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Announcements
The pre-proposal selections are being confirmed by AEC members. We anticipate that the selections will be announced on Tuesday morning (September 22, 2009) via email.
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AEC has added additional learning resources, including instructional video and interactive animations essential to understanding the drilling and production processes.
Check our Learning Modules page for educational resources. Forum members will find these and other new information tools inside the AEC Forum.
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| Sean Murphy examines some possible roles for nanotechnology in our energy future in this reprint from the January, 2009 issue of E&P. |
Important Dates
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22 September 2009 -- Announce preproposals selected on the
AEC website and solicit full proposals from
the finalists.
Monday, 26 October 2009 -- (12:00 p.m. Central Standard Daylight Savings Time, U.S.) Final Proposals Due
4 December 2009 -- Selections announced on AEC website,
and engagement with those selected.
31 December 2009 -- Execute contracts
January 2010 -- Start projects |
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| AEC hosted nearly 100 attendees at its Midyear Review event held in September on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus at The University of Texas at Austin. Twenty-two AEC funded research projects representing nine different U.S. universities provided an overview of their current projects during the 2-day event. In attendance were member company engineers and scientists (BakerHughes, BP, ConocoPhillips, Halliburton, Marathon, OXY, Petrobras, Schlumberger, Shell, |
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and TOTAL), AEC funded researchers, staff from the Bureau of Economic Geology, and Dean Sharon Mosher of the Jackson School of Geosciences. Project scientists summarized their initial objectives, current findings, unexpected discoveries, and new insights on a broad range of projects directed toward developing micro- and nanosensors that will enable improved recovery of oil from conventional reservoirs. The 2-day event included time for extended interactions, including Q&A sessions, panel discussions, poster sessions, and informal breaks and reception. Proceedings and videotapes from the event will be posted for member company access in the AEC Members Forum.  |
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In its cover story "Small But Mighty," eMagazine Next Generation Oil and Gas features efforts by the Advanced Energy Consortium, as well as Saudi Aramco, in the development of nanotechnology applications for energy exploration and production. David Zornes and Linda Maloney of ConocoPhillips provided editing for this article. To read the eMagazine article, click here. To read or download a PDF version of the story, click here. |
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| TOTAL Senior Vice President of Scientific Development Jean Francois Minster officially opened the AEC conference at TOTAL's Le Spazio facility in Paris |
The Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) sponsored a workshop in Paris, France with seventy participants from numerous countries including France, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Japan, England, Scotland, Qatar, Belgium, Egypt and the USA in attendance. A networking and dinner cruise on the Seine kicked off the two day event. |
On Tuesday, June 16, Jean Francois Minster, Senior Vice President of Scientific Development, TOTAL, greeted the guests at TOTAL’s Le Spazio facility and officially opened the conference; an oil field primer presented by AEC members Dan Georgi (Baker Hughes) and Willem Schulte (Shell) followed. Jay Kipper and Sean Murphy reviewed the background and mission of the AEC and discussed the plans for continued research and funding for 2009. The morning session concluded with a panel Q&A discussion between AEC members and the audience.
The afternoon session featured Ralph Kling of Crossbow Technology, who challenged the audience with a new approach to realizing the promise of autonomous self-forming, self-healing mesh wireless sensor networks. Dean Neikirk (Univ. Texas), Joyce Wong (CalTech), and Howard Schmidt (Rice Univ.) followed with technology overviews of their current research projects for the AEC. The final three presenters on the agenda are exploring radically different applications of nano scale technologies. Kazukiko Matsumoto (Osaka Univ.) is exploiting the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to develop a whole new class of extremely sensitive biochemical sensors for detecting antibodies, proteins, glucose and specific cancer antigens. Christian Joachim (CEMES-CNRS/Toulousse) reviewed the challenges and his successes in constructing single molecule machines. Finally, DK Arvind (Univ. Edinburgh) provided glimpses of the potential power and application of "Specknets", minute semiconductor grains that can sense and compute locally, and communicate wirelessly.
The dialogue between the Petroleum E&P and the Nano scale research communities during this two day event was invaluable and helped to further |
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| clarify the technical goals and potential nano scale solutions solicited through the 2009 Request for Proposals (available on this website). Special thanks to BEG employees David Chapman, Sharon Campos and Natalie Silva, whose planning and coordination helped to make this workshop successful. |
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