EARTH SCIENCE STUDENTS BRING HOME GOLD

The team of UM’s Faculty of Earth Science and Engineering has taken first place in a world competition. The team of five international students won the EAGE Laurie Dake Challenge 2022 Champion Award.

The University of Miskolc was represented by Abd Almajeed Alrawi from Syria, Agra Adipta from Indonesia, Idris Olabisi from Nigeria, Rafael Valadez Vergara from Mexico and Richard Ayisi Mensah from Ghana. After their return home, they reported on their preparations and experiences.

"We have just returned from Madrid, Spain. We visited the annual exhibition of the European Association of Scientists and Engineers. We came back from a very tough challenge, the 2022 Laurie Dake Challenge, where we became the winners of the award. We developed a project about an oil and gas field in Spain, from the beginning of exploration to the end. Our main goal was to create a profitable and environmentally friendly project that will benefit the society of Spain, but whose technology would also be applicable in other parts of the world," said Rafael Valadez Vergara.

The team members always mentioned in their reports that the knowledge they gained at the University of Miskolc was the basis for the development of the project. They emphasised that they received a lot of support from their professors and that they believed this was one of the reasons why they were able to perform well and return home with the gold medal.

"The Antasena energy team represented the University of Miskolc. We were very excited because it was our first attempt to perform in this type of competition. We tried to compete in this international competition based on the knowledge we already had," added Agra Adipta.

"This experience has been one of the most rewarding of my life, because I have learned what it means to work as part of a team. We helped each other and we experienced what it means to work in a team with people coming from different countries. We learned how to conduct our work in the most accurate and precise way," concluded Abd Almajeed Alrawi.