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Training Programme on “PALYNOLOGY IN FOSSIL FUEL EXPLORATION” [ September 10-17, 2012 ] DR. UMESH CHANDRA PRADHAN Dy. General Manager (Geology), Head Bid Monitoring Group Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Frontier Basin, Himalaya Building, IDT Premises, Kaulagarh Road Dehradun - 248195 E-mail: ucp6@rediffmail.com Dr. U. Pradhan obtained 1 st class with distinction in M. Sc. Tech. (Appl. Geology) from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. He has 29 years of experience in the premier National Oil Company, ONGC and has worked in various sedimentary basins of India including Western Offshore Basin, Assam and Assam Arakan Fold Belt, Jaisalmer and Frontier Basins. His experience and professional strengths are in various fields like Wellsite Geological Operations, Regional G & G interpretation, Basin analysis, Development Geology, work over planning, heading G & G team in interpretation, heading Team for Geological Field Trip in Tethyan Himalayas, organizing international conferences, coordinating and supervising. He has published a number of geo-scientific papers and reports. He is Dy. General Manager (Geology), Head Bid Monitoring Group, ONGC, Frontier Basin at present. Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow 33
Training Programme on “PALYNOLOGY IN FOSSIL FUEL EXPLORATION” [ September 10-17, 2012 ] EXPLORING FRONTIERS U C PRADHAN DGM (G), Frontier Basin, ONGC, Dehradun E-mail: ucp6@rediffmail.com Ever increasing global energy demand, mounting impediments in finding resources and escalating cost & technology intensive exploration for hydrocarbons along with fluctuating markets and geopolitical uncertainties are only few of the reasons responsible for widening gap between demand and supply of oil and gas. With not so sufficient support from alternative sources of energy, eyes are naturally turned to exploring frontier areas. The storehouse of a lion’s share of India’s prognosticated hydrocarbon resources Frontier basins are poorly explored; represent logistically difficult and diverse tectonic set-ups with high risk & uncertain reward. Frontier basins under active exploration are in Himalayan foothills, Ganga Basin, Vindhyan Basin. Other significant onland frontier areas are Satpura Basin, South Rewa Basin, Punjab Plains, Jammu-Punchh belt, Trans Himalayan corridor, and Purnea, Rajmahal, Damodar, Satpura, South Rewa, and Pranhita-Godavari and sub trappean basins. Offshore frontiers include Bengal Fan, Indus Fan, Deep and Ultradeep areas of the east and west coasts. Ascertaining the quality and quantity of source rocks, reservoirs and effective regional seal and other elements of petroleum system pose a key geotechnical challenge. Complex geological setup and presence of basalts on surface and igneous dykes and sills in subsurface introduce serious challenges in seismic data acquisition and imaging. Special recording spread and source-receiver pattern for improved signal-noise ratio, multi component surveys, and wide angle seismic data with frequent user-processor interaction during processing yield better seismic API results. Non-seismic methods including electro-logging provide adequate support for better understanding the basins. Basin centered gas, biogenic gas, Coal Bed Methane Underground Coal Gasification, gas hydrates, tight gas, shale gas, heavy oil, gas to liquid are unconventional energy resources. Synergistic conceptualization in national perspective and committed involvement of oil companies, scientific institutions and universities will be of vital significance in unlocking Frontier resources. Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow 34
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