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VOL.36ISSUE NO. 9

SEPTEMBER 2013

POSTAL REGN. NO. TN/CC (S)DN/243/12-14License To Post Without Prepayment.

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M.KANNAN 80 E&I Treasurer9444200673/[email protected]

P.R.EARNARST 80-T President9840051000/[email protected]

S.RAMKUMAR 81 E&E Secretary9841013579/[email protected]

AGM 2013AGM

ofAUETAA

&AUAC

Postponedto

28-09-2013.Time

AUETAA- 6.30 p.m.AUAC – 7 p.m.

VenueAUETAA HOUSE

Members and their families are cordially invited.

Dinner : 8 p.m.We regret very much for the

inconvenience caused due topostponement of AGM

An Appeal Dear Members!

Please pay the Newsletter Subscription Dues

and I request you to please send the same to

our office “Attn: Mrs. GEETHA SHYAM,

(Co-ordinator”) at the earliest and oblige. Your

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SECRETARY-AUETAA.

SECRETARY’S REPORT

Dear Auetaan’s

Indian culture is among the world’s oldest

going back by about 5000 years. India is a

very diverse country and different regions

have their own distinct cultures. The culture of

India refers to the way of life of the people in

India, the beliefs, the customs, the traditions,

the festivals, the languages spoken besides

music, dance, arts, architecture and food.

One of the traditional festivals we celebrate

is the ”Raksha Bandan” and that was

celebrated on the 21’st August. This tradition

strengthens the bond of love between

brothers and sisters and stands for

unconditional love and affection shared

between siblings. The vision of Rabindranath

Tagore was different for he considered Rakhi

was just not an other festival but promoted

the concept of unity and harmony of

everyone in the society and not confined only

to siblings. Rakhi, the thread of love helps

each other live a harmonious life. Harmony

is when you feel happy, and when all the

people are getting along well together and

when people are nice to one another the flow

of life is orchestrated by harmony. Tagore’s

vision is very much applicable as it teaches to

protect each other and take care of others

and once you take care of others will you not

be taken care of automatically !!

The interview with Mr S.Ramachandran (75

T) CEO and Chairman of Changepond

Technologies which appeared in the August

Newsletter was appreciated by many of our

alumni. His remark that “ Vision is the

Retrospective Rectification of Success” is still

ringing in my ears !! What a profound

statement !! Most of us think of reaching

somewhere at the beginning of our career

just like SRN but eventually reach

somewhere else !! “You should know where

you are going” is a very famous Zen saying

but somehow on the way we have so many

choices that we have to take, that sometimes

we reach where we wanted to reach, and at

other times we reach somewhere else !! The

one thing i think that we all have to agree

upon is the fact that “the Universe is as it

should be” since it operates at Absolute

perfection and zero defect. “This moment is

as it should be” and you

are where you are

because of the choices

you have taken before to

have reached where you

have reached; we have

to accept wherever that “IS” and keep

moving. Focus on what you want and not

on what you do not want. What you were

and what you are can never be compared

to what you could become. Your best is yet

to come since we are all sparks of the

same fire and that is “we are auetaans.”

We had a program on the 17’th August at

our AUETAA House - “A talk by Shri

Anoop Jaiswal, DGP, Police Housing

Board on the subject “Beyond the senses.”

It was a very interesting talk, was well

attended and well received.

The Faculty of Engineering and

Technology (FEAT) of Annamalai

University was the second engineering

college in the state that started off in 1945

with Civil engineering, Chemical

e n g i n e e r i n g a n d M e c h a n i c a l

engineering, Electrical engineering in

1948, Structural engineering in 1978,

E lec t ronics and Ins t rumentat ion

engineer ing, Computer sc ience

engineering and Manufactur ing

engineering subsequently. Thousands of

engineers would have passed out over the

last 6 decades !!, yet we have only 2500

of our alumni who have become members

of our AUETAA - alumni association,

3000 copies of our Newsletter goes to our

alumni as e copy. It would be in the

interest of our association to have more of

our alumnus becoming members of our

alumni association and this is possible

only if each of you would be able to bring

at least one or more of your class-mates to

join of our association. It costs Rs 1000 to

become an alumni member. For further

details kindly feel free to call our alumni

associat ion at 044 22314730,

044 2233 4003; +91 98409 57302.

