Overview

An evening event with technical presentation by Professor of Process Design and Integration from University of Nottingham Malaysia and time for networking over refreshments.

This event is free and open to all. Bring along your colleagues and introduce them to the Oil & Natural Gas Special Interest Group (SONG) and to IChemE.

Topic

In recent years, the oil and gas industry has been moving to develop unconventional gas fields, which include those contaminated with high carbon dioxide (CO2) content. Typically, the CO2 has to be separated from the “sour” natural gas (NG) in offshore processing facilities (in situ) before the NG can be sent for processing at the gas plant onshore. To date, commercial-scale CO2 capture and storage (CCS) has proven to be viable, mainly for CO2 that is separated from NG and subsequently injected at or near the gas field itself for permanent storage (CO2 sequestration) or utilized for the purpose of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).

In the case of multiple adjacent reservoirs exhibiting variations in NG quality and CO2 content, it may be necessary to have in-situ CO2 removal using NG sweetening processes (e.g. membrane or amine absorption) to achieve a quality level such that the pooled NG streams meets the specification required for further processing at the onshore facility for sales. Some recent works based on process integration approaches, including graphical, algebraic and optimization techniques have been developed to aid the integrated planning of such field development projects.

The main purpose of the work is to rationalize the development of the sour CO2 gas fields together with conventional “sweet” gas fields (i.e. low CO2) in meeting the required CO2 content in sales gas specifications. Case studies are used to illustrate how insight-based policies can be drawn for the use in sour gas field development projects.

Speaker

Professor Ir. Dr. Dominic Foo, Professor of Process Design and Integration

Professor Ir. Dr. Dominic Foo is a Professor of Process Design and Integration at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, and is the Founding Director for the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), a Chartered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council, a Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineer Malaysia (BEM), as well as the Vice President for the Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE). He is a world leading researcher in process integration for resource conservation. He establishes international collaboration with researchers from various countries in the Asia, Europe, American and Africa.

Professor Foo is an active author, with five books, more than 140 journal papers and made more than 190 conference presentations, with more than 30 keynote/plenary speeches. He served as International Scientific Committees for many important international conferences. Professor Foo is the Editor-in-Chief for Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability (Springer Nature), Subject Editor for Transactions of IChemE Part B (Process Safety & Environmental Protection, Elsevier), guest editor and editorial board members for several other journals.

He is the winner of the Innovator of the Year Award 2009 of IChemE, Young Engineer Award 2010 of IEM, Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2012 of Junior Chamber International (JCI), as well as the SCEJ (Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan) Award for Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer 2013, Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Award 2014 (University of Nottingham) and Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2016 (Academy of Science Malaysia). He conducted more than 80 professional workshops to academics and industrial practitioners worldwide.

Time

Registration from 17:30 – the event will commence at 18:00 and close at 20:00.

Sponsors

IChemE gratefully acknowledges:

• PETRONAS Group Techincal Solutions (GTS) sponsorship of SONG evening talks
• EAST One-Zero-One organizers of SONG evening talks

Get involved

Would you like to give talk at a SONG event in Kuala Lumpur, or online to a wider audience of chemical engineers in the Asia Pacific region? We'd like to hear from you. Please contact Mohan Balasingam or with details about yourself and proposed presentation.