BYU SPE Hosts Booth at BYU's Engineering Technology Expo.

Over 1100 middle school students came to BYU yesterday to learn about engineering and technology! At BYU's SPE booth, students studied hydraulic fracturing through an interactive competition and learned about the drilling process.

BYU SPE Hosts Dr. Larry Lake!

Dr. Larry Lake, professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, will deliver a Distinguished Lecture at BYU at 4:00 p.m. on January 22, 2015. This will be followed at 6 p.m. by a dinner meeting with presentations of ongoing research by BYU students. The seminar will be held in room CB 254 of the Clyde Engineering Building at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. The dinner meeting will be held in the Wilkinsons Center, also at BYU. The seminar is complimentary (no charge) and the cost for the dinner is $25 for SPE members and $15 for members of an SPE student chapter.

Larry W. Lake is a professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.  He holds B.S.E and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University and Rice University, respectively. Dr. Lake is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical papers, four textbooks and the editor of three bound volumes. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), won the 1996 Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal of the AIME, the Degoyer Distinguished Service Award in
2002, and has been a member of the National Academy of Engineers since 1997.

BYU SPE Competes in International Petrobowl

BYU’s SPE Student Section team recently qualified to compete in the Petrobowl. PetroBowl is an international scholastic competition in association with SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE). Universities prepare a team of five students to compete head-to-head in a fast-paced, trivia-style tournament. Teams earn points and advance to the higher rounds as questions relating to upstream petroleum engineering are answered rapidly and accurately.

Of the 71 teams that preliminarily signed-up and were tested to participate in PetroBowl 2014, BYU’s team placed 4th, qualifying as one of the top international contenders. The BYU team was invited to compete in the final-stage tournament at last year’s ATCE in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on October 27th, 2014. The students represented BYU, Utah, and the local SPE section at the competition.