Warm regards

S. Ramkumar (81E&E) Secretary - AUETAA

th109 Birthday Celebrationsof PadmabhushanDr. Rajah Sir M.A.Muthiah Chettiar

thof Chettinad, held on 5 August 2013at Rani Seethai Hall - Chennai.

AUETAA News Sep 2013

A Success Story

“An Oyster from Annamalai, A Pearl to the world”.Meet J.Muthukumar 84-T

oday Oil defines the world. It can make a country rich or

poor, it can bring war or peace, it can bring corruption orgrowth. Every aspect of our life today is defined and governed

by oil. The demand for energy is growing at alarming levels

and despite all the talks of alternate sources of energy, OIL

and fossil fuels contribute more than 87% of world’s energy

supply (and by year 2035, it will be 82%). More over oil cannot

be replaced by any of the other sources of energy because of

its ability to give us fuel for speed/transport and it being a raw

material for more than 140,000 products in the world (from

nail polish to plastic bucket to car body to high density

polythene). Oil is here to stay and its dominance will control

the world economy for the next 5-6 decades says J.

Muthukumar of our 1984 batch of Chemical Engineering.

Muthukumar is a Professional in the oil and gas industry

and has had a very successful career since 1985 and is going

stronger by the day. He is the Founder of Ajapa Integrated

Project Management Consultants Private Limited in 2006,

the FIRST Indian oil and gas integrated project

management consultancy for well construction (drilling,

testing and completion of oil and gas wells) which was

dominated until then only by Multi-Nationals.

Ajapa grew against stiff competition from international companies and today it is a well known and highly popular company in the oil and gas circle of the Indian, Middle East and African markets. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Supreme Oil and Gas Consultancy FZC, UAE and www.Petrosity.com, a FIRST of its kind web based oil and gas portal scheduled to be online in Q1, 2014 (pilot tests are running currently), One of the Founders and Director of an indigenously patented, (by his own inventions - patent pending from USA) innovative, highly technical oil and gas drilling tools manufacturing plant in India and developer of world’s FIRST Well Integrity–Well Profiling–Well Reliability model (sparked after the most and world’s worst disastrous environment incident of Macondo in Gulf of Mexico in 2010 – that costs INR 2.0 Lakh Crore to BP to rectify and compensate – check Google “Macondo 2010”).

His life was centred on overall Growth and expanding his abilities as a professional in the oil and gas industry with sincerity, dedication, commitment and integrity and many hours of work has taken him to around 33 countries across the globe relating to work as well as pleasure and adventure and established a name known to almost all in the oil well drilling.

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S. Ramkumar – Secretary


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M u t h u k u m a r , a n a t i v e o f Kancheepuram studied in Chintadripet high school in Chennai, has 6 siblings - 5 sisters and a brother. His father was a civil engineer . Muthukumar was always averaging around 70 to 80 percent in academics right from school up to Masters degree. He says academic education is not everything in life but just a stepping stone as an entry in to a career. He believes in overall shaping of a personality and he was indulging in extra curricular activities like writing fiction and poetry, participating in debates, playing cricket, chess, dancing etc and believes his competitive spirit/fire to deliver came from these aspects. He proudly said that he even now plays cricket for a team called Valiant Fighters Cricket Club in Velachery. Muthukumar joined the Chemical Engineering department of Annamalai University in 1979 and graduated in 1984

Immediately after graduation he wrote GATE, entrance exam conducted by IIT and was able to get admission in IIT Kharagpur to pursue M.Tech - C h e m i c a l w i t h P e t r o l e u m specialization. On completing his M.Tech he got placement with Oil India Ltd in 1985 and was given a choice to choose between either Crude oil refining plant or LPG or R & D or D r i l l i n g , M u t h u k u m a r c h o s e “Drilling.” This decision was purely taken without a concept of future but based on both his adventurous nature and probably Divine intervention as this decision had changed his life forever as Drilling allowed him to travel to remotest, most challenging and difficult terrains of the world in dense forests, vast deserts and deep oceans apart from providing an excellent growth both career wise and financial front but most critically a vision of the world and the realities of life. The greatest lessons he had learned were “Where there are imperfections, there is no competition.

