In the late 1970s politicians and civil servants were acutely aware of the chronic decline of the manufacturing sector as a source of employment in Britain. At a time of fear of mass unemployment, sources of new work were urgently sought. Biotechnology had been promoted by visionaries since the early twentieth century. With oil prices soaring, its potential to produce substitutes for petroleum ...

Chris Manzie, Harry Watson, Marimuthu Palaniswami Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3010 Abstract: Despite being one of the fastest growing alternative fuel sources, little attention has been given to control of the air fuel ratio at the point of combustion in liquefied pet...

1 Institute of Research and Development of Processes, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, P.O. Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain 2 Department of Electricity and Electronics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, P.O. Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain 3 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901,...

The paper describes a novel associative model for the forecasting of time series in petroleum engineering. The model is based on the Gamma classifier, which is inspired on the Alpha-Beta associative memories, taking the alpha and beta operators as basis for the gamma operator. The objective is to reproduce and predict future oil production in different scenarios in an adjustable time window. Th...

This paper describes a research project that was carried out to determine and evaluate the learning environment customisations required to support selfmotivated, able, and experienced learners studying towards a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering within small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The requirements analysis of the specific needs of workplace learners, system customisation and ...

In this paper we compare three different soft computing methods used as the well log data analysis model in petroleum engineering. Due to the diversely behaving nature, namely, that each region has a unique geophysical characteristic it is difficult to build a universal model relating the mathematical behaviour of the measured variables. This is the reason why soft computing techniques may be f...

We discuss here current computational trends (beyond Mechanistic 1D Models) related to transient multiphase flow and flow assurance problems in the oil and gas sector. The developments needed to bring advanced Computational fluid &Multiphase-fluid dynamics (CFD&CMFD) techniques and models to a mature stage will also be discussed. The contribution presents the possibilities offered today by thes...

This paper presents a research in progress on the use of knowledge engineering and knowledge management techniques for the development of a strategic approach for the transfer of professional know-how. This transfer is based on the design of devices for sharing and learning clearly identified knowledge in the oil industry domains. This work is based on a pilot study which was carried out in the...

The present study investigates the cointegration relationships among crude oil price, domestic gold price and selected financial variables (exchange rates and stock price indices) in India. Increasing crude oil prices will increase the production costs which will affect cash flow and will decrease stock prices. Investors are showing fewer concerns in the stock markets and investing in yellow me...

I am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “Geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the Persian language journals with specific English-language ones. Our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning Geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, Petroleum Geology, Engineering Geo...