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Academic Staff
Advisory Body Members: It is
heartening to note that large number eminent personalities want that
the vision is fulfilled, whereas following have offered their advice
expertise and suggestion as Primary Members of the Advisory Panel.
Dr. Devdas Kakati, Ph.D. (UK) Formerly
Visiting Professor: University of Kuwait, University of Waterloo;
Professor: IIT Madras and Vice Chancellor: Dibrugarh University.
Mr. D. K. Banik, M.Tech (Chem Eng.)
Former General Manager (Strategic & Corporate Planning Oil India
Limited, Duliajan
Dr. Jayanta Madhab, Economic and Financial Advisor to the Chief
Minister, Assam and Director, Global Trust Bank and former Chairman,
North Eastern Finance Corporation and former Director, Asian
Development Bank, Manila.
Shri Surajit Chaliha, Director, Geo Enpro Petroleum Limited and
former Chairman and Managing Director, Oil India Limited
Shri BD Dutta, M Tech. Former Chief Geologist, Oil India Limited
and Kuwait Oil Company
Shri DK Chanda, BE (IIT) Former Drilling Superintendent, Oil India
Limited and Kuwait Oil Company
Shri HR Gupta, BE, Former Production Superintendent, Oil India
Limited and Kuwait Oil Company
K. Z. N. Ahmed, M.Sc. Physical Chemistry, former senior
production Engineer of Oil India Kuwait Oil Company
Mr. R Hussain, Former Chairman, ASEB and MD, North Eastern
Drilling and Work over Services Company Pvt. Ltd
Shri Basant Bordoloi, BTech Hon (IIT) MBA (IIM), Managing
Director, Quest Pipeline Services Pvt. Ltd.
Shri Ramesh Chawdhury, Managing Director, Mech
Technik (India) Pvt. Ltd, a pipeline construction company.
Governing body:
Dr. Devdas Kakati, Ph.D. (UK), Former
Vice Chancellor: Dibrugarh University.
Dr. PG Rao, Director, NEIST, Jorhat
Mr. P. K. Dutta, CEO, former DGM, Oil
India Limited Duliajan, Assam
Dr. P. J. Das, Professor, Department of
Chemistry, Gauhati University
Dr. D. N. Das, Professor, Department of
Geology, Gauhati University
Executive staff
Mr. P. K. Dutta, CEO, former DGM, Oil
India Limited Duliajan, Assam
Dr. Gautam Kr. Sarmah, Ph.D. Assistant
Registrar
Miss T. Das, Administrative Officer
Faculties
Mr. P. K. Dutta, former DGM, Oil India
Limited Duliajan, Assam
Mr. D. K. Banik, former GM, Oil India Limited Duliajan, Assam
Mr. D. K. Dutta, former GM, Oil India Limited, Duliajan, Assam
Mr. B. N. Borthakur, former chief Geologist, ONGC, sivasagar, Assam
Dr. R Duarah, Ph.D. Scientist, Geological sciences, NEIST (Former RRL),
Jorhat, Assam
Dr. P. Kotoky, Ph.D. Scientist, Geological Sciences, NEIST (Former
RRL), Jorhat, Assam
Dr. P. K. Bora, Ph.D. Scientist, Geological Sciences, NEIST (Former
RRL), Jorhat, Assam
Dr. P. Sengupta, Ph.D. Material Science Division, NEIST (Former RRL),
Jorhat, Assam
Dr. S. Mahiuddin, Ph.D. Material Science Division, NEIST (Former RRL),
Jorhat, Assam
Dr. S. Munsi, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Division, NEIST (Former RRL),
Jorhat, Assam
Dr. S.D. Baruah, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering Division, NEIST (Former
RRL), Jorhat, Assam
Dr. NN Dutta, Ph. D, Chemical Engineering Division, NEIST (Former RRL),
Jorhat, Assam
Faculties from abroad
 Dr. J. M. PEDEN - Production Technology
Dr. J. M. Peden is Principal Production Technologist with Advanced
Well Technologies in Perth Western Australia. He is also Professor
of Well Technology at Curtin University of Technology. His principal
areas of expertise are in well completion design; formation damage;
sand control; horizontal, multilateral, and HPHT wells. He has authored
and co-authored over 100 technical papers, two text books and
contributed to numerous conferences as a keynote speaker.
