Today’s contributor is Alex Romanyuk: We started early today, driving to the neighboring town of Negoiesti, to visit two service companies. Local industry professionals met us at the first location, John Crane Production Solutions Inc. They are a leader in artificial lift systems (rod pump, PCP, and ESP) here in Romania, and they explained to us […]
Throughout their time in Romania, students are required to write about their experiences that day. Today’s narration comes from Erik Noguez: Today we started class by visiting the material sciences laboratory to have a better understanding of how the hardness of a material is measured. We were introduced to equipment used in previous years to […]
Today the students visited the welding lab at the university, and learned how the industry performs face-hardening processes and detects cracks in metal components. Romanian faculty, with the help of Dr. Teodoriu as translator, presented the different welding techniques used in their lab. They, also, demonstrated how to detect cracks in metal components by using ultraviolet light and a special set […]
As part of OU’s commitment to preparing students to operate in our global society through international learning, MPGE has launched its newest study-abroad course under the direction of Associate Professor Catalin Teodoriu. This week, a group of OU petroleum engineering students arrived in Ploiesti, Romania, a little over an hour north of the nation’s capitol […]
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 […]