Contents: Volume 1: Exploration: Preface. 1. Indian upstream petroleum industry: yesterday's experience and tomorrow's challenges/B.C. Bora. 2. Past and future trends in petroleum sector--Indian vs world scenario/Kuldeep Chandra. 3. Quest for hydrocarbons in India during the next decade/Hari Narain and V.V. Sastri. 4. Current issues and opportunities facing the global oil and gas industries/Paul Tempest. 5. India's petroleum reserves, recovery and evaluation: global estimates/A.B. Das Gupta. 6. India's upstream petroleum industry: perception versus reality: Ravva project, a case history/John Doran. 7. Hydrocarbon prospectivity of Indian sedimentary basins/V.V. Sastri and D.N. Avasthi. 8. New applications in exploration and production geochemistry/John M. Hunt. 9. The application of data management for integrated exploration and production (E&P) interpretation/Phil Trayner and Manoj Mohapatra. 10. Reservoir management yesterday, today and tomorrow/Inder Jit Singh.

11. New geophysical technology and the impact on Asia Pacific exploration activity/William S. French. 12. Application of new generation of impulse related well-stimulation technologies in the oil fields of Russia/A. Yu Bruslov, S.K. Kalra, B.D. Malhotra, S.S.P. Singh and S.I. Tolokonsky. 13. Sequence stratigraphy to understand the prospectivity of lower cretaceous to Upper Jurassic of Jaisalmer basin Rajasthan and the Indus basins, Pakistan/P. Copestake, M. Slatford and S. Vanstone. 14. Biogeochemistry combined with chelatable soils transition metal anomaly--a useful technique for near surface exploration/Avinish Kumar, V.K. Saxena, S.C. Silawat, A. Anuradha, A. Nagar, N.K. Gupta, V.R. Shah, Ramesh K. Talwar and B.K. Sharma. 15. Identification of Shale reservoir from seismic data/R.V.S. Murthy, D. Chakravarty and B.R. Krishna. 16. An application of overlay technique for estimating total organic carbon through conventional well logs in North Cambay basin/S. Hazra, S.S.P. Gupta and K.K. Prasad. 17. Role of VSP survey in refinement of interpretation and processing of seismic data/D. Chatterjee and S.P. Singh. 18. Evaluation of reservoir potential of Deccan trap group in Padra area with reference to future hydrocarbon exploration in Cambay basin, India/D.K. Bharktya, Dhruwendra Singh, Ciddi Prakash and N.P. Singh. 19. Exploitation of hydrocarbons in fractured Shale reservoirs of North Cambay basin/A.K. Bhatia, Daljit Singh and A.K. Gupta. 20. Resistivity-TOC ratio as an indicator of maturity level for oil generation--Cambay basin, India/R.N. Choudhary, S.A. Bondre and B.K. Sharma.

21. Organic geochemical perspective of the origin of oil--a case study of Kadi formation oils, North Cambay basin, India/Anil Pande, B.P. Singh, M.S. Raza Khan and K.N. Misra. 22. Genetic correlation of biodegraded crude oils from Padra area of Broach-Jambusar block: Cambay basin, India using n-alkane, bio marker and stable carbon isotopic compositions/B.P. Singh, M.S.R. Khan, J.P. Goyal, P. Dwivedi, A.K. Sharma, A.K. Mittal and Anil Pande. 23. Effect of pore geometry on saturation exponent/R.N. Choudhary, P.L. Nagar and B.K. Sharma. 24. Exploitation of heavy oil from updip pinch-out area of Lanwa-Balol-Santhal fields/A.K. Gupta, Daljit Singh and A.K. Bhatia. 25. Sand consolidation by resins--an effort to indigenise the process/A.K. Agarwal, Minnie Relhan, A.K. Katiar, V.K. Jain and H.S. Rawat. 26. Relationship between oil gravity and combustion parameters with reference to North Cambay basin oil fields/S. Roychaudhary, S. Sur, A.V. Sapkal, K.K. Gupta and A.K. Jain. 27. Enhancing heavy oil recovery through in-situ combustion in north Gujarat, India/A.K. Mandal, S. Chandrasekaran and A.B. Pant. 28. Revival of oil production from linch field of Cambay basin by solvent stimulation technique/A.K. Mandal and V.K. Bhattacharya. 29. Implementation of successful hydraulic fracturing treatment in the low permeable reservoir with associated coal seams/Sunil K. Singh, Dinesh Chandra and V.P. Gupta. 30. Optimisation of oil recovery by water injection: a case history/J.P. Lohia and Aditya Kumar.

