**Meet the editor**

Professor Dr. Ariffin Samsuri is a senior professor of Petroleum Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia with vast experience in managing R&D projects, faculties, and departments. He has more than 38 years of teaching and supervising experience in petroleum engineering, including academic program development, staffing, and faculty and facilities establishment. He has

also been appointed as a visiting professor at Universiti Teknologi Petronas. He is a peer reviewer, external examiner, and has sat on expert and academic advisory panels. He has published more than 142 technical papers for conferences/seminars and journals, authored six books and three book chapters, translated four books, and edited 11 books and five research monographs. He is also involved in more than 30 research projects in drilling and production optimization, biofuel and nanotechnology application in oil and gas.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Industry 1**

Zongquan Deng

Paul A. Potter

**Specific Energy 105**

Chapter 1 **Proposing a Patent Information Approach for Identifying**

Gabriel Cavalheiro, Mariana Brandao and Saulo Rocha

Chapter 2 **Intelligent Drilling and Coring Technologies for Unmanned**

Chapter 3 **Making the Connection for Well Control on Floaters: Evolving Design Rationales for BOP Control Systems 37**

Chapter 4 **Bio-Based Oil Drilling Fluid Improvements through Carbon-**

Chapter 6 **Rate of Penetration Prediction Utilizing Hydromechanical**

Chapter 7 **Drilling Performance Optimization Based on Mechanical**

Chapter 8 **New Development of Air and Gas Drilling Technology 163** Jun Li, Yulong Yang, Boyun Guo and Gonghui Liu

**Specific Energy Technologies 133** Xuyue Chen, Jin Yang and Deli Gao

Yee Ho Chai, Suzana Yusup, Vui Soon Chok and Sonny Irawan

Omogbolahan Ahmed, Ahmed Adeniran and Ariffin Samsuri

**Interplanetary Exploration 17**

**Based Nanoparticle Additives 65**

Chapter 5 **Solid Control System for Maximizing Drilling 87** Sonny Irawan and Imros B. Kinif

**Technological Trends in the Brazilian Upstream Oil and Gas**

Junyue Tang, Qiquan Quan, Shengyuan Jiang, Jieneng Liang and
