Scholarship opportunities
Academic scholarships for prospective petroleum students in a one-year taught programme
Geography field trip at Birchen Edge, near Baslow, Derbyshire
PESGB tuition scholarships
The Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB) provides a number of tuition scholarships to British MSc petroleum courses annually. There were 16 awards in summer 2012.
Main criteria:
- Have or be expected to attain a 2:1 or greater degree
- Be a UK/European-based student
- Not already have an MSc or PhD qualification
- Be applying for a relevant MSc course
- Provide two references
Details will be posted soon on PESGB MSc Scholar Awards for 2013
CASP Scholarships
Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme (CASP) a not-for-profit charitable trust carries out geological research in prospective hydrocarbon basins. They will be offering UK and EU students with a 2.1 or above, BSc and MSci the opportunity for a tuition and stipend scholarship for the 2013/14 academic year. As field-based research is at the core of CASP activities, support for a project which centres on fieldwork forms part of this scholarship package.
The deadline for the application is 15 March 2013.
Opportunities aimed at students in an MSc programme
London Petrophysical Society
The LPS provides financial support to students and universities in the form of Bursaries for students, and Grants for students and university departments. The scheme is named after Iain Hillier, who served on the LPS committee for many years and made an outstanding contribution to its work. Student Bursaries seek to reward post-graduate Earth Science students currently studying at English or Welsh universities who take an interest in logs and/or cores in their studies, and is worth £500 per year.
British Sedimentological Research Group
Steve Farrell Memorial Fund
The Steve Farrell Memorial Fund offers financial support to postgraduate students, of any age, attending field based sedimentology conferences outside the UK. Applications for assistance with sedimentological fieldwork may also be considered.
Gill Harwood Memorial Fund
The Gill Harwood Memorial Fund offers financial support for female graduate students, of any age, and female sedimentologists, under the age of 30 and of any nationality, who require funds to assist them in carrying out sedimentological fieldwork or for attendance at international meetings.
AAPG Grants-in-Aid Programme
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation provide grants for financial assistance if you are currently enrolled in a Masters or PhD programme. Your thesis research will need to have application to the search for and development of petroleum and energy-mineral resources and/or to related environmental geology issues. Grants are based on merit, and in part, on the financial needs of the applicant.
You do not need to be a member of AAPG, nor do you need to be studying in the USA.
