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Imperial Barrel Award
The AAPG Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) is an annual basin/prospect evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students. The programme is rigorous and contributes to AAPG’s mission of promoting petroleum geoscience training and providing geoscience students with experience of the industry. University teams analyze a dataset in the 6-8 weeks prior to their local competition and deliver their results in a 25 minute presentation to a panel of industry experts. Students have the chance to use real technology on a real dataset, receive the feedback from an industry panel, have the opportunity to impress potential employers in the audience and the chance to win cash prizes for their schools.
The timing of the 2010 IBA program is as follows:
- Final Commitment, December 1, 2009.
- Datasets Released, first Week of January, 2010.
- Regional Competition in Prague, March 26-27, 2010.
- Global Competition in New Orleans, Friday, April 9, 2010
The European Region can accommodate 12 teams and these will be chosen on a “first come first served” basis amongst those that make a final commitment to the programme. Please note that all travel and accommodation expenses for the Regional final will be covered by the AAPG European Region and the winning team will receive travel and accommodation expenses to the AAPG 2010 Annual Convention and Global IBA Competition.
If you are a faculty advisor of one of the European Region Universities that would like to register interest and apply for a team representing your University to take part please contact Lika Chambers , AAPG European Region Conference Manager at the AAPG European Office on +44(0)2074341399.
Also if your company would like to sponsor this exciting event please contact Ken Nemeth , IBA Sponsorship Chair.
Further details on the Imperial Barrel Award Competition can be found at: http://www.aapg.org/iba/