PTAC Soheil Asgarpour Scholarship in Sustainable Energy

Soheil Asgarpour, PhD, P.Eng., FCAE,FCIM,FCSSE has over 40 years of diversified technical, business, and operations experience in the oil and gas industry marked by providing strong leadership as: President of Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC), President of Innovative Oil & Gas Inc. and business leader of Oil Sands Development for Alberta Department of Energy, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Canadian 88 Energy Corp., Director of Corporate Strategic Planning for Gulf Canada Resources Limited (“Gulf”), Director of Exploitation for Gulf, and Chief Engineer of Gulf. Dr. Asgarpour graduated from Rice University with a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and completed the Executive Management Program at Western Business School, the University of Western Ontario, and the Leadership Program at Yale School of Management, Yale University. Dr. Asgarpour’s commitment to the future of oil and gas industry has been demonstrated through the numerous awards he has received over the course of his career, recognizing his excellent technical and business leadership, commitment to advancing new technology, and excellence in promoting and developing Canada’s resource industry.

Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC) is a Canadian hydrocarbon industry association that serves as a neutral not-for-profit, international facilitator, and project manager of collaborative R&D for technology development, demonstration, and deployment. PTAC operates in partnership with all industry stakeholders to transform challenges into opportunities. By effectively leveraging financial resources and technical expertise through its proven model, PTAC has been able to able to support collaborative networks which advance innovative R&D and technology development projects, that address pertinent industry challenges through activities which reduce costs, improve operational efficiencies, enhance environmental stewardship, advance regulatory development, and provide Canada’s strategic hydrocarbon energy industry with the societal support.

PTAC was created to promote collaborative research and technology development for the hydrocarbon energy industry when in 1996, the industry’s Vice President’s Breakfast Club saw a dramatic decrease in R&D spending as a result of changing industry demographics, down-sizing and tight budgets. After consideration of world-wide best practises, a unique PTAC model for developing technology was created at that time to be a neutral association promoting inclusive collaboration amongst all industry stakeholders. PTAC has fostered identification of issues from multi-stakeholders and the combination of financial and intellectual resources to launch industry projects reducing duplication of effort and maximizing resources on non-competitive issues to help solve the industry’s technology challenges and seize opportunities.

Funds raised will be used to establish an endowment fund that will support the scholarship in perpetuity. If total contributions do not reach the endowment minimum required, funds will be utilized to support the award on an annual basis until the funds are completely depleted.

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