Three professors and a student in petroleum engineering will receive prestigious technical awards from the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.

Dr. Christine Ehlig-Economides, professor and A.B. Stevens Endowed Chair, has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the SPE Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal — SPE’s highest award for technology development — for her work in advancing both reservoir engineering and hydraulic fracturing technologies. Her work in reservoir engineering helps the industry estimate the amount of resources available; her work in fracturing helps extract resources from unconventional, challenging reservoirs.

A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Economides currently leads Texas A&M University’s program in energy engineering that engages students from multiple disciplines in shaping their outlook on sustaining a positive energy balance for the future.

Dr. Akhil Datta-Gupta, the LeSeur Chair in Reservoir Management, has won the John Franklin Carll Award, SPE’s second-highest award for technology development. Datta-Gupta manages the largest and most active joint industry project in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering. His research into sophisticated systems of dynamic data integration has helped simplify problems of how fluids move in the subsurface so they can be recovered for use.

Dr. Hisham Nasr-El-Din, holder of the S.A. Holditch Faculty Fellowship, will receive the SPE Production and Operations Award. Over his 40-year career, Nasr-El-Din’s work has touched nearly every approach to improved production technology, mostly through the development of products and processes that move hydrocarbons from their locations within a reservoir to the wellbore, where they can be produced to the surface for processing.

Graduate student Abhishek Anchliya will receive the Young member Outstanding Service Award. Anchliya has served as a member of the International Student guidance Committee and the Young Professionals Committee, where he has worked to coordinate programs that help students move into the professional organization. He has also served as editor of The Way Ahead, the SPE magazine for young members.

Written by Darla-Jean Weatherford

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