31. Stimulation through in-situ heat generation/V.K. Mahajan, N.P. Uniyal, Raghu Nandan and V.P. Gupta. 32. Effect of multivalent metal ions on wettability of silica/oil/brine system/T. Kumar, Iqbal Ahmad and A.K. Pathak. 33. Profile modification using aluminium citrate process in polymer pilot wells: a case history/S.K. Sharma, B.P. Singh, H.S. Dayal and A. Pandey. 34. Biomarker and isotopic fractionation of crude oils during migration - laboratory studies/A.K. Sharma, P. Dwivedi, Anil Pande, B.P. Singh, M.S.R. Khan, Manju Mathur and K.N. Misra. 35. Quantitative genetic modelling of Upper Assam Shelf/K.C. Balan, B. Banerjee, L.N. Pati, K.B. Shilpkar, M.N. Pande, M.K. Sinha and P.L. Zutshi. 36. Regional source rock mapping in Upper Assam Shelf/B.D. Naidu and B.K. Panda. 37. Hydrocarbon plays in frontal part of Naga thrust and fold belt, Dimapur low, Dhansiri valley/N. Sinha, V. Kumar and P.C. Kalita. 38. Stratigraphy and petroleum potential of the Bokabil formation of Dhansiri valley, Assam/P.C. Dhar and Debashis Das. 39. Geochemical characterization and genesis of eocene crude oils in a part of Upper Assam Basin, India/R.K. Mallick, S.V. Raju and N. Mathur. 40. Oil occurrence trends in Lakwa-Lakhmani area of Upper Assam Basin, India/M.N. Upadhyay, Vibha Prabhakar, V.K. Barry, P. Dwivedi and Kamal Nain.

41. Quality improvement through reprocessing a VSP case history from Geleki field/S.N. Dalei, D. Chatterjee and L.K. Marwah. 42. The modified geological model for Charali field, Assam by reservoir simulation study/Mahendra Pratap, Abdurahman Kutty and S.K. Patra. 43. Injectivity problem and remedial measures for water injection in Lakwa-Lakhmani Barails pay-zones/Ram Babu, S. Bateja and K.D. Luhana. 44. Successful water shutoff treatments using PHPA polymers--a case history/Bhisham Kumar, Ashok K.S. Rathore, A.K. Gupta, A.I. Modi, R. Kanotra and A.K. Shukla. 45. Prospect evaluation and model prediction for future oil exploration towards western part of Bombay high field/Shyam Mohan and S. Mangal. 46. Hydrocarbon charge distribution of various generative sequences of Bombay offshore basin/C.S. Mishra, G. Tiwari, P. Upadhayaya, A. Dubey, N.J. Thomas and K.N. Misra. 47. Stratigraphic-depositional model: an important tool for stratigraphic trap exploration of Basal Clastic unit in Bombay offshore basin/Y.K. Mishra, G. Parida and K.K.V. Ramani. 48. Model based exploration for paleocence-early eocene sediments over north eastern periphery of south Bombay depression (Bombay offshore basin)/A.K. Tandon, A. Sengupta and Lata Pandurangi. 49. Exploration in Ratnagiri shelf--a new approach using 3D seismic data/M.C. Kandpal, R.K. Rastogi and Prem Paul. 50. Sand distribution and extrapment situation in C23 and adjoining area, Surat depression, Bombay offshore basin/J. Mishra and C.R.C. Sekaran.

51. Diagenetic trends and porosity development in Bassein formation, Kukta field, Bombay offshore/P.K. Gupta. 52. Identification of reservoir facies around platform area--a Bombay high (south) field/B.R. Krishna and I. Jayakumar. 53. Reservoir heterogeneities of Bassein B-limestone of Panna field and the need for optimized well completion for efficient oil recovery/A.N. Thakre, V. Badarinath and K. Rajeev. 54. Application of seismic reflection data for water flood monitoring in carbonate reservoirs/D.K. Mahajan. 55. Permeability quantification from borehole stoneley waves/L. Moinard, O.P. Srivastava and P. Vishunavat. 56. A computer software for generation of permeability/porosity averaged capillary pressure curves/T.C. Patra and D. Banerjee. 57. Fractal and bubble diagrams subsurface maps and profiles--enhanced LDDF/Suryaprakash Rao Hebbare. 58. Dynamics of phase behaviour in Bassein gas condensate reservoir/S.M. Khanna, Kewal Krishan and H.S. Rawat. 59. Pore space statistics from pressure controlled porosimetrey: a case study from Neelam field/D.C. Tewari, R.R. Nagori and V.C. Rundwal. 60. K-Ar dating of basement rocks of Bombay offshore basin/S.S. Rathore, A.R. Vijan, B.N. Prabhu and K.N. Misra. Author index.