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He says that he had excellent room-mates(two of worth mentioning are S. Ganesh and Murugavel) and all of them were from various parts of TN through whom he had learnt a lot of valuable lessons.

If one knows how to manage the imperfections, then the growth is unlimited” from Bill Gammel, CEO, of Cairn Energy, one of the World’s largest successful entrepreneur, “Stand up to challenges, perform to command respect and lead to deliver but never demand respect using status and power” from A.J. Jackson one of the most renounced Oil and Gas p e r s o n a l i t y, ” I n t e g r i t y i n Engineering and Excellence in Execution are the fundamental principles to deliver even the most complex of projects” from Tony Beckett probably one of World’s best Drilling Engineers and finally “To be Joyful, Positive, Helpful and Respectful to Elders and Children, Standing up against tyranny” from MGR, his beloved inspirational Leader.

JMK says that his approach to life became very different when he had to work with expats from US, Canada and UK. His face gleams when he spoke of the days he spent with an imposing personality A.J. Jackson, mentioned above, from whom he learned the ever lasting lesson of standing up to challenges. Within 2 years, JMK was promoted as Driller and he became the FIRST Indian Driller in an offshore rig managed by

In fact, this has helped him to stand up continuously through out his career against challenges from Western and Eastern Expats and once he was leading 37 senior level expats in a complex offshore project from 16 countries in the expats only dominated oil and gas industry.

At Oil India Limited, Assam he started his career as Drilling Engineer. However, within 2 years, in 1987 he saw that the conditions in OIL would not aid his growth and he was one of the FIRST to resign from OIL despite the security of a PSU, to take up Assistant Driller job in Aban Lloyds Offshore Limited managed by Americans. Aban was one of the offshore drilling contractor approved by Indian Government which launched its first contract drilling service to ONGC in 1987 with 2 jack-up drilling rigs acquired from the USA.

SALEM CHAPTER A Family Meet was organised by Auetaa Salem Chapter on August 6, 2013, on the occasion of Mr. Sankaran-63T donating his treasured memorial “A Rocket Motor dummy” he has been holding since 1965 after the India Pakistan War. Mr. Sankaran was a wing commander and was flying the war plane during the war. The Members of Auetaa Salem Chapter was stunned to hear his experience and stories and were overwhelmed to have his war memorial as a gift to the chapter. Mr. Sankaran also honoured his then classmate and roommate Mr. Selvaraj (63 ) fondly called Thatha by all of us with a 77 ten rupee notes garland to mark his 77th Birthday. This was a memorable day for all of us, the spouses and the kids enjoyed.

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By : S.P.Balasubramaniam

WEDDING BELLS

Mr. S. MURUGAN (73-M) son

Chi : B.E., M.B.AWeds

Sow : M.com., M.phil.,

On at Sivakasi

M. Vijaya Sankar,

N. Bhuvaneswari,11/09/2013

Mr. C.P RAVI (82-M) son

Chi : B.E.

Weds

Sow : B.Sc., (ITM), D.E.D.,

On at Madurai.

R. Gunavel,

S. Subhashini,Th15 September 2013

Congratulations And Best Wishes

For A Happy Married Life AUETAA

TRICHY CHAPTER

By : P.N.Umayorubahan, President, Trichy Chapter.

August meeting of Auetaa thTrichy Chapter was held on 20 August 2013, at

Hote l Sangam. Mr .G .Par thasarathy & P.N.Umayorubahan were the hosts for the meeting.

