Henderson (far right) along with the other Student Paper Contest winners.
Carter Henderson, a junior Texas A&M University petroleum engineering student, obtained third place in the Student Paper Contest held at the Fifth Annual East Meets West International Student Petroleum Congress and Career Expo. The contest was held in Krakow, Poland last April and gathered 22 students of undergraduate and graduate level from all over the world to display their technical work. First and second place were awarded to master level students from the University of Texas and the University of Leoben in Austria.
Henderson’s project started last fall as part of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Mentorship Program. The program is intended to provide guidance and tools for undergraduate students in order to develop their Student Paper Contest work. Henderson was mentored by Ernesto Valbuena, a PhD candidate supervised by Maria Barrufet and John Killough, while he did research on the integration of surface and subsurface models to evaluate liquid yield production in tight gas reservoirs and combined this with his summer internship experiences.
The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M and the AGH University of Science and Technology Student Chapter financially supported Henderson’s attendance of the four-day long conference in Poland. Over 100 students from 30 countries joined the congress to share ideas and learn more about the energy industry. The conference included several technical and networking activities to disseminate knowledge and inspire future leaders.