INDIAN STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVES LIMITED (ISPRL)

Source: http://www.isprlindia.com/aboutus.asp

INDIAN STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVES LIMITED (ISPRL)

To ensure energy security, the Government of India had decided to set up 5 million metric tons (MMT) of strategic crude oil storages at three locations namely, Visakhapatnam, Mangalore and Padur (near Udupi). These strategic storages would be in addition to the existing storages of crude oil and petroleum products with the oil companies and would serve as a cushion in response to external supply disruptions. The construction of the strategic crude oil storage facilities is being managed by Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL), a Special Purpose Vehicle, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB). 

The crude oil storages are in underground rock caverns and are located on the east and west coasts so that they are readily accessible to the refining sector. Underground rock caverns are considered the safest means of storing hydrocarbons. The estimated cost of the project was around Rs.2400 crore at September 2005 prices. This excluded the cost of filling the crude oil in the caverns. Approval was obtained to increase the capacity at Visakhapatnam to 1.33 MMT and to permit utilization of the additional 0.3 MMT compartment by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) on proportionate cost sharing basis. As a result of this approval, the strategic storage capacity is 5.03 MMT. 

The approved Revised Cost Estimates for Visakhapatnam, Mangalore and Padur are Rs.1178.35, Rs 1227 crores and Rs 1693 crores respectively. The total cost of all the three projects is Rs 4098.35 crore, out of which Rs 265.79 crore would be provided by HPCL for the 0.3 MMT compartment at Visakhapatnam.

Hydrogen Association of India (HAI)

Source: http://www.hai.org.in/hai_m1-m3.html

The name of the association is Hydrogen Association of India (HAI) registered Under society out and having Memorandum and Rules and Regulations as the Association. The registered office of the Association is Hydrogen Association of India (HAI), c/o Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, R&D Centre, Sector-13, Faridabad - 121007, India.

The aims and objectives of the Association are to conduct scientific activities which shall include interalia the following:

To promote, encourage and develop the growth of Hydrogen Energy and its applications in the country. To establish an active association of all those persons, bodies, institutions (private or public) and industries interested in (a) above. To disseminate information concerning the developments in Hydrogen Energy and its applications through publications, such as bulletins, reports, news letters, journals, etc. To organize courses, symposia, seminars, etc. in various parts of the country, to educate the users of Hydrogen Energy and offer a proper platform for reporting and discussing the new developments in various fields of Hydrogen Energy. To render advice (technical or otherwise) to government and commercial bodies on matters pertaining to Hydrogen Energy and its applications, when needed or requested. To undertake and execute all other acts which shall promote the aims and objectives of the Association, And it is, hereby declared that in the interpretation of this clause, the meaning of any of the Association’s objectives shall not be constrained except when otherwise expressed in such paragraph or by the juxta position of two or more objectives and that in the event of any ambiguity, the clause shall be constructed in such a way so as to widen, and not restrict the powers of the Association.

Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT)

Source: http://www.cept.in/

CEPT University was earlier known as Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT).
CEPT was established in 1962. It became a State University by an Act of the State Legislative Assembly of Gujarat.

CEPT University offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate programmes.

This website is under construction.

For more information, please see the official website of the  CEPT University at www.cept.ac.in

CEPT University

Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus, Univesrity Road

Navarangpura, Ahmedabad-380009 (Gujarat) INDIA

Phone: +91-79-26302470

CEPT University

Source: http://cept.ac.in/about

CEPT University focuses on understanding, designing, planning, constructing and managing human habitats. Its teaching programs build thoughtful professionals and its research programs deepen understanding of human settlements.  CEPT University also undertakes advisory projects to further the goal of making habitats more livable. 

The University comprises five faculties.  The Faculty of Architecture was established as the ‘School of Architecture’ in 1962.  It focuses on design in the private realm.  The Faculty of Planning, focused on planning in the public realm, was established in 1972 as the ‘School of Planning’.  The Faculty of Technology, which concentrates on engineering and construction, was established in 1982 as the ‘School of Building Science and Technology’.  The Faculty of Design was established in 1992 as the ‘School of Interior Design’.  It deals with habitat related interiors, crafts, systems, and products. Faculty of Management is a newly established faculty from the Faculty of Technology Management and it focuses on Habitat and Project Management.

CEPT University takes its name from the ‘Center for Environmental Planning and Technology’ (CEPT).  CEPT and the various schools that it comprised were established by the Ahmedabad Education Society with the support of the Government of Gujarat and the Government of India.  The Government of Gujarat incorporated CEPT as a university in 2005. The University Grants Commission recognized CEPT University under section 2(f) of the UGC Act, 1956 in 2007. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) of the Government of India recognizes the University as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO).