Volume II. Exploration: 1. Seismic stratigraphy and hydrocarbon prospects of cretaceous and older sediments in Kolleru lake area, K.G. basin, India/A.K. Das, R.P. Gupta, S. Venkataramaiah, S.N. Maurya, R. Hussain and S. Rawat. 2. Source characterisation of Vadaparu-Pasarlapudi-Palakollu formations, east Godavari sub-basin, Krishna-Godavari basin, India/P. Neeraja, Priti Mathur, S.C. Maheshwari and H.P. Khandurie. 3. Resolving complexities using 3D seismic data: a case study/O.P. Sinha, V. Rangachari and R.K. Sharma. 4. Subsidence history rate of sedimentation, unconformities, flooding surfaces and source potential of cretaceous sediments of Cauvery basin/A. Govindan and C.N. Ravindran. 5. Improved imaging of subsurface from 3D seismic--a case history/R.J. Singh, S.K. Jain, P.S.N. Kutty and M. Chandra. 6. Rift-related linked depositional systems--a case study from Tanjore sub-basin Cauvery basin/J.N. Sahu, P.L. Zutshi and S.D. Shukla. 7. Depositional environment in Cauvery basin as revealed by stable carbon and oxygen isotopes/U. Chandra, P. Dwivedi, A.K. Mittal and A.K. Uniyal. 8. Correlation between Rock-Eval Tmax and Vitrinite reflectance in the sediments from Nagapattinam sub-basin, Cauvery basin/M.N. Pande, N.J. Thomas and K.N. Misra. 9. Maturity modelling using chemical kinetics in the Tranquebar sub-basin, Cauvery basin, India/Priti Mathur and M.V.N. Chari. 10. The occurrence of condensates in multipay reservoirs of Cauvery basin, India/M.S. Raza Khan, J.P. Goel, Anil Pande, A.K. Garg, M. Mathur and K.N. Mishra.

11. Oil to oil and oil to source correlation in Nagapattinam sub-basin of Cauvery basin/Kamal Nain, Vibha Prabhakar, S.P. Singh, M.N. Upadhyay and A.K. Mittal. 12. Clay mineral analyses and their effect on reservoirs of cretaceous and tertiary sequences of Kovilkalappal and Narimanam areas, Cauvery basin, India/K.C. Vig, A.K. Nayal and M.M. Bahuguna. 13. Role of mineralogy and geochemistry for evaluating depositional setting, diagenesis and hydrocarbon prospects in Jurassic sediments in Jaisalmer basin, India/A.N. Pandey. 14. Genetic characterization and correlation of natural gases in Jaisalmer basin, India/A.K. Uniyal, P. Dwivedi, A.K. Mittal, V. Banerji and U. Chandra. 15. Identification of carbonate prospect from 3D seismic in West Bengal, basin/RJ. Singh, T. Upadhyay and S.K. De. 16. Upper tertiary channel prospect--future target of Bengal basin/B.B. Neogi, A.K. Dey, A. Das, P. Bagchi, J.C.E. Rao, P. Basak and D. Banerjee. 17. Foraminiferal biostratigraphy, paleoenvironmental analysis and petroleum source potential in the cretaceous sequence of Bengal basin, India/P.K. Mishra and Jagmohan Singh. 18. Organic matter maturation interpretation by fluorescence microscopy and maturation profiles in Bengal basin, India/Pushkar Nath Kapoor. 19. Occurrence of adsorbed gaseous hydrocarbons in the shelf-slope sediments off Chilka lake-Nagapattinam, Bay of Bengal/P. Prabhakara Rao 20. Evolution of Damodar and other proto rivers of Bengal basin/Sucheta Dotiwala and G.C. Naik.

