Congratulations to Samuel Fontalvo for his participation in the SEG EVOLVE program. Our SEG EVOLVE team from KAUST presented their work during the IMAGE 2022 annual conference in Houston, TX.

Professor Tad Patzek has been awarded the SPE IOR PIONEER AWARD for 2022. The SPE IOR Pioneer Award is presented to selected individuals who have made significant advancements over the years in improved oil recovery technology.

The webinar raises the question on "How Can Governments, Oil & Gas Enterprises, and Research Institutions Collaborate to End Routine Gas Flaring?". It will be hosted next Tuesday, November 30 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. (Riyadh time - GMT+3) The speakers of this webinar will go over the best practices and technology enablers that can detect gas flaring volumes and methane emissions and the progress made thus far to eliminate them.

On November 4th, Wardana Saputra, Ph.D. Candidate Supervised by Director and Prof. Tadeusz Patzek successfully presented his defense entitled: Physics-Guided Data-Driven Production Forecasting in Shales.

Congratulations to EGG group member, Daniela Andrea Arias Ortiz, who successfully defended her MS thesis on Sept 2, 2020.

This year, Professor Tad Patzek received the highest technical honor bestowed by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE): Desiderius Erasmus award (Award for Lifetime Contribution).

Congratulations to EGG group member, Philip Mitchell, who successfully defended his MS thesis on July 21, 2020. Philip’s thesis was entitled, Planetary Health for the Arabian Peninsula: Environmental Limits to Human Population. Philip received praise from the committee for the high quality of his writing and the breadth of the scope of his thesis, which already “exceeded the level of an MS thesis.”

Congratulations to Prof. Patzek, Wardana Saputra, and Wissem Kirati whose paper: “Generalized Extreme Value Statistics, Physical Scaling and Forecasts of Oil Production in the Bakken Shale” was selected and named by Energies Journal as “the Interesting Contribution—Editor's Choice.”

Our recently published paper authored by Prof. Tad Patzek, Wardana Saputra, and Wissem Kirati makes cover of Energy & Fuels Volume 33, Issue 12.

Staying Cool in A Warming Climate: Temperature, Electricity and Air Conditioning in Saudi Arabia is a collaboration research project of ANPERC and KAPSARC. The results have been presented at the Middle East Energy Saudi conference and at the KAPSARC. Peer-reviewed article on the topic has been published recently in the MDPI journal Climate.

Our Phd Student, Ahmed Saad, recently spent three months with the Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group, led by Professor David Weitz at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Prof. Tad Patzek and Ahmed Saad talked to Nic Demille about SPE's student activities, and why it's so valuable to the education of engineers of different disciplines.

Our research scientist, Siarhei Khirevich, recently presented at the Fourth EAGE Workshop on High Performance Computing for Upstream in Dubai, UAE.

EGG is pleased to announce new event: Environmental Talks, organized by KAUST SPE student chapter.

Our PhD student, PhD student, Weiwei Zhu recently presented at the 4th EAGE Conference on Petroleum Geostatistics in Florence, Italy.

Our PhD student, Saleh Hassan, was recently being a delegate at the 2019 University Scholars Leadership Symposium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 1-7 August 2019.

Our postdoctoral fellow Timofey Eltsov presented at the EAGE Annnual 2019 in London

EGG has presented some papers at InterPore2019 Valencia

Saleh F. Hassan, ANPERC PhD student working under Prof. Patzek presented a poster at the 20th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery held at Pau, France from April 8-11, 2019.

Prof. Tadeusz Patzek, post-doc Timofey Eltsov, and PhD student Ahmed Hassan recently attended the Middle East Oil and Gas Show (MEOS) from March 18 to 21 in Bahrain.