Online seminar on nanotechnology applications

29 January 2009

Advance Energy Consortium (AEC) is one of the advance research consortium engaged in the development of nanotechnology applications that can be used in oil and gas industry. The multimillions dollar consortium’s primary aim is to design and develop the new generation micro and nano sensors. These nanosensors once injected into oil reservoir can help characterizing the dimensions of the reservoir so that the recovery of oil and gas is improved.

Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) is organizing a free online seminar to provide the information about the work carried out at the research consortium on dated 19^th February 2009 between 15.0 to 16.0 GMT and renowned speakers Jay Kipper and Sean Murphy will deliver the talks.

The funding for the consortium has crossed 5 million US dollar in first year and this is likely to increase in the coming years. The consortium was brought forward by Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas at Austin and he Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (SINST), Rice University is the technical partner of the consortium. Many privately funded members include Petrobras, BP, Halliburton, Shell, TOTAL, Marathon, Baker Hughes and Conoco Phillips.

Recovery of oil is an issue especially with current technologies where up to 60 percent of oils remains underground even after primary, secondary or even tertiary recovery methods. The new nanosensors are being very small and are capable to provide information on pores and attached geological structure of the well bores of the reservoirs. The information can further be utilized for maximizing the exploration of the well.

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