Pakistani students bring home SEG-challenge bowl

Osama Hassan Khan and Sami Toor won the 5th Annual Middle East Challenge Bowl, organized by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) on July 20 in Istanbul, Turkey. Osama Hassan Khan and Sami Toor from NED University, Karachi, Pakistan. Khan and Toor are final year students of petroleum engineering. They beat Rami M. Alloush and Roody Al-Obaha from Egypt.

Winners of 5th Annual Middle East Challenge Bowl, Istanbul with one of ExxonMobil's instructor

The runners up of Challenge Bowl are from Egypt. Rami M. Alloush is a petroleum engineer from Suez Canal University and Roody Al-Obaha is a geologist from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Challenge Bowl Runners up: Rami M. Alloush (left) and Roody Al-Obaha (right) from Egypt

The SEG Challenge Bowl is an international contest testing students 'breadth and depth of knowledge in geosciences'. Participants were hailed from Azarbaijan, China, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

Group photo of Challenge Bowl participants: Teams left to right: Ozan Elif and Gulce Gizem Dinc (Turkey), unknown participants from Team III (Turkey), Asar Eraz and Adham Othman (Egypt), Sajjad Munir and Samreen Rasheed (Pakistan), Sami Toor and Osama H. Khan (Pakistan), Roody Al-Obaha and Rami M. Alloush (Egypt), Timur Fayzullaev (Uzbekistan) and CHong Chen (China), Ragim Gulamaliyev and Abdul Kerimov (Azarbaijan).

AS regional winners, Khan and Toor was awarded a travel grant to attend the 81st SEG international Exhibition and Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, USA between September 18 and 22 and to compete in the 6th Annual SEG internation Challenge Bowl finals.

Pakistani students after winning Challenge Bowl Competition: starting from left to right; Salma Mumtaz, Sajjad Munir, Sami Toor, Osama Hassan Khan, Samreen Rashid and Salsabeel Verdah

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