OU SPE Co-hosts SPE Student Symposium

February 4-6 OU SPE, along with the University of Texas at Austin, co-hosted the 5th annual SPE Student Symposium in Houston, TX. The theme, The Road to U.S. Oil and Gas Independence, focused on the challenges faced with unconventionals production and operation in the current price market. This overriding topic was reinforced through workshops, roundtables and panels […]

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Faculty to Present at Conferences

Professors Carl Sondergeld and Chandra Rai, along with Assistant Professor Siddharth Misra and Research Associate Younas Dadmohmashi, have been invited to present their research work, Simultaneous Estimation of Intrinsic Permeability, Effective Porosity, Pore-Volume Compressibility, and Klinkenberg-Slip Factor of Ultra-Tight Rock Samples Based on Laboratory Pressure-Step-Decay Method, at the SPE Low Perm Symposium in Denver, Colorado May […]

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Teodoriu to Speak at World Stainless Steel Conference

MPGE Associate Professor Catalin Teodoriu will be in attendance at the World Stainless Steel Conference and Expo taking place in the Netherlands November 17-19. Covering all aspects of the stainless steel industry, including its use in oil and gas, the conference will host approximately 7000 attendees. Teodoriu will speak on Wednesday during Plenary Session 4 […]

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OU Hosts Environmental Journalism Conference

539 journalists, scientists, government officials, representatives of business and industry from around the world explored Oklahoma’s ecologically-diverse landscape during the 25th Society of Environmental Journalists annual meeting in Norman, October 7 through 11, 2015. The University of Oklahoma served as hosts for the conference, “Weather, Water and Energy:  News in Every Neighborhood,” which led journalists to numerous […]

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Papers Presented at Workshop

Drs. Ahmed Ghassemi and Catalin Teodoriu presented two papers at the 40th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering at Stanford University  January 26-28, 2015. Dr. Ghassemi’s paper , entitle “Analysis of Fracture Network Response to Fluid Injection”,   was presented by his post-doctoral researcher and co-author Moien Farmahini-Farahani. Dr. Teodoriu’s paper was co-authored with Professor Gioia Falcone […]

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