"Horses and Thunder" – Meeting the Energy Needs and Oil Exploration and Production in the Deepwaters
Professor Ahmed F. Ghoniem
Thu Jan 26, 09am-04:00pm, 3-370
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
How will we meet our growing energy needs in the future, especially for transportation, which is heavily dependent on oil? More and more oil is discovered and produced offshore, in deeper and deeper water. How do we know where to drill and how do you actually drill for oil? What are some of the enormous engineering challenges in working at 5000’ of water and below? How do we produce it efficiently, bring it to shore safely, and then go beyond? What are some of the recent developments in science and engineering that will take us further?
This short course will focus on gaining a better understanding of exploring, drilling, and producing oil and gas in the deepwaters, including:
Energy needs & role of offshore oil
Exploration - the idea phase
Drilling - the discovery & development phase
Production - the extraction phase
Transportation - getting it to market
Recent science & engineering developments
We will look at Thunder Horse field in the Gulf of Mexico. Starting with 1999, this field has contributed > 5% of the oil produced within the US. Since then, oil has been discovered further out and effort is underway to produce from these fields.
Contact: Professor Ahmed F. Ghoniem, ghoniem@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
Cosponsor: Chemical Engineering
Latest update: 29-Dec-2011
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