KAUST students and staff performed traditional Indonesian music at Al-Balad, Jeddah.

On 9 March 2023, a delegation from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco, visited KAUST-ANPERC.

ANPERC Ph.D. students Zhen Zhang and Evgeny Ugolkov won prizes at the distinguished SPWLA Saudi Arabia student chapter contest held on March 8, 2023.

On February 28, 2023, Visiting Faculty, Professor Leonardo Guimarães, Full Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, presented a special seminar entitled: Numerical Modeling of Water/CO2 Injection in Deformable Reservoirs with the Possibility of Fault Reactivation.

Ph.D. student Abdullah Al Omier won a second-place prize in the KROW 2023 Sustainable Environment and Supply of Essential Needs category for his e-Poster titled "Novel Mixed Wettability Coating of Microfluidics: Applications to Hydrocarbon Recovery and CO2 Storage."

On 2 March 2023, ANPERC opened its doors to the KAUST community and visitors from industry and government entities.

A delegation from ANPERC participated in the recently concluded Middle East Oil, Gas and Geoscience Show (MEOS GEO). They showcased research projects in Energy, Geoscience, and Climate Change.

ANPERC Ph.D. students Daniela Arias Ortiz and Feras Rowaihy represented the KAUST SPE student chapter at the World Petroleum Exhibition held at Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman from 29th to 31st January 2023.

In a KAUST funded project, we are evaluating the CO2 seal capacity of one of the best hydrocarbon seals in the world – the Hith anhydrite.

Petex has kindly granted 10 educational licences of the MOVE suite, which equates to an equivalent donation of £ 2.433.833,17 of software to the Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center, KAUST .

On December 1st, 2022, ANPERC invited all department members and their families to celebrate the end of another year.

The All ANPERC monthly meeting took place on November 27, 2022. During the meeting, ANPERC hosted a farewell party for the Associate Center Director, Professor Juan Carlos Santamarina and the Center Manager, Aeisha Salem, who are leaving the department.

On the 25th of November, KAUST promoted the KAUST Community Triathlon, and ANPERC was present with Professors, Post-docs, Ph.D. and Master's students representing the center.

Ph.D. student, Amer Alanazi received the best student paper award at IGS-2022 for his paper titled: “Analysis of capillary sealing efficiency of caprock for H2 and CO2 geological storage.”

Muhammad Usman, a Ph.D. student of Prof. Volker Vahrenkamp is currently visiting RWTH Aachen university as a sandwich Ph.D. student.

Congratulations to our SEG EVOLVE team from KAUST, who presented their work during the IMAGE 2022 annual conference in Houston, TX.

KAUST SEG Student Chapter team composed of Gaurav Siddharth Gairola (Ph.D. in ERPE) and Mustafa Alfarhan (Ph.D. in ErSE) recently won first place at the SEG-DGS Middle East Challenge Bowl Competition.

On the 29th of September, Dr. Hassan M. El-Houjeiri, Head of Energy Traceability Technology, Saudi Aramco presented a seminar entitled: “The power of science in shaping climate policy and investment decisions” to all ANPERC members.

ANPERC participated in AAPG Geoscience Technology Workshop in Bahrain entitled “SOURCE ROCKS OF THE MIDDLE EAST: A WORLD CLASS RESOURCE FOR UNCONVENTIONAL?” held from 24th - 28th of Sep, 2022.

ANPERC celebrated the 92nd Anniversary of Saudi Arabia National Day on September 23rd, 2022.