https://www.swsaapg.org/student/
SWS Student Organizations
Imperial Barrel Competition
Southwest Section AAPG
Imperial Barrel Competition
AAPG's Imperial Barrel Award Program (IBA) is an annual oil and gas prospective basin evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students from universities around the world. University teams compete to win scholarship funds for their geoscience department and the international recognition that comes from competing or winning in the competition. The program is rigorous and contributes to AAPG's mission of promoting petroleum geoscience training and advancing the careers of geoscience students.
In this global competition, university teams analyze a dataset (geology, geophysics, land, production infrastructure, and other relevant materials) in the eight weeks prior to their local competition. Each team delivers their results in a 25 minute presentation to a panel of industry experts. Students have the chance to use state of the art technology on a real dataset, receive feedback from an industry panel, impress potential employers in the audience, and win cash awards for their school. The judges will select the winning team on the basis of the technical quality, clarity and originality of presentation.
SWS AAPG Associated Universities
Angelo State University
- Dr. Joseph Satterfield joseph.satterfield@angelo.edu
Baylor University
- Dr. Stacy C. Atchley stacy_atchley@baylor.edu
Midwestern State University
- Scott Meddaugh scott.meddaugh@mwsu.edu
New Mexico State University
- Dr. Brian Hampton bhampton@nmsu.edu
Southern Methodist University
- Dr. Matthew Hornbach mhornbach@smu.edu
- Dr. Maria Richards mrichard@smu.edu
Sul Ross State University
- Dr. Kevin Urbanczyk kevinu@sulross.edu
Texas Christian University
- Dr. Xiangyang (Cheyenne) Xie x.xie@tcu.edu
Texas Tech University
- Dr. Dustin Sweet dustin.sweet@ttu.edu
The University of Texas at Arlington
- Dr. Qinhong Hu maxhu@uta.edu
The University of Texas at Dallas
- Dr. Robert Stern rjstern@utdallas.edu
The University of Texas at El Paso
- Dr. Rip Langford langford@utep.edu
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
- Dr. Sumit Verma verma_s@utpb.edu
Wayland Baptist University
- Dr. Tim Walsh walsht@wbu.edu