INDIAN TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION (ITEC)

Source: http://www.itec.mea.gov.in/?1320?000

About ITEC

INDIAN TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION (ITEC) PROGRAMME

•  The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme was instituted by a decision of the Indian Cabinet on 15 September 1964 as a bilateral programme of assistance of the Government of India. The ITEC Programme, born out of the vision of our first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, was formally launched under the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri. The decision regarding setting up the ITEC programme was predicated on the underlying belief that "it was necessary to establish relations of mutual concern and inter-dependence based not only on commonly held ideals and aspirations, but also on solid economic foundations. Technical and economic cooperation was considered to be one of the essential functions of an integrated and imaginative foreign policy."

National Institute of Wind Energy, NIWE

Source: http://niwe.res.in/aboutus_bd.php

Harnessing wind energy has come a long way in India, on par with international development, with the private sector actively participating in the path laid down by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) over the last decade. The policy formulated for the development of wind power by MNRE supported by the State Policies, including the evacuation of power through the State Electricity Boards, has placed India on the world wind energy map.

To sustain wind energy development and to help India achieve self-reliance in the power sector supplementing the core conventional resources, MNRE has been planning and developing the basic infrastructure, institutions, and resources for carrying out research and development, large scale demonstration and diffusion of the non-conventional energy sources.

As a step towards achieving these broad goals and to tackle the challenges in sustaining the development and accelerating the pace of utilization of wind energy in the country the National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) has been established by MNRE at Chennai as an autonomous R&D institution of Government of India.

A Wind Turbine Test Station with technical and partial financial support by Danida, Government of Denmark, has been established at Kayathar, in Thoothukudi, District, and Tamil Nadu, as an integral part of the Centre.

It is envisioned that NIWE will serve as a technical focal point of excellence to foster the development of wind energy in the country. opment of wind energy in the country.

The National Confederation of Officers Associations of Central Public Sector Undertakings (NCOA)

Source: http://ncoaindia.com/about.php

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NCOA OF CENTRAL PUBLIC SECTOR UNDERTAKINGS

Reviewed 09-09-2010

The National Confederation of Officers Associations of Central Public Sector Undertakings (NCOA) was formed in 1985 as an Apex Body of Officers of Central Public Sector Undertakings. It has organized the Officers of the Central Public Sector under one roof, in order to provide them with a sense of identity. When the Govt, of India started disinvestments the definition of Central Public Sector Undertaking for the purpose of membership was changed to mean any undertaking in which the Government of India had a commercial presence by way of equity.

Issues taken up by NCOA

          During its twenty years history some of the important issues that were taken up by NCOA:
1. National Issues
         White Paper: During the Prime Ministership of Shri Rajiv Gandhi the Government of India had committed in the Parliament that jt would produce a White Paper on the Public sector. When the Govt, of India failed to produce a White Paper, NCOA produced an Approach Paper on the White Paper. Since then there have been several Publication on major policy issues relating to the public sector.
On several occasions the NCOA was invited by the Parliamentary Committee of Public Undertakings and the Standing Committee on Industry to make submission on various issues relating to the Public sector.
          NCOA was one of the founders of the National Working Group on Patent Law to fight for the preservation of the Indian Patent Law and strengthen the Indian struggle to withstand international pressure to force India to Join the Paris Convention. The Working Group has since graduated into an important agency in India people's struggle against unfair trade agreements being brought through the World Trade. Organization. NCOA participated in Cancun Mexico in the NGO forums during the 5th Ministerial Conference.
          NCOA has been a founder member of the All India People's Science movement that has pioneered literacy and science communications.

2. Privatization          NCOA successfully undertook struggles against the first two attempts to privatize the public sector and
         Scooter India Limited:          NCOA formed a high level committee under the Chairmanship of Shri R. C. Dutt Former, Secretary Steel and Director General BPE with Sarva Shri Ajit Chaterjee Former CMD, HEC & MAMC T. S. Kannan Former CMD R & C, NSIC V. Krishnan Former CMD BPCL & Scooters India S. Soundararajan Former CMI Scooters India Representatives of the Officers, Supervisor Associations and Trade Unions of Scooters India and NCOA.
          The Committee analysed the Government of India's proposal for handing over Scooters India to M/s Bajaj and recommended against the move.

Energistics: The Energy Standards Resource Centre

Source: http://www.energistics.org/history

The predecessor of Energistics was formed in October 1990 by five founding sponsor oil companies: BP, Chevron, Elf (since merged into Total), Mobil (since merged into ExxonMobil), and Texaco (since merged into Chevron) under the name Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation (POSC). ^[1]

The mission of the new organization was defined as developing, supporting, evolving, and promoting open standards for the scientific, engineering, and operations aspects of the oil and gas exploration and production industry.

In the early years, the organization established an open process, acquired resources, and pursued a set of deliverables. The use of the specifications was intended to enable greater quality, consistency, and integration of data and data use. The initial deliverables were known as the Software Integration Platform (SIP) Specifications.

In 1993, Version 1.0 of the specifications were published as a collection of hard-cover bound books. The published specifications included base computing, data model, data access, data exchange, and user interface. ^[2]

During the next three years, the organization engaged in educational, testing and support activities, including two proof-of-concept implementations of the SIP enabling middleware and a multi-stage, multi-member pilot implementation program called the Industry Implementation Pilot (IIP). The IIP involved both energy company in-house developers and commercial vendor developers building up aspects of an infill drilling scenario. ^[3]

In 1996, the Board of Directors commissioned a study of the benefits of using the SIP specifications, which projected savings of from 1 to 3 USD per barrel of oil gained through improvements in data quality, data accessibility, and exploitation of information and knowledge. ^[4]

Additions and enhancements to the SIP specifications were published in the following few years, including SIP Version 2.2 in 1997 and software applications interoperability specifications in 1999. During these years, the organization transitioned to a fully member elected Board of Directors.

The SIP Version 2.3 incremental update came out in 2000 and 2001, along with the first XML data schema specifications for basic well data (WellMasterML) and well log display parameters (LogGraphicsML) as well as a series of XML-oriented public seminars. The future course of the organization was shifting from data store and middleware specifiations to subject matter data exchange specifications.

This transition progress in 2002 with the agreement to receive custodianship of the WITSML Standards for drilling data exchange based on XML and Web Services technologies. In the same year, the first of a number of member Special Interest Groups (SIGs) was organized as the user community for subject-specific standards. The subject matter of the first SIG was E&P data stores and their use.

In 2003, a SIG was formed to support the WITSML Standards. The final release of the SIP Specifications, Version 3.0, came out during that year. Reference standards for both well log data and E&P document and dataset cataloging were published, along with an E&P business process reference model.

During 2004, the organization decided to improve the alignment of its name with its mission by redefining the meaning of the name POSC to mean the Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium. ^[5]

The second XML and Web Services family of standards was initiated in August 2005 with the agreement to host the first year of the PRODML, Production XML Markup Language initiative, after which the PRODML SIG was formed. A major new release of the WITSML Standards was released in 2005. Also, an open source data conversion utility for LAS to WITSML well log dataset conversion was developed and released.

Building on the most valuable initiatives and an increased emphasis on wide-scale standards adoption, the organization rebranded itself as Energistics in November 2006. This coincided with the release of Version 1.0 of the PRODML Standards and an update to Units of Measure specifications. ^[6]

In 2007, a WITSML-based electronic permitting XML schema specifications was published following a multi-year collaboration with US state regulatory agencies in cooperation with API PIDX's REGS EC User Group.

During 2008, WITSML Standards, Version 1.4.0 were released. Also, updated application interoperability specifiations were submitted by OpenSpirit Corporation, which followed from the previous work in the area published originally in 1999.

2009 saw the formation of the RESQML SIG to address reservoir characterization standards development as a natural successor to the RESCUE Work Group's C++ Class Library. Also, updated PRODML Standards for both data and services specifications were released.

In 2011, the Standards DevKit was developed by ExxonMobil and is licensed to Energistics for maintenance, support and administration. The DevKit supports the latest versions of WITSML, PRODML and RESQML. Further development will be guided by Energistics and the user community.

WITSML v1.4.1.1 was published in July 2012 and includes updates and bug fixes to v1.4.1 (published in 2011). A certification program for v1.4.1.1 servers is under development for use in 2013.

REFERENCES

1. POSC Certificate of Incorporation, 1990

2. POSC Software Integration Standards, Prentice-Hall, 1993

3. POSC Industry Implementation Pilot, 1994

4. Benefits of Using the POSC Specifications, 1996

5. POSC By-Laws, as amended, 2004

6. Energistics By-Laws, as amended, 2006