The third edition of International Subsurface Energy Resources Week aims to provide a strategic space for the exchange of knowledge, experiences, and best practices, promoting active collaboration between academia, industry, and the public sector to address the challenges of the country’s energy transition.
This edition will place special emphasis on entrepreneurship with innovation applied to the hydrocarbons sector.
“The goal is to share knowledge and experiences, as well as to meet to analyze and discuss the future of hydrocarbons and their role in the energy transition,” says Emiliano Ariza León, director of the UIS School of Petroleum Engineering.
The event will take place throughout the week, and the academic agenda will include keynote speeches, presentations on entrepreneurship cases, international symposiums on geomechanics and hydrocarbon research, as well as an entrepreneurship fair for graduates of the academic program aimed at sharing business experiences with students, in order to facilitate strategic connections and generate opportunities for value creation throughout the hydrocarbon chain and the energy sector.
For Silvia Carolina Pico, a student in the Master’s in Hydrocarbon Engineering program, the International Subsurface Energy Resources Week will be an opportunity to get closer to the industry and learn about what is currently being done.
“In addition, we will be able to network and acquire new knowledge about new techniques and technologies that are currently being applied, especially since we are dealing with new energies,” she says.
The transformation of the sector
Although the oil sector has been undergoing an energy transformation, during this academic event, experts will be discussing these changes and the adaptations that have taken place in both the academic and professional fields.
“The approach must be based on industry trends and needs, so we will have engineers and representatives from the Professional Council of Engineering and Petroleum, the International Association of Petroleum Engineers (ACIPET), the National Hydrocarbons Agency, and the Colombian Chamber of Petroleum, Gas, and Energy (CAMPETROL) to talk about the sector, both in terms of decarbonization and the use of renewable energies,” says Ariza León. The International Week of Subsurface Energy Resources will maintain a dialogue on the advances, challenges, and opportunities of the energy transformation, as well as the role of hydrocarbons in the country’s well-being and finances.
