TRAJECTORY- THINKING OIL...

The Big Question- What is it all about?
The Answer- It is all about what our oil industry is looking for- "Innovation". We do have seen some recent advancements like extended reach wells, multilateral wells, intelligent wells, etc which have certainly increased oil productivity, but would this be enough to meet the global energy demands in the coming decades? "No"
It's time to have our next wave of innovation so that the levels of expected energy demand can be met. And this begins at "Trajectory" from December 2.
The purpose here is to have some major breakthroughs rather than enhancing or extrapolating a technology or a system.
This is about more about sharing ideas rather than selling ideas.
It's an effort to take on the future challenge.
Just 15 days to go.
Thinking Oil...
Website: www.trajectory.we.bs
Contact: Trajectory.Oil@gmail.com

Way To Go!

Lasers, intelligent machines, optical fibers, acoustic devices and what not!
No, I am not talking about a Star Trek episode. It’s all about our oil fields!
Don’t be flabbergasted. It’s Reality.
Intelligent machines have already made their debut on oil fields and very soon we will say goodbye to many of our manually operated machines of the 20th century.
But then there are many rebuttals from ignorant people who will give no reasons for their belief that age old procedures and technologies are the best bet for oil fields.
To give a new thought to an existing process or technology is not much appreciated in many of our institutes. This is much more of a problem in our industry as the capital expenditures are very high and nobody would like to experiment with their money!
So, what to do???
We have to challenge our existing procedures and technologies if we wish to get the most from our fields.
But then what about high CAPEX?
It’s surely a risk. But then we can turn it into calculated risk rather than being a gambler’s risk.
First of all we need to think different. We have to work with all our zest. Challenge old ideas and bring on the new ones! However, we should not always be reproachful.
Instead we should be logical, practical and obviously smart!
We define smart as an apparently intelligent action. So, not only we should think about some useful AI gizmo’s for the field but also on how to operate smartly on mature fields to get the most from them.
We need practical and optimal solutions. That’s it!!!
I have identified the following areas where we can have some brainstorming!
Intelligent Machines, Expert Systems, Database Management, Data Mining, Laser Drilling, Effective and Precise Logging Techniques, 4-D Seismic,etc

Monodiameter Completion

Now, we can have well completion with successive liners of uniform inside diameters.. How???
Check this: Monodiameter Completion
Prerequisite: Complete understanding of SET technology.

Paper, Paper...

Research papers-Something which made me a laughing stock and which also gave me a cult status in my university.
How it happened is not what I want to tell here. What I want to tell here is an answer for another question-“How do we write research papers?”
This question has been asked to me so many times that at a point of time I decided to freely distribute my recorded audio tapes!
First of all I want to tell that neither I am an expert in writing papers nor I am paper writing machine by Xerox. And, secondly, I have decided to give an answer for the above question because I feel that I never gave a satisfactory answer to the above question to my juniors may be because I got that “I don’t have time” feeling which is sometimes associated with cult status.
Ok, so how do we write papers? Truly saying, the very first time I wrote my paper, I didn’t even knew that I had written a paper! Actually, I prepared a report based on my research and then my professor told me that you can submit this to a conference with some modifications. This paper was rejected thrice before it got accepted at an international conference.
Some people get uncomfortable with the fact that a student’s paper has been selected for an international conference. But I don’t think that there is any reason to get uncomfortable.
In our field, papers can be broadly divided into three categories:
Those which describe the challenges of a field and the measures adopted to overcome those challenges
Those which describe a new technology or an innovative idea to improve any process or efficiency of a technology
Those which describe some technical or a managerial process.
As students, we can’t write anything about the first and last categories.
However, we can have some brainstorming in the second category.
So, how do we begin?
First of all, we should remember that we are not writing papers for getting some publicity. We should only write a paper when we feel that our idea is innovative and practical. Just being innovative is not enough because then it might also end as another technology for the start trek series.
Genuine paper’s can’ be written in a day or a week. It requires a true and dedicated effort which might take months together. Gauss once said about his work “few but ripe”. We should follow the same thing.
We should be updated about not only our field but also some other fields like computer science; instrumentation etc. we should always question ourselves that is it possible to incorporate a technology of some other field in our field.
If one is good with mathematics, then a mathematical modeling of any process can certainly help in writing a paper.
Frankly speaking, writing paper is no big deal. One can find many papers which are written with the help of one great technology which Mr. Gates has provided to us-“Cut/Copy and Paste”.
But, giving something innovative and practical to our industry is a big deal.
So, write a paper when you feel that you have something different with you!

Some time to explore….

“So, what are you planning now?” this question has been asked to me several times by several people especially in the last four years.
This time I have no definite answer for this question and I am very happy with this. I don’t have any specific goal now and that’s why my brain is free to think about so many topics which was not possible a month before.
Petroleum engineering is one such topic. Though this topic never left my mind, but I never had time to think about it as freely as I can now.
And that’s why I decided to come up with this blog so that my thoughts can get some bits and bytes rather than getting lost in empty space.
So, what this blog is all about?
It’s all about petroleum engineering; Technologies, case studies, innovations, etc. All what you can think about petroleum engineering.
So, let’s start our exploration!