Dr.Natarajan of NIT Trichy was the Guest Speaker. He talked about Chinese environment for Engineering Education. He was invited for an International Seminar as a guest speaker. The theme of Seminar was , “HEALTH OF CIVIL STRUCTURES”. Just as Medical Doctors assess the health of human beings Chinese Engineers have done a lot of research on health of Civil Structures & have recommended corrective course of actions to remove defects or improve the life of structures. The Presentation made by Dr. Natarajan showed many pictures of old civil structures being assessed for their strength & improvements done on them without destructing the whole structure.

Er. Kailasam who also visited China also supplemented further information on Chinese works.


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Western Expats. That got him parity with respect to both pay and recognition and made him a true professional as he had learnt the trade from those hard and tough Western Expats. He then grew to the levels of Night Tool Pusher and Tool Pusher in various offshore jack up rigs.

JMK, after around 5 years in Aban, moved to Essar for a growth oriented career change where he was deputed to PDO (SHELL) in Oman as Wellsite Drilling Engineer. Until 1992, Indians in oil and gas drilling industry (except those who were born and brought up in their entire life in USA or UK) occupied only up to the middle management level in contractor rigs. Due to the Drilling in the 90’s concept developed by SHELL to manage the growing industry standards with tight budget control with oil prices hovering less than US$ 20/bbl, for the first time, high end engineering jobs in drilling opened up internationally for Indians in 1992-93. JMK was the second Indian well site drilling engineer chosen on an experimental basis for Oman. However, owing to the performance of JMK and two other Indian Engineers (Ashwani and Milind), SHELL was convinced to recruit more Indians in this field and by 1995, Indians dominated the well site engineer roles in entire Oman which then expanded to other Middle East countries. JMK mentioned an incident when he was first introduced to a Dutch (Kees De Koing) in SHELL, he was given a pathetic look as Kees was seeing an Indian as drilling engineer for the first time in his life and he did not believe Indians are capable. However, within 6 months JMK proved his calibre and became Kees most favourite engineer which then led to JMK’s promotion as Senior Drilling Engineer at Muscat office where he managed several projects for onshore blocks in South, North and Central Oman until 1997 and was a pioneer in establishing incentive based drilling contracts for Shell in Oman. By that time, JMK understood that further growth in Shell would be limited. Despite a very attractive and extremely good salary with comfortable life in Muscat, for the want of value based growth, JMK moved to Cairn energy Plc, an independent Edinburgh based UK Oil and Gas Company, as Senior Drilling

Engineer. He says that his tenure with Cairn energy was the most wonderful and highly rewarding experience particularly working under Bill Gammell, CEO, Rich Paces the Country Manager and Tony Beckett who was Head of Drilling, where he was promoted 5 times in his 6 years in Cairn. JMK became the FIRST Indian Drilling Superintendent for a multi-national Operator for an offshore gas block in Bangladesh in 1999. He then became the FIRST Indian Drilling Manager to handle a deep water exploration block for a multi-national Operator in India in 2000. Until Reliance (then ONGC) broke the record, JMK held the record of heading India’s deep water well in 1,200 m of water depth. He was the Drilling Manager for many of Cairn’s successful discoveries including the major success in Rajasthan. By 2003, he was heading the Drilling Operations for all the Cairn blocks in India but decided to move for further growth on a career as an independent free lance consultant the decision towards that was enhanced by the excellent stock options gained in Cairn. By then, he was holding a name for introducing significant amount of new technologies for the first time to Indian oil and gas industry.

However, for the first 4 months there was no work as none of the oil and gas companies in India believed that an Indian can be a free lance consultant as until that only Western Expats (some Eastern too) were providing such consultancy in India.

is a quote by Theodore Roosevelt. JMK’s belief in his abilities and earnestness to become a renowned drilling consultant in the oil and gas industry got him an opening as a consultant in a company called Geo-Enpro, a Indo-French JV Company, although only 30% of an Expat’s day rate was offered to him as a trial basis for 3 months. However, JMK

Instead of becoming safe and securing a protected life by his experience and financial gains from Cairn and its stock options, JMK, at that time, with his 18 years of versatile experience, decided to become the FIRST Indian free lance consultant in the Oil and Gas drilling industry.

