EAGE Student Newsletter 2-2018 by EAGE

EAGE NEWSLETTER

STUDENTS

Issue 2 2018

EAGE Annual will have you thinking outside the screen When I first read the Student Programme’s theme for the EAGE Annual 2019, ‘Think Outside the Screen’, I couldn’t help but think this was a somewhat controversial motto. For instance, how can it be reconciled with digital transformation, which is among the most fashionable topics in the industry today?

By Pierre-Olivier Lys, chair, EAGE Student Affairs Committee

aybe this sentence basically aims at challenging us about the time that we actually spend viewing our laptops, tablets, or smartphones. There are many scientific studies stating that children and teenagers spend an average of five to seven hours in front of a screen (and in fact this is probably even more for us, adults!), and that’s without talking about the fact that we keep jumping from one screen to another, being constantly disturbed by emails, texts or notifications from our phone. Yes, maybe ‘Think Outside the Screen‘ is about giving more value to our time, dedicating our full attention to some timeslots

Trivia Question Which are the three main minerals in a gabbro: A - Quartz, feldspar and mica B - Olivine, feldspar and amphibole C - Olivine, pyroxene and plagioclase D - Piroxene, amphibole and plagioclase Answers on p. 7

in our calendar where quality will prevail over quantity. Quality is also what we should nurture when building our relationships with our peers or colleagues. Instead of dropping an email to our colleague next door (there we go… I’ve done my part of the job, now this is in his/her hand), it is also rewarding to sometimes take the time to walk and spend a moment with him/her, discussing the matter live instead of exchanging emails. This is also a way of acting ‘outside the screen’ which is very often rewarded with new ideas and a better sense of recognition. When it comes to geosciences, there are countless workflows, algorithms or attributes which can be easily computed, and which produce fancy, colourful maps or 3D renderings. Sometimes I think it’s worth wondering whether we actually control what we are doing, or whether we are actually caught within a workflow which we apply blindly, over-trusting the machine or the algorithm. Some companies have actually banned the use of workstations in ‘basin study’ workshops. Instead, geoscientists are challenged to interpret paper seismic sections with colour pencils to unleash their creativity and make them work more efficiently as a team, sharing experience and knowledge ‘outside of the screen’. If you are thinking of taking part in the coming year’s Laurie Dake Challenge, you will most probably need a workstation to produce the interpretation which will support your proposal. Because your time will be limited by everything else happening in your work, you will have to step back to really focus on what’s necessary to convince the jury. In the first phase of the challenge, you will have to assess the prospectivity Read more on page 2 ➤

It’s the most wonderful (renewal) time of the year!

he days are getting shorter, which means it is almost time for end of term examinations, essay deadlines and holiday planning. In all this hustle and bustle, don’t forget to renew your student membership! As you probably already noticed, it has been possible to renew your membership from 1 October onwards. Our membership team is working hard to help you with your renewal, so keep an eye on your inbox. The EAGE Board has decided to keep the membership fees the same as in 2018. This means you will have the same benefits in 2019 without a price increase. Still in doubt whether to renew? Here are three good reasons why you totally should! First, our online database EarthDoc. Over two thirds of all students listed EarthDoc and access to its papers as a main EAGE membership benefit. EarthDoc is a great help when researching methodologies, case studies or Read more on page 2 ➤

What's inside Canadian students rose the challenge 3 Jesper’s blog

Young professional interview: From soccer to geoscience

Students News

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of an area based on relatively sparse and limited data: it will be essential to understand the ‘backbone’ of the regional geology, to analyze the petroleum system(s) to evaluate its (their) probability of being functional, and to describe the trapping mechanism that could lead to a promising prospect. Only during the next phase of the challenge, if you’re lucky to be among the semi-finalist teams, will you be given a much more comprehensive dataset which will allow you to investigate much more subtle relationships between the data in order to better characterize your reservoir. But again, a relatively large amount of data and all the computing power in the world will never enable you to perfectly describe an object as complex as a reservoir. So you will need to ponder your analysis by acknowledging the uncertainties which affect your work. This year BP has prepared a great dataset, and I would like to thank the people (both from BP and the Students Affairs Committee) who worked hard to prepare the 2019 Laurie Dake Challenge.

