![]() ![]() TUDRP grew to more than a dozen members with worldwide recognition, and by the late 1980s, more than 25 companies were involved.Īzar led TUDRP for 22 years while teaching drilling courses to hundreds of students and helping them publish technical papers as a direct result of the research at TUDRP. “We were the only existing cooperative research program in petroleum engineering that specialized in drilling while also promoting academics,” Azar said. As director, he reached out to major oil corporations, independents, contractors and suppliers. Azar arrived at TU in 1965 as an assistant professor in aerospace engineering. Livesay left the program in 1972, and John Day served as interim director until J.J. Livesay was the group’s first director and welcomed a small group of industry partners. Students gain experience in the industry while partners benefit from the research developed. A nonprofit cooperative between industry partners and university associates, TUDRP conducts basic and applied research to advance drilling technology. TUDRP is the concept of legendary TU professor Kermit Brown who initially established the consortium. Detwiler Professor Stephen Miska passed the directorship to Wellspring Associate Professor Evren Ozbayoglu in the summer of 2017. ![]() One of the oldest drilling consortia in the world, The University of Tulsa Drilling Research Project, TUDRP, is celebrating 50 years and is poised to continue its tradition for another five decades. I gave this review a one star rating only because I HAVE to give a star in order to submit my rating, otherwise it is a no star rating.Many professionals in today’s drilling engineering industry can trace their careers back to a historic research facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I am going to pull my service from Amerigas, and I am not going to pay the outstanding invoice. I am at wits end with this company! Obviously the executives and owners of this company do not care about their customers or retaining their customers. Called back and was again put on hold so they can look at the account, this time got the hold music and eventually went dead silent, but the call was still timing. I called again, and the "Experienced Customer Advocate said she was going to put me on hold to look at the account notes and eventually forwarded to a survey (filled it out with zero satisfaction rating). ![]() To make matters worse, I went online to pay for the gas i received and they applied it to the invoice that should be credited. And, you cannot call the billing department or anyone else who actually works at Amerigas, all calls lead back to their third party call center. Each time I am "Assured" they are working on it and it will be taken care of, but it doesn't. I called six times over the course of 20 days and received the same answer with NO results. In one of my and most important complaint, they billed me for something they shouldn't have billed me for and when asked to get it credited they could only state they made a note in the system for the billing department and would take 2-3 or 3-5 days to credit (depending on who you talk to). How is this company still in business, and why is not investigated?! They have the worse customer service ("Experienced Customer Advocates"), they cannot help you with ANYTHING, they only can listen to your complaints and make notes in the system for whatever department the complaint is about. ![]()
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