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What does a reaction engineer do when his (or her) lab gets shut down by a virus pandemic? Re-purpose your equipment to make direly needed hand sanitizer for the local medical center (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center). Together with my RAPID graduate students Nasser Al Azri and Riddhesh Patel, we received permission to keep our 20 L batch reactors running to mi…

Location: Beach Energy’s Cooper Basin Oil and Gas Fields, South Australia.

I recently spent 16 days rafting down the Grand Canyon on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed the incredible and varying geology along the way. This picture really blew my mind. The bottom half of my hand is sitting on the 1.7 billion-years-old Vishnu Schist Formation, and the top half is sitting on the 550-million-years-old Tapeats Sandstone Formation. My hand is literall…

Budding petroleum engineers may find the two pictures interesting as they reflect India’s oil history. I picked them up from DEW Journal’s archives. The first picture shows elephant carts setting out for seismic survey in upper Assam during formative years of the oil industry in India. Amazing how things have changed over the years.

Recently, I had the opportunity to go onboard the FPSO Armada Claire. It was operating in Australia, and is currently laid up in Batam, Indonesia. Despite being in the extreme heat, clad in boots and coveralls soaked in sweat, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of walking through the FPSO, learning about the disconnectable riser turret mooring system, topsides proces…

Another beautiful sunrise onboard SIEM Helix 2 NS-52, where i-Tech 7 has two remotely operated vehicles (ROV) services contracts operating successfully for Petrobras. Photo taken by Leonardo Germano, ROV pilot on NS-52.

A photo to commemorate the celebration of 52 years of the SPE Colombia Section held in the Ecopetrol club in Bogotá, Colombia. In the picture: Petroleum engineering students and graduates of the South Colombian University.

One of the advantages of working in the oil field is getting to travel to places I would dream about. I have always wanted to visit Alaska and I’m working here since April with the most awesome people. A huge temperature difference compared to the US Gulf Coast but I love the experience.

I performed my first Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) picture at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where I am doing my PhD in the Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering program.

A three-story subsea BOP stack stands outside the NRG Center in Houston, Texas this month where the Offshore Technology Conference was just held. If you’ve been going to OTC long enough, then you know that the conference is never complete without a giant BOP on display. It is one of those pieces of equipment that encapsulate all the things that make the oil and gas in…