American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Asia Pacific Region
The AAPG Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) is an annual basin/prospect evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students. The programme is rigorous and contributes to AAPG’s mission of promoting petroleum geoscience training and providing geoscience students with experience of the industry.
Watch the teams as they accept their awards for winning, and for trying. Again, congratulations to the China University of Petroleum for winning the Asia Pacific semi-finals.
The recipients from our region for 2010 are Justin MacDonald of the University of Adelaide who obtained a grant from the Gordon I. Atwater Memorial Grant and Sam Hemmings-Sykes of the Victoria University of Wellington who received one from the Wallace E Pratt Memorial Grant. The complete list of 2010 Recipients can be found at [...]
AAPG University of Karachi Student Chapter, in continuation of technical lecture/seminar series, organized another talk on Saturday 17th April 2010, Guest Speaker being the renowned explorationist Mr. Moin Raza Khan, GME, Pakistan Petroleum Limited. Under the theme of “Unconventional Reservoirs”, the topic of the lecture was, “TAPPING UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON RESOURCES – KEY TO BRIGHT FUTURE [...]
The Student Chapter at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia has completed a course in February. The theme was Enhanced Oil Recovery, and the speakers were Prof. Ir. Suryo Purwono, M.Sc, Ph.D (UGM), Dr. Bob Wikan (Pertamina EP), Dr. I Putu Suarsana, and Mrs. Grace Stepahi Titaley (Pertamina EP).
Mr Rick Fritz, Executive Director, recently travelled to the Asia Pacific region, to meet with Joseph Lambiase, the AAPG Region president, and the Region council, comprising Peter Balllie, Abul “Shams” Shamsuddin, and Mick McWalter. He also met with Adrienne Pereira, AAPG’s Asia-Pacific Programmes Manager in Singapore. Rick also stopped in Japan and Malaysia and met [...]
The China University of Petroleum in Beijing emerged the Winner of the Asia Pacific Imperial Award Semi-Final, held on 19 March 2010. It was a three-cornered fight, with the other two teams being the the University of Indonesia and the Institute Teknology Bandung, also from Indonesia. Teams were given geological datasets as part of a [...]
