Dec 15: Theses Award 2009: Award Ceremony
San Donato Milanese, December 15 2009
The winners of the 2009 Gustavo Sclocchi Awards were honoured at a special ceremony last December 15th in San Donato Milanese, Italy. The competition being held for the 17th time is for the best theses in geosciences and petroleum engineering by university and diploma graduates, as well as PhDs, at Italian universities or by Italian students abroad. The theses have to cover a subject related to geology, geophysics, formation evaluation, well drilling and completion, reservoir engineering, production and transport, HSE, or energy economics.
This contest is a joint initiative of EAGE, SPE Italian Section and Assomineraria, which is the Italian Petroleum and Mining Industry Association, to encourage young students specializing in petroleum engineering and geosciences. The awards started in 1993 and since 2001 they have been associated with the name of Gustavo Sclocchi, the eni manager, who was the main promoter of the event and who died unexpectedly in Moscow in 2001. Over the last 16 years some 389 theses have been submitted of which 98 have won awards.
Four theses were awarded and six received an honourable mention. The officers of the three associations – Maurizio Rampoldi (SPE Italian Section), Davide Calcagni (EAGE), and Giancarlo Dossena (Assomineraria) - warmly greeted the winners and presented them with a cash prize of 2400 euro each. The recipients of the honourable mentions had a free membership for either SPE or EAGE for 2010.
- Daniele Boiero, Politecnico di Torino - Surface Wave Analysis for Building Shear Wave Velocity Models
- Daniela Donno, Politecnico di Milano - Improving 3D SRME with sea-bottom topography
- Chiara Ravasio, Università di Milano – 3D Reconstruction of a platform-basin system by specialistic software (MOVE 2009):the Pegherolo massif (Ladinico,
- Silvia Soso de Rosa, Università di Milano - 3D reconstruction of alpine thrusts by specialised software (MOVE 2009): the Corna Lunga Klippe and the Sovere Thrust (
The honourable mentions were awarded to:
- Daniele Bilancio, Politecnico di Torino, Fluid characterization in integrated asset model
- Flora Garofalo, Politecnico di Torino - Ground Roll roject: qualità control of dispersion curves from seismic reflection data
- Matteo Giboli, Politecnico di Milano – Application of the method of gradient squared tensor to geophysical problems
- Paola Panfili, Politecnico di Torino - Scale up issues in single-phase and multi-phase flow
- Giovanni Rizza, Politecnico di Torino - Down hole permanent magnet motor for submersible pumps: state of the art and validation of the principles with comparison with three phase AC induction motor
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