Anupam Das
Deputy Chief Engineer (Telecom & Instrumentation)
Oil India Limited
Anupam Das is a Deputy Chief Engineer at Oil India Ltd, bringing 12 years of specialized experience in maintaining and optimizing critical midstream infrastructure. With a proven record in industrial operations technology, he is a trusted engineer in Telecommunications, Instrumentation Systems Design, and Process Automation crucial for complex, geographically dispersed energy assets concerning midstream.
Throughout a dynamic career,he has consistently driven reliability and efficiency through technology integration. A key achievement includes spearheading the large-scale deployment of a fiber-optic network across multiple sites spread over 40 kilometers. This initiative was instrumental in significantly boosting real-time data transmission reliability to 95% or more, enabling superior operational monitoring and decision-making for critical field operations. Furthermore, he played a pivotal role in designing a complete repeater station for instrumentation and signal boosting in Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) links, ensuring robust connectivity across challenging environments.
Holding an MBA focused on Oil and Gas, he combines deep technical engineering expertise with strategic business acumen, understanding the economic and regulatory landscape of the energy sector.
Currently, he is strategically focused on the field of Integrity Management in Oil Pipelines. Leveraging a background in instrumentation and data reliability, his professional aspiration is to implement predictive maintenance and monitoring strategies to enhance the safety, compliance, and longevity of vital pipeline infrastructure, mitigating risks and ensuring sustainable operations for the company and the nation.
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TECHNICAL PROGRAMME | Energy Infrastructure
Traditional magnetic flux leakage (MFL) and ultrasonic testing (UT) methods can be challenged by sensitivity thresholds, operational speeds, and environmental factors. Quantum magnetometers, leveraging the ultra-high sensitivity of atomic spin precession, offer unparalleled precision in detecting minute magnetic field anomalies caused by pipe corrosion, stress, and defects. This novel approach allows for the identification of smaller, nascent integrity issues that might otherwise go unnoticed by conventional techniques.
Deployment of advanced QM systems may involve in-line or external survey platforms (e.g., drone-mounted), to generate high-resolution, precise magnetic field maps of pipeline segments. Through sophisticated data processing and inversion algorithms, these magnetic anomalies are translated into detailed 3D representations of pipeline health, accurately pinpointing the location and characterizing the extent of structural anomalies.
The implementation of quantum magnetometry promises significant advantages for the oil and gas industry, including: greatly improved defect detection rates, enhanced proactive maintenance capabilities, reduced false positive indications, increased operational efficiency through faster survey speeds, and ultimately, a significant reduction in environmental risks and costly failures. This technology represents a crucial step towards achieving a new standard of predictive and reliable pipeline integrity, contributing directly to global energy security and sustainability.
