Tag: petroleum engineering

Missouri S&T commencement speaker shares life lessons with graduates

Posted by on December 15, 2019

At two commencement ceremonies on Saturday, Dec. 14, R. Tim Bradley, retired president of Kinder Morgan CO2 Co., from Austin, Texas, spoke to graduates of Missouri University of Science and Technology about what he learned during his successful career in the oil and gas industry. Bradley earned a bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering […]

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Software gives students a head start for oil and gas industry careers

Posted by on November 25, 2019

Access to engineering software worth more than $2.4 million from the engineering firm Petroleum Experts (known as Petex) will allow students at Missouri S&T to use the latest petroleum engineering software tools in their coursework.

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S&T Academy of Mines and Metallurgy inducts new members

Posted by on April 26, 2019

Seven graduates of Missouri University of Science and Technology were inducted into the Missouri S&T Academy of Mines and Metallurgy at an induction ceremony held Thursday, April 25, in the McNutt Hall Commons on the Missouri S&T campus.

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Software gives students a head start for oil and gas industry careers

Posted by on February 11, 2019

Access to engineering software worth more than $2.4 million from the engineering firm Petroleum Experts (known as Petex) will allow students at Missouri S&T to use the latest petroleum engineering software tools in their coursework.

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Missouri S&T commencement speaker encourages lifelong learning, collaboration

Posted by on December 15, 2018

At commencement ceremonies today (Saturday, Dec. 15), Stephen G. Suellentrop of Dallas, chairman of Hunt Oil Co. and Hunt Refining Co., encouraged Missouri S&T graduates to never stop learning and to immerse themselves in their career passions.

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Missouri S&T student dies in car accident

Posted by on November 30, 2018

Saad Alsaihan, 20, a freshman in petroleum engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, died as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. He was from Kuwait City, Kuwait.

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Missouri S&T honors four faculty for teaching, research excellence

Posted by on October 25, 2018

Missouri University of Science and Technology’s College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) is honoring four faculty members for their research prowess, classroom service and teaching excellence.

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Missouri S&T Ph.D. student named student representative to Board of Curators

Posted by on August 2, 2018

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed Avery Welker of Perryville, Missouri, a Ph.D. student in petroleum engineering at Missouri S&T, to serve as the student representative to the University of Missouri Board of Curators, the governing board for the four-campus university system.

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S&T receives largest gift in its history with in-kind contribution of seismic data

Posted by on July 3, 2018

Missouri University of Science and Technology has received the largest gift in its history: an in-kind donation of proprietary seismic data valued at $6.5 million from Calico Jack Holdings LLC and Zion Energy LLC, both Houston-based oil and gas exploration companies. The data, which has been donated to S&T’s geosciences and geological and petroleum engineering department, is a 3-D geologic and seismic survey of 85 square miles along the Texas Gulf Coast.

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Petroleum engineering researchers at Missouri S&T renew industry collaboration on gel to reduce excess water during oil production

Posted by on February 5, 2018

Dr. Baojun Bai has spent more than 20 years working to refine a particle gel he hopes could significantly reduce the amount of wasted water generated in oil production. But when it comes to describing the super-absorbent polymer, he reverts to an analogy that instantly resonates with anyone who’s had to wrangle a fussy newborn. The Missouri S&T researcher’s quest for a superior preformed particle gel that can be injected into oil reservoirs has the financial support of industry heavyweights such as ConocoPhillips, Occidental Petroleum and Daqing Wantong Chemical (DQWT) in China.

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