PETROCHALLENGE

PETROCHALLENGE is an educational event which uses an innovative web-based learning tool that allows participants to act as energy companies looking for oil and gas in a fictitious province.

The activity provides school pupils with an interactive experience of the oil and gas industry. Students are grouped into teams of 4 and are given a budget of $100 million to find commercially viable volumes of oil and gas. Teams compete and collaborate in this virtual reality where they learn:

basic geology and how to acquire and interpret seismic surveys
to bid for and secure licensing rights
how to initiate and undertake the drilling of exploration and appraisal wells
the importance of collaborative working and partnerships in the high stakes world of oil and gas exploration

PETROCHALLENGE provides all the challenges, opportunities and dilemmas faced by real exploration teams and gives participants a contextualised learning experience.

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See our events calendar for details on the dates and venues for PETROCHALLENGE 2012.