Graduate Student Honored with Best Poster at SPE Forum
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May 25, 2016
UT PGE graduate student Nkem Egboga won the 2016 SPE Gulf Coast Reservoir Technology Forum poster contest held May 19 in The Woodlands at the Anadarko Conference Center.
The Reservoir Technology Forum is an annual event designed to disseminate knowledge and technology needed to achieve the many objectives of reservoir management, including understanding risk, increasing production and reserves, and maximizing recovery.
This year’s theme focused on technical and practical aspects related to technology and innovation, unconventional resources, integrated reservoir characterization studies as well as challenges and opportunities of the low oil price environment.
During the paper contest, Egboga competed against eight students from leading Texas academic institutions, including UT Austin, Texas A&M, Rice University and the University of Houston. His poster, titled “thermal stimulation of kerogen containing shale oil reservoirs”, focuses on determining how kerogen conversion to oil and the subsequent change in permeability affect oil recovery.
In addition to excelling in his research, Egboga is also a distinguished teaching assistant. He was recognized by The University of Texas at Austin in May 2016 as the William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee.
Egboga will spend the summer furthering his research expertise in Houston while serving as a reservoir engineering intern with Statoil, before returning to UT Austin in the fall to work with his co-supervisors Drs. Matt Balhoff and Kishore Mohanty.
