November 2020 Edition

Chapter
Reports
UK/Europe Chapter
NAPE's international Chapter, the UK/Europe Chapter
operates out of the United Kingdom, coordinating all
NAPE Europe related activities. The chapter continues to
promote NAPE and provide the platform for our
members to participate in NAPE programs, share lesson
learned and including new technologies. It also
facilitates NAPE membership drives and acts as NAPE's
liaison in Europe. The UK/Europe Chapter organised its
third virtual technical meeting this year.
Q3-2020 Technical Meeting
The UK-Europe Chapter hosted a technical virtual
meeting on Thursday 27th August 2020 leveraging the
zoom platform. The meeting was sponsored by
dataVedik on a technical presentation on “End-to-end
workflow solution to update Structural Models in Realtime
using Artificial Intelligence (AI) while Drilling” and it
was presented by Mr Sunil Garg, the Founder and CEO
of dataVedik. Mr. Gideon Giwa chaired and moderated
the meeting with over forty people in attendance.
Warri Chapter
The Warri Chapter successfully executed
some of its 2020 plans that consisted of a
catalogue of Technical meetings,
Summer schools, Career talk amongst
selected schools, membership drives,
coordinate Students' Chapter activities
and encourage the establishment of new
Student's Chapter within its catchment
area. The Warri Chapter leadership paid
courtesy visits to different institutions
and companies to promote NAPE and
the advancement of the oil and gas
industry. The corporate visits included a
visit to the Department of Petroleum
Resources (DPR) Warri, Axxon Energy,
Heritage and Petroleum Training
Institute, Effurun where the Warri
Leadership team congratulated Dr.
Henry A. Adimula on his appointment as
the Acting Principal/Chief Executive of
Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun.
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