The 2018 SPE International Student Paper Contests were held at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Dallas in late September and the following papers are announced winners. These papers will be published in the ATCE conference proceedings and on OnePetro, a multisociety technical library.
Undergraduate Division
First Place
Reem Alsadoun, University of New South Wales
Integrated Reserve Estimation and Field Development Workflow for Unconventional Reservoirs Using Reservoir Simulation and Economic Analysis tools: A Case Study from a Shale Well in Saudi Arabia
Second Place
Jack Trueblood, The University of Texas at Austin
Plunger Lift & Horizontal Wells–Characterization and Best Practice
Third Place
Brennan Flores, Louisiana State University
RFID Zone Management and Barrier Control System
Master’s Division
First Place
Mohammed Kurdi, University of New South Wales
A New Computational Model to Predict Breakdown Pressures in Cased and Perforated Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs
Second Place
Jason Hu, Stanford University
Analyzing Hydrarulic Fractures Using Time-Lapse Electric
Third Place
Tian Liu, Texas A&M University
Seismic Onset Time Inversion Method for Infrequent Seismic Surveys
PhD Division
First Place
Vahideh Mirchi, University of Wyoming
Pore-scale Investigation of the Effect of Surfactant on Fluid Occupancies
Second Place
Renato Peixoto Coutinho, Louisiana State University
System Analysis of Liquid-Assisted Gas-Lift Unloading
Third Place
Sheng Luo, Texas A&M University
Confinement Affects Phase Behaviour of Petroleum Fluids in Shale Reservoirs