“Believe you can and you are halfway there”

took up the challenge and established his foot print as a potential free lance drilling consultant which paved the way and developed confidence for several Indians in the next 2-3 years to take up free lancing positions and today there are hundreds of Indian free lance consultants on day rate all over the world.

The search for Oil and gas is done by geologists and geophysicists for hydrocarbon deposits beneath the earth surface either onshore or offshore t h r o u g h v a r i o u s s u r v e y s , predominantly seismic surveys. The study of Oil and gas exploration is called petroleum geology. Oil is a n a t u r a l ly o c c u r r i n g c h e m i c a l comprising of carbon and hydrogen and are called hydrocarbons. Oil was formed millions of years ago (from 5 million to almost 400 million) deep below the ground when organic matter including animals, plants and living organisms were buried due to natural phenomena. The buried organic matter was covered by sediments of earth in millions of years (sediments brought by the rivers for example) and at the right depth deep below the ground (some times as deep as 5-7 kms), high temperature and pressure in a REDUCED environment (in the absence of Oxygen), they were converted in to hydrocarbons in the “Source Rocks”. However, the oil did not stay in the source rocks. They migrated upwards (as the density is lighter than water) to long distances until they were trapped by what is called “Cap Rock” that are impermeable in nature such that oil or gas cannot escape beyond and there the hydrocaron reservoir is formed. Hence interestingly the oil found in say saudi Arabia may not have been formed in Saudi at all - they migrated from a deep zone far away. The depth of the reservoirs varies from a few hundred metres to 10 kms and majority of the reservoir is made of oil, gas and water, gas on top followed by oil which floats on water. After the geologists determine the possibility of Oil through the process of seismic survey, processing, interpretation and analysis of data, the process of drilling


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Your Interview with Mr. llanahai was very inspiring. His vision is amazing and that explains his phenomenal growth. There is so much to learn from him - Product innovation, creating win-win relationships, and developing friendships.

Your summary on the programme on Skin Care & Body Care - contained all the important tips. It was interesting and useful.

Mr. SRN’s interview was a revelation. His observation “ World is full of Opportunities”, “ no body dies of hard work” and his simple mantra – “love the work, focus and innovate” are golden words of wisdom. It was a really enriching interview.

In fact all the newsletters provide us with a lot of insights and knowledge and above all the success stories of our Alumni inspire us to Think Bigger and are worthy of Emulation.

Thanks for all your initiative and effort. I wish we share the newsletter with our upcoming entrepreneurs - our children.

I just read the August newsletter. The achievements of Mr. S. Ramachandran are astonishing and in fact makes me think what else I need to do to create a better value before my time is over (in this life). What I always found that more than a great leader but unknown personally (like Alexander, Churchill, Gandhi even Ambani or Steve Job or Bill Gates), if we read the achievements of someone who is related somehow (like our Alumni – from the same institute or group), the intensity of our inspiration also changes. Instead of writing about an unknown personality, your idea of our own Alumni’s success stories will no doubt strike a few cords to the readers and youngsters.

Thanks and appreciated.

The news letter is becoming better in every issue and the lay out is good. Coverage is wide. I congratulate the Editor.

I am happy to find a news about my book “The Eternal Cosmic dance of bliss” in AUETAA news Letter. My sincere thanks to all the office bearers of AUETAA for the gesture.

-Former Prof and Head Mech. Engg.

Shiva Subramanian 89 C&S

J. Muthu Kumar. 84-T.

R.Radhakrishnan.-73 T.

