20 May 2003
Agreement Boosts Clean Fuel and Energy Research
Alternative energy and clean fuel technologies will be part of an expanded focus of a second five-year collaborative research arrangement between Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and PETRONAS Research and Scientific Services Sdn Bhd (PRSS), a research and development unit of PETRONAS.The two parties recently signed, in Kuala Lumpur, a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), for the joint research arrangement. The MoU allows CSIRO and PETRONAS to continue the exploitation of their combined strengths in the fields of petroleum exploration and production, alternative energies and advanced materials technologies.
CSIRO Petroleum, a division of CSIRO, is already the technological partner of PRSS in petroleum geomechanics, particularly in the areas of wellbore stability and sand production.
CSIRO Petroleum's Mr Greg Thill, said that the new MoU was an extension and expansion of the first five-year arrangement for joint research efforts signed in 1998.
"The first collaboration focused on advanced research and development projects in the field of petroleum exploration and production."
"This new arrangement further strengthens our strong collaborative relationship with one of the major national oil companies and opens opportunities to all the production sharing contractors in Malaysia," says Mr Thill.
The research collaboration with PRSS will involve several other CSIRO divisions including CSIRO Petroleum, CSIRO Molecular Science, CSIRO Energy Technology and CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology.
For further Information contact:Dr Chee Tan
Group Leader - Drilling Fluids & Wellbore Mechanics
CSIRO Petroleum
Tel: +61 8 6436 8769
Fax: +61 8 6436 8555
Email: Chee.Tan@csiro.au
Dorothy Albrecht
Public Affairs
CSIRO Petroleum
Tel: +61 8 6436 8707
Fax: +61 8 6436 8555
Email: Dorothy.Albrecht@csiro.au
About PETRONASPETRONAS is Malaysia's national petroleum corporation with business interests in more than 30 countries. The corporation, which is an emerging global player in the oil and gas industry, is engaged in a full spectrum of petroleum activities, and is ranked among the 500 largest companies in the world.
About PRSSPRSS, wholly-owned by PETRONAS, is a full-fledged business-driven research and development centre that serves needs of the PETRONAS Group and other petroleum-related companies, both domestic and international.
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