September 21, 2016
Industry Workshop – Seoul
September 6, 2016. Last week Professor Eric May and Dr. Zachary Aman travelled to Seoul, South Korea to deliver a Gas Processing and Flow Assurance industry workshop. The workshop was held over two days and hosted by Partner Investigator Prof. Yuatek Seo from Seoul University. Over 40 engineers from the South Korean Oil & Gas…
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September 21, 2016
Industry Mentoring
September 8, 2016. This week researchers from the Training Centre met over lunch with Chevron engineers to launch the Mentoring Program for the ARC ITTC for LNG Futures. Six engineers from Chevron were matched with Training Centre PhD students and Research Fellows. The Chevron mentors have expertise in the areas of Subsea Facilities Engineering, Flow…
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September 21, 2016
NMR Research presented in Europe
September 20, 2016. Training Centre Chief Investigator Professor Michael Johns recently returned from two weeks in Europe. He visited the University in Leeds and attended two conferences in the UK and Italy presenting aspects of his NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) research. At the conference MRPM13 (Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media) in Bologna, Italy Mike…
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September 12, 2016
Kenneth Neil Marsh (1939 – 2016)
Our group recently farewelled Ken Marsh, an exceptional friend and colleague. Professor Eric May and Research Fellow Dr. Tom Hughes have composed the following obituary to be published in the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data in memory of Ken. Kenneth Neil Marsh was born in Melbourne, Australia on 27th December 1939 and died in…
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July 18, 2016
efNMR Flow Meter Researcher Wins Award
18th July 2016. Congratulations to Fluid Science Resources PhD student Keelan O’Neill who recently received the overall award at the JCEC Postgraduate Research Excellence Awards. Keelan’s research is for a multiphase flow meter that uses earth’s field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technology to measure individual component flow rates such as gas, water and oil in…
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July 14, 2016
UWA SPE Awarded Outstanding Student Chapter
14 July 2016. The UWA Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) has been selected to receive the 2016 Outstanding Student Chapter Award. This prestigious award recognizes SPE student chapters with exceptional programs and is presented to less than 10% of chapters worldwide. The award reflects ongoing efforts of the SPE UWA committee to continue to develop…
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July 5, 2016
World’s Most Northern LNG Plant
5 July 2016. Dr. Kevin Li recently braved the cold at the world’s most northern LNG Facility in Norway. The tour of Snohvit LNG Plant was a field trip arranged as part of Natural Gas Conversion Symposium in Tromso, Norway (NGCS11). Warm Hi-Vis clothing was provided as part of the tour and although currently summer…
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July 4, 2016
Ruhr Uni Collaboration
5 July 2016. Professor Eric May, Dr. Paul Stanwix and Dr. Darren Rowland of UWA are currently spending time at Ruhr University in Bochum Germany. They are collaborating with Professor Roland Span and Professor Markus Richter in the area of Thermophysics specifically on microwave measurements of dew points. Also taking part in the collaboration and currently joining…
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June 30, 2016
ATSE Award for Kevin Li
30 June 2016. Kevin Li, Chief Investigator for the ARC ITTC for LNG Futures has been awarded a Global Connections award by the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE). The award of $7,000 is to enable further collaboration with DKT Consulting in China to further develop a new family of methane adsorbents namely ionic…
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June 13, 2016
PhD Student Industry Placements
13th June 2016. This month two Training Centre PhD students start the first of their industrial placements with Woodside Energy Ltd as part of the of the ARC ITTC for LNG Futures. Temi Kuteyi and Fernando Perez will spend the next six months part-time in the Woodside Energy Perth office modeling the fluid and heat…
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