{"id":26690,"date":"2019-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/petroleum-experts-donates-software-suite-to-tarleton-geosciences-program\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:46:27","slug":"petroleum-experts-donates-software-suite-to-tarleton-geosciences-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/petroleum-experts-donates-software-suite-to-tarleton-geosciences-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Petroleum Experts donates software suite to Tarleton geosciences program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, December 3, 2019<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash;&nbsp;Petroleum Experts Limited has donated a petroleum engineering and structural geology software package valued at more than $2.1 million to Tarleton State University&rsquo;s Department of Chemistry, Geosciences and Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Geoscientists and engineers use the MOVE suite in any geological setting and across a variety of industry sectors.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s great they were willing to donate this to Tarleton,&rdquo; said Dr. Kelley Shaffer, director of the Center for Instructional Innovation. &ldquo;It is industry-specific software that helps prepare our graduates for a very competitive segment of the workforce.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The donation is expected to specifically benefit students in Tarleton&rsquo;s geoscience programs at both the undergraduate and master&rsquo;s levels. The software should be available for the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s incredibly generous,&rdquo; said Dr. Ryan Morgan, department head and assistant professor of geosciences at Tarleton. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting millions of dollars of top-of-the-line software to train our students so they&rsquo;ll have skills they can use beyond graduation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Petex petroleum engineering software tools enable the oil and gas industry to dynamically model oil reservoirs, production and injection wells, and surface pipeline networks as an integrated production system.<\/p>\n<p>The MOVE suite provides a platform for integrating and interpreting data, cross-section construction, 3D model building, kinematic restoration and validation, geo-mechanical modeling, fracture modeling, fault response modeling, and fault and stress analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&rsquo;s scholars into tomorrow&rsquo;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist<br \/>817-484-4415<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petroleum Experts of Houston has donated a petroleum engineering and structural geology software package valued at more than $2.1 million to Tarleton State University&rsquo;s Department of Chemistry, Geosciences and Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/10\/Spring-Flowers-Admin-Gates_7545-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 3, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 3, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:46 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University entrance with flags and flowers.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54239,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26690\/revisions\/54239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}