21. Stable isotope variation across cretaceous/tertiary boundary in UM Souryngkew river section, Meghalaya, India/A.R. Vijan, A.K. Mittal, M. Bansal, P. Rathi, B.N. Prabhu and J. Pandey. 22. Prediction of formation and fracture pressure and its role in hydrocarbon exploration in Cachar area, Assam/P.K. Nandi, D. Purkayastha and S. Chowdhuri. 23. Prediction of high pressure zone using VSP data--a case history/A.K. Sarkar and L.K. Marwah. 24. Structure of Siwalik belt in Dun Valley and possible hydrocarbon prospects/Dinesh Sati, Piyoosh Rautela and Giribareshwar Mamgain. 25. Source rock characteristics and hydrocarbon generating potential of mesozoic sediments in Lodhika area, Saurashtra basin, Gujarat, India/Dhruvendra Singh, C.A. Alat, R.N. Singh and V.P. Gupta. 26. Strontium isotope stratigraphy and stable isotope variation of carbonate sediments from Kutch offshore area, India/B.N. Prabhu, A.R. Vijan, N. Ghosh, A.K. Mittal, S.S. Rathore and N.J. Thomas. 27. A study of eastern Vindhyan basin for its hydrocarbon prospect by gravity and magnetic methods/C.L. Singh. 28. Potential fractured reservoirs in Vindhyan super group and their relation to petrographic characteristics/James Peters, P.K. Bhatnagar and S.K. Singh. 29. Hydrocarbon prospects in pinch-outs in Damoh area, Vindhyan basin/V.S.B. Sarma, A.N. Tandon and Dipankar Dutta. 30. Investment opportunities in deep waters of India/Kuldeep Chandra, D.K. Pandey, A.K. Pathak and Anand Sahu.

31. Exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons in western offshore, India/R.K. Bhat, A.K. Pandey and A. Saha. 32. Role of calcareous Nannoplankton in deep water exploration--a quick method of dating/R.K. Saxena. 33. Applications of modern production logging sensors to high water-cut environments/Yves Chauvel. 34. Multidisciplinary approach for reservoir zonation/A.Y. Zekri. 35. Geologic investigation of vertical and lateral crosswell seismic response in a carbonate reservoir--McElroy field, West Texas/K.E. Tucker, P.M. Harris and R.C. Nolen-Hoeksema. 36. Chemical sedimentological studies for paleo-environment of sediments from Indian basins/A.K. Bhatnagar. 37. Integration of core and log data for enhanced reservoir characterisation/Pushpa Sharma, V.K. Mehta, V.K. Jain and H.S. Rawat. 38. Reservoir heterogeneity delineation through multiple well pressure transients/V.K. Mehta, V.K. Jain and H.S. Rawat. 39. CT assisted core analysis of unconsolidated sand under cryogenic conditions/Rajesh K. Mittal and Vinay C. Rundwal. 40. Anisostropy and its role in structural imaging/V. Singh, Sanjay Kumar, R.K. Khanna and D. Dutta.

41. Consideration of uphole signature for charge depth optimisation: a field experiment/R.K. Khanna and G.S. Chaturvedi. 42. The effect of saturation on sonic transit time/H.L. Sircar, H.K. Rawat and S.K. Sharma. 43. Echometer survey for bottom hole pressure interpretation and lift optimisation in SRP wells/Ajay Bahuguna, Anil Srivastava, V.K. Jain and H.S. Rawat. 44. A laboratory study of ethane rich continuous and cyclic (Huff 'N' Puff) processes for light oil reservoir under immiscible conditions/H.S. Dayal, A.K. Sharma and S. Majhi. 45. Study of pressure area isotherm of indigenous crude oil fractions/A.K. Pathak, T. Kumar and S.N. Mishra. 46. Information technology--an aid to training development in upstream oil industry/D. Mukherjee and Vijay Kumar. 47. Use of information technology in petroleum exploration: a review/A.K. Srivastava, Bhagwan Das, C.N. Sharma and S. Kumar. 48. Data management in oil exploration/Jaipal, R. Mohan and P.K. Mittal. 49. Global paradigm shift and the need of synergy between information technology strategy and business objectives/D. Ranga and Sarvesh Kumar. Author index.