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to confirm the presence of oil begins. The drilling process consists of 5 stages: (a) Engineering, Planning and P r e pa r a t io n , ( b ) R ig up a nd Commissioning, (C) Drilling and Testing, (D) Completion and (E) Close Out. The most critical part is the engineering and design as the sediments below the earth are studied thoroughly (rock formation beneath the earth’s surface which could be silt, sand, clay, limestone, shale, conglomerate, quartz, pyrites, granite etc) at different dip angles, compaction, pressure and temperature, to determine the well path and the plans to drill the well safely. Once the well is completed, oil and gas flow through a completion tubing (commonly from 2.7/8" to 5.1/2" size) from the reservoir to surface. At the surface, a X-Mas tree (looks like a Christmas tree with several branches) is installed to manage/regulate the production in a controlled manner. The multi-phase flow of gas–oil–water from the well is processed/separated in Separators at surface and then oil is pumped/transported to land based storage units or offshore based FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) and gas to power plant or fertiliser plant or CNG etc. FPSO’s store the crude and then offloads to a tanker which would reach refining plants for refining and breaking into various non renewable fuel like LPG, Naptha, Gasoline (Petrol), Kerosene, Diesel, Lubricating Oil etc.

JMK’s expertise is in the drilling process - to drill the well to the reservoir, test it for productivity and then complete it for producing it to surface. His job is completed when the X-Mas tree is installed when the production team takes over for further processes. Drilling, as it is done below ground to depths varying from 1 km to 6 kms (or even more) involves high risks, uncertainties and multiple complexities that cannot be comprehended by any other industry that is observed and managed at surface. The technology is equal to or sometimes exceeds the space technology of NASA and drilling technology is one of the most advanced and complex in nature. JMK’s expertise

is to drill, test and complete the wells with minimum risks, maximised value and optimised cost. JMK today is one of the most renounced, highly respected and popu la r Dr i l l ing Pro j ec t Management Consultant in India and overseas.

After working for 3 years as free lance consultant, in 2006, JMK founded “A J A PA I n t e g r a t e d P r o j e c t Management Consultants Pvt Ltd” with 4 of his friends in Chennai. It was the FIRST Indian full pledged true integrated project management company which competed against the only dominant Western Multi-Nationals. Ajapa established its foot print very strongly within 12 months of its formation by its strict and disciplined approach to a 3 R Principle – right people, right strategy and right execution to deliver the projects successfully. When I asked him the meaning of AJAPA, JMK said that it is a Sanskrit word and means an effor tless/spontaneous form of meditation which awakens the prana to increase the energy and purity of the mind such that the whole organism functions at a healthier and efficient level.

AJAPA grew at a fast pace and within 3 years, had developed a Clientele consisting of Indian and Multi-National Operators both in India and Overseas including PSU’s like Oil India Limited, GAIL, HPCL. Most of the small and independent Operators in India became the client of Ajapa including multi-nationals like Oilex (Australia), ENI (Italy) and Geo-Petrol (French). Ajapa’s flagship project was done in Nigeria for a company called Sterling where Ajapa drilled 12 wells successfully including 4 horizontal wells amidst complex and complicated environment, militant activities, most difficult terrain in the middle of an African forest in record time. Ajapa operates/operated in several areas with an expertise in operating in most difficult and remote terrains including places like Tripura and Assam (in India), Nigeria, Egypt, Georgia, Kenya, Iraq etc apart from Oman and UAE and several other parts of India.


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Later Ajapa made a JV with two partners one from Australia and one from Cyprus to expand the business model and to cover the globe geographically with an understanding that each JV partner would focus on specific countries of the world synergising the expertise of each as required. Due to this, Ajapa’s support had expanded beyond limited regions to Myanmar, Russia, Kazakshtan, Mexico, USA etc.

