SPE President Leo Roodhart Visits PDPU

On Feb 5, 2009, the president of SPE Dr. Leo Roodhart, visited Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University on the invitation of Student Chapter of SPE at PDPU. SPE(Society of Petroleum Engineers) is a professional association which represents petroleum engineers and other professionals working in energy resources development and production.

Accompanying Dr. Roodhart, were distinguished guests from SPE India section and senior officials of IRS, Ahmedabad as well as ONGC, Shell, Schlumberger to name a few among other reputed companies of oil and gas sector. Shri M. Y. Farooqui, GM (P & D) – GSPC, Shri PPG Sarma, CEO – GSPC Gas, Shri S. M. Sinha, Productions Head – GSPC, Shri Arijeet Ray, Dr. Bijoy Behra, Shri Subhash Dave, GM Finance – GSPC, Shri V. K. Sharma, CEO – GIPL, Shri Micheal Weir, GM HR – GSPC, Shri Sharad Dubey, Business Development Manger, Oilfield Services – Schlumberger, Shri B. Mohapatra, Country Manager, GGR India, Shri Bhojraj Choudhary, Reservior Enginees – GGR India, Shri Shashank Sinha, GGR, Shri P. K. Kulkarni, Project Director – Joshi Technologies were few of the dignitaries who visited the university.

Dr. Leo Roodhart is 2009 SPE President and is currently leading Shell’s corporate strategic innovation program, GameChanger. During his speech he mentioned the widespread problem of recession and said, “The current global financial crisis is affecting economies around the world and has slowed demand for energy. But I have seen many crises affecting our industry during my career, and in the long term, the world will always need energy. It always amazes me how much energy there is in a gallon of gasoline. Nothing can and will beat that.”

Chief Secretary: Government of Gujarat Shri D.Rajgopalan Visits PDPU

Chairman, GSPC and Chief Secretary, GOG, Shri D.Rajgopalan visited the university on March 21, 2009. In an interactive session between Shri Rajgopalan and the stakeholders of the university, Deputy Registrar Mr. Palak Sheth made a brief presentation on the inception and progress of the university. The Director General Shri. Virani informed the Chief Secretary about the vision of the university and the future plans.

Student representatives from the Management School and the School of Petroleum Technology gave a short introduction of various extra-curricular activities organized at the university. Students expressed the hope that in the coming years the university would carry on its progress to become at par with world-class universities like Texas and Stanford.

Shri Ragopalan in his speech expressed pleasure and satisfaction at the way the university is shaping up. He implored the stakeholders of the university to consider establishment challenges as constructive opportunities. He also insisted that students should be involved at all stages in the developmental plans of the university. Since the area near the university is fast developing in an educational zone, he advised the officials of the university to explore the possibility of creating homogenous residential facility for the students of different institutes, so that maximum academic interaction among students of different discipline becomes possible. After his speech, Shri Rajgopalan also took time to interact with students and to answer their questions.

At the end of the session, GSPC MD Shri D. J. Pandian reiterated the resolve of GSPC to facilitate all developmental processes of the university.

Three Day Workshop on “CFD Applications in Energy Sector using ANSWER™ and PORFLOW™” at SPTG

SPTG organized a three day workshop (March 12-14, 2009) on- “CFD Applications in Energy Sector using ANSWER™ and PORFLOW™”, in collaboration with USA based organization Analytic & Computational Research, Incorporated (ACRi).

The three day workshop covered fundamentals of CFD including mathematical and physical basis, problem definition and modelling in petroleum sector, and hands on computer sessions. The work shop had been attended by 10 participants including Dr. Madhukar M. Rao and Mr. Rajagopal form ACRi, faculty members from different institutes including SPTG, SSEG and Nirma Institute of Technology. Dr. Abhay Sharma, SPTG coordinated the workshop. The Workshop guided the scholars to bring out necessary skills in the area of CFD based applications.

Dr. Jyotiranjan S. Ray, from PRL, Ahmedabad visited SPTG on 18th March, 2009 and gave a talk on MUD VOLCANOES: GEODYNAMIC AND CLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS

Dr. Fahed - Al-Ajmi, Visiting Scholar to India, SPE visited SPTG on 4th March, 2009. He held a brief interactive session with the faculty and M.Tech. students of SPTG.