A team of five students from IFP School's Petroleum Geosciences, Reservoir Geoscience and Engineering, and Petroleum Engineering and Project Development programs won 3rd place in the SPE Petrobowl Regional Qualifiers, held March 7-9 at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
The IFP School team had to answer a series of technical and general questions about the oil and gas industry as quickly as possible. The multicultural team consisted of Jacob Bonomali (Tanzania), Ifeanyichukwu Ebuzeme (Nigeria), Amalachukwu Immaculata Muoghalu (Nigeria), Omon Ochilov (Uzbekistan) and Samuel Yameogo (Burkina Faso). They have thus qualified for the Petrobowl finals, which will be held from October 3 to 5 in Houston as part of the Society of Petroleum Engineers' annual conference; a competition in which 32 teams will take part.
The School is also proud to announce that Amalachukwu Immaculata Muoghalu (a Nigerian student in the Reservoir Geoscience and Engineering program), has received the SPE Best Student Paper Award (Master's category). This award recognizes her work entitled: "A machine learning approach to rock typing with relative permeability curves using the Kmeans algorithm".
Congratulations to our talented students for these great victories and good luck to the SPE Chapter for the next step!