UTP Strenghthen Collaboration with Energy Industries for Sustainability

The partnership aims to enhance the understanding and management of subsurface fluids, including carbon storage as well as oil and gas field systems, using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Imaging, fibre-optic seismic sensing technologies and predictive analytics and data visualisation using machine learning.

Signing the agreement on behalf of UTP was Vice-Chancellor Professor Ts Dr Mohamed Ibrahim Abdul Mutalib, while TotalEnergies was represented by its General Manager Xavier Faugeras.

The signing was witnessed by PETRONAS Senior Vice President of Malaysia Petroleum Management(MPM), Mohamed Firouz Asnan and PETRONAS Senior General Manager of Resource Exploration MPM Azmir Zamri. 

According to Mohamed Ibrahim, "We are excited to be working together with TotalEnergies, a global multi-energy company that produces and markets energies on a global scale on this research project.  

"The partnership will bring together the expertise and resources of both parties focusing on the use of optical fibre sensing technologies, backed by data acquisition, subsurface visualisation, and image interpretation aided with cloud-based computing which will result in an effective solution for monitoring subsurface fluids," he said.