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 2011 IBA programme is as follows:
- Final Commitment, December 1, 2010.
- Datasets Released, first Week of January, 2011.
- Regional Competition – estimated February 2011.
- Global Competition in Houston, April 8, 2011
The Asia Pacific 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. The Regional semi-finals will be judged in February (date to be confirmed). The eventual winning team will receive travel and accommodation expenses to the AAPG 2010 Annual Convention and Global IBA Competition. All teams should ensure that they have valid passports. The winning team will also need to get visas to visit the USA.
If you are a faculty advisor of one of the Asia-Pacific Region Universities that would like to register interest and apply for a team representing your University to take part, please contact Asia Pacific Student Coordinator Geovani Kaeng Christopher at
If your company wishes to support this exciting competition, and be a part of the Students’ success and lifelong learning, please contact Adrienne Pereira at and Geovani Kaeng Christopher at
Further details on the Imperial Barrel Award Competition can be found Here. The site is being updated with 2011 information periodically.