Alumnus Yang Tao won Best Data Management and Application Solution Award

Alumnus Yang Tao was responsible for the project which won the "Best Data Management and Application Solution Award" at the 2022 World Oil Awards.

     On October 13, the 21st annual World Petroleum Awards Gala was held in Houston, USA, honoring leading innovation and thought leaders in the upstream oil and gas industry. Tao Yang, a 1987 alumnus of Applied Chemistry of our college, won the Best Data Management and Application Solution Award for his project real-time reservoir fluid identification technology.

     Yang Tao graduated with a bachelor's degree in Applied chemistry in 1991 from our college. He is currently a senior technologist at Aquino (formerly Statoil), a Norwegian energy giant, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the International Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He is also a member of the editorial board of Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering (SPE Journal) and Petroleum Science and Engineering (Elsevier Journal). He was awarded SPE North Sea Oil Reservoir Engineering Technology Award, SPE Outstanding Technical Editor Award and SPE Outstanding Member Award. He is the first Chinese Academician of Norwegian Academy of Engineering in the field of petroleum exploration and development.

Known as the Oscars of the oil industry, the World Petroleum Awards is an annual event honoring innovation and achievements in upstream technology. Companies from more than a dozen countries around the world submitted a record 300 nominations for the 2022 World Oil Awards, and 97 finalists were selected, handpicked by the World Oil Awards Advisory Board, as the most groundbreaking industry developments of the year. The winners included awards in 18 categories spanning the entire upstream industry, with many innovations that previously seemed out of reach but today enable operators to explore and develop oil and gas more safely, economically, and efficiently.