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IFP School: victory for the "Petroleum Geosciences" team in the IBA Europe competition

08 April 2010

A team of five students from the IFP School "Petroleum Geosciences" program (made up of geologists and geophysicists of the 2010 class) won the IBA (Imperial Barrel Award) Europe competition in Prague on 27 March.
They estimated oil reserves from real industrial data and presented their findings in front of a panel of industry experts from CGGVeritas, ExxonMobil, Nexen, Shell, Statoil and Sterling Ressources.

The IFP team competed against 13 European universities and engineering schools including ENSG, Imperial College, Royal Holloway, the Universities of Leoben, Lisbon, Lomonossov, Montpellier, Tyumen and Southampton. The team will now go on to represent Europe in the world championship, competing against all the winners of the regional competitions. The championship will be held on 8 and 9 April 2010 in New Orleans during the AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) international congress. During this final, the IFP team will be in competition with North American universities (Colorado School of Mines, San Diego, West Virginia, Oklahoma State and Calgary) and winners of other regions (China University of Petroleum (China), KFUPM (Saudi Arabia), EAFIT (Colombia) and the University of Obafemi Awolowo (Nigeria).
 

An integral part of IFP, IFP School prepares tomorrow’s specialists to take up the challenges associated with the energy transition. Open to graduate students from around the world, IFP School provides a full range of training programs delivered in French or English in every area of the energy field (oil, gas, petrochemicals, powertrains, new energy technologies, energy markets). The school has built up a very solid international reputation, backed up by close partnerships with research and industrial players (each year, 50% of its student intake is international, coming from around fifty different countries, and over 80% of its students are sponsored by industry).
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