Volume III. Drilling, Production and Transportation: 1. Drilling challenges of tomorrow - ONGC's prepardeness/A.K. Mehra. 2. Evolution or revolution? The new world of drilling technology and contracts/Lee Hunt. 3. Progress and benefits of horizontal drilling in Abu Dhabi-UAE/Essam A. Farid. 4. A new method for the determination of drilled cuttings accumulation rate in the annulus/M. Nasr Amal A.L. Shwahde. 5. Effects of p-p-T behaviour of muds on static pressures during deep well drilling/Dasari Ram Babu. 6. Performance prediction of slanted profile wells: a system approach for comparative studies/A.K. Pathak and T. Kumar. 7. Performance analysis of horizontal wells in Bombay offshore/P.K. Sinha, S.K. Vij, A. Walia and A.A. Khan. 8. A spread sheet program to study the sensitivity of horizontal well performance in an active water drive reservoir/B.G. Murali Mohan, K.K. Jha and T. Kumar. 9. An advance drilling fluid for horizontal wells in pressure depleted Tipam reservoir of Upper Assam, India/N.K. Kapoor, V.K. Mangla and N.P. Joshi. 10. Use of PDC bits improves drilling performance/Avinash Chandra and Ajay Kumar Jain.

11. Drilling complications and remedial measures in Khoraghat oil field, Assam/Anurag Jain, B.B. Balodi, S. Kapoor and H.S. Rawat. 12. Initiatives in sub-hydrostatic drilling--a case history of Sanand field/Harvinderjeet Singh, A.D. Kararia, J.D. Nath and P.C. Shroff. 13. A new source of environment friendly bio-polymer to combat high temperature loss prone zones/S.R. Das, A.K. Pandey, Madhulika Awasthi, and H.S. Bhatnagar. 14. Application of polymer base acid degradable lost circulation and formation strengthening material/D.N. Dangwal, Tarun Chakraborty and N.P. Joshi. 15. Introduction of PHPA to drill caving prone Barail coal--Shale sequence of Geleki field in Upper Assam--a case history/A.S. Azmi and V.K. Mangla. 16. Formulation of water-base spotting fluid to release extreme cases of stuck-ups/Krishan Pal and Dayawant. 17. Hydroflouric acid - a solution to severe stuck-ups/K.K. Pratap, A.T. Kali, A.K. Mehta, B. Guha, A.K. Khanna and P.C. Sharma. 18. Development of a versatile cement additive--MPCA (a multipurpose cement additive)/Dayawant. 19. Thixotropic cements to combat lost circulation problems/R. Chandra, R. Dayal and R.D. Nawani. 20. Design of raw water tower - a new caisson type configuration/T.S. Rengarajan, Ranveer Singh and S.K. Patel.

21. Optimisation of production testing in exploratory and development wells/G. Mamgain and R.M. Sati. 22. Exploitation techniques and utilization of gas from isolated/marginal offshore gas fields/K.K. Chopra, V.K. Jain, Rajendra Kumar and H.S. Rawat. 23. Controlling/minimising water production improves productivity/Kiran Sharma, K. Krishan, Vipul Garg and H.S. Rawat. 24. Laboratory evaluation of microbial system for enhanced oil recovery/M.P. Sarbhai, K.J. Chauhan, R.K. Vij, R.S. Royal and Ashok Kumar. 25. Application of microbial enhanced oil recovery for sub-hydrostatic wells of Badarpur field, Assam/S.K. Mattey. I. Islam, G.C. Baruah, P. Mattey and K.S. Dwivedi. 26. Frac and pack - a recent technique for productivity enhancement/Minnie Ralhan, A.K. Agarwal, A.K. Katiar and H.S. Rawat. 27. Preformed stable foam aids oil recovery/Vipul Garg, Anil Kumar and H.S. Rawat. 28. Profile modification to improve oil recovery and reduce water cut using a Monomer based gel system/S.N. Pandey and Sunil Kumar Mohanty. 29. Non-damaging workover/completion fluids improves well productivity/injectivity/K. Krishan, Kiran Sharma, Vipul Garg and H.S. Rawat. 30. Improvement in surface processing systems of injection water for Geleki field, Upper Assam/Gyan Singh, N.K. Mitra, Pyarelal and R. S. Thakur.