Many of you are also committed to developing geoscience and EAGE activities in the 70 Student Chapters which are now widespread throughout the world. We appreciate your efforts and dedication to instilling a spirit of thoroughness and creativity to our global community, and also strongly encourage those of you still hesitating to join or create new chapters. There are many more activities organized by EAGE during the year. Student Lectures Tours (SLT) will give some of you the opportunity to assist to high quality presentations given by recognized and dedicated professionals. The electures available on the EAGE Youtube Channel are also a good way of improving your skills, even if no SLT is planned for your university. We will also have many awe-inspiring activities during the 2019 EAGE Annual Conference

in London, where I hope to meet a lot of you. This event is not to be missed, with highlights like the field trip which will be organized at the beginning of the conference, the final of the Geo-Quiz, and of course the legendary Students Evening. This gives me the opportunity to thank our generous sponsors Equinor, Total, Shell, BP and individual EAGE members who are committed to help the student community develop at EAGE, as well as EAGE staff who are committed to supporting and developing student activities, and the members of the Student Affairs Committee, a superb team of industry professionals and academics who also ‘Think outside of their screen’ to organize all these activities for you. As they say in London: ‘Cheers!’.

It’s the most wonderful (renewal) time of the year!

EAGE Student Newsletter Student Affairs Committee Pierre-Olivier Lys co-chair (Total) Claudia Steiner-Luckabauer co-chair (HOT Engineering GmbH) Giancarlo Bernasconi (Politecnico di Milano) Roger Clark (University of Leeds) Thomas Finkbeiner (KAUST) Aaron Girard (University of Western Australia) Karine Labat (IFP Energies Nouvelles) Arjan Kamp (Total) Bill Richards (Dalhousie University) Community Manager (Students) Rosmery Gonzalez (rgz@eage.org) Account Manager Corporate Relations Maurice Landzaat (mlt@eage.org) Amy Townsend (atd@eage.org) Submission of articles communications@eage.org Newsletter on the Web (www.eage.org)

Friendly competition at the EAGE Annual Conference. Continued from p.1.

new techniques for both students and professionals alike, so make sure to maintain your access by renewing early. Second, registration discounts. Fancy going to a conference or meeting in 2019? Make it an EAGE event with the special EAGE rates for our student members. Our members have discounted rates to most of our workshops and conferences. Students can often benefit from special dedicated student fees,

giving you even more bang for your buck. The third key benefit is First Break. Stay on top of the latest developments in the industry, academia and EAGE with our acclaimed monthly journal First Break. Each month has a different dedicated topic, allowing you to read up on a wide variety of scientific disciplines. We hope we can welcome many of you as members again in 2019. Assuming you do renew, it would be great if you could let us know your particular reasons. Just contact us via our EAGE Student Facebook page.

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Canadian students tell how the Laurie Dake Challenge was won The student team from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada won this year’s Laurie Dake Challenge requiring the presentation of an integrated field evaluation and development plan based on data provided to each of the competitors. Here, the winners tell their story, hopefully inspiring others to take up the challenge in the future.

very year, multi-disciplinary teams from EAGE student chapters worldwide participate. Total provided the data for this year’s Challenge and all the teams, 41 initiatlly, worked with the same data set over the course of six months. We first learned about the Laurie Dake Challenge through the local EAGE student chapter in August 2017. We were instantly captivated because it was a rare opportunity to work with a real data set and apply our knowledge. We formed a truly multi-disciplinary team, and the integration of our academic backgrounds in geology, geophysics, petrophysics, and reservoir engineering strengthened the composition of the team. The first round was an exploration round. We were excited to face the challenge of defining the oil prospectivity in a basin given limited regional information, seismic, and well data. In our case we set milestones to meet the deadline and integrated our ideas to produce a comprehensive report. It detailed the petroleum system elements, geological chances of success, and resource assessments. The second round was to pitch our prospect analysis in a three-minute video, pushing our communication skills to deliver the key messages. Dr James advised us to reach out to local oil and gas operators in St John’s, Canada to find elements they emphasize in their own prospect evaluations. We learned our decisions must be risk-minimizing to win others’ confidence in our work. We also found the video project resembled real life. We were told: ‘You often only have 3-5 minutes with your manager, and you only have one shot.’ To plot ‘how’ to communicate visually, we had help from our friends in less technical

Laurie Dake wining team 2018 in the opening ceremony, Copenhagen.

