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An Overview of PSIG Scholarship Opportunities

A Doctor of Philosophy graduate in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College, London, Ivor R. Ellul has served as managing director of CiSK Ventures, Ltd., in Houston, Texas, since 2015. Over the course of a 40-year career in the oil and gas industry, Ivor Ellul has established himself as a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Pipeline Simulation Interest Group, of which he is chairman of the board of directors. Established in 1969, the Pipeline Simulation Interest Group (PSIG) was formed with the objective of supporting the industry-wide exchange of information as a means of enhancing the overall state of modeling, simulation, optimization, and other aspects of the oil and gas industry. In order to assist various research initiatives in these and related areas, PSIG has developed two scholarships. The Orin Flanigan Scholarship and the Don Schroeder Scholarship are each valued at $5,000, and are distributed to individuals working towards furthering pipeline simulation research. Named for two stalwarts of the industry, the scholarships are presented to meritorious students conducting research or general studies in the field of pipeline simulation. The scholarships are generally not available to undergraduate students, nor to graduate students or doctoral candidates not enrolled in a program related to pipeline simulation. The merit of a student’s work is evaluated in regard to what concrete results could be yielded with scholarship funds, and what impact the research could have on the industry. Furthermore, the student’s financial need is taken into consideration when scholarships are distributed. To learn more the PSIG scholarship program, please visit the organization online at www.psig.org.

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Energy Institute’s HSE and Sustainability Week Returns to Dubai

Ivor Ellul is a Houston, Texas-based financial and energy professional who has several years of experience across both industries. In addition to serving as the managing director of CiSK Ventures, Ivor R. Ellul, given his membership status, has the option to attend several industry events hosted by the Energy Institute (EI), an organization that promotes safety and compliance in the energy sector. The Energy Institute holds regular events around the world and recently hosted another Middle East Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) and Sustainability Week in Dubai. The conference, which took place between December 8 and 10 at Dubai’s Hyatt Regency Creek Heights, included talks from various industry experts, with many focused on what’s needed to improve the energy industry’s sustainability and safety performance across the industry, as well as corrosion management and extending an asset’s lifespan. The academic, regulatory, and professional speakers came from several organizations and agencies, including the World Health Organisation and the Emirates Group.

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The Piper Alpha Disaster

The managing director of energy industry consultancy CiSK Ventures in Houston, Texas, Ivor R. Ellul has authored or coauthored dozens of articles on subjects related to petroleum operations and business administration. The Pipeline Simulation Interest Group published Ivor Ellul’s article “The Piper Alpha Disaster - A Forensic Pipeline Simulation Study” in 2014. An offshore oil drilling platform located roughly 120 miles northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland, Piper Alpha was a massive, fixed-structure platform that sat in 474 feet of water. At the peak of its operations under Occidental Petroleum, it was responsible for approximately 10 percent of the total petroleum output in the British sector of the Atlantic Ocean’s North Sea. On the night of July 6, 1988, a catastrophic explosion and fire engulfed and ultimately destroyed Piper Alpha. Of the 226 workers who were currently on board the platform, only 62 survived the disaster. In subsequent years, industry professionals used the Piper Alpha accident to develop technical and organizational risk management strategies that ensure worker safety. Specific elements leading to the Piper Alpha disaster included the process disturbance and flange leak/vapor release that caused the initial explosion, as well as the ways in which fire spread throughout the platform.

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Energy Institute Launches Toolbox Website

With a PhD in petroleum engineering from Imperial College, London, Ivor R. Ellul serves as the managing director of CiSK Ventures, Ltd., where he provides advisory services and technical support to different segments and fields of the energy industry. Dr. Ivor Ellul is a member of the Energy Institute (EI). Established in 2003 after the merger of the Institute of Petroleum and the Institute of Energy, the Energy Institute is committed to enhancing the knowledge and understanding of the critical role that energy plays in the world’s growing population. Guided by its mission, EI has partnered with global energy companies to develop a web-based application called Toolbox. Demonstrated at Offshore Europe 2019 in Aberdeen, Scotland, Toolbox is a free online resource that provides industry professionals with access to more than a hundred case studies and information on health and safety based on real-life incidents. The content is delivered in video formats and can be viewed offline. Toolbox will serve as a guide for workers to perform their tasks responsibly.