31. Feasibility of artificial lift requirement in outskirt/peripheral wells of Gandhar field/Anil Srivastava, Ajay Bahuguna, V.K. Jain, K.A. Shah and H.S. Rawat. 32. Plunger lift - an efficient and versatile artificial lift method/B.P. Pandey. 33. A modular approach to optimise production from gas lift wells--a case study of Bombay high/Supratik Banerji, Sanjay Chawla, Renu Saxena, J.L. Narsimham and J.M. Joshi. 34. Rheological characterisation of fracturing fluid, being used in ONGC/D. Kar, S.B.L. Bhatnagar and S.S.P. Singh. 35. Efficient dehydration of produced emulsions from Becharaji oil field - an interfacial chemistry approach/V.K. Saxena, Avinash Kumar, S.C. Silawat, A. Anuradha, V.R. Shah, R.K. Talwar and B.K. Sharma. 36. Cost effective demulsifiers for upper Assam emulsions/M. Bansal, G.P. Neog and S.K. Sahota. 37. An improved gel system for permeability modifications in Bombay high field, India/Sunil Kumar, A.K.S. Rathor and A.K. Sharma. 38. High GOR problem in horizontal wells of Bombay offshore-possible remedies/P.K. Jain, V.V.S. Raju and A. Walia. 39. Detection of downhole SrSO4 scale deposits in Bombay high field by natural tracers: a technique/Ranjit Singh, Sapna Sethi, R.R. Singh and D.R. Chaudhary. 40. Development of SrSO4 scale removal agent: celestite sol - A/R.R. Singh, Rajit Singh, Sapna Sethi and D.R. Chaudhary.

41. Activation of deeper wells within the hermetical test limits by combination in insitu foam followed by nitrogen/Anil Johari, Alok Nandan and Gyan Singh. 42. Global response analysis of a TLP in 900 m water depth in Indian waters/Dinesh Kumar, Alok Kumar and S.K. Patel. 43. Static in-place analysis of a deep water jacket structure for Indian offshore--a case study/S. Bandyopadhyay, V. Sanyasi Rao and Ranweer Singh. 44. Selecting right type of proppant carrying fluid - key to success/Vipul Garg, Kiran, Sharma, K. Krishan and H.S. Rawat. 45. Acrylamide hydroloysates - new generation flocculant for efficient effluent processing at Lakwa ETP/I.V.S.V. Prasad, S.R. Das and C.S.R. Murthy. 46. Cost reduction options for production operations/P.V.S. Bhanumurthy and V.S. Kumar. 47. Petroleum pipeline construction planning: a conceptual framework/Prasanta Kumar Dey. 48. Investigation of failure of oil pipe line/A.K. Samant, Sunil K. Chugh and P.F. Anto. 49. Wax deposition and rheological evaluation of high pour point dulang crude/D.M. Anwar Raja, Mohd Ismail Omar, S.K. Sood, S.M. Patel and S. Ahmad. 50. Flow characteristics of waxy Indian crude oil: effect of asphaltenes/A. Borthakur, D. Chandra, A. Sarmah, K.V. Rao, B. Subrahmanyam and H.C. Das.

51. Studies on rheological properties of waxy Borholla Crude oil for pipeline transportation/K.B. Kohli and Simanta Baruah. 52. Some fundamental aspects of corrosion in petroleum upstream industries/N.C. Das. 53. Corrosion and its control on water injection pipeline system of Bombay offshore field/S.S. Sharma, K.C. Koshel and Ram Asre. 54. Corrosion problems in flow lines and water injection lines of Nawagam and Jhalora fields/A. Khanra, M.S. Theivendran and P.V.S. Bhanumurty. 55. Control of microbial corrosion of pipelines carrying oil and effluent/M.L. Dixit, T. Chakraborti, A.K. Goyal and H.C. Pande. 56. Cross country petroleum products pipeline-remote operation/V.K. Rajan and G. Venkataramanan. 57. An integrated approach towards design and maintenance of above ground crude oil storage tanks/K. Srinivas. 58. Cathodic protection of above ground storage tank bottoms by anode flex TM cable anode system/K.G. Gupta and D. Das. 59. Underground storage of oil - an Indian perspective/A.K. Dube. Author index.

Volume IV. Refining, Petrochemicals, Environment and Safety: 1. The petrochemical refinery of the future/Jorge A. Bonilla, Dilip J. Dharia, Lark E. Chapin and Axel R. Johnson. 2. New developments in manufacturing processes for alkylate gasoline/Pradeep Rao. 3. Methodology for the selection of ideal catalysts for semi-regenerative catalytic reforming units/S. Juvarajan and Zainal Abidin H.J. Kasim. 4. Refining processes to make high performance bitumen/P.K. Jain, U.C. Gupta and Himmat Singh. 5. Improvements of analytical distillation of crude oil/Remy Geoffray. 6. Opportunities for utilisation of potential feedstocks for production of waxes in India/U.C. Agarwal, N.N. Kulsrestha and B.S. Rawat. 7. Production of micro crystalline waxes from crude oil tank sludges: techno-economic aspects/K.M. Agrawal, Jai Prakash, A.V. Gomkale, Sanat Kumar and B.S. Rawat. 8. Strategies to solve processing problems of heavy Jodhpur crude oil/Y.K. Kuchhal and T.S.R. Prasada Rao. 9. Resid upgradation: deasphalting based options for Indian refineries/G.S. Dang and B.S. Rawat. 10. Some basic research studies on bimetallic PT-SN/AI2O3 catalyst for continuous catalytic reforming/Sunita R. Bajaj, L.D. Sharma, J.K. Gupta, G. Muralidhar and T.S.R. Prasada Rao.

