Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS’ (UTP) team, New Prospect Energy, emerged as the second runner-up in the prestigious European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) Laurie Dake Challenge 2021.
The five-member team consisted of Jules Kinua Richard, Diana Ujai, Siva Prasad Raveendran, Shafika Yusup (Petroleum Geosciences students) and Daveliany Konsung (Petroleum Engineering student).
The Laurie Dake Challenge is created with the aim to promote cross‐disciplinary geoscience and engineering integration within universities. Each participating university will have a multi‐disciplinary team of full-time geoscience and petroleum engineering students, with a maximum of one PhD student per team.
The competition stars with a first round with an assignment that is prepared by each team. Ten teams will be selected and will be required to analyse and propose a field development plan for a discovered hydrocarbon resource.
Each team is required to submit the field plan and development in the format requested by the judges, and based on this submission, the six finalist teams are selected. All teams work with the same data set, which is provided by a different company each year.
In the first round of the competition, out of the 21 teams, New Prospect Energy secured a position in the Top 10, the only team from Malaysia to do so.
The team then advanced to the second round and became one of three finalists, alongside IFP School France and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
In the final round, which was held virtually on 28 July 2021, New Prospect Energy finished as the second runner-up. The team members were rewarded with complimentary tickets to attend the 82nd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition which is scheduled to take place in Amsterdam in October 2021.
