On September 7th, 2018, Dr. Amini got invited to present his research ideas on Smart Oil Fields to Petroleum Engineering experts involved in Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Laboratory (TMSL) Project. This is a $9.7 Million project grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and several energy companies to enable researchers from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and four other institutions across the US to better understand how the significant energy reserve can be recovered.
The project aims to address critical gaps to enable cost-efficient and environmentally sound recovery of the resources. The project includes a team of researchers from the Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico; Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla; the University of Oklahoma, Norman; and the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
In this context, Dr. Amini’s speech was on creation of enabling clean oil industry via new generation of edge computing frameworks that are built for remote areas with weak and unstable network connections. The edge computing platforms must be robust against uncertainties of the connections and spike workloads initiated by numerous sensors in a smart oil field at the time of disasters, such as oil spill.
