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Where: Young Women's College Preparatory Academy When: March 11, 2016, 9AM-Noon Event Details: SPE-GCS HSE is looking for volunteers to help with their Student Invitational Seminar held this year at the Young Women's College Preparatory Academy on March 11, 2016. Students from several high schools in the Houston area will attend and learn more about careers and HSE-related challenges in the oil and gas industry. Talks and activities include: Malaria Control - Bioko Island, Equitorial Guinea by Marathon Oil Climate Change by Trey Shaffer, Senior Partner at Environmental Resource Management Spill Response Drill Scavenger Hunt Your volunteering effort will help more students pursue careers in STEM and earn membership points towards prizes at the end of the semester. Please register below to help with this great effort. Register

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When: Friday, January 22, 2016 9:30AM-11AM Where: Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive Houston, Texas 77030 United States Register For Event About the Event Happy Thursday! We hope you're powering through your first week of classes and enjoying the spring semester! Wrap the week off with UHSPE by enjoying a tour and learning more about the oil and gas industry! Explore the entire process of energy development, from how oil and natural gas are formed to the ways various types of energy are used. The Wiess Energy Hall at the Houston Museum of Natural Science explores the application of scientific concepts and advanced technology in the oil and gas industry. The hall incorporates dynamic interactive learning methods including computer graphics, touch screens, holographic video displays, and virtual reality. For additional information, please visit http://www.hmns.org/exhibits/permanent-exhibitions/energy-hall/ Free tickets for the first 20 members who sign up!

Register for Contest Call for papers is now open for the 2016 UHSPE Student Paper Contest scheduled for Saturday, February 27, 2016 at the UH Energy Research Park, Building 9. The contest is open to all UH students (must be a registered SPE member, free for students) in the undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD categories. To register please click the registration button to the left. For more information, follow the jump here.

When: Thursday, January 14, 2016 8:30AM-1PM Where: SPEI Houston Training Center 10777 Westheimer Rd. Houston, Texas 77042 United States Register For Event About the Event The Oil Patch Writing class will focus on upstream jargon and oil industry writing standards following the SPE Style Guide. Developed for engineers and geoscientists, especially those with English as a second language, this course starts by defining the parts of speech as building blocks, then shows how to use them to build strong sentences, paragraphs, and documents that are clear, concise, and correct. Grammar, usage, capitalization, and punctuation rules are covered using good and bad writing examples taken from real-life oil industry writings. Microsoft Word tips for formatting text, figures, tables, and equations will be shared, along with editing and proofreading techniques for polishing the final writing product.. About the Speaker Jeanne Perdue received a BS degree in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Albany. She started her career as a chemist at the Texaco Research Laboratories in Bellaire, where she did core analysis and heavy oil analysis. She later conducted research and literature searches at the Texaco Library – before Google was invented. Perdue then became an oil and gas journalist, covering drilling and information technology for Hart's E&P magazine and launching Upstream Technology magazine, which won local and international awards from the Society for Technical Communication. She is now a technical writer at Occidental Petroleum, preparing field development plans, maintenance and operations procedures, best practices, and concession proposals for the Middle East Support Team.   A Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Perdue has served as Scholarship Chair, Community Services Chair, Membership Chair, Secretary, and Chair of the Gulf Coast [...]

When: Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 11:30 am - 12:50 pm Where: UH Energy Research Park, Building 9, Room 104 Come join us on Wednesday for a lunch and learn with WellBitz where you can learn about their approach to E&P project management. WellBitz gives small independent O&G companies a central workspace to organize all their E&P projects, including drilling, operations, prospects, and investments. This software allows multiple users to collaborate, upload and organize oilfield documents, maps and charts, as well as data analysis. The software includes the ability to execute reserves, economics forecasting, and decline curve analysis. The event is open to students and faculty. To attend, please RSVP by clicking the link below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CF0G_L1tVgtVlmi6hgj-SRrfRe0aBB_taHt7eD3Ao10/viewform?c=0&w=1

What: IHS Software Seminar When: Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 10AM - 12:30PM Where: UH Energy Research Park, Building 9, Room 124 IHS, one of the world's largest and leading E&P information providers and developers in solutions, will be presenting at UH tomorrow on how students can use their software tools to conduct research. IHS provides industry with cutting edge software that helps professionals make cost-effective decisions and companies profitable. Learn how you can use IHS tools by attending! The schedule for the program is as follows: DeclinePlus (40 minutes) – How oil and gas operators use public production data to compare the performance of their wells to their surrounding competitors. Also time-saving workflows to forecast production from each well. 10 minute break RTA (45 minutes) – Advanced production data analysis in unconventional shale reservoirs. A modern workflow to characterize a shale reservoir, including Monte Carlo Risk analysis for probabilistic production forecasts. This can be preceded by a concepts video generated by Dave Anderson for attendees to watch in advance. It will be an excellent way educate the attendees and focus our presentation on the workflow and steps an engineer takes for these analyses. 10 Minute break Pipeline optimization & design (30 minutes) – Setting up a surface hydraulic model to identify system bottlenecks, now and as new wells are drilled and tied into the pipeline network. Uses IHS Piper software. Questions and Answers (15 minutes) Before attending the event, please review the following to help get up to speed: Pre-learning: SPE 102505 The Selection, Application, and Misapplication of Reservoir Analogs for the Estimation of Petroleum Reserves. Pre-learning (video): RTA Theory for Unconventional Reservoirs, 6 part video series (80 minutes total): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnGyDe7mjvo&list=PL246A6D2CE2259CF2 Pre-learning: SPE 145088 - Quantifying Uncertainty in [...]

On Friday, November 6, 2015 Jim Bush, President, from Evolution Engineering presented at the UH Energy Research Park on Challenges and Advances in Research Technology. The talk focused on the do's and don'ts on how to develop an idea and deliver it to the market for industry consumption. Mr. Bush shared valuable advice for students in attendance. To view a copy of Mr. Bush's presentation, please follow the link below. https://prezi.com/yo4pmb6sid7o/univ-houston-petroleum-engineering-lecture-jim-bush/

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