“阿美亚洲能源杯”亚太区总决赛的参与者们在阿美北京研发中心合影留念。总决赛在北京举行，来自中国、新加坡、马来西亚、菲律宾和韩国分赛区的获胜团队参与角逐。“阿美亚洲能源杯”是沙特阿美2017 年度亚太捐赠计划资助的创新项目，由阿美亚洲和创行共同举办。创行是一家致力于鼓励学生践行企业家精神，创造美好世界的公益组织。
近日，经过一年的激烈角逐、精心选拔及对研究人员创新项目的深入评估，来自中国、新加坡、马来西亚、菲律宾和韩国分赛区的获胜团队齐聚中国首都北京，参加“阿美亚洲能源杯”总决赛。
“阿美亚洲能源杯”是沙特阿美2017 年度亚太捐赠计划资助的创新项目，由阿美亚洲和创行共同举办。创行是一家致力于鼓励学生践行企业家精神，创造美好世界的公益组织。
“能源杯”旨在扶持亚太地区未来一代企业家，提供其所需的资源和专业技术支持，鼓励开发创新方案。
150多名大学生以及学术导师、行业专家等参加了总决赛，阿美亚洲管理团队担任决赛裁判和观察员。
一个核心主题，三大竞赛单元
项目以“能源、气候及环境可持续发展”为主题，于2016年10月启动。辐射至来自中国、新加坡、韩国、马来西亚和菲律宾380所高校的199，000多名本科、硕士、博士生，共同寻求应对环境和可持续发展挑战的创新方案。
亚太地区是全球科技创新的中心，尤其在中国，面对第四次工业革命带来的全面变革，举国上下积极倡导大众创业万众创新。沙特阿美公司坚信创新能连接人才、思想和能量，充分发掘我们资源的潜力，扩大效益，为各种机遇注入动能。同时，以知识为基础的创新也是“沙特愿景2030”中确定的一大主题。
沙特阿美正越来越多地参与亚太市场，致力于为该地区未来发展做出贡献，这也将有助于公司实现沙特王国长远的经济蓝图。通过为公司运营所在国的可持续发展和环境事业献计献策、提供支持，阿美一直在积极运用自身业务活动和专业技术为社区和民众造福。
创新项目分三部分：项目A –“创新解决方案”选拔，旨在激励亚太地区的本科学生开展对能源、环境和生态等领域的创新和可持续发展有利的研究。项目B-“技术研究”中国赛，由阿美亚洲北京研发中心（BRC）主办，旨在鼓励中国硕士和博士研究生在BRC专注的油藏工程、地球物理和地质学这三大领域开展新技术和解决方案的研发和应用。项目C-“阿美亚洲能源杯亚太区总决赛”，项目A决出的分别来自五个参赛国的获胜团队在北京参加总决赛。
连接人才、思想和能量
来自华北电力大学(保定)的本科生团队获得亚太区总决赛冠军，他们设计的沼气光伏互补发电系统能帮助农民节约用电。
团队队长说：“我们非常感谢阿美亚洲给予的机会和认可。未来，我们将继续努力，为可持续发展作出更多有影响力的事情。”
马来西亚吉隆坡大学本科生团队获得亚军。一位团队成员说：“这次中国之行非常愉快，与来自亚太各国的创行同学们的交流让我们受益良多，我们将结合所学改进研发工作。”
在“技术研究”中国赛部分，七个团队入围决赛，西南石油大学研究生团队以“非均相纳米流体对提高原油采收率的研究”获得冠军。
团队代表说：“评委席的行业专家们给我们提出了很多宝贵的意见和建议，对我们未来的学习和研究工作帮助很大。”
谈到阿美北京研发中心主办的“技术研究”中国赛，BRC主任哈立德∙鲁斐（Khalid Rufaii）说道：“我们对这次比赛的设计和成果都非常满意。比赛为中国硕士和博士生们提供了一个重要的展现平台，交流切磋他们在油藏工程、地球物理与地质学等领域的研发能力，这三个领域也是BRC的主攻方向所在。同时，大赛还促进了这些领域的长足发展。”
阿美亚洲公共事务副总裁何万里 (Waleed Al Helal )说：“我们亚太地区的公共事务团队一直与创行紧密合作，配合无间，确保在亚太地区五个国家同时进行的这项大型企业社会责任项目的规划和实施都与沙特阿美在该地区的核心经营理念相契合，完全依照沙特阿美捐赠项目的选择标准、影响力指标、可持续发展能力和企业形象识别度要求开展。”
“在此我想衷心感谢我们亚太区公共事务团队的不懈努力，正是因为他们的努力，让这次活动在亚太地区青年学者和学生们中产生了意义深远的影响。”
创行中国主席Janet Shanberg对沙特阿美的慷慨捐赠和阿美公司管理团队对项目的深度参与表示高度认可，她强调说：“企业社会责任已经写入阿美公司的DNA。”
她说：“本次大赛非常有意义，尤其是它为五个国家的学生打造了一个参与及合作的平台。这种合作共享理念在当下全球环境中必不可少。”
比赛结束后，所有参与者受邀赴BRC参观，中心研究员们向访客介绍了中心最近的研发项目。
Aramco Asia Energy Cup highlights sustainability, entrepreneurship among Asia-Pacific young researchers
Participants of the Aramco Asia "Energy Cup" Asia Pacific Competition pose for a group photo during their tour of the Beijing Research Center. Regional qualifiers from China, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and South Korea gathered for the event in Beijing. The event is funded through Saudi Aramco's annual donation to the Asia-Pacific region and is jointly carried out by Aramco Asia and Enactus, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring students through the support of the accomplishments of next-generation entrepreneurs seeking and developing innovative solutions.
