This year’s Energy Institute (Aberdeen) student best MSc paper contest staged late last m onth as always saw Aberdeen and The Robert Gordon Universities square against one another.
However, as was pointed out by EI branch chair, Hugh Rees, all were winners in their own right because of the sheer quality of the papers and presentations.
On the night, the judges drawn from the offshore industry voted the following:
Winner – £250 cheque from EI – Christoph Knedel of RGU (MSc Oil and Gas Engineering with Distinction)
Thesis title: “Well plug & abandonment: critical analysis of conventional and unconventional high temperature deep sour gas well . . . A case study of the Lacq field in France.”
Runner-up – £150 cheque from EI – Loli Anggraini of UoA (MSc Oil & Gas Engineering)
Thesis title: “Buckley – Leverett analysis of waterflood oil recovery from mixed-wet rock”
Third – £100 cheque from EI – Toochukwu Onwuliri of RGU (MSc Petroleum Production Engineering with Distinction)
Thesis title: “Dynamic reservoir modelling of a mature North Sea field”
Nexen hosted for the second time in the event’s history.