Awards and Recognition

2010

Herbert Loria Molina (Post Doctoral Fellow) - Distinguished Engineer of the Instituto Tecnologico de Merida (Mexico), June 30, 2010

Dr. R.G. Moore - The Frank Spragins Techincal Award (April 15, 2010) and the 2010 SPE IOR Pioneer Award (April 24-28, 2010)

Linda Roa-Fuentes (Master's Student) - 2010 Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship

Amir Zamani (Doctoral Student) - March 2010  Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Calgary Section 2010 Scholarship

2009

Maria Laura Frauwallner (Doctoral Student)  - December 2009 Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Scholarship and Graduate Student Scholarship from Advanced Education and Technology.

Linda Roa-Fuentes (Master's Student) - 2009 Queen Elizabeth II Graduate
Scholarship

Carmen Galarraga (Doctoral Student) - November 2009 Best Presentation at 3rd annual AICISE student conference.

Phil Labrecque (Master's Student) 2009 Grant Mossop in Geology and Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship.

Javad Paitakhti Oskouei (Doctoral Student) - November 2009 Best Presentation at 3rd annual
AICISE student conference.

Rohallah Hasemi (Doctoral Student) - September 2009  Dr. Roger Butler
Memorial Award.

Pedro Pereira, Francisco Lopez, Clementina Sosa, M. Gonzalez, Lante Carbognani - Participated in the ENI (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi) prize, 2009

2008

Carmen Galarraga (Doctoral Student) - Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, Schulich School of Engineering, August 2008

Herbert Loria Molina(Doctoral Student) - Best Paper of Second Annual AICISE Student Conference, September 2008

Nashaat Nassar(Doctoral Student, Research Staff) - Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Scholarship, Open Graduate Competition Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary for Academic Year 2007/2008

Norka Marcano(Doctoral Student) - Outstanding Teaching Assistant, PhD award in the Department of Geosciences' Awards Ceremony, April 2008

Seyed Javad Paitakhti Oskouei (Doctoral Student) - Dr. R. Butler Memorial Graduate Scholarship, 2008

Hadi Samimi (Doctoral Student) - Member of a team of 4 Geoscience graduate students placing second in Canada at the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award, 2008

Saeed Shad(Doctoral Student) - Faculty of Graduate Studies Scholarship, University of Calgary Ursula & Herbert Zandmer Graduate Scholarship, University of Calgary First Runner Up Award, Graduate Student Presentation Competition, Canadian International Petroleum Engineering Conference / SPE Joint Conference, Calgary, AB

Fengliang Yin (Masters Student) - Alberta Graduate Student Scholarships, Awarded by Alberta Government Outstanding Poster of Second Annual AICISE Student Conference, September 2008

Amir Zamani (Doctoral Student) - Petroleum Society of CIM Graduate Scholarship, Petroleum Society of CIM/University of Calgary, September 2008 Best Paper of Second Annual AICISE Student Conference, September 2008
Faculty of Graduate Studies Doctoral Scholarship, University of Calgary (Open Scholarship Competition), May 2008

2007

AICISE nominated for the Syncrude/ASTech Innovation in Oil Sands Research prize for 2007.

Centre Co-Director Dr. Steve Larteris chosen to present the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Distinguished Lecture, October 2005

2005

Center Co-Director Dr. Pedro Pereira-Almao receives the University of Calgary Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Research Excellence Award

Centre Co-Director Dr. Pedro Pereira-Almao receives significant funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to establish a Facility for Catalytic Research with Applications in Energy and the Environment,April 8, 2005

2004

Centre Co-Director Dr. Steve Larter is elected to Foreign Membership of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences at a ceremony in Oslo, for his contributions to petroleum geology and geochemistry in the areas of petroleum migration and petroleum biodegradation and for development of the subject in Norway.

2003

Centre Co-Directors Dr. Pedro Pereira-Almaoand Dr. Steve Larterare both named Alberta Ingenuity Scholars