IN AN intriguing turning of the tables, the UK offshore industry’s Aberdeen-based Industry Technology Facilitator has assembled a list of more than 20 projects that companies – from large operators through to the lower reaches of the oil&gas supply chain – would like postgraduate students to tackle.
This represents a complete reversal of the situation that has prevailed in Aberdeen over the past few years, where Master’s level engineering students have struggled, even failed to secure projects from companies, despite help from the Energy Institute.
That ITF has been able to come up with the following list is credit to its willingness to engage in the student placement issue and shows what is possible.
8015PMT: Estimation of Mussel Growth in Seawater Cooling System (University).
8017PMT: Flow Rate Allocation using Permanently Installed Production Sensors (Aberdeen).
8021PMT: Web 2.0 uses as Complementary Energy Simulation Technologies (CEST) (University).
8022PMT: Wireless Downhole Communication (University).
8023PMT: Downstream Oil and Gas Simulation OilSim 3D (University).
8024PMT: Design Oil and Gas Production Simulation (University).
8025PMT: Guerrilla Marketing in Oil and Gas Education and Training (University).
8026PMT – 20in Cut-off Submersible Project (possible group project) (Luton).
8027PMT: Development of Performance management System for Execution Efficiency (Aberdeen).
8028PMT: Communication Strategies for Managing Public Perception Towards Carbon Capture and Storage (University).
8029PMT: Conceptual Design of a Pipeline Integrity Management System for Dense Phase/ Supercritical CO (University).
8030PMT: Development of Swelling/Sealing Compounds (Aberdeen).
8031PMT: Development of a pipe detection model for a Forward Look Sonar.
8032PMT: Mosaicing of Sonar Data (Edinburgh).
8033PMT: Tracking targets in 3D using a Forward Look Sonar mounted on a AUV (Applications for offshore Industry) (Edinburgh).
8034PMT: Analog/Digital design and manufacture to control a Remotely Operated Vehicle using a digital joystick (Edinburgh).
8035PMT: Redesign of hardware unit with 2 PCs and various I/O to make a small, cheap and modular unit (Edinburgh).
8036PMT: Development of Radiography Lab Simulator (Port Talbot).
8037PMT: Mitigation strategies for releases of CO from catastrophic failures of dense phase/supercritical CO pipeline transportation systems (University).
8038PMT: New Intranet Build for iicorr (Aberdeen).
For more information, contact Adele Letang at ITF (a.letang@oil-itf.com)