On the 19^th of May Tomsk Section received John N. Ezekwe – lecturer of SPE Distinguished Lecturer Program. His lection about reservoir management was rather interesting.

Next day – May 20, we had a sightseeing tour with Mr. Ezekwe over the Tomsk. We visited TPU museum, mineralogical museum, exhibition of Tomsk animals and places with wooden architecture.

During the dinner John tell us about actual problems of American petroleum engineering students. Mr. Ezekwe pleasantly surprised us with his urbane manners.

Many thanks for Mr. Ezekwe for his lection and pleasant chat.

P.S. Unfortunately we have no photos of this event.

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On April 11-15 Tomsk Polytechnic University held the Annual International Symposium "Problems of Geology and Subsurface Development". There were 16 sections and subsections, 6 of them were related to petroleum engineering.

More than 500 reports were presented during 2 days of section working. Of course, SPE Chapter members were among the best reporters.

It is worth mentioning that we received visitors from SPE Samara Student Chapter. Delegation from Samara consisted of 6 students, 3 of them were SPE members.

We had a good time. We made some tours of Tomsk and Tomsk Polytechnic University.

As for winners, there were 17 SPE Chapter members and 9 of them were awarded with diplomas. Here are some of them

  Dear All,

This year SPE conducts a student chapter paper contest for all SPE student
chapters in Russia.

There will be three main disciplines, Geology/Geophysics, Drilling, and
Production Engineering, and the winners will attend 2005 ATCE in Dallas/TX in October

The final event, the presentation and award ceremony, will be held  on Friday, June 3rd, in Moscow.

Deadline for final paper submissions will be May 25th, 2005. However, to
make this work effectively we will need a pre-qualification in each SPE
section, and for that the deadline will be May 15th, to allow the local
committee to select the best papers in each category and pass it on the
regional committee that we will form in Moscow. Based on the number of
student chapters in each SPE section, we will then define how many papers
each section is allowed to submit to the final contest. The language for
this paper contest is Russian, and other details of the format will be
provided later on.
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Here we are with Mr. Potsch

22-23/11/2004 Tomsk Section will be visited by SPE Director South, Central, and East Europe Region

 Dr. Klaus Potsch, OMV Aktiengesellschaft, Vienna Austria.

  

Klaus Potsch is currently Team Leader of the Reservoir Engineering Group in the E&P Laboratory of OMV where he is involved in routine and R&D work. His main interests in the field of reservoir engineering are PVT, phase behavior, enhanced oil recovery and multiphase flow. He holds a MSc in physics and a PhD in fluid mechanics from the Technical University in Vienna. Currently he serves a regional director for South, Central and Eastern Europe in SPE.

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11/11/2004  took place a lecture of Distinguished Lecturer Program.

 Zaki Bassiouni presented Low-Cost Methods for Improved Oil and Gas Recovery

Zaki Bassiouni, Dean of the College of Engineering at Louisiana State U., also served on the petroleum engineering faculty at both Marietta College, Ohio, and Cairo U. Bassiouni earned a BS degree in petroleum engineering from Cairo U., a diploma in geophysics from the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Petrole et des Moteurs of Paris, and MS (DEA) and PhD degrees from the U. of Lille, France

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 Dear Students,

Until 11/14/2004 we will be forming the Programm Committee for better realization of our working plan for 2004-2005. We need about 3-5 members, who will manage the arrangements form the working plan. Please send E-mails with your intentions to our chapter e-mail (CV with your organizational experience in e-mail with the intention are welcome)

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The 22 – 26 th of October, members of our chapter visited the Samara State Technical University. Maria Svarovskaya, Ekaterina Surova and Alexander Krivosheyev took part in “Ashirovskie Chteniya” conference. Presentations were successfull. :-)

Also we had a meeting with members of Samara Student Chapter. We discussed the starting of Samara Chapter and some development questions.

There was a journey along the Samara - really sightseeing tour. We were in aqua park, it was amazing to find oneself in such warm place.

Thank you for all Samara friends, who made our trip so unforgettable.

other photoes would be a little bit later

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Heriot-Watt Petroleum Engineering Approved Support Center at Tomsk
Polytechnic University has provided us a room. So, we have our own office now.

Best Regards for Ivan N. Koshovkin - Director of the Center from all Chapter mambers.

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Dear Students,

From now we have a new secretary – Alexandra Kostyreva.

Congratulation Alexandra!!!

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