Nano Petroleum, Gas and Petro-Chemical Industries Conference: “Providing Nano-Powered Solutions” 2009

Faced with the need for exploration in ever more challenging remote and offshore sites and the need for improved environmental performance and output from existing wells, the oil and gas industry is in need of revolutionary technological solutions. The limits of conventional oil and gas technologies however are quickly being reached. To overcome these limitations and to enable a secured energy future a radically new way of thinking and technology is required. In the words of Wallace E. Pratt, "Oil is found in the minds of men". Nanotechnology offers us this radically new way of thinking about energy. It offers the prospect of opening an entirely new frontier for exploration; the ability to stretch the limits of our current energy sources, and to go beyond these sources into new and uncharted territories.