class Upstream Professional Development Center. The objective of the center would be to train professionals in an intensive, immersive and integrated environment. The center, to be completed in mid-2010, will be built next to the EXPEC Advanced Research Center and only a few meters from EXPEC. “This center will include 3D visualization rooms, state-of-the-art classrooms and simulation rooms, such as drilling simulators and I-Field simulators, that will be utilized to train geoscientists and engineers,” Nasser said. --MORE