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5th Year Science students visit Tullow Oil

NEWS / 24 March 2011

Bogdan Kuzmanovic (5th Year) recounts the trip to Tullow Oil and meeting with Tullow Oil geologists on 8th March.

oil rigOur trip to Tullow Oil on Tuesday, 8th March, was very insightful. We learned all about the Geophysics of the experiments carried out and all of the geologists were very friendly. I was in a group with Peter Cleary (5th Year) and Olivia Bagnall (5th Year). We got to do fun things like look at oil samples. Our lunch was free too! We had great fun!

Bogdan Kuzmanovic (5th Year)

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