The SPE meeting was organized by the Center for Energy Resources Engineering in collaboration with the new Centre for Oil and Gas at DTU. SPE is a worldwide organization with several hundred thousand members.
Two PhD Students from Chemical Engineering presented their work in front of 140 participants from academics and industry and two Master Students from Chemical Engineering
took home first and second prize in the now traditional poster contest as DTU hosted the meeting of the Copenhagen section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) on 6 October 2015.
The SPE Copenhagen section organizes monthly meetings with DTU traditionally hosting once a year as a way for researchers – including those of the SPE Student Chapter at DTU, which as of now has 135 members - to present their recent developments to the petroleum industry.
“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”, says Alexander Shapiro, Associate Professor at DTU Chemical Engineering and representative of DTU at the Board of the SPE Copenhagen section, who was responsible for the overall organization of the meeting.
Two of the three main presentations were given by PhD Students Alay Arya and Farhad Varzandeh both from Center for Energy Resources Engineering (Chairman of the SPE Student Chapter) with the topic being related to the application of advanced equations of state to modeling of the properties of petroleum fluids.
DTU Chemical Engineering Master Students Eirini Adamopoulou and Konstantinos Lymperis were awarded first and second place in the poster contest by three volunteers from industry, which gives them the opportunity to participate in the annual SPE student conference “East meets West” in the Polish city of Krakow.