After nearly half a year of preparation and competition, the project "nonlinear seismic simulation based on the Sunway Taihu Light" lead by Wei Yanwen, the doctoral student of Department of Earth System Science won the qualification into the Aramco Asian 2017 technology research contest national finals.

From left to right: He Conghui, Chen Bingwei, Wei Yanwen

Aramco Asia united Enactus to launch the "Energy, Environment and Climate Sustainability" project at the end of 2016, in which the "Techno Quests" project was open to students in the Chinese region. Participants can submit project submissions on the small experimental research topics in the areas of "Reservoir Engineering", "Geophysics", "Geology" and "Geology". The "Technology Discovery" program aims to encourage students to introduce trials, applications and attempts to innovate technology solutions to implement Ameria's strategic responsibility for energy, environment and climate sustainability.

A total of 176 in the relevant professional masters, doctoral students, free team from Peking University, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Tsinghua University, Southwest Petroleum University (Chengdu), China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China University of Petroleum (East China) 7 colleges and universities, in 70 professional tutor counseling and support, put forward and studied a total of 58 research topics in the field of "improving oil recovery", "geophysics" and "geology".

Subsequently, by the school review of the universities and professional instructor above, 17 research project report and then further by the Aramco Asia Beijing R & D center industry technical experts do depth assessment. In the end, Aramco Asia R & D center in Beijing selected the following seven research teams to qualify for the 2017 "Technology Exploration" National Finals, which are: