Sharp IOR Newsletter

Simon Toole is Director of the DTI's LCU Licensing, Exploration and Development Branch

I am pleased to write this Foreword, launching another year of SHARP IOR eNewsletters. We had three very successful issues last year and the plan is to have three more this year. I have received very positive comments from industry and academia on the effectiveness of the newsletter, confirming that its intended purpose - to provide a means for the IOR community to communicate more effectively - is being fulfilled.

I am also pleased to announce that a new SHARP programme has been approved and is due to commence in April this year (2003). The new programme is somewhat bigger in scope as we have incorporated our Offshore Geology programme into it as well, but keeping the total value unchanged. Having all the relevant disciplines under one umbrella enhances our programme. SHARP will also support LCU’s new initiatives such as Fallow Fields, Promote and better access to data.

As before, we will be working very closely and supportively with all the PILOT initiatives. Wherever LCU is better positioned to do so, studies will be conducted through SHARP to support the relevant PILOT initiative.

In the JIP area SHARP has sufficient scope to co-fund good projects that meet LCU’s overall objectives and criteria for maximising the return from the UK's hydrocarbon resources. At the meeting with our Advisory Committee ACHARR in December 2002 we discussed several target areas for the 2003 call for JIP proposals - see LCU-LED which has our "flyer" calling for proposals. We hope to have a good response to this call. ACHARR will continue to provide guidance in this work, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank its members for the sterling advice they have provided so far which also contributed to the success of this newsletter.

Finally, on behalf of the DTI and the Research Councils (EPSRC and NERC) I would like to thank everybody who participated in this newsletter in its initial year, especially David Hughes and Tissa Jayasekera who managed it. I hope the various "visitors" to it got good value from it. I wish you all the success in the coming year.


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Simon Toole		Simon Toole is Director of the DTI's LCU Licensing, Exploration and Development Branch I am pleased to write this Foreword, launching another year of SHARP IOR eNewsletters. We had three very successful issues last year and the plan is to have three more this year. I have received very positive comments from industry and academia on the effectiveness of the newsletter, confirming that its intended purpose - to provide a means for the IOR community to communicate more effectively - is being fulfilled. I am also pleased to announce that a new SHARP programme has been approved and is due to commence in April this year (2003). The new programme is somewhat bigger in scope as we have incorporated our Offshore Geology programme into it as well, but keeping the total value unchanged. Having all the relevant disciplines under one umbrella enhances our programme. SHARP will also support LCU’s new initiatives such as Fallow Fields, Promote and better access to data. As before, we will be working very closely and supportively with all the PILOT initiatives. Wherever LCU is better positioned to do so, studies will be conducted through SHARP to support the relevant PILOT initiative. In the JIP area SHARP has sufficient scope to co-fund good projects that meet LCU’s overall objectives and criteria for maximising the return from the UK's hydrocarbon resources. At the meeting with our Advisory Committee ACHARR in December 2002 we discussed several target areas for the 2003 call for JIP proposals - see LCU-LED which has our "flyer" calling for proposals. We hope to have a good response to this call. ACHARR will continue to provide guidance in this work, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank its members for the sterling advice they have provided so far which also contributed to the success of this newsletter. Finally, on behalf of the DTI and the Research Councils (EPSRC and NERC) I would like to thank everybody who participated in this newsletter in its initial year, especially David Hughes and Tissa Jayasekera who managed it. I hope the various "visitors" to it got good value from it. I wish you all the success in the coming year.
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