fields. The video challenge was fun and taught us that communication is equally important as robust technical work. We were thrilled when we emerged as one of the eight finalists to present a final development plan! We received additional data three weeks before the final presentation submission. As in the first round, we set action items to update our volumes, development plans, and economics. We created appealing presentation slides in parallel, highlighting our approach to minimize risks through integration, innovation and technology. We thoroughly enjoyed the process despite the tight timeline. We expected other finalists’

Is your university up to the challenge? We invite students everywhere to participate in the Laurie Dake Challenge, and can get the chance to be one of the finalists of the competition at the EAGE Annual Meeting London on 2019. Is your university up to the Challenge? Could your team earn one of those six spots in the finals? Now is the time to enter your team! Please go to https://students.eage.org/en/ laurie-dake-challenge/how-to-participate. Entry applications deadline is 20 December 2018.

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technical levels to be high, and it inspired us to do our best. ‘And the Winner is …’ We were shocked when we were announced the winner at the EAGE 80th Annual Conference & Exhibition opening ceremony in Copenhagen. Winning the Laurie Dake Challenge has been the highlight of our academic careers. We expanded knowledge in our own discipline and learned to better integrate with other disciplines. Most importantly, we gained priceless experience in teamwork, communication, and project management. We strongly encourage students to become active members of the EAGE and to take part in the Challenge in the coming years. It is an experience they will never forget. We would like to thank the EAGE and Total for organizing the competition. Special thanks go to Total for providing an unforgettable winners’ prize – VIP visits to its offices in Copenhagen and Pau, France. We must also thank the judges, Memorial University of Newfoundland, industry members, family, and friends for their tremendous support.

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Jesper Dramsch is a Masters degree student who recently started his PhD at DTU in

Bremen students start new chapter

Copenhagen. He frequently writes for his blog ‘The Way of the Geophysicist’ on his experiences as a student in the geoscience community.

Geoscientists are modern superheroes Think of what they can do. Provide early warning about earthquakes? Check! Predict when volcanoes erupt and how bad it will be? Check! Provide the catalysts and energy for the modern functioning world? Check! Be part of the energy transition? Check! Explore new worlds? Check! These are pretty big shoes to step into. In this day and age, as a geoscientist, our work becomes more fractured. A geologist back in the day had a much easier grasp of all of geology. Today, you can be a specialist in salt tectonics and not have a clue about geochemistry. As a matter of fact, you basically have to disregard many fields to be able to be a specialist in an area. However, being a specialist is not enough anymore either. Today you have to become ‘T-shaped’, i.e., be a generalist-specialist. You have to know a bit about many things, which amounts to the horizontal bar in the ‘T’; and you have to be a specialist in at least one capacity, which is the vertical bar of the ‘T’;. For me, this has been made possible by learning a skill, commonly known as programming. I refer to it as a superpower. In the language Python, my personal choice, I can simply type ‘import antigravity’, and draw on the work someone else has put into this particular sub-field. I don’t have to be an expert at many things. I can apply many things and incorporate them into my specialty. It’s incredible really and truly is a superpower. You can program yourself out of doing tedious, repetitive tasks. You can feed the Python equations, and it will solve them for you. You can have it compensate for your weaknesses and amplify your strengths.

I liked coding early on, so I used it in many classes, where it wasn’t explicitly asked for. And while in school teachers would scold me for ‘taking the easy route’. Professors, however, realized that programming something takes a full understanding of the method. For example, calculating compaction rates by hand proves that you can use a calculator and type the right numbers in. Writing up a small script to do the calculation demonstrates that you understand the concept and can implement it and make it reproducible. Reproducibility is at the heart of science, programming and the industry. Making your mistakes reproducible makes them avoidable. Making your successes reproducible makes them repeatable. Making your work automatable gives you room to look at the interesting questions. What’s not to love? Making things automatable will eventually automate you out of a job, right? Showing where you made mistakes, will make you stick out and get the blame, right? Not exactly. Programming and prototyping belong to the horizontal bar of the ‘T’. If industry just keeps you around until you finished writing up the automation for yourself, they neglect that your skillset will be just as valuable at a different company, where you can apply your deep knowledge. In the next bust of the well-known ‘boom and bust’; cycle, you may well keep your job, as you are extremely efficient and versatile. And if you’re not? There are plenty of industries you can transfer into with your excellent track record of being a superhero with a big ‘T’ on the chest.

