Congratulations to the 2010 SPE Western North America Region award winners!
The 2010 SPE Western North America Region awards have been announced and the Alaska Section is honored to have 3 out of the 11 winners come from our section. The winners of these awards were nominated by their peers and were voted on by the various regional officers. They represent the best of the best in our region and highlights the strong technical expertise that resides in our section. Congratulations to the winners of these awards and to all who were nominated.
Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award - Dr. Randahl Roadifer (ConocoPhillips)
Completion Optimization and Technology - Carl Diller (Northern Solutions)
Drilling Engineering - Bob Harris (Northern Solutions)
These awards will be presented during the 2010 WRM Membership Luncheon on May 25th in Anaheim, CA
It gives me great pleasure to announce that UAF petroleum engineering students Rusheet Shah (SPE student chapter treasurer) and Sathish Kulathu (SPE student chapter secretary) won the 1st and the 2nd place respectively in the MS division and Daniel Clark won the 2nd place in the BS division at this years Society of Petroleum Engineers Western Regional Meeting student paper contest. They competed against students from University of Southern California and Stanford University.
Rusheet presented his work on application of nanotechnology for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), funded by the Office of Electronic Miniaturization (OEM); Sathish presented his research on application of low salinity cyclic waterfloods for EOR, which was funded by US DOE, and Daniel’s presentation was based on the senior design project on arctic well design sequence and failure prognosis.
I am really proud of our students’ achievements and the recognition they bring to the PETE program, CEM and UAF.
Please feel free to circulate this widely, in case if I have missed someone.
Thank you.
Abhijit
Abhijit Dandekar, PhD
Associate Professor & Acting Chair
Faculty Advisor to SPE Student Chapter
Department of Petroleum Engineering
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Congratulations to Tim Crumrine for winning the SPE International Young Member Outstanding Service Award!
As the outgoing chair of the Alaska Petroleum Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, I am pleased to announce that Tim Crumrine has won the SPE International Young Member Outstanding Service Award. This award recognizes Tim's hard work and leadership in serving our local community, the Society, the petroleum engineering profession, and the industry at large.
Tim has served for many years on the SPE International Young Professionals Coordinating Committee, a group tasked with helping young professionals to be active in SPE, to support them in the development of both their technical and their "soft" skills, and to help them as they prepare for future leadership roles in the Society and throughout industry.
Tim has been at the forefront of this effort as he has spearheaded development of programs and activities designed to meet these goals (among them SPE's Ambassador Lecturer program). Tim has served locally as our section's Young Professionals Committee Chair, and he is now serving as the elected Section Chair for 2008-2009.
All of us who work in the petroleum industry are beneficiaries of Tim's service, but none more so than those working in Alaska. Please join me in thanking Tim for his efforts and congratulating him on this well-deserved recognition.
Regards,
Chris Jenkins
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