To foster growth of the oil & gas industry which continually needs trained workforce, PetroFed has been assiduously working to augment knowledge management for academia and students, by regularly conducting programmes exclusively for them and inviting them to seminars and conferences organised directly or in association with others.

We list hereunder some of the major initiatives taken in this area.

• Industry-Academia Interface - Workshop on ‘Refining & Petrochemicals ’ at NIT, Jalandhar from August 25-28, 2010
• Industry-Academia Interface - Workshop on ‘Defect Assessment and Maintenance of Pipelines’ at UPES, Dehradun from July 26-28, 2010
• Industry-Academia Interface - Workshop on 'Simulation and Modelling in Process Industry' at Pune from June 28-30, 2010
• Industry Academia Interface - workshop on  ‘ Refining & Petrochemicals’ at Haldia, West bengal from May 25-28,2010
• Industry Academia Interface -- Workshop on ‘Technology Imperatives for Exploration and Production of Oil and Gas’ at Kaziranga, Assam from March 17-20,2010.
• Industry Academia Interface -- Workshop on ‘Transportation of Oil & Gas through Pipelines’ from July 8-10, 2009.
• Industry Academia Interface -- Workshop on ‘Natural Gas Processing and Natural Gas / LPG Pipeline Transportation’ from June 29 – July 01, 2009.
• Industry Academia Interface -- Seminar on “Simulation and Modeling in Process Industry” from June 9-12, 2009.
• Industry Academia Interface -- Workshop on ‘Safety, Health & Environmental Management in Hydrocarbon Industry’ from January 22-24, 2009.
• Brainstorming Session on Industry-Academia Interaction on October 17, 2008.
• Workshop on ‘Simulation and Modelling in Process Industry’ May 28 -30, 2008.
• Simulation Workshop at UPES, Dehradun from January 19-20, 2007.
• Brainstorming on R&D in the Oil & Gas Sector on January 7, 2006.
• Workshop on 'R&D in the Upstream Sector’ on March 2, 2005.

Invitations are extended to academia to various seminars and workshops on technical subjects. Some of the key workshops & seminars from which academia have benefited are:

• Conference on ‘IOR-EOR: Challenges, Process & Technologies’ on April 15-16, 2010.
• Seminar on ‘State-of-Art Technologies for Refinery Corrosion Management’ on January 08, 2010.
• Workshop on ‘Energy Management & Efficiency Improvement in the Oil & Gas Sector’ on Nov 13, 2009.

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The following PetroFed publications have been sent to various institutions for their library.

• Fuelling India's Growth - Past Trends and Scenarios 2011- 2012
• Fuelling India's Growth - Vision 2030
• The Green Imperative - Future of Natural Gas in India - 2030

Some other publications sent to institutions are:

• How the Energy Industry Works (Click here to see publication)
• BP Statistical review 2010 (Click here to download publication)
• A compendium of papers on the theme of Annual Workshop of the Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust brought out by PetroFed since 2005.

Subjects covered during past programmes are:
2005 - Catalysts in Hydrocarbon Processing and Fertiliser Industry.
2006 - Hydrogen Production & Utilisation in Petroleum, Petrochemical & Fertiliser Industry.
2007 - Gasification of Petroleum Residue and Coal.
2008 - Petroleum Refining - Redefining Upstream & Downstrem Integration.
2009 - Managing Carbon Footprints in the Process Industry.
• Assessing Biofuels - UNEP report

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