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.

 

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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