n June this year, an international team of enthusiastic geoscience graduate students established an EAGE Student Chapter at the University of Bremen (SC Bremen). The group is composed of students in various spheres of geosciences, in particular, geophysics, biogeochemistry, sedimentology, petrology, hydrogeology, and geotechnical engineering. Over the years, the University of Bremen has become one of the main hubs of marine geoscientific and continental margin research in Europe. It offers motivated students exceptional opportunities to explore in-depth the diverse fields of marine geosciences. However, a divide currently exists between students and industrial sectors. This is why the primary intention behind organizing the new student chapter was to collaborate with other institutions, industrial sectors, and to establish an active partnership with the global student chapter community. The EAGE platform will provide SC Bremen students with enormous opportunities to demonstrate their marine geoscientific research capabilities to both local and international geoscience companies, focusing on marine projects. SC Bremen hopes that through these healthy relationships, not only comprehensive dialogues between university students and professional experts will be established, but geoscience students will also be exposed to information regarding opportunities outside of academia. In that regard, both student and industrial recruitment days will be highlighted annually, where regional and local companies will be hosted at the department. Additionally, biannual field trips will be co-ordinated for the department’s students. Through these initiatives, SC Bremen will meet its mission of establishing a concrete platform for bringing department students and industry together, thereby bridging the divide between the academic and professional realm.

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INTERVIEW

From soccer to geoscience proved a worthwhile transformation Dr Peter Haffinger is an early career geoscientist who chose geophysics over soccer! He already has the distinction of being co-founder and managing director of a successful specialist seismic company Delft Inversion. Co-author of numerous papers, Peter has presented an EAGE webinar on his expert topic and spoke at this year’s Special Session of Young Professionals at the EAGE Annual in Copenhagen. We asked him some questions about his career so far.

Peter Haffinger in professional mode.

How did Delft Inversion come about? The very first time the idea of starting a company came to mind was during my Master studies. Back then it was more a generic thought: I realized there are many opportunities in the industry, even for young professionals, and it felt like this could become professionally challenging and also personally rewarding. Delft Inversion eventually materialized during my PhD studies at Delft University of Technology. Here I met my cofounders Prof Dries Gisolf and Panos Doulgeris and it became clear that we had sufficient ingredients to get started, in this case, a technology with commercial potential, a network with possible first clients but most importantly, a team of three technology driven and complimentary characters who were, and still are, determined to make a change to the field of seismic reservoir characterization. For the non-specialist, what does the company do? Delft Inversion uses a proprietary inversion technology to translate seismic data into quantitative geological models of the subsurface. By now we have a proven track record that this fundamentally new approach helps E&P operators to better understand their reservoirs, e.g., by discriminating residual from commercial gas, finding previously hidden channel systems or improving the quantification of reserve estimates. Has working in the commercial world turned out as you expected? As I co-founded Delft Inversion with an academic and very technical background, it took me some effort to get used to the commercial environment of the industry. In fact, hardly anybody is interested in technology per se, but rather in how technology can provide a solution to his or her specific daily problems. What may sound trivial is much more complex and I can confidently say that my co-founder Panos Doulgeris excels in this process, helping us to

develop Delft Inversion into a technology-driven but also commercially oriented service company. You spoke at this year’s EAGE Young Professionals Special Session in Copenhagen, what was your message? While the world around us is changing with a dynamic that has never been seen before, I encouraged my peer young professionals that we do not have to re-invent our personalities to be successful during our careers. I trust that traditional qualities like determination, persistence and faith in yourself will still take you a long way but you may have to be more attentive to rapid changes, continuously monitoring how you fit into this dynamic environment, and be able and willing to adapt. Now you have done a webinar for the EAGE Distinguished Lecturer Programme (see EAGE website for details), do you think teaching via the web is effective and should there be more?

Excitement of life as a soccer player was tempting.

