The third annual Trapspot event was successfully concluded in November 2014 by the Universitas Padjajaran Student Chapter. Trapspot (Through a Petroleum System, National Seminar, poster contest and field trip) is a series of annual events that have been conducted by AAPG Universitas Padjajaran (UNPAD), Indonesia student chapter since 2012. The basic purpose of this activity is to form a well-maintained relationship and good synergy not only among AAPG student chapters throughout Indonesia, but more importantly between geosciences students and petroleum industry.
The two-day event of national seminar and poster competition themed, “Natural Gas Vision for Future Indonesia,” was attended by nine different universities in Indonesia. The keynote speakers were country head of BP Indonesia Dharmawan Samsu, vice president of corporate service at Inpex Corp. Nico Muhyidin, vice president of Total EP Indonesia Noor Syarifudin, and Bani and Wendy with SKK Migas. Several professionals from British Petroleum, Total E&P Indonesie, and Padjadjaran University were judges for the poster competition.
The field trip of Trapspot 2014 was held in Pertamina EP Asset 2 PMB 31 Well, Prabumulih, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Twenty-five selected students went to Prabumulih to learn about upstream activity in the oil and gas industry. The field trip was followed by a short course in Pertamina EP Asset 2 before participants visited the oil rig and mudlogging unit.
This event was fully sponsored by INPEX, Total Indonesie, Vico Indonesia, Conoco Phillips Indonesia, BP Indonesia, PSE Unpad and Pukesmigas.