UFRN terá Workshop sobre o setor de petróleo

A UFRN em parceria com cientistas de universidades do Reino Unido está promovendo hoje a tarde um workshop sobre exploração de petróleo e gás em águas profundas.

O objetivo é reunir cientistas do Reino Unido e pesquisadores brasileiros para vencer os desafios da exploração em águas profundas. Os pontos de discussão vão incluir o uso de imagens sísmicas para mapear e datar as rochas petrolíferas.

Também será debatida a geração de óleo, a recuperação aprimorada de petróleo de baixa superfície e a otimização do fluxo a partir da plataforma de perfuração da refinaria.

O encontro também oferecerá uma oportunidade de compartilhar conhecimentos sobre novas tecnologias e o desenvolvimento de um material corrosivo para trabalhar em ambientes hostis.

O evento começa hoje e vai até quarta feira a partir das duas da tarde nos Departamento de Geofísica e do Instituto de Química da UFRN.

Oil and Gas Workshop

12^th -14^th November, 2012

Programme

Monday 12th November
Morning	Delegates arrive
14.00 – 14.30	Welcome by UFRN Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research	Prof. Valter José Fernandes Júnior
14.30 – 15.30	Objectives for the week	Prof. Tim Reston, Prof Colin Snape, Prof Aderson Farias do Nascimento
15.30 – 16.45	Visit to laboratories	UFRN
18.00	Workshop Reception/Cocktail	Pestana Hotel - Restaurante Cais do Ribeira
Tuesday 13th November
08.30 – Depart Hotel
09.00 – 09.30	Registration and Coffee	UFRN
09.30	Welcome	Professor, Angela Maria Paiva Cruz, Vice-Chancellor, UFRN
09:45	The Birmingham-Nottingham Brazil Initiative	Professor Tim Reston, University of Birmingham
10:00	Doctoral Training Centres	Professor Colin Snape, University of Nottingham
10:15	Technology Challenges and Strategies’	Michael Megorden, BG Group
Theme 1: Margin Evolution, structure and petroleum geology
10:35	Tectonics and magmatism at rifted margins	Professor Tim Reston, University of Birmingham
10:55	Passive seismology on sediments: What can we learn from broadband deployments?	Dr Jordi Julià, UFRN
Coffee Break 11.15 – 11.40
11.40	Geology of the Basement of the SE Brazilian Continental Margin and its Africa Counterpart	Prof Renata Schmitt et al., UFRJ
12.00	The Evolution of the Pernambuco Basin and Plateau. Prospects for Future Petroleum Exploration	Profs Haydon P. Mort, Mario Lima Filho, Antonio Barbosa, UFPE
12.20	Paleoceanographic approaches to stratigraphy and paleoenvironments	Dr Tom Dunkley-Jones, University of Birmingham
12.40	Title to be confirmed	Prof Julio Almeida, Prof Monica Heilbron, UERJ
Lunch and Poster Presentations  13.00 – 14.00
Theme 2: Flow Assurance and Production in deep water
14.00	Hydrogen Enhanced Crack Testing for Sour Service Applications	Dr Brian Connolly, University of Birmingham
14.20	Multiphase flows and their many applications	Professor Barry Azzopardi, University of Nottingham
14.45	Composite materials for oil industry applications	Dr Daniel Melo, UFRN
Theme 3: Oil generation, detection and recovery
15:05	Innovative pyrolysis techniques in oil exploration	Dr Will Meredith, University of Nottingham
15.30	Recovery and Upgrading of Heavy Oils using the Toe to Heel Air Injection Catalytic Process In-situ (THAI-CAPRI)	Professor Joe Wood, University of Birmingham
15.50	IOR Studies in UFRN/LEAP Research Group	Professor Wilson da Mata, UFRN
Coffee Break 16.10-16.30
Theme 4: Power Generation, CO2 reduction, capture and sequestration and New Technologies
16.30	Some research challenges in fossil fuel power generation and CCS	Professor Colin Snape, University of Nottingham
16.55	Quantum Sensors for Exploration	Dr Jon Goldwin, University of Birmingham Professor Peter Krüger, University of Nottingham Dr Thomas Fernholz, University of Nottingham
17:15	Discussion
Wednesday 14th November
09.00 – 09.30	Coffee
09.30 – 11.15	Breakout Sessions to discuss topics identified in day one, and opportunities for future collaboration
Coffee Break 11.15 – 11.40
11.45	Breakout Sessions
Lunch 13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 16.00	Breakout Sessions
Coffee Break 16.00 – 16.30
16.30 – 17.30	Plenary Session: Summary of results of breakout sessions, & identifying next steps
End of Workshop