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Researchers Discover Catalyst to Turn CO2 into Methane without CO

A mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Malta, Ivor R. Ellul is the managing director of CiSK Ventures, Ltd. In addition to providing advisory services to clients in the energy sector, Ivor Ellul is a member of the Energy Institute, a professional body for those in the energy industry. The July 2017 issue of the Energy Institute’s monthly magazine, Petroleum Review, published findings demonstrating the possibilities of carbon neutral fuel. Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, together with their commonwealth partners, developed a way of combining carbon dioxide with hydrogen to produce methane while minimizing carbon-monoxide production. Using solar energy, researchers were able to use a catalyst developed from porous crystals to convert carbon dioxide into natural gas in the presence of hydrogen. Previously, scientists had attempted to use other catalysts to achieve the same goal, but the catalysts had either produced minimal amounts of methane, resulted in poor conversion of carbon dioxide, produced carbon monoxide, or became unstable. With the new catalyst, the researchers produced almost pure methane but without the side effect of environmentally hazardous carbon dioxide. In addition, the process used a small amount of hydrogen and was stable even when continued for a number of days, thus proving it could be replicated industrially.

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The Christian Life Community’s Caminos Program

Ivor R. Ellul is an accomplished Houston-area engineer and business leader who has served as the managing director of CiSK Ventures, Ltd., since 2015 and as the executive advisor of the Promethean Energy Corporation since 2017. Outside of the professional arena, Ivor R. Ellul lends his support to multiple religious and social-outreach organizations, such as the Christian Life Community. A network of community groups, the Christian Life Community is a worldwide movement of Christians who are committed to heeding God's call to serve individuals and society. Among its various initiatives is a program specifically designed for college and university students: the Caminos program. A Spanish word that means “the way,” “camino” conjures images of St. Ignatius of Loyola, a Catholic saint known as “the pilgrim” for the spiritual path he traveled during his life. The Caminos program reaches out to groups of Christian students on colleges and universities across America. Including both undergraduate and graduate students, these groups help their members find God and Christ in all things and help one another in their journey of faith.

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Types of Petroleum Engineers

As the founder and chief executive officer of Knowledge Reservoir, Ivor Ellul has experience and expertise in oil and gas exploration. In addition to holding management and executive roles in the oil and gas industry for three decades, Ivor Ellul obtained a PhD in petroleum engineering. Responsible for formulating methods to obtain oil and gas from below ground, petroleum engineers operate in a specialized field of engineering. Other duties they complete include coordinating with geoscientists, developing drilling methods and equipment, and monitoring extraction operations to make sure things go to plan. There are also further specialties within the field of petroleum engineering. These include: Completions engineers: The engineers oversee the final stages of building wells to extract oil and gas. They also develop the plans to do so. Drilling engineers: Drilling engineers develop plans to drill wells while ensuring the drilling is environmentally friendly, safe, and cost effective. Production engineers: These professionals monitor ongoing operations of in-service wells. Additionally, they ensure well production is meeting expectations. Reservoir engineers: Reservoir engineers determine the resources available in an underground well. Usually involving complicated estimates, they also monitor production once drilling is underway.

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Methods for Detecting Underground Oil

Ivor Ellul presently serves as the chief executive officer of Knowledge Reservoir, a company he founded in 1999. In this role, Ivor Ellul applies his expertise in advising the company's clients in areas of upstream oil and gas exploration and production. There are a variety of techniques used in oil and gas exploration. Most relate to the interpretation of data received by reflecting seismic waves off the subsurface strata. This provides an idea of the structure of the subsurface which, in turn, reveals where potential hydrocarbon traps may exist. Seismic waves are created from a sound source which may be an explosion or vibration of some sort. The reflection is picked up by cables (onshore) or streamers (offshore) with integrated geophones. Once the data are collected, extensive processing takes place to develop a picture of the subsurface in the region where the date have been collected. Once maps of the subsurface have been developed, these are studied carefully by geologists and geophysicists who will decide whether there is any potential for hydrocarbon accumulation in economically viable quantities. If so, the geoscientists will decide where to drill one or more exploration wells.