 ug halliburton collaborate to ensure real world preparation for ug students in chemical petroleum and mining engineering multimillion mud lab commissioned ug halliburton collaborate to ensure real world preparation for ug students in chemical petroleum and mining engineering multimillion mud lab commissioned andydindial tue 5252021 1453 ughalliburton collaborate to ensure real world preparation for ug students in chemical petroleum and mining engineering multimillion mud lab commissioned  georgetown guyana decc the university of guyana may 22 2021   several hundred students in the university of guyana s petroleum chemical mechanical and mining engineering programmes will benefit from an enhanced practical experience with the commissioning of a mud lab the university of guyana in collaboration with halliburton one of the world s largest oil field service companies on friday 21 may in a simple ceremony launched a drilling fluids lab mud lab at the university of guyana s faculty of engineering and technology at the turkeyen campus the lab is one of two which were negotiated during the gipex summit in november 2019 the other specific hightech software modelling lab will be commissioned in the coming weeks the entire agreement mud lab landmark computer lab training maintenance and staff and student development between ug and halliburton is valued at us 2 2 million or 4 billion guyana dollars of which the mudd lab project accounts for about us 20000 the collaboration is aimed at facilitating enhanced training for students in the departments of petroleum and geological engineering chemistry and certain aspects of earth and environmental sciences other aspects of the project includes maintenance training technical support for staff and student development at a simple ceremony held at ug s faculty of engineering and technology building turkeyen campus and which was streamed live on facebook vicechancellor xi professor paloma mohamed martin recalled that the conversation regarding how halliburton could support the university started close to two years ago at a petroleum conference in houston usa where she met ms cecilia james garcia whom she described as one of the most dynamic and focused young female engineers she has ever met the vice chancellor also acknowledged the contributions made by area manager for halliburton franci delano ms grace hustson fabiloa martinez and current ceo in guyana mr vahman jurai ms garcia felt that ug could be the only and first university in the entire caribbean region that can have a lab like this and i am happy to say that a year and a half to two years later we are realizing that dream professor mohamed said according to professor mohamed the drilling fluids lab is going to put our graduates far way ahead of the game in terms of their practical experience in analyzing fluids that are used on the fpsos the vc explained that the launching of the facility comes at a time when the university is about to roll out a suite of new programmes for persons who would like to specialize in certain areas including eight professional courses that were developed and will be administered by the institute of energy diplomacy starting this june additionally she disclosed that the university recently approved a masters in environmental management and the school for entrepreneurship and business innovation sebi is rolling out a procurement and value chain master s degree very soon this is to join with the associates degree in petroleum engineering and the masters in petroleum engineering as well as the masters in renewable energy that is already being offered according to halliburton country manager mr vahman jurai the drilling of fluids or drilling of mud is one of the main services the company provides in guyana and is a fundamental part of its operations mr jurai said from the start of our operations to present date we have been continually increasing our capacity as well as providing technical support and solutions to the market we have significantly increased our portfolio solutions to the local energy presently almost 90 of our services come from guyana and at the end of this year we will be close to 100 the country manager highlighted the gift of the fluids lab to the faculty of engineering and technology is one of our initiatives in building capacity in guyana we view it as an investment in the future of the students who will grow to be potential industry leaders and who will shape the sustainability of the energy industry in guyana mr jurai further noted the gift of information technology we will continue to work to share in shaping guyana s future for the university of guyana to provide technical support working closely with the fluid designs and management of the fluids lab dean of the faculty of engineering and technology at the university of guyana ms verlyn klass provided an introduction to the importance of the drilling fluids lab and how it will be beneficial to students during her remarks she noted that the lab will support the teaching of courses and give students an added advantage when seeking employment as mud technicians mrs elena trim dean at the time the project was initially negotiated and now present head of mechanical engineering department faculty of engineering and technology said i see we will have a greater future with the help of companies like halliburton that always enhances programmes and helps students in other countries the physical demonstration of the equipment in the mud lab was facilitated by mr dinesh baldeosingh technical professional senior halliburton and mr morris solomon laboratory technician halliburton professor mohamed expressed appreciation to various persons who worked diligently to ensure the project came to fruition these include senior officials of halliburton the dean of the faculty of engineering and technology staff from the office of philanthropy alumni and civic engagement pace and the tactical online services unit tos among others the event was expertly chaired by assistant dean of the faculty of engineering and technology mr basheer khan photo caption vicechancellor xi professor paloma mohamed martin guyana s country lead halliburton mr vahman jurai dean faculty of engineering and technology ms verlyn klass head of mechanical engineering department faculty of engineering and technology mrs elena trim technical professional senior halliburton mr dinesha baldeosingh and laboratory technician halliburton mr morris solomon cut the ribbon to officially launch the drilling fluids lab at the faculty of engineering and technology at the university of guyana photo caption physical demonstration being conducted by mr morris solomon laboratory technician halliburton  contact  krest cummings public relations officer department of events conference and communications mobile 5926235104  ug in brief the university of guyana is the 58th year state university of guyana it offers 136 programmes in 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