Monday, March 30, 2009

Imperial Barrel Award Wrap-up

This past weekend, the UW AAPG Imperial Barrel Award team traveled to Pittsburgh, PA, to compete in the AAPG Eastern Section semi-finals. After eight weeks of work on the data and presentation, the team felt confident of their end product. The competing teams gave their presentations to the judges and overall responses were positive, both for all teams and for Wisconsin's presentation. Even though Wisconsin was a first-time competitor in the IBA competition, the team placed second in the Eastern Section. The competition was a great learning and overall experience, and the UW Student Chapter hopes to field a team in the coming years.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

A New Semester, A New Challenge

For the spring semester, UW AAPG is embarking upon a new challenge for the club: competing in AAPG's Imperial Barrel Award competition. This is the third year AAPG has held the competition, and the first time UW AAPG is participating. The competition consists of five-member teams from universities around the world interpreting and analyzing a dataset given to them. The teams identify the petroleum systems, generate prospects, and give a presentation with a final "Drill" or "No Drill" recommendation for the basin. The University of Wisconsin is part of the Eastern Section for the competition, which will have its semi-final on March 28th in Pittsburg, PA. The winning team gets the chance to participate in the final round held at the AAPG national convention this June.

We would also like to acknowledge an advance on next year's donation by BP to the club. BP supports several student clubs on campus, and we thank them for their generosity.