The most acute labor pain that ONGC experianced at its birth in 1956 was the non-availability of drillers. ONGC's founding father Mr KD Malviya and his his two chief lieutenants Mr AMN Ghosh and Mr MBR Rao were at their wits's end as how and from where to find drillers. It was easier to find qualified chemists, physicists, geologists and even mathematicians, but where was the only prfession that one learned 'on-the-job'. Almost all of those earlier 'pioneer-drillers in ONGC were promptly sent to Assam Oil Company (AOC) for on-the-job training. When they came back after six months, they were promoted as assistant drillers, and sent to Russia for two years to get trained in drilling technology in the baku oil fields.
This heart-felt gap was filled 22 years later in 1978 when the Institute of Drilling Technology (IDT) was set up in Dehradun in the vicinity of Keshava Deva malaviya Institute of Petroleum Exploration (KDMPIE). Its founder-director was no other than mr AK Mitra, the veteran driller who had joined ONGC at its very inception. Today, IDT has emerged as a premier R&D Center, fully equipped and competent in the designing of critical and complex wells for exploratory and development fields across ONGC.
IDT carries out extensive applied R&D activities in the field of drilling, cementing technology, drilling fluid engineering and completion fluid engineering withobjective of providing quality, eco friendly, cost effective and timely services to ONGC's numerous Assets and Basins. it also provides customized solutions for field-related problems such like drilling complication diagnosis and how to sort those out. it also prepares comprehensive well plans and technological support for deep sort exploratory, high pressure, high temperature, high angle, horizontal and ERD wells. Among its other functions are designing and devloping drilling fluids, cement slurry and their additives besides completion fluid etc.
It is an integrated ISO Certified Institute for Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE) Management System. A systemic research carried out on various aspects of drilling technology at the Institute goes a long way in meeting the future challenges in drilling health wells and maximizing output of oil and gas by ONGC Group of Companoes in its march towars self-reliance in hydrocarbon resources of India. Apart from undertaking its stated functions in the field of drilling technology, IDT has also brought within its purveiew pan India promotion of deucation and training in the field of drilling technology, IDT has also brought within its purview pan India promotion of education and training in the field of drilling technology. It has thrown open its campus to intern from petroleum engineering educational institutions in the country. It has also enterd into R&D collaboration projects with the Indian Institute of technology, Guwahati, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee in a variety of fields.
IDT had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Institute of Rock Mechanics (NIRM), Kolar Gold Fields in August 2013 for five years. it has now been renewed until 31 March 2021. the MOU aims at determining the rock properties of shale samples like uniaxial compressive strength, tensile strength, Poission' sratio, cohesion and friction angles that helps in designing geo-mechanical model of particular area of intrest. Another collaborative project is with Indion Oil Corpoation in the development of base oils suitable for drilling fluids development of lubricity additives. There is also an arrangement with the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa for toxicological studies.
The Institute has been fortunate in having had at its helm drillers of exceptional abolity. In the beginning, its heads wre known as directors, and the dictinction of being the first director righttly belonged to Mr AK Mirta - ONGC's senior most driller by all accounts. He had to separate tenures - first one of four years and the second for three years. Thus Mr Mitra could in reality be called the (Founding-Father of the IDT).
Mr LN sarin succeeded Mr Mitra and remained its director for four years. Mr PS bais, who followed Mr sarin, also had a long tenure, lasting six years. The designation changed in 1995 when the Institute's director was designated as the Head of Institute's director was designated as the 'Head of Institute and Mr JC Rastogi became its first Head. Mr RK Gang had the shortest term of five months and Mr VK Gupta just six moths.
Crrently, IDT has on its rolls 101 staffers including 35 drillers, 23 chemists, nine technical and 34 non-technical personnel. it has since its inception trained 33,800 personnel. it has since its inception trained 33,800 personnel in diverse drilling operations. As an integrated training center, IDT regulary exchanges the knowledge gained via the studies carried out at the Institute. More than 13,000 participants from all over the world have been trained at the Institute.
The incumbent Head of the Institute Mr Pradeep Kumar Mishra brings to his new post more than 35 years of rich experince in diverse fields. He has held various key appointments such as the Head of the Drilling Services, Location Manager and In-charge at different locations. He has also had field exposure in Deep Water for offshore field operations. Prior to his current posting, Mr Mishra was the Head, Drilling Services (Deep Water) Mumbai, where he was instrumental in bringing about substantial saving in the drilling of 19 development wells in the prestigious KG-DWN-98/2 Field. Under his astute leadership, the Deep Water Group achieved more than 100% commercial speed in both Exploratory (123%) as well as Development wells (129%) in 1019-19, and that was a record of sorts.
In just over nine months as the head of IDT, Mr Mishra has intiated an exclusive training Course, "Offshore Drilling Operations", for training offshore personnel and completed revision of SOPs and manuals on Drilling, Cementing, Completion fluids etc. He has also been responsible for erecting a new training Rig E-760-8 at the IDT campus that is used as a showpiece for ONGC's inductees and visitors. It has replaced the earlier NAT #55 Rig.
Group General Manager Mr G Venkateshwaranm will take over on 1 April as Head of Institute upon the suerannuation of Mr Mishra.
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