He has been responsible for overall organization of the meeting. Active participation of the DTU SPE Student Chapter (the Chairman Ph.D. Student Leonardo Meireles) has made it possible to organize the Student poster session. In total, around 90 participants were registered for the meeting.
The Society of Petroleum Engineers is a worldwide organization accounting for several hundred thousand members. It is enormously active, organizing several ten conferences and workshops every month and publishing a number of engineering research journals, with a collection of SPE papers amounting to over hundred thousand. The Copenhagen SPE section involves representatives of all the most important petroleum companies operating in Denmark. At the DTU it has created an active Student Chapter amounting to ca. 135 members (the number is growing every year). Collaboration between the Student Chapter and the “adult” SPE makes it possible to establish regular contacts between the students and the professionals, which is very important for the students’ professional development and, eventually, for their future employment.
The SPE Copenhagen section, among other activities, organizes monthly SPE meetings. These meetings are being organized by the different petroleum companies operating in Denmark and occur at different places around Copenhagen. Once a year such a meeting is traditionally hosted by the DTU. This is the way for the DTU researchers to present their recent developments to the industry.
The meeting traditionally started with refreshments, informal get-together, and the student poster session. It is becoming a tradition that the SPE Student Chapter organizes a poster contest, the winners of which have been awarded by an opportunity to participate at the annual SPE student conference “East meets West” taking place every year in Krakow, Poland. This year, the trip to Krakow was awarded to Ahmad Wibowo and Liqun Liu.
The main part of the meeting consisted of the three presentations from the CERE Faculty member: Kaj Thomsen, Ida Fabricius and Alexander Shapiro. The presentations related to the current petroleum research: smart water flooding, behavior of reservoir fines, in situ scaling, and the strength of the chalk rocks. The popular presentations presented the research directions, in their diversity and synergy.
The presentations were followed by dinner, during which Head of the Department of Chemistry and Scientific Director of the Oil Center Professor Erling H. Stenby described his experience in enhanced oil recovery, closely connected to the development of CERE, previously supervised by him during 20 years.