June 19, 2006
2005-2006 PI Graduation Ceremony held on
June 19, 2006 at theOfficers Club,
43 students received their Bachelor in
Science degree from The Petroleum Institute at the ceremony.
[See
pictures]
June 7, 2006
Fugro-Jason completes training on petroleum industry
geosciences software,
12 participants from ADCO, the PI and
other companies in the region took part
in Jason's 5-day JGW001 course. This course
provided an introduction to Jason's
Workbench, Earthmodel, Invertrace and
Wavelets.
[See
pictures]
May 1, 2006
Petroleum Geosciences is pleased to
announce that the Commission for
Academic Accreditation, UAE Ministry of
Higher Education, has approved Initial Accreditation for the
program Bachelor of Science PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCES effective 1
May 2006.
Petroleum Geosciences OPEN Day held on May 8, 2006. Students,
staff and PI faculty had the opportunity
to see dinosaur bones, precious minerals
and fossils, shoot seismic and see
inside a reservoir in our OPEN Day held at
The Petroleum Institute.
[See Pictures of
the day]
 Partex Oil and Gas field trip.
Senior students Hani, Abdulla, and
Hamdan and Prof. Winn were guests of
Partex Oil and Gas from 2-7 April
2006. During the trip they visited
historical sites in Lisbon and the
surrounding area, took a geological
field trip to the Arrábida mountain
chain, and had a guided visit to the
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. They also
heard talks at the Instituto Superior
Téchnico on seismic and reservoir
modeling. Highlights of the trip were
seeing dinosaur footprints and sampling
Portugal’s seafood!
[Follow the link to
see photos of the trip.]
April
26-28, 2006
Dr. Sandra Vega will
participate and present "Study of rock
properties and EM response of the Miami
Oolitic Limestone" in The Sound of
Geology Workshop, Bergen, Norway
organized by The Centre for Integrated
Petroleum Research.
[Read
more about workshop]
April
24, 2006
Case History of Automated Evaluation
of Mineralogy and Porosity in Complex
Carbonates talk by Raghu
Ramamoorthy sponsored by Abu Dhabi Local
Chapter of SPWLA to take place on Monday
24th April 7:00 pm at ADCO Tower.
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April
16, 2006
Why is it possible to assess
permeability in carbonate reservoirs
using seismic data? ESG talk by Dr.
Y.F. Sun, took place on April 16,
2006, 7:30 pm in ADCO Auditorium. Dr.
Sun’s lecture presented the basic
principles of the carbonate rock physics
that are the key to obtain permeability
from seismic data.
[See
abstract and brief bio]
April 02-09, 2006
PG students Hani, Abdullah
and Hamdan will visit Portugal as guests
of PARTEX. Their program includes Technical &
Scientific as well as Cultural
activities.
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March 25, 2006
Cretaceous Black Shales:
Stratigraphy, Distribution and Genesis guest lecture by Dr. J. Mutterlose,
Professor for Paleontology,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. to be
held from 2:00 -3:00 pm in room 3238.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
6th International Conference on the
Geology of The Middle East will take place in Al Ain Rotana Hotel
on the 20th to 22nd of March. The
organizing committee accepted 252 out of
365 abstracts from more than 600
authors.
[See
Program and Sessions]
Abu
Dhabi Local Chapter of SPWLA
sponsored talk on "VSP -- A Tool
for Reservoir Characterization"
by R H Evans on Monday 20
February in the Auditorium – ADCO TOWER – Corniche - Abu
Dhabi at 19:00
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More]
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