Petroleum Engineering Professionalism and Ethics

Engineering professionalism and ethics

  
A great deal has been written about professionalism and engineering ethics. This material along with expanded examples and detailed discussions of engineers as expert witnesses appears in the book Advanced Reservoir Engineering and Management. Highly recommended reading includes “Good Ethics Makes Good Business Sense” and “Building a Best-in-Class Compliance Program.”

Inocean won the CAT I drillship design contract from Statoil

Inocean has been awarded the contract for the Concept and option for FEED for the Statoil CAT I Drillship.

The most important contract for Inocean ever, says Jon Erik Borgen, CEO of Inocean. – Being developed for arctic operations, we are probably speaking of the most advanced and sophisticated unit evolved within drilling operations. Having this opportunity to develop the drillship of tomorrow is a big recognition of our design and engineering capabilities. We also appreciate that a Norwegian designer was chosen by Statoil in a strong competition with several major international players, says Jon Erik Borgen.

The CAT I Drillship will be tailored for the Statoil Arctic Step-up program through suitable winterization, increased capabilities and a hull suitable for operations in ice infested waters.  It is designed to minimize the environmental footprint and arranged with maximum focus on HSE. The design is based on the INO-80 Drillship.

Significant oil discovery offshore Canada

Statoil (OSE:STL, NYSE:STO) Canada and co-venturer Husky Energy have announced that the first Bay du Nord exploration well has discovered between 300 and 600 million barrels of oil recoverable.

The Bay du Nord discovery, located approximately 500 kilometres northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, was announced in August. A sidetrack well has been completed this week and confirms a high impact discovery. Additional prospective resources have been identified which require further delineation.

The Bay du Nord discovery is Statoil's third discovery in the Flemish Pass Basin. The Mizzen discovery is estimated to hold a total of 100-200 million barrels of oil recoverable. The Harpoon discovery, announced in June, is still under evaluation and volumes cannot be confirmed at this stage.

The Bay du Nord well encountered light oil of 34 API and excellent Jurassic reservoirs with high porosity and high permeability.

"It is exciting that Statoil is opening a new basin offshore Newfoundland," says Tim Dodson, executive vice president of Statoil Exploration. "This brings us one step closer to becoming a producing operator in the area."

"With only a few wells drilled in a large licenced area, totalling about 8,500 square kilometres, more work is required," adds Dodson. "This will involve new seismic as well as additional exploration and appraisal drilling to confirm these estimates before the partnership can decide on an optimal development solution in this frontier basin."

Offshore Solutions signs north sea contract with Maersk Oil UK

Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV), the joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland NV, has signed a North Sea contract with Maersk Oil UK to provide marine access support to the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Global Producer III.

Located 185 miles north east of Aberdeen, Scotland, OSBV’s Offshore Access System (OAS) will support the shutdown operations for a minimum of 110 days, with options to extend.

The walk to work system is deployed on the REM Installer, a new-build offshore subsea construction vessel chartered by Canyon Offshore, the marine contracting business unit of Helix Energy Solutions. Sea trials for the project were completed in North Sea waters in July with operations starting later the same month.

Lindsay Young, managing director of OSBV, said: “OAS equipped vessels provide safe and cost effective marine transfer and offshore accommodation allowing for greater access to offshore installations than by crew vessels or helicopters. By using the OAS, additional offshore man-hours are made available, enhancing production whilst ensuring that workers are transported in a safe manner.

Rob Armstrong, walk to work project manager for Maersk Oil UK added:

“Having personally investigated several walk to work options, the Offshore Access System (OAS) proved to be the most reliable, with a track record of high connection rates and excellent operability. Maersk Oil UK undertook an intensive hazard identification procedure to select the safest system for the project and the OAS heave compensated marine access system that we examined complies with Maersk's very stringent safety standards. Fitted on-board the REM Installer, which is a new build, state of the art DPII vessel, we are expecting even greater performance than previously experienced.”

Source: Offshore Solutions

Statoil ASA announces gas discovery in Iskrystall

Well 7219/8-2, drilled by the drilling rig West Hercules, has proved an approximately 200 metre gas column. Statoil estimates the volumes in Iskrystall to be between 6 and 25 million barrels of oil equivalents (o.e.).

Iskrystall was the second of the four prospects to be drilled in the Johan Castberg area this year with the aim of proving additional volumes for the Johan Castberg field development project. The first prospect Nunatak resulted in a small gas discovery.

"Our main goal was to

Watchful experts at your side, GE’s power conversion business can’t control the weather but allows the mariner to control the ship

                             

 As much as we hate to admit it, success is based on how well we adapt to situations we simply can’t control. That’s why, when it comes to holding a drill ship on-site, as winds whip the sea and the underwater currents into a frenzy, oil companies and their contractors turn to GE’s Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE). It’s what we do.

We are your watchful experts on the bridge with a full knowledge of the ship putting one of the industry’s most powerful dynamic positioning systems at the mariner’s fingertips, and we do it efficiently saving operators up to 10 percent in fuel usage.

