Annual awards: medals and prizes

Sponsored awards

AGR Group Prize for Best Student in Drilling/Well Construction

Awarded to the student with the best overall marks in Drilling and Production Technology.

Value: £750

2010-11 recipient: Matthew Macioca

Bank of Scotland Petroleum Economics Prize (PE)

Awarded to the MSc PE student with the top Economics exam mark.

Value: £300

2010-11 recipient: Matthew Macioca

BP Prize for Excellence (REM)

This prize is awarded to the student with the best aggregate mark in Reservoir Evaluation & Management. It is based on a combination of examination and project performance.

Value: £1000

2010-11 recipient: Dhruva Prasad

Chevron Prize for Best Group Project

Awarded to the group with the highest overall mark in the group project exercise.

Value: £1000 (split between group members)

2010-11 recipients: Luis Arroyo (£200), Girish Bairwa (£200), Vincent Brotte (£200), Aaron Pedersen (£200) & Karen Sinza Mendieta (£200)

Chevron Prize for Best Student in a Team Environment

Awarded to the full-time MSc student who best demonstrated leadership, project management and team working skills during the group project exercise.

Value: £250

2010-11 recipient: Lynva Raworth

Colin Robertson Memorial Prize (PE/REM)

Awarded to the student who is judged to have demonstrated the greatest ability in combining the geological and reservoir engineering aspects of reservoir description. The prize is open to candidates from the MSc Reservoir Evaluation and also from the MSc Petroleum Engineering.

Value: £500

2010-11 recipients: Adeyemi Olagunju (£250) & James Crocker (£250)

Energy Institute Prize (PE)

Awarded for excellence in Petroleum Engineering to the student with the best aggregate mark based on a combination of examination and project performance.

Value: £250

2010-11 recipient: Matthew Macioca

Frank Halford Prize (PE/REM)

Awarded to the student with the best performance in petrophysics, comprising the Static Reservoir Evaluation (Formation Evaluation) examination and a project in subsurface characterisation. The prize is open to candidates from the MSc Reservoir Evaluation and also from the MSc Petroleum Engineering.

Value: £500

2010-11 recipients: Abiola Molake (£250) & Dhruva Prasad (£250)

Glenn Harris Prize (PE)

Awarded for excellence in petroleum engineering operations to the student who has the highest aggregate examination performance in Drilling Engineering and Production Technology.

Value: £300

2010-11 recipient: Matthew Macioca

Jim Brown Prize

Awarded for achievement to the student who has achieved academic excellence despite specific personal difficulties or as a result of outstanding effort.

Value: £250

2010-11 recipient: Nour Koronful

Institute of Petroleum Engineering sponsored awards

Best individual project

Petroleum Engineering

Awarded to the PE student with the best individual project.

Value: £250

2010-11 recipient: Chimereucheya Alim

Petroleum Geoscience

Awarded to the PetGeo student with the best individual project.

Value: £250

2010-11 recipient: Devin Hill

Renewable Energy

Awarded to the Renewable Energy student with the best individual project.

Value: £250

Reservoir Evaluation & Management

Awarded to the REM student with the best individual project.

Value: £250

2010-11 recipient: James Crocker

Best student

Petroleum Geoscience

Awarded to the student with the best aggregate mark in Petroleum Geoscience, based on a combination of examination and project performance.

Value: £250

2010-11 recipient: Zack Ollerton

Carbon Footprint Prize

This prize from IPE's Carbon Footprint Fund is awarded to the student from any MSc course whose project is deemed to be best at tackling rising CO₂ levels in the atmosphere.

Value: £300

2010-11 recipient: Herman Mukisa