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36 JULY 2013 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Gulf Coast Oil and Gas Awards Information Provided by Oil & Gas Awards The inaugural Gulf Coast Oil & Gas Awards was held earlier this year in Houston, Texas. The gala event was attended by roughly 300 guests who en- joyed a wonderful evening including a champagne reception and gourmet meal while being entertained by a harpist. The event began with a few words of thanks from Daniel Creasey, CEO of the Oil & Gas Awards and was followed by the keynote address from guest of honor, Commissioner David Porter of the Railroad Commission of Texas. Marc Bridgen, CMO of the Oil & Gas Awards then conducted the award cere- mony. The 2012 Gulf Coast Oil & Gas Awards winners were: % Consultancy of the Year - Navigant Consulting % Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of the Year - Anadarko Petroleum Corp. % Drilling & Well Services Company of the Year, sponsored by Lake Truck Lines - C&J Energy Services, Inc. % E&P Company of the Year, spon- sored by TEEMCO - Anadarko Petroleum Corp. % Engineering Company of the Year - Strategy Engineering and Consulting % Environmental Initiative of the Year - R360 Environmental Solutions % Health & Safety Initiative of the Year - Industrial Scientific Corp. % Industry Leader - Gary C. Evans % Industry Supplier of the Year - Sulzer % Insurance Provider of the Year - Aon Corp. % Law Firm of the Year - Baker Botts L.L.P. % Manufacturer of the Year - Enviro Voraxial ® Technology, Inc. % Midstream Company of the Year - Williams % Recruitment Agency of the Year - NES Global Talent % Terminal of the Year - CRU Logistics, L.L.C. % Transaction of the Year, sponsored by mergermarket - EP Energy % Trucking Company of the Year - Gold Spur Trucking % Water Management Company of the Year - AbTech Industries, Inc. Congratulations to all of the 2012 Gulf Coast Oil & Gas Awards winners. Missouri S&T Receives Donation for Petroleum Engineering Adapted from Information by Missouri Science and Technology and Petroleum Experts Adonation worth more than $1.7 mil- lion from the engineering firm Petroleum Experts (Petex) will allow students at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) to learn about petroleum engineering using the latest software tools. Headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Petex has developed a suite of engineering software designed to improve the efficiency of oil and gas fields. Petex grantedMissouri S&T a license to use the company’s IPM (Integrated Production Modeling) suite, which mod- els the complete production system from the reservoir to the surface. “These petroleum engineering soft- ware tools are the standard across the worldwide oil and gas industry and are currently used by more than 350 oil and gas companies,” said Dr. Hamid Guedroudj, Petex’s technical director. “By incorporating these tools in the curricu- lum, Missouri S&T will make sure their petroleum engineering students have access to the latest and most widely used software in the industry.” Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman, associate professor of petroleum engineering, said the donation will help students gain the ski l ls necessary for thei r future. “Missouri S&T’s petroleum engineering program currently uses Petex software in production engineering, comple- tions, and artificial lift courses as well as graduate research. With this soft- ware gift, the full suite of programs will now enhance our capabilities in reser- voir engineering and the geosciences.” The Petex engineering models cap- ture the physics, geology, engineering, and fluid thermodynamics to model full production systems - from reservoir, the oil and gas wells, to the surface pipeline system and process. These models, once built, are used to optimize production for existing oil and gas fields and assist with the system design of new fields. The Petex software will be used by more than 200 petroleum engineering students at Missouri S&T, as well as geol- ogy and geophysics students. +9 &8 ,&6"4/23 ( ! ( ! !" ( $ " ( !" & )"6& &,&6"4/23 /' ",, 3*:&3 490&3 ".% 7&*()43 ".% $". #5*,% 4/ ".9 30&$*", "00,*$"4*/.3 *,'*&,% "4&2 &,, /.6&.4*/.", ".% &6&23& *2$5,"4*/. 2*,, *0& 15*0-&.4 +9 &8 ,&6"4/23 2& 3&% /2,%7*%& ( & % " ( # ' !" ! 2&8 2&8-$'"%%&. $/- ,&6"4/23 /"% 4&34 $&24*'*$"4&3 "6"*,"#,& ) # !$ ) # ' " ) # !$ ) ! " $ #$ ! ( #! $ $ " ( ! "" % ! $ " ( #" ( & " 777 2&8-$'"%%&. $/- &7 3&% 15*0-&.4 6"*,"#,&