This symposium was presented by the Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum & Sedimentary Systems with participation from The Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research. Fifty students were participants in the poster session, while various talks were presented on ongoing research in both departments. The keynote address was presented by John Plugge, the Executive Vice President for the ExxonMobil Development Company, on “Energy Evolution”.The luncheon address was on “Managing Subsurface Fluid Budgets to Reduce Adverse Impacts of the U.S. Shale Oil Production” by Bridget Scanlon, the Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.

View presentations, posters, and photos from the 2017 Berg-Hughes Symposium here: https://berg-hughes.tamu.edu/events/index.html