Pattabhi Raman Narayanan

Advisor
Becht
Canada

P. Raman Narayanan has 40 years of global chemical engineering experience in the oil and gas industry. He has broad exposure to government and non-government organizations (NGOs) on greenhouse gas (GHG) policy, industry collaboration for advancing CO2 abatement technologies and exploring novel footprint reduction opportunities for oil sands. Mr. Raman retired from Shell Canada as the GHG Technical Advisor. His experience includes: • Successfully led and completed the Quest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project from concept to basis of design (BOD) and basic design package (BDP) • Led and obtained both Provincial and Federal government funding support, multiple credits for CO2 as well as licensing rights for sequestering CO2 which resulted in the successful commissioning and operation of Quest. • Achieved industry collaboration and prioritization for advancing CO2 abatement technologies in the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) GHG Environmental Priority Area (EPA), which resulted in the Construction of the CO2 Commercial Test Centre in Calgary for testing novel CO2 technologies with live flue gas stream. • Successfully proposed and obtained the Oil Sands leadership support for Shell Canada to participate in the ongoing Joint Industry Projects (JIP) for converting CO2 into useful products. • Shared the design and operation of the Scotford CO2 Quest Project with the support of the larger Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) group as it is a licensed capture technology by Shell. o Shared first-hand experience gained in the sequestration and monitoring activities of CO2 in the basal Cambrian oil sands. • Led and completed bench scale tests of a novel spiral heat exchanger for use for recovering heat from tailings streams. o Joint Industry pilot in COSIA could lead to commercialization of the same and achieve about 250 kilo tons per year GHG reduction for the mineable oil sands companies. • Led the residue hydrocracker pilot and footprint integrated project (FRIP) / low-cost CCS studies. • Conducted review of novel thermal oil sands processing technologies as well as partial upgrading for pipelineable (fungible) bitumen technologies and recommended that step change like solvent assisted bitumen extraction and oxidative desulphurization (for reducing the viscosity, density, and TAN) could be accelerated and demonstrated through joint industry effort. Mr. Raman holds a First Year M. Tech degree from the India Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India and a B. Tech degree from Madras University, India both in Chemical Engineering, and an MBA Degree from Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada. Patents to date (jointly with others): • Producing Improved Upgraded Heavy Oil, US 2014/0360922 Dec 11, 2014 • Treatment of Bitumen Froth with Super Critical Water, CA 2746987 • Method of determining the level of Asphaltene Flocculation in a stream, CA 2769070