PE_Newsletter_2020_Online, Page 8

PE_Newsletter_2020_Online, Page 8

STUDENT NEWS

Achievements & Competitions

• Mines Petrobowl team competed at the North American

PetroBowl Regional Qualifier in February and earned a spot to

compete in the global finals at ATCE. Team members include Niels

Snow, junior, Will Benson, sophomore, Nicholas Bryan, freshman,

Eduardo Mendoza-Vega, junior, Deep Joshi, PhD candidate and

alternate Ethan Anderson sophomore. The team is especially

proud of their achievement considering the relative inexperience

of their team compared to those with multiple graduate students.

• Masters students Arkhat Kalbekov and Valeria Suarez Bolivar

participated in SPWLA PDDA’s 1st Petrophysical Data-Driven

Analytics Contest on Sonic Log Synthesis. The competition was

held between all SPWLA members, including professionals from

the industry, and ended with 30 ranked teams. Arkhat and Val won

third place.

• Four of our students – Angela Nguyen, Kirtland McKenna, Rashid

Zakirov, and Syed Ali - received scholarships ranging from $2,600

to $3,400 from AADE Rocky Mountain Chapter in March.

• The 2019-2020 Mines Drillbotics team met with success this year

as they designed a rig for the first time in three years. Although

the final contest was canceled, the team was able to design a

formidable miniature drilling rig that, if built, would have been

capable of automatically drilling miniature directional well bores.

The design passed the qualifying entrance examination and the

team was offered a substantial travel stipend from SPE to attend

the competition in Houston this summer. The team will be back

at it this coming fall. If you have any interest in participating or in

supporting the team, please reach out to Dr. Bill Eustes!

Drillbotics team members: Nick Bryan, Kevin San, Chad

Kamper, Edgar Juarez, James Daughtrey

Val and Kanat with some of their data.

• Daniel Croce PhD ‘20 won the first place on the first Industry Day

of the Datanalytix Association @ Mines (DAAM). The meeting was

held at the BPX offices, on January 18th 2020.

• Daniel Croce received a scholarship from Chevron.

• SPE Denver awarded scholarships of $1,100 to $2,500 to 13 of our

undergraduate students.

• Muhammad Hariri Othman and Uzma Kamaral Redzuan got first

place with their Hildreth Unit in fall 2019. Their Avatar the Last

Airbender themed unit also featured a remake of the tv show intro

with an oil and gas focus. Check out the video on the department

Facebook page.

Daniel Croce at DAAM.

8 COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES

The winning Hildreth Unit from the fall semester by Muhammad Hariri Othman a

Kamaral Redzuan.