Under the patronage of the Iraqi Council of Representatives and the Ministry of Oil under the slogan "Iraqi geologists are the cornerstone of the national economy," the head of the Department of Oil Technology at the University of Technology, Dr. Mohammed Saleh Al-Jawad, participated in the 16th Iraqi Geologists Conference held by the Iraqi Geologists Union at the Cultural Cultural Center for 26-27 / 4/2017.
 The topics of the conference were: oil geology, mining, pollution, environmental geology, renewable energy and climate change, economic and chemical geology, water resources, geophysics, remote sensing, geological engineering as well as geological applications.