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DTI IOR Research Dissemination Seminar, 25th June 2002, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre

This seminar was held at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on 25th June this year. This was a change from past practice, which had been to hold it at the DTI Conference Centre in London. This turned out to be an appropriate move as it was going right to the centre of the UK oil industry.

There was also a change in the format of the programme in that the morning sessions were devoted to the Joint Industry Projects that are sponsored by the DTI's SHARP programme, and the afternoon session to new themes. This time the 'new themes' were 'the need to take a holistic view of IOR projects' and 'CO₂ injection for IOR'. The afternoon presentations were mainly from the oil industry and commercial research organisations. The programme of this year's seminar and a picture spread from it are at the bottom of this note. A short description of the session on 'CO₂ for IOR' and contributed articles on some of the presentations made is included elsewhere in this issue (CO₂ Sequestration and the Use of CO₂ to Improve Oil Recovery), as this turned out to be of great interest to many attendees.

The new format turned out to be very successful and the event was well-received by the IOR community. We are open to any suggestions for improving this event even further next year (email to tissa.jayasekera@dti.gsi.gov.uk).

Cathy Bishop (centre) and Ann Saunders (right) of AEA Technology (organisers of the Seminar on behalf of the DTI) registering delegates (click image for larger view)

Roger Murray of BP gets the seminar underway with his Keynote Address (click image for larger view)

Reservoir Management session speakers; from left Matthew Jackson, Imperial College, Martin Blunt, Imperial College, Gillian Pickup, Heriot-Watt U, Kess Heffer, Heriot-Watt U, Roger Murray, BP and Anton Ziolkowski, U of Edinburgh (click image for larger view)

The DTI were out in force - after all is was their seminar: from left Peter Haile, Alison Stephens, Mervyn Grist, Colin Cranfield, Andrew Carr and Tissa Jayasekera (click image for larger view)

Refreshments and much heated discussion during the breaks (click image for larger view)

The Kerr McGee delegates seem to be enjoying themselves anyway! (click image for larger view)

Reservoir Fluids session speakers: from left Robert Mott, AEA Technology and Fatosh Gozalpour, Mehran Sohrabi, Bahman Tohidi Ali Danesh, and Ken Sorbie, all Heriot-Watt U (click image for larger view)

The poster session in full swing (click image for larger view)

Click here for Seminar Programme

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