Doha: Total Research Centre- Qatar hosted technical presentations by senior international scientists from Total’s headquarters in Paris. The workshops were attended by professionals of Total’s Qatari partner institutions.
Emmanuel Garland, an environmental expert at Total, delivered a training on the protection of the environment, particularly atmospheric emissions and water usage. He provided insight into what is at stake for preventing pollution by upstream oil and gas activities. He emphasised constraints for operators and highlighted techniques to respond to them.
In a separate training, Dr Gerard Massonnat, owner of 13 patents and author of many scientific publications on reservoir engineering, shared research experience in carbonate reservoirs and explained how to characterise and forecast them. The centre is one of the eight worldwide research and development facilities of Total Exploration & Production.
It has become a hub for development of new technologies, research and knowledge-sharing with Qatari partners.
It has organised five high-level workshops since the beginning of the year, focusing on carbonate reservoirs, enhanced oil recovery, geochemistry, the environment and the future of the oil & gas industry.
“As knowledge-sharing is a key to success, we commit to such scientific presentations which benefit our partners,” said Dr Philippe Julien, Director of the centre.
“The centre has delivered significant innovations and we are keen to share our fruitful research with Total’s Qatari industrial and academic partners,” he added.
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