Prior to moving to Australia Jim was the Shell Professor of Petroleum
Engineering at
Heriot-Watt University. He was Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the
department
from 1982 until 1991. In 1991, he was the founding Director of the
Horizontal Well
Technology Unit. He was a visiting Professor at Stanford University.
Prior to joining
Heriot-Watt, he was employed by Shell in the Middle East and the North
Sea.
 CAMERON MANIFOLD - Managing Director,
AWT
Graduating from Queensland University in 1985, Cameron has
gained in excess of 18 years experience in the upstream oil and gas
industry. Commencing initially with Australian onshore oil and gas
fields and moving to the offshore industry in 1988, Cameron has
extensive experience in oil and gas field development, particularly in
sub-sea developments. He has worked both onshore and offshore in
Australia, S. E. Asia, Africa and the UK and has complimentary broader
skills in Reservoir, Petroleum and Production Engineering. Cameron has
specific expertise in horizontal well completion design and
intervention technology.
In November 1996, Cameron co-founded the Advanced Well Technologies (AWT)
consulting engineering group to provide quality Petroleum Engineering
Services to
the Australasian region.
In addition to technical responsibilities on a series of projects,
Cameron is Managing Director for AWT. He also serves as director on the
boards of several companies both within Australia and the United
Kingdom. In 2002, in recognition of the capabilities and growth of the
organization, Cameron was a recipient of the Business News' award as
one of the top 40 businessmen under 40 years of age in Western
Australia.
 DOMINIC BRUEHWILER - Operation
Director
Dominic Bruehwiler joined BHP Petroleum in 1990. He spent 3 years
in the Well Services Department gaining in-depth experience in
subsea well operations. During this time Dominic reached the
position of lead engineer and was involved in the planning and
execution of workovers and completions on all BHP Petroleum's Timor Sea
and North West Shelf operations. He was also involved in all aspects of
exploration well testing in these regions. Following this, he
transferred to the Production Department in Darwin where he was the
Senior Production Engineer for all three Timor Sea FPSO's (Challis,
Skua, Jabiru).
Dominic joined Advanced Well Technologies in February 1997 and after
working on an initial contract with BHP Petroleum moved on to various
projects we ll testing and completions contracts with Apache Energy
Ltd, Premier Oil Australasia, New Zealand Oil and Gas, Woodside Energy
Limited and Phillips Petroleum.
 KEVIN LAY - Completion Engineering
Kevin Lay joined BHP Petroleum in Melbourne as a graduate in 1982
and held a number of positions in Australia and Vietnam with roles in
production operations, reservoir engineering, well services, well
testing, completions engineering, production technology and asset
management. In 1996, Kevin departed BHPB and co-founded AWT and
performed consultancy work for a number of clients in Australia and
Asia.
Kevin is currently consulting to BHPB as their Completions Engineering
Supervisor
based in Perth, Western Australia. In his current role, Kevin is
responsible for the
planning and operational aspects of the company's well completion
activities in the
Australia/Asia region.
Kevin has authored and co-authored several SPE papers in the fields of
Completion
and Subsea Engineering.
 JOHN URE - Petroleum Engineering
John Ure is a practicing Petroleum Engineer, born and educated in
Edinburgh, Scotland. He holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, a
Masters' degree in Petroleum Engineering and has 22 years diverse
experience in the oil and gas business. He spent the first half of his
career working in the North Sea, gaining experience in reservoir and
production engineering with Britoil, Marathon Oil (UK) Ltd and Amerada
Hess.
From 1990 to 1996, John operated as an independent consultant
Production
Technologist/Completions Engineer, working with Woodside Energy in
Perth,
Australia , Petroleum Development Oman and Brunei Shell Petroleum. He
also spent
over three years working for Ampolex/Mobil on the Wandoo heavy oil
field
development, focussing on completion design and sand control. In 1996,
John cofounded Advanced Well Technologies in Perth, and through AWT,
has continued to
consult to a variety of companies in the Asia Pacific region. Currently
John is
focussing on the delivery of a field development plan for a UK North
Sea discovery.
 BRIAN SEARLES - Drilling Engineering
Brian Searles, Graduate of Liverpool University, UK in 1978 with an
honors degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 1991 he attained
Chartered Engineer status and Membership to the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers.
The first twelve years of his drilling career was in the North Sea with
BP and Texas Eastern. In 1990 he immigrated to Australia and worked for
seven years as a drilling consultant on a variety of offshore
exploration, appraisal and development project in the Australasian
region.
