ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Petroleum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> | Annual Report - Academic Year 2011 - 2012<br />
Awards<br />
October 2010: Dr. Shawket Ghedan was<br />
awarded Outstanding Technical Editor citation<br />
at the SPE International’s Annual Technical<br />
Conference and Exhibition in Florence. Dr.<br />
Ghedan has been an award winning SPE<br />
member at regional and international levels.<br />
Department is now following a curriculum that<br />
requires 138 credit hours for graduation.<br />
Our PE design courses were revamped in the<br />
last academic year partly because of ABET<br />
requirements and also to provide a significant<br />
design experience for our students. <strong>The</strong><br />
number of seats has been restricted to just<br />
four per section to ensure the full participation<br />
of students. In line with ABET requirements,<br />
the content had been changed to remove any<br />
research component and to expose students<br />
to real design problems that include realistic<br />
constrain’s and decision-taking. <strong>The</strong> design<br />
courses combine the different aspects of<br />
petroleum engineering knowledge covered<br />
during their studies and also includes economic<br />
analysis.<br />
June 2012: Mr. Mohamad Yousef Alklih and<br />
Mr. Adnan Aboud Al Marri, senior petroleum<br />
engineering undergraduates, won the 3rd<br />
place in the 3rd SPE Young Professionals Paper<br />
Contest held in Abu Dhabi. <strong>The</strong>ir competition<br />
was based on a research paper entitled<br />
“Stimulation of Tight Sandstone Reservoir<br />
for Improved Water Injectivity” (supervised<br />
by Dr. Bisweswar Ghosh). <strong>The</strong> contest allows<br />
young professionals to share their research,<br />
ideas, innovations and case studies and by<br />
winning third place, the PI students qualified<br />
to compete in the GCC Young Professionals<br />
Paper Contest in Kuwait.<br />
In Fall 2011 we introduced further risk and<br />
uncertainty topics which are covered at the<br />
beginning of the semester so that students<br />
are better prepared to learn core petroleum<br />
engineering topics. <strong>The</strong>re is also more<br />
emphasis put on statistics components.<br />
We had three technical electives in Fall 2011<br />
and three in Spring 2012. In addition, there<br />
is also a new PE technical elective PEEG493,<br />
Special Topics in PE – Well Treatment that<br />
began in Fall 2012.<br />
Mr. Mohamad Alklih with Mr. Arafat AlYafei<br />
(SPE-AD Chairman), Dr. Hemanta Sarma<br />
(Head of PI PED) and Dr. Ali AlSumaiti<br />
(Assistant Professor, PI PED)<br />
December 2010<br />
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