11. Polymeric additives for improving flow properties and viscosity index of lubricating oils/H.kh. Ghareib, Zakka M. Mohamed, Ismail A. El-Magly and Abdel-Azim A. Abdel-Azim. 12. Selection of single plate type heat exchanger (PACKINOX) for BPCL refinery/P. Padmanabhan. 13. Utilisation of flared gas for power generation--some technological, environmental and financial issues/Anoop Kumar and B.V. Perumal. 14. Quality optimization studies of Uran LPG gas processing plant/D.K. Ralli, J.K. Shrivastav and S.R. Nimoria. 15. Characterisation of process streams for product optimisation/value addition/J.K. Shrivastav and S.R. Nimoria. 16. Improved filtration system for circulated liquid absorbent - a case study/Aditya Johri, Swati Ray, A. Bhattacharya, A.K. Sah and R. Rai. 17. New technology options for value addition of natural gasoline liquids (NGL) - a case study/Arun Gupta, G. Kandasamy, A.K. Sah and R. Rai. 18. Mounded storages for LPG/R.G. Rajan. 19. Coal bed methane potential and prospects in India--a case for diversification/S. Jamal and J. Peters. 20. Application of seismic and VSP data for prediction of coal seams for coalbed methane exploration in Durgapur depression/D. Majumder, Subrato Bag, Sribatsa Kumar Das, and Ajay Kumar Biswal.

21. Conversion of natural gas to ethylene and propylene: UOP/HYDRO MTO process/Bipin V. Vora and Terry L. Marker. 22. Polymers as rheology modifiers in petroleum fluids/N.M. Desai, N.C. Joshi and A.S. Sarma. 23. Cocker distllate: a potential source of petrochemicals/M.P. Saxena, K. Kumar, S.K. Sharma and A.K. Gupta. 24. Non-conventional vegetable oils as potential blending components for enhancement of lobs characteristics/S. Kaul, R.P.S. Bisht and V.K. Bhatia. 25. Role of petroleum in total energy mix-scenario at the start of the 21st century, India/R.K. Vij, Y.B. Sinha and P.V. Ramana. 26. Private participation in upstream sector - an Indian experience/Seema Sharma, Vivekanand and A.K. Singh. 27. Review of joint venture operations in oil industry in India/Rajesh Sharma. 28. Environment management in oil field development--emerging trends/D.V. Barapatra, R. Vijayarangan, K.T. John and R.K. Raju Gottumukkala. 29. Environment management of water base drilling fluid effluents--status and challenges/V.P. Sharma and I. Singh. 30. Environmental monitoring around offshore installations on the western continental shelf, off Maharashtra coast (Arabian sea)/R.K. Raju Gottumukkala and K.T. John.

31. Current effluent treatment practices in western region oil-fields and future environmental challenges/Naveen Raj, S. Velchamy, A.K. Saxena, Ram Prakash, Ramesh Kumar and B.K. Sharma. 32. Transportation fuels - future specifications and technological requirements/Y. Kumar, V.K. Bhatia, B.P. Pundir, Himmat Singh and B.S. Rawat. 33. Excessive water production: causes and control--a technology overview/Ashok K. Singhal. 34. Role of sulphate reducing bacteria in souring of crude oil in Narimanam field of Cauvery basin/Nimmi Singh, Asit Kumar, A.K. Jain, S.P. Singh and H.S. Rawat. 35. Implementing environmental management programme in Jhalora oil field, north Gujarat, India/A.K. Saxena, Naveen Raj, Ram Prakash, Ramesh Kumar and B.K. Sharma. 36. Underground effluent injection and environmental implications: a study of north Gujarat oil fields/K.M. Suyan, N.K. Jindal and J.N. Srivastava. 37. Sludge management in petroleum refineries/V.S. Saini, D.K. Adhikari and V.R. Sista. 38. Tar balls in western coast of India: origin, characterisation and fingerprinting/Savinder Gupta and Sajay Bhutani. 39. Prediction of biodegradability of mineral base oils from chemical composition using artificial neural networks/M.P. Singh, B. Basu, G.S. Kapur, Nazakat Ali, M.I.S. Sastry, B.R. Tyagi, S.K. Jain, S.P. Srivastava and A.K. Bhatnagar. 40. Bio-remediations - oil spill combatment/D.E. Nathaniel, S.K. Pegu, P.K. Goswami and P.K. Hazarika.

