By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)
The Texas-based Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has
declared the Petroleum Engineering Department of the NED University of
Engineering and Technology, Karachi, as an outstanding chapter of the year 2013.
The NED University’s SPE student chapter has received the
Outstanding Chapter Award (OCA) for the second time. The chapter has
distinguished itself as one of the top seven distinguished SPE chapters around
the globe.
The other OCA recipients for 2013 are the University of
Lagos, the Malaysia University of Technology, the University of Aberdeen, the
Universidade Estadual Do Norte Fluminense, Darcy Riberio, the University of
Tulsa and Tyumen State Oil & Gas University.
The Exclusive SPE student chapter of Pakistan has received
all the three prestigious awards including chapter of the month and the Gold
Standard status besides the OCA in the SPE Middle East North Africa and India
region.
After receiving these prestigious awards in 2011, the
chapter has been crowned once again with the OCA for the year 2013 through
assessment of its programmes, activities, and levels of participation during a
single academic year in respect to over 200 other chapters worldwide.
The SPE Student Chapter team of Petroleum Engineering
Department enjoys the pride and honour to raise the flag of Pakistan in the
whole region and to have brought laurels to the university and the department
through this regional and international recognition.
The SPE, founded in 1957 as a constituent society of the
American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME), is acclaimed as one of the
largest individual-member organization serving managers, engineers, scientists
and other professionals worldwide in the upstream segment of the oil and gas
industry. It had become a separately incorporated organization in 1985.
The Oil and Gas Committee of AIME had evolved into the
Petroleum Division of AIME as membership grew and as interest among the members
was more clearly delineated among the mining, metallurgical, and petroleum
specializations.
The SPE has reached its highest number of members in its
history, partly due to the high growth rate in the number of student members
and chapters. It continues its constant search for new ways to meet member
needs in all phases of their careers in all parts of the world.
Meanwhile Prof Dr Muhammad Afzal Haque, Vice Chancellor, NED
University of Engineering and Technology, and Prof Dr Sarosh Hashmat Lodi,
Dean, CEA, have congratulated the Department of Petroleum Engineering, headed
by its chairman Prof Dr Abid Murtaza Khan, on their accomplishments.
