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06/Feb/2012: Dr. Hemanta Sarma of Petroleum Engineering was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Associate Editor Award as an international recognition for excellence as an Associate Editor of SPE’s peer-reviewed scholarly journal, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering. |
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22/Jan/2012: PI Petroleum Engineering students Mr. Mohamad Yousef Alklih, Mr. Anas K. A. Najy and Ms. Sara Bakhti and PI Electrical Engineering student Mr. Saif AlHazaimeh won debate trophies in the 2012 Young Future Energy Leaders (YFEL) program held in conjunction with the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi. Read more |
| 2011 |
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26/Sep/2011: PI Petroleum Engineering students Miss Sara Bakhti and Miss Mais Suleiman and Mr. Mohamed Tariq placed Second and Third among 60 other students in the 2011 SPE Regional Education Week held in Manama, Bahrain. Read more. |
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12/Jun/2011: Dr. Shawket Ghedan, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, receives the prestigious 2011 SPE Regional Distinguished Achievement Award. |
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5/June/2011: Dr. John Williams is among the winners of the 2010 PI Achievement Awards |
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24/Feb/2011: SPE Board Visit to the Petroleum Institute. Read more. |
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20/Feb/2011: PI Petroleum Engineering student Mr. Arsalan Arshad Ansari won the recent Marrs International Spelling Bee Contest. Read more. |
| 2010 |
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20/Dec/2010: PI Petroleum Engineering student Mr. Yu Zhou won the 2nd place in the Student Paper Contest held in Saudi Arabia. Read more. |
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26/Oct/2010: Dr. Pawel Nawrocki was a keynote speaker at the 2010 Korean Rock Mechanics Conference in Seoul, Korea, and co-chaired the Underground Structures session at the ISRM International Symposium 2010 and the 6th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium in New Delhi, India. |
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11/Oct/2010: Dr. Shawket Ghedan has been awarded Outstanding Technical Editor citation at the SPE International's Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Florence in September 2010. Dr. Ghedan has been an award winning SPE member both at the regional and international level. |
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14/Sep/2010: Dr. Jing Lu, visiting research assistant professor at the Petroleum Engineering Department, publishes his second book. Read more. |
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19/Jun/2010: 1st SPE’s UAE Young Professionals Paper Contest - Final Results. |
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25/May/2010: Petroleum Engineering's Professor John Williams selected as the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Regional Technical Award Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social Responsibility by the Society of Petroleum Engineers. |
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19/May/2010: Mr. Yu Zhou, Petroleum Engineering graduate student, is among the recipients of the prestigious Society of Petroleum Engineers Northern Asia Pacific Region STAR Fellowships for the 2010-2011 academic years. |
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19-22/04/2010: Dr Gabor Takacs of the Petroleum Engineering Department presents paper at the Southwestern Petroleum Short Course held in Lubbock, Texas. |
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09/Feb/2010: Petroleum Engineering Students win the first three places at the SPE Sub-regional student paper contest held in Al Ain, U.A.E. |
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9/Jan/2010: Results of the 2009 Annual PI Awards, presented at the Commencement Ceremony on the 9th of January, 2010. |
| 2009 |
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01-03/Nov/2009: Dr. Gabor Takacs chaired the session “Alternative Energy and Sustainability” at the SAOGE 2009 Conference in Dammam, KSA. |
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13/Jul/09: Dr. Hemanta Sarma, Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Program is a 2009 recipient of Society of Petroleum Engineers’ (SPE) Distinguished Membership, to be awarded by the SPE President at the Society’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans on October 7, 2009 |
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20/Jun/09: Effective May 18, 2009, Professor Hemanta Sarma is our new Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Program. For more on his professional background and research interests, please click here. |
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8/Jun/09: The Petroleum Institute’s HSE Awards 2008–09 |
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5/Jun/09: Dr. Gabor Takacs attended the 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering in Hawaii. |
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05/Apr/09: "ELECTRICAL SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS MANUAL". The first publication in the world entirely devoted to Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP). Written by Dr. G. Takacs and published by Elsevier's Gulf Professional Publishing. |
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15/Feb/09: Dr. Shawket Ghedan, Associate Professor at the Petroleum Engineering Program, has won the SPE Regional Award 2009 for Reservoir Description and Dynamics. |
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1-7/Feb/09: Dr. Gabor Takacs teaches a short course to engineers of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Inc. in India. |
| 2008 |
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30/Dec/08: 7 Petroleum Engineering students have been awarded with IWCF certificates at Supervisory Level. |
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17-19/Nov/08: Dr. Gabor Takacs, Acting Director of the Petroleum Engineering Department, chaired the Production Session of the SAOGE Conference in Damman, KSA. |
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15/Nov/08: Petroleum Engineerging Students win 1st and 4th place at the SPE Sub-regional student paper contest held in Doha, Qatar. |
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2/Oct/08: 10: Andrew (Andrzej) Wojtanowicz Receives SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty |
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1-5/Oct/08: Dr. Pawel Nawrocki of the Petroleum Engineering Program, member of the international Advisory Committee and invited speaker at IACMAG Conference in India. |
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2-6/Jun/08: Dr. Gabor Takacs, Acting Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program, provided The Petroleum Institute significant exposure to the European petroleum industry and postgraduate training as Co-Director and principal presenter of the PESS, an interactive seminar and workshop organized by the University of Zagreb, Croatia. |
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