Fuel from landfill

As the search for new energy source and alternative ways to power the world`s energy needs increases, more have been said toward diverting attention from the conventional sources of energy – crude oil and coal in a bit to reduce over reliance on these conventional thereby reducing the quantity of greenhouse gas emission. Energy from hydro, wind, solar is known to many but little has been known about energy from landfills. Energy from landfills have remained unknown to many and are produced on a daily basis either consciously or unconsciously through the refuses, wastes, garbage from our homes, offices, schools and factories etc. hulled away by trucks to specially designed structures called Landfill for disposal.

Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students in India, 2013

And this is probably the best and a well known scholarship scheme for those who have passed class 12 in 2013 and are pursuing/will pursue higher studies in under graduate regular courses in Engineering, Science, Commerce, etc. (not correspondence or distance mode) from recognized educational institutions/university in India.

By the Central Sector Scholarship Scheme, the Government of India awards 82000 scholarships (41000 for boys and 41000 for girls) worth Rs. 1000 per month during under graduation and Rs. 2000 per month for your masters. And once you are selected, you keep getting this scholarship till you continue your studies.

The National Merit Scholarship Scheme, the objective of which was to provide financial assistance to meritorious students studying from post-matric to post-graduate level in Government schools/colleges and universities has been discontinued with effect from April, 2007. However, a New Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students has been introduced during XI Five Year Plan. The objective of the new scheme is to provide financial assistance to meritorious students from low income families to meet a part of their day-to-day expenses while pursuing higher studies.

The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of the results of senior secondary examination. 82000 fresh scholarships per annum (41000 for boys and 41000 for girls) will be awarded for graduate/postgraduate studies in colleges and universities and for professional courses, such as Medical, Engineering etc.

Allocation of Scholarships: The total number of scholarships will be divided amongst the state boards based on the state’s population in the age group of 18 - 25 years, after segregating share of CBSE and ICSE on the basis of number of students passing out from various boards in the country which means you have to apply through the board whose certificate exam you have passed in 2013.

**Here we are sharing the details for the CBSE students. And the students who have passed out of ICSE and other state boards should apply through their respective board's website.

50% of the scholarships would be earmarked for girls. The number of scholarships

Now we focus on the Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students in India for those students who have passed out of CBSE in 2013.

Who can apply: All conditions are mandatory and applicable to all categories of applicants:

• The applicant should be an Indian national
• The applicant should have passed the Senior School Certificate Examination 2013 conducted by CBSE and have secured the total aggregate marks (in first five subjects) equal or above the following minimum marks out of 500 as per the stream opted by the applicant:

Science: 418, Commerce: 401, Other Streams: 338

• The applicant should be pursuing higher studies and have taken admission in Under Graduation regular course (not correspondence or distance mode) from recognized colleges/university in India.
• The applicant should not be availing any other scholarship.
• Total Annual Income of parents of the applicant from all sources should not exceed Rs. 6 lakhs per annum.
• The applicant should not belong to creamy layer as defined by DoP&T from time to time. (Govt. of India, Dept. of Per. & Trg., OM No. 36033/S/2004-Estt. (Res.), dated 14-10-2004) (This is applicable to all categories of applicants both ‘general’ and ‘reserved’)

Scholarship Amount and Duration: 

a) During graduation: Rs. 1000/- per month* for three years: To be disbursed lump sum amount of Rs. 10,000/- at end of academic year.

b) During post graduation: Rs 2000/- per month for two
years after graduation: To be disbursed lump sum amount of Rs. 20,000/- at end of academic year

Number of scholarships will be distributed amongst pass out of the Science, Commerce and Humanities in ratio of 3:2:1. Reservation to SC, ST, OBC and PH will be as per guidelines of the Govt of India.

How to Apply: To apply, you need to fill an online application and send its hardcopy to the CBSE's head office in New Delhi by September 30, 2013

For more details on this scheme, go through this doc (Official Notification)

And you can apply here online: Online Application

Research Internship in Chennai - Tarnea Technology Solutions #Mechanical Engineering #Industrial Engineering #Productions #Operations

Tarnea (http://www.tarnea.com/) is a Bangalore based firm working at the confluence of Design & Technology. Their products are aimed at serving customers across global markets. Tarnea espouses a strong Engineering culture and their approach is centred on Design Thinking. Every product or solution is a “Design Intervention” to improve the status quo and bring some fun into the things users normally do.

The company is developing innovative products and solution in the space of mobile computing, using cloud based backend technologies. They are building an industry leading platform for business process, intelligence and analytics cutting across both “Big” and “Small” data.

Job description: This is a short term internship for approx. 4 weeks. The work involves the study of a high velocity distribution operations and redesigning the same. Specifically, this will involve:

• Mapping and understanding production flow
• Measuring and benchmarking the discrete steps in the flow
• Devising alternate models of stocking, picking, process flow and allocation of manpower
• Building simple flow models (usually on excel sheets)

The work will require data collection and observations on the shop floor for approx. 20-25 hrs.

The engagement will be in Chennai and knowledge of Tamil will be essential.

Desired Skills and Experience: You should have an experience of having performed similar work in a high velocity production environment and be able to provide strong references and testimonials.

You should have a BE/B.Tech/MBA in Production/Operations/Mechanical Engineering.

Final year students can also apply.

For more details and to apply, visit OPEN APPLICATION