Regional winners of the "Aramco Asia Energy Cup" — qualifiers from China, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and South Korea — gathered for a key event in the Chinese capital of Beijing for the final contest after one year of intense competition, careful selection, and evaluation of the researchers' innovative projects.
Funded through Saudi Aramcos 2017 annual donation to the Asia-Pacific region, this innovative program was jointly developed and carried out by Aramco Asia and Enactus — a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring students to improve the world through entrepreneurship accomplishments.
The Energy Cup has been designed to support the next generation of entrepreneurs in the Asia Pacific region by providing them with the resources and expertise they need to develop innovative solutions.
The final contest attracted more than 150 graduate students, academic advisers, and industry experts, with Aramco Asia management acting as judges and observers at the event.
Program composed of three dynamic phases
The program was launched in October 2016 with a theme of "Sustainability for Energy, Environment, and Climate Change." It reached over 199,000 graduate and postgraduate students from 380 universities in China, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines, and helped them find innovative solutions to the environment and sustainability challenges.
The Asia-Pacific region is at the heart of global technological innovation. This is especially true as China embraces mass innovation and entrepreneurship in the face of sweeping changes driven by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Saudi Aramco believes innovation connects people, ideas, and energy to realize the full potential of our resources, amplifying their benefits to power opportunities. Knowledge-based innovation is also included as one of the key elements of Saudi Vision 2030.
As the company is striving to realize the long-term economic blueprint for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco is maintaining a growing presence in Asia-Pacific and contributing to the future success of the region. Its business activities and expertise are leveraged for the benefits of the people and communities by strategizing and providing support to sustainability and environmental policies in the host countries.
The program was divided into three parts under an integrated framework. Project A, "Innovative Solution," was designed to empower undergraduate students in the Asia-Pacific region to develop projects that are conducive to innovation and sustainability for energy, environment and ecology issues. Project B, "Techno Quests," which was led by Aramco's Beijing Research Center (BRC), engaged postgraduate students in China to initiate research studies to apply new technologies and solutions in BRC's three main areas of research — reservoir engineering, geophysics, and geology. Project C, the "Aramco Asia Energy Cup Asia-Pacific Competition" brought the winning teams of the five participating countries in Project A to Beijing for the final round.
Connecting energy, ideas, and people
The North China Electric Power University (Baoding) undergraduate team won the top award of the Asia-Pacific competition with its creative design of a biogas photovoltaic complementary power generation system that helped farmers save electricity.
"We thank Aramco Asia for the opportunity and recognition. In the future, we hope that we can carry on and make a greater impact for a more sustainable world," said the team leader.
The first runner-up prize went to the Universiti Kuala Lumpur undergraduate team from Malaysia. "We enjoyed our trip to China and learned a great deal from Enactus students across the Asia-Pacific region for the improvement of our own work," said one team member.
For the "Techno Quests" China National Competition, seven teams entered into the final round with the Southwest Petroleum University postgraduate team receiving the championship title with their project "Investigation of Green Heterogeneous Nano- Fluid for Enhanced Oil Recovery."
"We have been given valuable suggestions and comments from the industrial experts of the judge's panel, which are tremendously helpful for our future learning and research work," the team presenter pointed out.
Commenting on the "Techno Quest" work stream led by the BRC, the center's director, Khalid Al Rufaii, indicated that "we are very satisfied with the design and outcomes of this program. It provided an important platform for young postgraduate students in China to showcase their research capabilities in the areas of the center's interests, namely reservoir engineering, geophysics and geology, and also promoted the long-term development of such fields."
"Public Affairs teams across the Asia-Pacific region have worked closely and seamlessly with Enactus in the five countries to make sure that the design and implementation plan of this sizable corporate social responsibility project are highly aligned with both Saudi Aramco’s core business in the region and Saudi Aramco's donation strategy selection criteria, impact metrics, sustainability, and corporate identity recognition," said Waleed Al Helal, director of Aramco Asia Public Affairs.
"I would like to express my sincere appreciation to our public affairs teams across Asia for their great efforts, which has brought about meaningful impact and awareness among the young researchers and students in this region."
Recognizing the key role of Saudi Aramco's donation and the management's close involvement, Janet Shanberg, president of Enactus China, highlighted that "the belief of corporate social responsibility is part of the company's DNA."
"This competition was especially meaningful in that it created a platform for students from five countries to participate and collaborate. This type of collaboration and sharing of ideas is essential in today's global environment."
After the competition, all participants were invited for a tour of the BRC facilities, where they were briefed by the researchers on the latest research projects being carried out by the BRC.