Three senior experts sponsored by Total are delivering lectures in Texas A&M University at Qatar on the topic “Oilfield Development - An Integrated Approach”.
The professors, Max Mille, Alphonse Grynko and Etienne Moreau, are members of the Total Professeurs Associés, an initiative by Total Group with the goal of building bridges between the oil industry and academic circles. With over 38 years of experience, the three professors have worked at Total Group, and regularly lecture and deliver technical and business-related presentations in their fields of expertise.
Stephane Michel, Managing Director of Total E&P Qatar, said: “Total aims to share its experience and expertise with various educational institutions in Qatar. We are very pleased to see that this course is reaching a big audience in Texas A&M University. By sharing our knowledge and skills, we are determined to support the development of a top oil and gas industry in this country.”
Dr Vassilios Kelessidis, professor and programme chair of the Petroleum Engineering programme at Texas A&M at Qatar, said: “We in the Petroleum Engineering programme at Texas A&M at Qatar are very excited and thankful to the professors of Total Professeur Associés (TPA) and to Total, who made it possible to offer the course to our senior students.”
Kelessidis continued, “This collaboration has been in the works for the past six months, after we became acquainted with the TPA during our participation to the Total Energy & Education Seminar in Paris last November. We expect that the experiences shared by the three professors of TPA who will be coming here to Texas A&M at Qatar will greatly benefit our senior students, as they will address industry problems and propose real life solutions to the many cases they have faced in their professional careers. They will also prepare our students for their design course, which will be attended next spring, and expose them to conditions that are encountered in the challenging environment of oil and gas field development.”The Peninsula
