Industry
Highlight:
OTC Announces Spotlight on New Technology
Award Recipients
The Offshore Technology Conference recognized 13 innovative
technologies. Criteria include that the technology must be new and
innovative, proven, be of broad interest, and have significant impact.
Although featured in an offshore-oriented conference, some have
applications onshore. It behooves all to at least glance at the
information to see if there is a fit for your problem or opportunity.
DOE Highlight:
Stripper Well Consortium Seeks Proposals—due
May
8
In its annual solicitation, the Stripper Well Consortium (SWC) is
seeking proposals from current Full and Supporting Members in three
areas: (1) reservoir remediation, characterization, and operations,
(2) wellbore clean-up, and (3) surface collection and optimization.
The proposal package is not onerous. Proposals require a minimum 30%
cost share and should be for a one-year contract period beginning
August 1, 2007. Those making proposals must also make a brief verbal
presentation at the Spring SWC meeting on May 22-23 in Canandaigua,
NY. Winning proposals are typically selected soon thereafter. In the
2006 funding cycle the SWC committed $1.24 million to co-fund nine
projects.
PTTC Highlight:
A Leadership Change and A Move
Don Duttlinger, Executive Director since 2000, recently chose to move back into
the private sector. Watch for him in industry, he remains a faithful PTTC
supporter. Lance Cole, who has served PTTC as National Project Manager since
1996, has stepped into the Executive Director role and looks forward to guiding
PTTC forward and keeping it tuned with the times. Coincident with this change,
the National office has moved back to the original "oil capitol" of the U.S. in
the Tulsa area. It is though just a short flight away from Houston, the center
of today's industry. New contact information follows: PTTC, P.O. Box 246, Sand
Springs, OK 74063; phone 918.241.5801, fax 918.241.5728.
Trivia Question: Who
invented the 55-gal metal oil drum? What
was the name of the ship that served as America's first tanker,
shipping Pennsylvania crude from Philadelphia to London?
Trivia Answer:
In 1861 the
Elizabeth Watts, a two-masted ship
originally built for the typical commerce of the day, took 45 days to
transport 1,329 barrels of oil across the Atlantic. Long before true
tankers existed, it took dockside workers on both ends of the journey 10
or more days to load/unload the wooden barrels. Shipping caught on
quickly. Just one year later, Philadelphia exported 239,000 barrels.
Excerpted from The Petroleum Age, Dec 2005 by the American Oil &
Gas Historical Society (www.aoghs.org).
