noble Center Chesapeake Energy Courtside Club. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni came together to celebrate the achievements of our students during the 2014-15 school year. Zeeneb Alsaihati was recognized as this year’s Outstanding Junior and Kreg Flowers as Oustanding Senior. Both […]
OU Hosts Petrobowl Qualifer
On Saturday,February 7, The University of Oklahoma campus welcomed SPE International as the host of the first North American Regional Petrobowl Qualifier. Due to the increasing popularity of the annual competition, SPE moved towards a format that supported regional events to determine which teams would compete in the Petrobowl Finals held during ATCE. Twenty universities […]
OU Places Third in Energy Challenge
September 24-28, three MPGE students (Bryce Fugate ,Kirke Suter, and Faye Reiley) along with one Energy Management student (Avery Marczewski) represented OU at the Alberta Energy Challenge (AEC). The AEC is an international business case competition hosted by the University of Alberta in Edmonton. This year’s competition included twelve teams from four countries. After an […]
Summer Study in Colombia
This past summer, MPGE faculty Deepak Devegowda and MCEE staff Yoana Walschap traveled with a group of fifteen petroleum engineering undergraduate students to Colombia to attend an Improved Recovery Technique course, along with students from Colombia National University, being taught by Dr. Devegowda. The trip not only offered students the opportunity to learn petroleum engineering […]