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The EAGE Distinguished Lecturer Programme is an outstanding opportunity to present to and interact with an interested audience, nearly independent of location and time zone. Webinars are therefore extremely efficient and while I strongly encourage the future use of this format, they can hardly replace the experience of in-person meetings. Were there any special takeaways from your student internships with WesternGeco and Saudi Aramco? In retrospect, and let me extend this to my academic education in general, I think the major takeaway came from being exposed to international groups with people from different cultures and religions. I believe that my internships but also the periods at different universities, shaped my character and my opinion about respect and acceptance much more than I could have foreseen. You were in the first cohort of students to participate in the International Joint Masters Programme in Applied Geophysis organized by the IDEA League with stays at TU Delft, ETH Zurich and RWTH Aaachen. How do you rate this initiative and what was your experience like? The opportunity to study at three of the leading European universities, each of them specialized in complimentary subjects, forms an ideal basis for a successful career as a geoscientist. Apart from the professional foundation, spending two years with a small group of selected students makes them become like a second family. Was it always your ambition to be a geoscientist, or could you have chosen a different career path? Before starting university I played football in the highest German league for players under the age of 19. Competing on such a high level was

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very exciting. Eventually I decided to pursue an academic career, and honestly I never regretted becoming a geoscientist. From your experience so far, are there any lessons which you wish you had learned before you started? It is importance to accept that at any point in time you only have a limited set of skills and knowledge.

Do you have time for any pursuits outside your professional life When not wearing my Delft Inversion hat, I dedicate most of my time to my family. My wife and little son give me a lot of energy and trust, which has a big positive impact on my professional life. With a bit of luck you may also find me on a football pitch, enjoying the exercise and competitive character of the game.

No regrets about becoming a geoscientist.

Lagos students host career opportunity event

he University of Lagos Student EAGE Chapter hosted a career talk presided by top industry experts from the Nigeria oil and gas sector on 13 August 2018. The event was chaired by Prof Elijah Ayolabi, vice chancellor, Mountain Top University and EAGE faculty advisor, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Other dignitaries at the event included Dr Mayowa Afe, managing director, Danvic Petroleum International; Prof Adedotun Adekunle, dean, Faculty of Science; Univeristy of Lagos; Prof Samuel Bamidele Olobaniyi, head, Department of Geosciences, University of Lagos; Dr Lukmon Adeoti; Dr Kenny Ishola, and Ambrose Ogbuike, president, EAGE Student Chapter, University of Lagos. The aim of the career talk was focused on integrating, exposing and bridging the gaps between young geoscientists and industry experts over the latest technological advancements in the oil and gas sector and providing

Career talk at University of Lagos.

Acknowledgment from EAGE.

Prof Elijah Ayolabi thanks EAGE.

appropriate opportunities for undergraduates, graduates, and postgraduates alike. It provided a valuable occasion for students to network with industry officials and hopefully advance their career prospects. Keynote speaker of the day was John Adeniyi, a senior geoscientist at Danvic Pe-

troleum, who talked about a road map for young professionals. He also shed some light on the EAGE history, membership, chapter organization opportunities and networking platforms available to both students and professionals in the oiland gas industry. Jemine Olare, Addax Petroleum, discussed the different areas of specialization in the geosciences and encouraged students to carve a niche for themselves. The turnout for the meeting was very impressive with 120 students from SEG, SPE, and AAPG plus geosciences lecturers in attendance and there was opportunity for networking. The University of Lagos Student Chapter has been at the forefront of promoting EAGE activities in Nigeria, exemplified by the simultaneous hosting of an EAGE Student Lecture Tour (SLT) and webinar in November last year.

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Colombian event promotes geology to high school kids

eology students at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) took the initiative to organize the first Earth Science Week on October 16-17 in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia. They were supported by local student chapters of the university formed by associations such as the EAGE, AAPG, SEG, ACGGP, ACH, SGA, and the university hotbeds of CERES and SEGET.. The main objective was to promote the geosciences to groups unfamiliar with the disciplines, especially high school students in the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga. Learning and awareness of geology’s value in their daily live was created through games, as well as didactic and academic activities. For the event, separate ‘geo-stations’ were set up featuring key topics–geological time, evolution of life, geological patrimony, Earth resources in our daily life, Earth’s dynamic, seismicity, hydric resources, and geo-threats.

Students in the microscopy laboratory.

Learning about the tectonic plates.

