DOHA: Texas A&M University at Qatar (Tamuq) and Dutch company TNO hosted a student workshop in Education City to give training on how intelligent oil and gas field technologies can be used to maximise hydrocarbon production.
Students learned about aspects of intelligent fields, including new sensor technologies, production optimisation methods and IT systems to optimise a field’s production. The trainers explained the important role people have in intelligent fields, particularly in decision-making for a field’s operations.
“The workshop provided students from Tamuq and Qatar University with a great learning and practice opportunity. TNO’s experts taught them the basics of intelligent field and made them work in multi-disciplinary teams to design an optimum intelligent field,” said Dr Michael Fraim, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Tamuq.
Students received experience through a case study in which they competed for the best design for an intelligent field. The event was hosted in collaboration with Qatar Society of Petroleum Engineers Student Chapter. Dr Ruud van der Linden, one of TNO’s senior experts, was brought to Doha for the event.
Anton Leemhuis, Managing Director of TNO’s Doha-based Middle East branch, said, “Intelligent field technologies are becoming commonplace in the industry. Technologies are available, but the key is to train people so they can use them well. It is important to familiarise students with intelligent field technology at an early stage, as they are the engineers and industry leaders of the future.”The Peninsula
