1-Feb-07 0:00 AM CST

Hiep Vu 2007 Young Engineer of the Year

The SPE Gulf Coast Section proudly honors Hiep Vu as the 2007 Young Engineer of the Year. Hiep is a senior production engineer for Shell International E&P in the EPT Subsea and Pipelines Organization. His current responsibilities include front-end engineering, detailed design, material selection, and on-site execution of completion operations for subsea wells in the Gulf of Mexico.A member of SPE since entering college in 1991, Vu is currently the SPE GCS vice-treasurer and will become Section treasurer in2007–08. He has been active in the Section with previous roles as the Emerging Leaders Program chairman, GCS board director-at large,Executive Committee member, Audit Committee member, Nomination and Succession Planning Committee member, director of Educational Sponsors for the Golf Committee, and member of the new ad-hoc Education Committee.He has been involved with SPE’s local high school recruiting efforts as well as in various roles with SPE’s collegiate initiatives (ATCE Petrobowl,Regional and International Student Paper Contests). A recipient of the SPE Amarillo Petroleum Section scholarship, Vu earned a BS degree in petroleum engineering from Texas Tech University in 1995.

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