The activity took place at the Technological Park of Guatiguará in Piedecuesta, Colombia, one of the locations of UIS. The students could have a small tour through the microscopy laboratory, interact with the geo-stations and learn about diverse subjects, such as the causes of an earthquake and the dynamics of the tectonic plates. They were able to jump up and down registering on the geophones set up for the occasion. They were made aware of natural threats that could happen in the environ-

ment where they live and how to prevent them, also which minerals are used in their daily life. In addition, students could view the fossil register of the university collection illustrating the evolution of life, geological time and humans’ place in the cosmos. Through models they could see what an aquifer is, learn how the subsurface water behaves, and participate in talks about what a geologist does and why it is an important profession in society. The geoscientific community of the Universidad Industrial de Santander was keen to share with young students the implications, both positive and negative, of living on an active planet such as the Earth, emphasizing the risks and natural opportunities that surround them. In this way the idea was to help them understand some socio-environmental phenomena present on the planet we inhabit. It was considered important to take seriously the community aspect of geology because in Colombia there is still a lot of misinformation and mythology about the Earth due to the fact that in schools there is no one to teach geolog

A lot going on at the geostation.

Trivia answer C - Olivine, pyroxene and plagioclase Exciting students about geoscience in Colombia.

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HERE AND THERE/CALENDAR

Students full engaged in Sudan chapter

ince its foundation two years ago, the Student Chapter of Al-Neelain University (NSC-EAGE), Khartoum, the first in Sudan, has plenty of activity to report. A total of over 700 people have attended events organized by the Chapter. This includes open scientific lectures, workshops and short courses with topics covering geophysics, plate tectonics, chemostratigraphy, structural geology, climate change, and mineralization. In addition there have been training sessions on seismic interpretation and gravity modelling. Stu-

Discussion on Chapter business.

dents from different universities, young professionals, oil companies’ representatives and associated professors have all attended NSC’s events. NSC was the first student chapter in Sudan to participate in the Sudanese Association of Petroleum Geoscientist (SAPEG) conference and exhibition held on March 2017. As its first activity in 2018, Dr Mutwakil Nafi, associate professor at Bahir Dar University College of Sciences, Department of Geology, Ethiopia presented a lecture on ‘Marine Transgression and Paleogeography Reconstruction in North and Northwestern Sudan’. Chapter vice president Abdulrhman Fadul and Chapter advisor Walid Rodwan represented NSC at GEO 2018 in Bahrain held on March 2018. Previously members were in attendance at the International Petroleum and Geoscience Conferences (IPGC) held in September 2017 in Cairo, organized by Suez Student Chapter. This included the Student Lecture Tour (SLT) by Dr Hesham ElKaliouby (National Research Center, Egypt), on

Student members of EAGE Chapter.

‘Electromagnetic Methods for Near-Surface Geophysics’. The current NSC management team consists of Ali A. Mohialldean, president; Abdulrhman F. Ibraheem, vice president; Yousif Abuobida, treasurer; and Entesar Albashier, secretary; with three advisors, Dr Nuha E. Mohamed, Dr Immam Abdelmajeed and Walid Redwan. You can follow us at: https://www.facebook. com/groups/2150421925183544/events/.

EAGE Students Event Calendar December 2018

June 2019

5 Dec

Student lecture Tour EU

2 Jun

Derby, UK

Laurie Dake Challenge Final London, UK

6 Dec

Student Lecture Tour EU

3 Jun

Minus CO2 Challenge Final

3-6 Jun

81st EAGE Annual Conference

Manchester, UK

London,UK

London, UK

IS YOUR UNIVERSITY UP FOR THE

LAURIE DAKE CHALLENGE 2019? EAGE is inviting universities to participate in the 2019 edition of the Laurie Dake Challenge (Formerly Field Challenge). Each university team should include a multi-disciplinary team of full-time geoscience and petroleum engineering students, with a maximum of one PhD student per team. How to get involved? Applications for the Laurie Dake Challenge open on 10 October 2018, teams can apply online at students.eage.org/laurie-dake-challenge. As part of the challenge, students will analyze and propose a Field Development plan for a discovered hydrocarbon resource.

Why participate? A committee will select the six best teams who will present their Final Laurie Dake Challenge Plan at the 81st EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition in London. The successful teams will receive a complimentary registration to the Annual 2019, and a travel grant. The final challenge will be held on 2 June 2019. There are great prizes on offer for the winning team in London.

Take up the LAURIE DAKE CHALLENGE now and submit your application by 21 December 2019. Good luck!

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