Between 1998 and 2002 Brian was the Principal Drilling Engineer and a
Director of
RBT Petroleum Associates, a drilling project management group based in
Australia.
During this period he managed many offshore drilling projects in the
Australia, South
East Asia and the Mediterranean region.
Brian joined AWT in 2003 as the Drilling Operations Manager.
 TORE MOE - Business Development
Tore holds a B.Eng (Hon) in Electronic Computer Systems from
Salford University , England . Since joining the Oil & Gas Industry in
1990 as a Field Engineer with Schlumberger he has held various
positions in the Well Services sector. He has extensive experience in
training and mentoring young Well Services and Field Engineers
including a year as an instructor at the Schlumberger Training Center
in Medan, Indonesia.
During his career in the field, Tore gained extensive experience in
managing
operations and well services projects. Prior to joining AWT, Tore was
the Regional
Well Services Manager for Aker Kvζrner in Australia and Asia/Pacific.
 NICK LAST - Asian Business Unit
Nick Last is a petroleum engineer with 20 years of international
Experience in the North Sea, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. A
specialist in well testing and production logging, he has spent the
past decade consulting in these and related disciplines for clients in
Australia and South East Asia.
Nick's consulting roles have included field supervision,
interpretation, teaching and mentoring, and the development of
techniques and work processes to enhance the quality and effective use
of Well Test and PL data. Through this experience he has developed a
solid practical and theoretical understanding of the role and
application of well testing.
After joining Flopetrol-Schlumberger in 1982, Nick worked as a field
engineer,
interpretation specialist and operations manager in well testing and
well logging.
Since leaving Schlumberger in 1993, he has developed a strong regional
reputation
as an independent consultant. He is currently working at Unocal
Thailand.
 JON ROBERTS - Production Chemistry
Jon Roberts has nearly 30 years oilfield experience. Jon holds a
B.SC (Hon) in Geology from University of Western Australia . He has
worked in exploration and production operations in the USA, SE
Asia, the Middle East, New Zealand and Australia.
Jon has worked for operating and service companies and as an
independent consultant. His specific areas of expertise are production
chemistry and
corrosion management focusing on the following areas:
" production chemicals and their application;
" corrosion control and monitoring;
" laboratory procedures and safety;
Jon has been involved in the commissioning and operating of numerous
facilities. His
breadth and depth of knowledge offers a valuable resource to AWT
clients.
 DAVID PRICE - Reservoir Engineering
David Price is Principal Reservoir Engineer with AWT. He has over
25 years experience consulting and working for operating companies
as a Reservoir Engineer. He has an MSc (Pet.Eng.) from Imperial
College, London.
His principal areas of expertise are well testing and analysis, well
performance, field appraisal studies, reserves estimation, reservoir
characterisation and simulation and design and implementation of oil
and gas field
developments.
Dave has worked on offshore and onshore projects in the North Sea (UK),
Australia, and New Zealand. He has experience in engineering a wide
variety of reservoir types from tight gas, fractured reservoirs, coal
seams to high productivity oil fields.
 ANDREW WENK - Southern Business Unit
Andrew Wenk joined the industry in 1985 as Well Services Engineer
for Santos in Adelaide. He has worked in the areas of Completions
Engineering, Production Technology and Well Test Engineering for
operators in Australia, UK, Italy, India , the Middle East and Malaysia
.Projects worked on include multi-zone gas wells with expandable sand
screens, triple
lateral horizontal oil wells with designer well trajectories, and open
hole gas well ESS
completions. Responsibilities on these and other projects included
detailed completion design, procurement and installation. Andrew
authored SPE paper 28916 "Monobore Completions And Novel Wireline
Perforating Of High Angle Wells In The Nelson Field" published in
October 1994.
Andrew currently heads up AWT's Adelaide office whilst providing
Completions
Engineering and support to a number of clients in the region.
 PAMELA POTGER - Business Development
Pamela Potger has over 30 years experience in the Energy
Resources Industry in Australia, South East Asia and the United
States. She has held various management positions in the fields of
marketing and sales with international corporations.
Pamela has considerable experience developing marketing strategies and
has a comprehensive understanding of the technical complexities of the
EMP business, and a strong background in contract negotiation.
Pamela holds a degree in Economics, and joined AWT in October 2000 to
work with
Cameron Manifold to work towards the business development and growth of
the
company.
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