I am very pleased to report that the Dalhousie team were excellent and finished 3rd in the World behind Memorial University and IFP from France!
The students were finalists in the Laurie Wake FIELD competition. Nearly 50 teams entered the competition several months ago, analysing a complex North Sea field dataset provided by Total (Maresk)..
Based on the results they submitted in the first round eight teams were selected to compete at the European Association of Geologists and Engineers (EAGE) Copenhagen conference with two North American teams invited to the finals, Dalhousie and Memorial University. The students presented their analysis and then were grilled in a tough question period by a panel of senior industry experts.
Please join me in congratulating these students on their fantastic accomplishment!
Team Members: Graham Kerford, Jennifer Lee, Masoud Aali. Missing: Colton Bentley
The FIELD Challenge – a Fully Integrated EvaLuation and Development” task, now also known as the “Laurie Dake” Challenge was inaugurated in 2011 and every year about half of the active EAGE student chapters in the worldwide pit their skills for a grand prize and all the recognition provided by EAGE and the data set sponsors
The Laurie Dake Challenge is created with the aim to promote cross‐disciplinary geoscience and engineering integration within universities. Each participating university will have a multi‐disciplinary team of full time geoscience and petroleum engineering students, with a maximum of one PhD student per team.
The competition stars with a first round with an assignment that is prepared by each team. Ten teams will be selected and will be required to analyze and propose a Field development plan for a discovered hydrocarbon resource. Each team is required to submit the Field plan and development in the format requested by the judges, and based on this submission, the six finalist teams are selected. All teams work with the same data set, which is provided by a different company each year.
Visiting TOTA headquarter in Copenhagen