VIII Oil and Gas Horizons Congress at Gubkin University, Moscow,

Russian, 23rd -25th November 2016

Students from Clausthal University of Technology with 2018 SPE President Mr. Darcy W. Spady, P. Eng.,

(from left to right: Nicolas Karasz, Mr. Darcy Spady, Yury Ovsyannikov, Rayner Susanto, Syouma

Hikmahtiar, and Samuel Zulkhifly Sinaga)

From 23rd to 25th of November 2016, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National

Research University) held annual Oil and Gas Horizons Congress. This is the 8th conference that

was held by Gubkin University SPE Student Chapter and the administration of Gubkin University,

Moscow, Russia. Year by year we widen the geography of participants with the aim of

international scientific community integration. In 2015 170 participants from 38 universities of 18

countries visited our Congress. In this year, more students from other countries (Germany, Russia,

Austria, Australia, USA, etc) participated in this congress. This congress has become traditional

and inalienable part of international work of Gubkin University, being a large international

platform for sharing knowledge, experience and innovative ideas with each other.

Some students Institute of Petroleum Engineering and Institute of Geothermal Engineering,

Clausthal University of Technology, Samuel Zulkhifly Sinaga, Syouma Hikmahtiar, Rayner Susanto,

Nicolas Karasz, and Yury Ovsyannikov, participated in this student congress as student presenters

and representatives from Clausthal University of Technology SPE student chapter. There were

several programs in this student congress:

1. Plenary session

Plenary session is devoted to companies’ lectures. There were several keynote speakers

invited including Mr. Darcy W. Spady, P. Eng. (2018 SPE President). The topic of the plenary

session was related to Artic drilling, opportunities and challenges, and current situation in

Artic area.

2. Soft skill workshop

Soft Skills Workshop was experts’ speech about questions of self-improvement, time

management, convince skill, negotiation skills and leadership skills. 2018 SPE President

Mr. Darcy W. Spady, P. Eng., shared his experiences and knowledges to students,

particularly he offered tips and solution to face the current low oil price situation.

3. Technical session

The technical sessions consist of two parts: Poster Session and Paper Session. Paper

Session was devoted to the presentation, consideration, and discussion of the

participants’ works, including students’, PhD, and young professionals’ papers. Professors

of Gubkin University, experts, representatives of oil and gas companies were invited as the

congress judges. There were 110 paper presentations in total.

Poster Session was a presentation of the scientific works of participants at the special

stands. Each of the presenters presented briefly their posters to the judges and afterwards

everybody will have a possibility to ask questions.

4. Career pathways fair

In career pathways, there were series of lectures and master classes from specialists of

different sectors of the industry: downstream, midstream, upstream. Students were given

chances to discuss directly with professionals from oil and gas industry. The program was

opened and led by 2018 SPE President Mr. Darcy W. Spady, P. Eng.

5. Petro Olympic games

An intellectual quiz “PetroOlympic Games” was focused on the theoretical knowledge in

the oil and gas industry. Students were gathered to compete in teams and were given

question to answer. The questions were based on disciplines such as Geosciences,

Chemical Engineering, Drilling, Mechanical Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Offshore

Petroleum Engineering, Oil and Gas Transportation and Storage.

6. SPE student chapter presentation

This meeting is one of the key events being held in order to discuss the development of

relations between universities and student sections of SPE student chapters. The chapters’

presentations was devoted to the exchange of experience, as well as to the establishment

of friendly relations with the representatives of all chapters participating at the Congress.

2018 SPE President Mr. Darcy W. Spady, P. Eng., led the round table meeting. Significant

issues and challenges were discussed and solutions were established to improve the

relationship of SPE student chapters.

7. Gala dinner

The Gala Dinner was intended to sum up the results of three hardworking and fruitful days

of the congress. There were also official speeches from Russia Government

representative, Gubkin University representative, companies and sponsors.

8. Visiting company

The main aim of visiting company was to show students the work of big companies

through excursions. Students were presented the life inside the companies.

In technical session, following students presented their research papers:

1. Samuel Zulkhifly Sinaga

A Comprehensive Case Study of Heat to Electrical Energy Potential from the Produced

Water of an Oil Field (won 2nd prize)

Review of Friction-Related and Galling Phenomena in Premium OCTG Connections

2. Rayner Susanto

Reservoir Modelling of Hydraulic Fracturing Scenario in Shale Gas Field with the

Sensitivity Analysis of Fracture Spacing and Fracture Half-Length (won 1st prize)

3. Syouma Hikmahtiar

Determining Hydrocarbon Prospective Zone using CWT-based Seismic Attributes and

Acoustics Impedance

In international SPE student chapter round table meeting, following students represented

Clausthal University of Technology SPE student chapter:

1. Nicolas Karasz

2. Yury Ovsyannikov

Samuel Zulkhifly Sinaga won the 2nd prize for paper presentation and 1st prize for PetroOlympic

competition, while Rayner Susanto won 1st prize for paper presentation. Overall the student

congress offered a great opportunity to meet professionals and students from all over the world.

In addition to the networking opportunities, the conference also offered a great chance to learn

new knowledge and technologies from technical session and plenary session. Our chapter really

appreciated the opportunity to go and hopefully we will have the chance to go again in future.

Students from Clausthal University of Technology (from left to right: Samuel Zulkhifly Sinaga,

Yury Ovsyannikov, Zhigalova Larissa (Gubkin University), Nicolas Karasz, Rayner Susanto, and

Syouma Hikmahtiar)

Nicolas Karasz presented Clausthal University of Technology SPE student chapter in

International Round Table meeting

Students from Clausthal University of Technology that won the prizes (from left to right: Samuel

Zulkhifly Sinaga, Syouma Hikmahtiar, and Rayner Susanto)

Students from different universities won the prize for Petro Olympic Competition with 2018 SPE

President Mr. Darcy W. Spady, P. Eng. (Student from Clausthal University of Technology:

Samuel Zulkhifly Sinaga, left down)

All students from different universities that participated in VIII Oil and Gas Horizons 2016 in

Gubkin University, Moscow, Russia

All students from different universities and Mr. Darcy W. Spady, P. Eng. that participated in VIII

Oil and Gas Horizons 2016 in Gubkin University, Moscow, Russia

Figure 1. Students visiting oil and gas company Salym Petroleum Development (SPD), Moscow,

Russia. SPD is a joint venture between Gazprom Neft and Royal Dutch Shell that operates fields

in Siberia.