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Announcements
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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 the latest 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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5 June 2009 -- Issue Preproposal request
15-16, June 2009
Pre-Solicitation Workshop 2009 convened in Paris, France
Schedule Extended 31 July 2009 -- (Midnight, Central Standard Daylight
Savings Time, U.S.) Preproposals due
(8 weeks to respond)
18 September 2009 -- Announce preproposals selected on the
AEC website and solicit full proposals from
the finalists.
23 October 2009 -- (Midnight, Central Standard Daylight
Savings Time, U.S.) Final proposals due
(5 weeks to respond)
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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| 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.
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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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