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.