41. Bioremidiation of petroleum contaminated soil/Asit Kumar, Nimmi Singh, S. Kapoor, A.K. Gupta, S.C. Mohan, M.S. Razakhan, H.S. Rawat and Kuldeep Chandra. 42. Effects on fishes exposed to petroleum activities in the western offshore/Sandhya Arora, S.K. Sharma, H.S. Rawat and Kuldeep Chandra. 43. Human factors in safety engineering and safety management/A.K. Das and A. Jana. 44. Environmental management during blowout at Pasarlapudi-19 drill site/Narainlal and Ajitkumar. 45. Human relations: an indispensable tool for organisational development/Mohendra Pratap. 46. Shared vision for unleashing true potential of human resource--a petroleum sector perspective/Sujit Sen and Shailendra Saxena. 47. Upstream R & D activities-Indian scenario/S.K. Biswas. 48. On some recent corrections to current thinking in petroleum engineering knowhow and related developments/Ashis Kumar Das. 49. Consortium research as a tool for technology management--an experience of institute of oil and gas production technology, ONGC, India/A. Sarkar, A. Gupta and R. Nischal. 50. Role of R & D in equipment maintenance-A KDMIPE experience/V. Kumar, M.D. Mukherjee and D. Ranga.

51. Role of satellite communication in petroleum sector/S.S. Agrawal, L.M. Joshi, R.K. Tyagi and C.S. Singh. 52. Information network for petroleum sector/Rakesh Gupta. 53. Expert system approach for effective maintenance of oil industry/Rajni Shamshery and Samir Kant Shamshery. 54. In-line crack detection in oil and gas pipelines: operational experience with the Uttrascan CD/H.H. Willems, O.A. Barbian, N.I. Uzelac and P.M. Evans. 55. Liquid transportation in pipelines--design aspects for transient flows--a case study/L.S. Dogra and Arun Chaitanya. 56. Promising method for cleaning crude oil storage tanks/H.Kh. Ghareib. 57. Survival of refinery operations in a highly competitive market by selective bottoms upgrading/Kajal Roy. 58. Meeting the challenges for middle distillates: scientific and industrial aspects/Barry H. Cooper. 59. Extraction of lube distillates and bright stock with NMP solvent/A.K. Jain, S. Khatua, L. Vaideeswaran, D.K. Sarkar, S.J. Chopra, Himmat Singh, M. Anwar, G.S. Chaudhary, R.S. Kaushik, V. Sekar and S. Natarajan. 60. New challenges-technology options for resid processing in Indian refineries/Shobhan Ghosh and Asit Kumar Das.

61. Resid cracker handles record nickel levels/Mark W. Schnaith, Lee Dacey, Mohammed Shkoukani, Jaya Wishnudaya and Ignatius Tallulembang. 62. New high performance structured packing 'Parlpack' enhances crude column performance/S. Banik, H.B. Natraj, T. Das, K. Majumder, R. Chawla, T.K. Sarkar and S.J. Chopra. 63. Economics of natural gas supply options in India/S.C. Gupta. 64. Developments in use of CNG and LPG as motor fuel/J. Sharma, A.K. Aigal and K.K. Gandhi. 65. Increased LPG production from NGC fractionation unit by NTGG process/N. Viswanadham, A.K. Saxena, N. Roy and T.S.R. Prasada Rao. 66. Drunkard's wash project: coalbed methane production for ferron coals in east-central Utah, USA/Robert, A. Lamarre and Terry D. Burns. 67. Studies of stability of middle distillate and gasoline fuels/A. Mammen, U.S. Rao and A.S. Sarma. 68. Cetane number requirement and improvement through additive approach/P. Bhatnagar, R. Manoharan, S.C. Mehta, B.R. Tyagi, S.P. Srivastava and A.K. Bhatnagar. 69. New technology development and commercialization/Bipin V. Vora, Robert K. Oslon and Peter R. Pujado. 

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