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International Coastal Cleanup Day 2024
On International Coastal Cleanup Day, National Centre for Earth Science Studies NCESS, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences Government of India, in association with the NSS India & Suchitwa Mission, organized a clean-up drive at Kovalam and Kollam beaches to spread awareness of maintaining clean coastlines for sustainable marinelife.
Clean Beach! Our Pride!
- ശുചിത്വ തീരം നമ്മുടെ അഭിമാനം -.
National Conference on Women in Geosciences: Opportunities, Challenges and Accomplishments (2-4 September 2024)
The three-day "National Conference on Women in Geosciences: Opportunities, Challenges and Accomplishments (2-4 September 2024)" has commenced today at NCESS. The event, presided over by Dr. M. Ravichandran, Hon'ble Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences Government of India, is being organized by the National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS).
During the inaugural ceremony, Prof. N.V. Chalapathi Rao, Director, NCESS, extended a cordial welcome, while Prof. Talat Ahmad, Chairman of NCESS-RAC, shared general remarks. Prof. Sudipta Sengupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, delivered the keynote address.
The seminar will showcase the work of over 65 women scientists and researchers, presenting papers and participating in a poster exhibition covering diverse topics such as field geology, paleoclimate, igneous petrology, and metamorphic petrology. The primary objective of the seminar is to facilitate discussions on the opportunities, challenges, and accomplishments of women in the sphere of Geosciences.
A new way to tap oil reserve
Drilling for oil could turn out to be a whole new experience using a novel technique developed by scientists here at the National Centre for Earth Science Studies (NCESS). NCESS scientists V. Nandakumar and J.L. Jayanthi have patented a method which, in layman’s terms, could give oil exploration teams valuable knowledge — practically as real-time data — about the quality of oil contained in a basin during the drilling process itself. What they have devised is a method to precisely determine the API gravity of hydrocarbon-bearing fluid inclusions (HCFI) using fluid inclusion techniques and microscope-based fluorescence emission spectroscopy.
Information droplets
The American Petroleum Institute (API) gravity denotes the commercial value of crude oil. HCFIs are minute ‘droplets’ of petroleum oil trapped inside isolated, microscopic rock chambers. The important point is that their composition may have remained unchanged since the time of the ‘entrapment’. For oil explorers, HCFIs hold priceless information about oil reservoirs deep inside the earth.
The Government of India granted the patent to Dr. Nandakumar, Scientist (G) and head, Crustal Processes Group, NCESS; and Dr. Jayanthi, who is Project Scientist (C), NCESS; on July 3. The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has evinced interest in adopting their technique, which, the scientists say, holds vast potential for application in the petroleum industry. “In general, 40% of exploratory wells end up as dry wells. Our methodology that employs a non-destructive, micro-spectroscopic technique could give fresh impetus to further exploration in locations adjoining abandoned or dry wells,” Dr. Nandakumar said. The ONGC had supplied rock samples from the Mumbai offshore basin for the research. The research, which took six years to bear fruit, was undertaken with funding from the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Source : THE HINDU, Thiruvananthapuram Edition, July 14, 2019 22:59 IST
