UNSW SPE Annual Dinner & Awards
Student Award Winners 2007
UNSW SPE Student Chapter Field Trip to Brisbane
Happy Birthday School of Petroleum Engineering
UNSW SPE Annual Dinner & Awards
Sydney, Australia by Jody Lowry
The 2007 UNSW SPE Student Chapter Annual Dinner was held on the 21st September at the Sofitel Wentworth Sydney. It was a celebration of the achievements of the graduating class, the 20th anniversary of The School of Petroleum Engineering and the 50th anniversary of SPE International. The night was a great success with over 100 students, academics and professionals in attendance. The chandeliers and champagne provided the perfect atmosphere for everyone to meet and chat before the dinner began.
The proceedings started with the 2007 committee being congratulated and then officially handing over their positions to the committee of 2008. Andrew Young, the managing director of Anzon Australia then gave an insightful commemoration to SPE and The Society’s achievements. Amy Hudson, a graduate of UNSW Petroleum Engineering and currently a drilling team leader at AGR in Brisbane, was the first of our two main guest speakers. Amy gave a captivating presentation on her life since university and the exciting opportunities for students after graduation. A delicious meal was then enjoyed before Martin Kennedy, chief petrophysicist at Woodside, took the stage. Martin entertained us speaking of the escapades and responsibilities he has had during his extensive career in the petroleum industry.
The awards followed; each recipient ecstatic that their efforts throughout the year were being congratulated by the wider petroleum community. Finally, with the draw of the door prize, a fourth year student had all the luck, and left with a bottle of Moet.
The event was made possible trough the contribution of many. Particular thanks go to the UNSW School of Petroleum Engineering for their support and to each one of the generous sponsor companies. The sponsorship from industry of the dinner and prizes ensured the event was a great success.
The old and the new UNSW SPE Student Chapter.
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Student Award Winners 2007
Sydney, Australia
The Annual SPE Student Dinner and Awards Night held on September 21 was an opportunity to acknowledge and award the outstanding achievements of several of our petroleum students. We are very proud to announce this year’s winners and the respective awards. Well done everyone!
| Calan Anderson |
(School of Petroleum Engineering Scholarship) |
| Felix Booth |
(AGR Asia Pacific Scholarship and School of Petroleum Engineering Scholarship) |
| Thomas Burger |
(SPE NSW/ACT Section Scholarship and Rural Scholarship) |
| Michael Connolly |
(ModuSpec Engineering Scholarship) |
| Roger Eaton |
(School of Petroleum Engineering Scholarship) |
| Mathew Istria |
(Woodside Energy Scholarship) |
| Ashley Karlen |
(Anzon Energy Scholarship) |
| Ling Wei Lai |
(ModuSpec Engineering Scholarship) |
| Katharine Lam |
(M Chaikin Scholarship) |
| Kok-Diing Lam |
(ModuSpec Engineering Scholarship) |
| Ming Hwa Lee |
(Exxon Mobil Scholarship) |
| Sarah Lo |
(Co-Op Scholarship) |
| Jody Lowry |
(Exxon Mobil Scholarship) |
| Brendan McMullan |
(Conoco/Phillips Scholarship) |
| George Sieh |
(School of Petroleum Engineering Scholarship) |
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UNSW SPE Student Chapter Field Trip to Brisbane
Sydney, Australia by Yildiray Cinar
On Sunday the 23rd of September the UNSW SPE Student Chapter gave fourteen students and two lecturers the opportunity to spend three days in Brisbane and experience the Australian petroleum industry. In those three days we met five companies (Santos, Oil Search, Origin Energy, AGR Asia Pacific, & QLD Gas Company), visited a coal bed methane drilling site (Arrow Energy), attended a seminar with the QLD Geological Survey and were guests at a QLD SPE Chapter Technical Lunch. After quite a few years without SPE field trips we are excited to hear that every participant found it to be an enjoyable and insightful experience.
The UNSW SPE Student Chapter would like to thank all of the companies who participated as well as the UNSW School of Petroleum Engineering for their support. We now look forward to the trip of 2008 and hope it too will be a success!
UNSW students and lecturers enjoying a visit to Arrow Energy’s CBM field on this year’s field trip to Brisbane.
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Happy Birthday School of Petroleum Engineering
Sydney, Australia
The school of Petroleum Engineering is celebrating their 20th birthday, this year there are 100 enrolments in the undergraduate program.
A brief timeline-
- Petroleum Engineering was originally offered through the School of Chemical Engineering in 1987.
- In 1993, the Centre for Petroleum Engineering studies was formally established. The Centre also introduced a postgraduate research program, where John Had and Mark Stevenson obtained the first PhDs.
- The first 4-year bachelor degree was introduced in 1996.
- The Centre for Petroleum Engineering became the School of Petroleum Engineering in 1998.
Currently the School of Petroleum Engineering offers a Petroleum Engineering BE degree, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and a Masters in Petroleum Engineering. More information can be found through the following links:
http://www.petrol.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate_starting_out.html
http://www.petrol.unsw.edu.au/postgraduate.html
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