Reports
Imperial Barrel Awards – Africa Region: Past Winners
IBA – Africa Region: Results 2011 1st Place: Cairo University, Cairo, EGYPT 2nd Place: Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria 3rd Place: Helwan University, Egypt 4th Place: Stellenbosch University, SOUTH AFRICA »
Group effort yields success: Cairo Barrel Team Hurdled Barriers
By CAROL McGOWEN, Regions and Sections Manager The members of the University of Cairo IBA team, from left, Ibrahim Mohamed Ismael Abdelsamad, Hussein Ali Abdulaziz Abdulhafez and Ahmed Mohsen Hassan Metwally. What does it take to compete in the global IBA competition? Intelligence, confidence, analytical thinking, creative problem solving? Certainly. Mastery of geology, geophysics and geochemistry concepts and... »
Global IBA Results
Graduate students representing the University of Texas at Austin won first place in this year’s AAPG Imperial Barrel Award contest, taking the prize after a “spirited and intense competition.” The finals, which involved 12 teams from each of AAPG’s 12 Sections and Regions, were held in Houston right before the start of the recent AAPG... »
Imperial Barrel Awards – Africa Region 2011
The Earth Science/Geology Departments of the following African universities participated in the Africa Region event: University of Ibadan, Oyo State, NIGERIA University of Ilorin, Kwara State, NIGERIA University of Ghana, Legon, GHANA Cairo University, Cairo, EGYPT Ain Shams University, EGYPT University of Calabar, Cross River State, NIGERIA Helwan University, Cairo, EGYPT University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, NIGERIA Federal University of Technology, Akure,... »
DOWAC 2010: Technical Sessions
This is a continuation of Carol McGowen’s article on DOWAC 2010. Technical Program Reflects Deepwater Triad DOWAC organizers envisioned a conference that sharpened focus on the deepwater potential of host country Nigeria, including deepwater West Africa activity from offshore Morocco down to Angola, plus other global case studies. »
AAPG (Africa Region) Holds Regional IBA Competition
The regional finals of the Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) competition organized by the Africa Region of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) took place at the Peninsula Resort, Lekki, Lagos on 17 April 2009. The IBA program is a rigorous, annual prospect evaluation competition for geoscience students worldwide, aimed at promoting skills development in... »
AAPG Africa Region Membership Analysis – Implications for Action
Presentation by Adedoja Ojelabi, Chevron Nigeria Limited, AAR Secretary/Treasurer 2008 AAPG ICE – Cape Town, South Africa October 26, 2008 Download Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation »
Africa Region 1Q-2009 Report
OVERVIEW OF 2008 Our current AAPG Africa Region executives assumed Leadership from 8th May, 2008 with a common theme, ADVANCEMENT THROUGH TEAM-WORK & DIVERSITY. On the same day, we were privileged with our first Leadership Orientation by teleconference, organized from AAPG Headquarters in Tulsa, OK, USA and chaired by Carol McGowen, AAPG Sections & International... »