Dear AAPG Asia Pacific Student Chapter Leaders and University Reps,
Imperial Barrel Award Program (IBA)
AAPG is pleased to announce an exciting new career-development program for geoscience graduate students. It is called the Imperial Barrel Award Program or IBA. IBA is a wonderful program in which students work in teams, analyze real geologic data, then give prospect presentations before a panel of petroleum industry judges. Teams of five students per team compete for trophies and cash prizes.
Explanation of Attachments
Please look over the attached documents. The IBA student flyerText (1) document is the general flyer about IBA program, while 2008 IBA information FINAL (2) is about the detail of the program. IBA Diagram (3) document explains the schema of the competition from local selection until final competition in Texas. Finally, please fill in the application form (4) and send it to Mike Mlynek and cc to me.
IBA Global Competition at AAPG Annual Meeting
At the AAPG Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in April, 2008, we will hold a global IBA competition. For this competition, we invite one team from each AAPG Region and one team from each AAPG Section to compete. Each team will be comprised of five (5) graduate students and one faculty chaperone. The Asia Pacific Region will hold a regional Imperial Barrel Award competition among teams from universities and AAPG student chapters. The 1st Place team from regional IBA competition will compete in the global competition. All travel and hotel expenses for the region team of five students and one faculty chaperone will be paid by AAPG – at no cost to the team.
For the 2008 IBA competition only, two additional schools are invited to send a team to compete in the global IBA competition: Imperial College London (in honor of their founding of the Imperial Barrel competition) and University of Aberdeen (in honor of their 1st Place award at the 2007 IBA competition). As a result, there will be a total of 14 teams competing at the 2008 AAPG Annual Meeting.
IBA Asia Pacific Region Competition
In order to select a team to represent the Asia Pacific Region, a regional IBA competition will be organized during the time period from February to mid-March, 2008. Students will analyze the data and prepare their oral presentation on DVD that will be assessed by Asia Pacific Judging panels. They are:
1. Joseph Lambiase (Lambiase Geoscience Pte. Ltd, Singapore)
2. John Kaldi (Australian School of Petroleum, Australia)
3. Denis Tan (University of Malaya, Malaysia)
The winning team from Asia Pacific Region will present on the same data set at the global competition in San Antonio, Texas. The team may make slight improvements to their presentation based on feedback from the local judging panel, but they will analyze only one data set.
Important Dates
* December 1, 2007 
eadline of application submission to Mike Mlynek (cc to Geovani Kaeng)
* January 2008 :IBA competition packets and data sets will be sent to all participating schools
* Jan. – Mar. 4 :Regional IBA competition (once the data arrived, analysis can be commenced)
* Mar. 7 eadline of result submission on DVD (latest arrival in judging panel’s addresses)
* By March 21 :Region contact notifies AAPG of winning team
* April 18, 19, 21 
reliminary and Finals Competition (Friday-Saturday) Student Reception and Awards Ceremony (Monday) at AAPG Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Any changing on information will be announced to you immediately.
Please read out all information and requirements carefully and don’t hesitate to drop a line to me or Joe for any questions you have.
Best Regards,
Geovani C Kaeng
AAPG Asia Pacific Region
Student Chapter Affairs Coordinator
On behalf of
Joe Lambiase
Imperial Barrel Award Competition – Asia Pacific Committee Chair
Attachments:
1. IBA student flyerText
2. 2008 IBA information FINAL
3. IBA Diagram
4. IBA Application Form
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