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Faculty
Dr. Vamegh Rasouli (Chair)
Dr. Kegang Ling
Dr. Mehdi Ostadhassan
Dr. Hadi Jabbari
Dr. Minou Rabiei
Dr. Hui Pu
Mrs. Bailey Bubach
Aldjia Boualam Djezzar
Sofiane Djezzar
Admin Assistant
Ms. Jade Gourneau
Adjunct Faculty
Jin Zhijun President of SINOPEC E&P Research Institute
Dr. Thomas Gentzis Senior Geoscientist at Core Laboratories
John Harju Vice President for Strategic Partnerships, EERC
Charles Gorecki Director of Subsurface R&D, EERC
John Hamling Principal Engineer, EERC
Larry Pekot Principal Engineer and Res-ervoir Engineering Group Lead, EERC
March 2018 Issue I
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Industry Advisory Council Participants
Note from Department Chair:
March 23rd will be my 3 year anniversary as Chair for the Petroleum Engineering De-partment. I appreciate the significant support of my colleagues in the department, the College of Engineering & Mines, and most importantly the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) members who made it possible to achieve several goals which appeared to be im-possible in such a short period of time. Some of the achievements include:
√ Growth of the IAC to 23 companies in 2018 √ receiving the full accreditation of the undergraduate program (2016) √ establishment of PhD, Master, and Certificate programs (2016) √ moving into central advising model (CAM), thanks to Mrs. Bailey Bubach for her great effort to make this a success (2015) √ establishment of the drilling fluids teaching labs, Hess & Drilling Systems drilling simu-lator lab, Hess Virtual Reality lab, and Hess Innovation labs (2016-2017) √ 2+2 (undergraduate) and 2+1 (master degree) joint teaching prorams with some uni-versities in China (2017) √ successful shift into practical research activities and receiving over $2M of research income from several projects that the faculty applied for in 2017-2018
We are determined to continue this trend in the future and with all the supporters of the department raise the reputation of the department by doing high quality teaching and research, closer collaboration with the industry and more international collabora-tions.
Harold Hamm & North Dakota Petroleum Council visit
On January 26th we were honored to have both the North Dakota Petroleum Council (NDPC) and Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, visit the college. During their visit they were able to tour the Petroleum labs in the Collaborative Energy Complex. President Kennedy also hosted a Q&A session with Harold Hamm where students had the opportunity to ask questions.
Upcoming Events
March 12-16, Spring Break
May 10-11, IAC Meeting and Banquet
May 12, Spring graduation
Fall Sem, PE Alumni Event
On February 12th, Petroleum Engineering Graduate students and international visiting scholars were given the opportunity to visit with Vice President for Research, Dr. McGimpsey and the Dean of the College of Engineering and Mines, Dr. El-Rewini. This was a great opportunity for them to meet each other and get familiar with the college.
UND Drillbotics was among 9 international Universities (including 4 other Universities in the US) to advance to the next round of competition. Thank you to Statoil, Oasis Petroleum, Hess, and Zarvona Energy for supporting this years Drillbotics team. Their generous contributions have given the team the resources to make their vision into a reality.
Contact (WE ARE HERE TO HELP!)
University of North Dakota, College of Engineering & Mines, Department of Petroleum Engineering 701.777.2533
243 Centennial Drive Upson II Room 366, Stop 8154 Grand Forks, ND 58202-8154
Department Chair: [email protected] Department Admin: [email protected] Undergraduate Program Inquiry: [email protected] Graduate Program Inquiry: [email protected]
https://engineering.und.edu/petroleum/ Follow our SPE Student Chapter at: https://involvement.und.edu/organization/SPE Find our College on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNDCEM or on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNDCEM
UND Drillbotics team advances to next round of competition
Dean El-Rewini and Dr. McGimpsey visit department
On February 2nd, Prof. Bedrikovetsky from the Australian School of Petroleum, The University of Adelaide, Australia presented a talk on Enhanced well fracturing in CBM by Graded Particle Injection. This was also an opportunity for Professor Pavel to see the updates we have done in the labs.
Prof. Pavel Bedrikovetsky gives guest lecture
Department Statistics 187 undergraduate
students Spring 2018 15 Master students 30 PhD students 15 Visiting Scholars
Short course held Feb 15th
Dr. Thomas Gentzis, Senior Geologist at Core Laboratories came to UND to instruct a 2 day short course at the CEC training room on Petroleum Geochemistry.
UND SPE Chapter hosts guest speakers
Jenna Norby and Andrew Soto from Oasis Petroleum held a lunch and learn on February 20th.
Mr. Lynn Helms, the director of the North Dakota, Department of Mineral resources, visited the department on March 7 and toured the labs. Mr. Helms also presented a talk to the students. Mr. Helms talks to PE students
Congratulations to the recipients of
the 2018 Spring Denver SPE schol-
arship
The UND SPE student chapter has been busy hosting some technical talks that have given the students a chance to network and learn about different topics.
William Ruhle from Halliburton was here on February 7th.
