ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
ANNUAL REPORT - The Petroleum Institute
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A year of transformation, growth and success<br />
Sedimentology on “Carbonate Platforms –<br />
Archives of Past Global Change”.<br />
Awards or Recognition Received by<br />
Students<br />
At the World <strong>Petroleum</strong> Congress, Doha,<br />
<strong>Petroleum</strong> Geoscience student Yasmin Abu<br />
Hijleh and <strong>Petroleum</strong> Engineering student Safa<br />
Abdul Kareem won 4th place (from over 200<br />
submissions) in the Best Paper/Poster Session<br />
Category.<br />
Mina Salib and Hasan Zakaria won the regional<br />
Society of Exploration Geophysicist (SEG)<br />
international challenge bowl competition held<br />
at the GEO2012 Conference and exhibition in<br />
Manama, Bahrain. <strong>The</strong>y will represent the PI at<br />
the SEG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas.<br />
<strong>The</strong> graduate students Salem Al Hammami,<br />
Abdulwaheed Ogunsami, Alberto Pulgar, Miaad<br />
Al Hammadi, and Amena Al Harethi won third<br />
place in the Imperial Barrel Award, organized<br />
by the American Association of <strong>Petroleum</strong><br />
Geologists (AAPG). <strong>The</strong> team presented their<br />
results on a prospective basin analysis to a<br />
jury of international industry representatives.<br />
Ayesha Eid Al Suwaidi’s senior project entitled<br />
“Study of newly discovered Pleistocene shells<br />
of Tridacna from Abu Dhabi (UAE)” was<br />
selected as one of the top 10 in the 3rd Abu<br />
Dhabi Young Professional Paper contest of the<br />
Society of <strong>Petroleum</strong> Engineers (SPE).<br />
Students’ Publications and<br />
Presentations<br />
Posters were presented by two MSc students<br />
at the General Assembly of the European<br />
Geosciences Union in Vienna.<br />
Graduate student El Amin Mokhtar presented<br />
“Porosity and heterogeneity effect on<br />
Vp/Vs ratio in carbonate rocks from a<br />
reservoir in the Middle East” at the AAPG<br />
International Conference and Exhibition<br />
in Milan, Italy. Graduate student Miaad Al<br />
Hammadi presented “Comprehensive Study<br />
of Frequency Response in Carbonate Rocks<br />
and its Leading Factors” at GEO 2012, the<br />
10th Middle East Geosciences Conference and<br />
Exhibition, in Manama, Bahrain.<br />
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