Ajapa does not have huge amount of manpower but manages the projects through a close network of highly experienced experts and has only a few support staff. Ajapa’s model is based on an integrated net-work and every consultant of Ajapa works from where ever he is as long as the project is delivered. So one can see Ajapa’s consultants working from home, beach, park, even in shopping malls or cinema halls except when they have to be in a Client’s base or the field to deliver the project. The consultants are managed through a system of networking from Chennai and Hyderabad offices and JMK’s wife N.K. Prabhavathy handles the technical co-ordination (she is a Chemical Engineer from 1988 Annamalai Batch – she completed her Phd in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1993) - however she resigned in 2012 as she took over the complete management of www.petrosity.com which is 100% JMK’s family project (guided by him, managed by his wife and supported by his two sons – both are Petroleum Engineering Students).

JMK happily says that he works for about 14 to 16 hours at work and spends 20 to 25 days in travel. AJAPA has Knowledge capital instead of Asset/Money Capital. His company has 14 professionals working full time plus another 16-20 as call out consultants - managing between 6-10 projects at a time (currently 4 projects in India - in Rajamundry, Gujarat and Assam and 2 abroad – Georgia and Kenya). Each of the Consultants are highly paid (Probably 4th highest in the ranking of the world industries – Number 1 is the Strategists and CEO of huge banking systems and Hedge funds, Number 2 is the System Architects of IT/Anti-Hackers, 3rd is the Multi-Media (like Avatar movie type or I-Phone 5 designers etc) and 4th is the oil and gas drilling experts. Hence managing such a high quality experts and sustaining the credibility of the Company against high risk, high uncertainty, high complex nature of the work and standing against the dominant Western Expats is the real value measure for Ajapa.

JMK’s ideology of Growth is just astonishing. Such an amount of confidence, energy levels and after performing so much and accomplishing extensively he is absolutely down to earth.

He said that humility is not a limitation for growth, on the contrary humility is a stepping stone for Growth!! He also mentioned that we have to keep moving so that we don’t rust!! He observes that there are a lot of people who think that it is taboo to keep growing all the time without contentment. He is of the view that one is to grow all the time without greed and jealousy. Continuous Growth without compromising on Integrity is the most humble action. He added that humbleness and humility are prerequisite to Growth.

To demonstrate that, apart from his core expertise, being a very knowledgeable person in many fields, he reads extensively and not only that he has written a few books too: Well control for beginners (technical), Women - Life and emotions, Publisher of Tech Diary 2010 - A one of its kind in the world of Oil and Gas industry which has become a kind of reference guide to students of Petroleum Engineering as well industry people. He has designed few high technology and complex drilling tools and patented few models (waiting on the patent). He holds credit of few technical papers and reports. He is the Brand Ambassador of a few new innovations and works closely with Scientists and Technologists from Canada, Russia, Lebanon and UK. He conducts advanced well engineering and drilling practices training courses for Corporate Sectors and serves as an Advisor for few CEO’s of oil and gas companies and to the Management Committee of few Petroleum Engineering Institutes. He has scripted/directed/acted in two 1 min advertisements (Nokia and Voltaren) and currently scripting two short movies in Tamil (production expected in December 2013) - one of them is titled “Arumbakkam Ayavum and America Obamavum”.

Very happy to have met a person who stands by Values and constantly striving for Growth, AUETAA is very proud to have an other alumni J.Muthukumar, Director and Chief Management Consultant for AJAPA Integrated Project Management Consultants Pvt Ltd. At the end of the interview I thanked JMK for his time and he has promised to give a lecture about in our AUETAA House shortly.

His profile can be seen at www.jmuthukumar.com.

His future idea is to develop and release the World’s advanced “Well Integrity-Well Profiling-Well Reliability model” for mitigating high risks, makes the www.petrosity.com as the most followed oil and gas web portal and finally to establish a world class Training Institute and Produce/Direct a trend changing/ exceptional Tamil Movie before he retires and he feels that the time is short and hence there is no time to rest. In between he balances his family life such that he spends considerable time on several aspects of life including publications of books on Lord Shiva, Devaram and Thiruvasagam.

“OIL exploration”


Beyond the senses

Mr.Anoop Jaiswal I.P.S. Mr. Harihararaghavan, General Manager,

Theosophical Society Honoured by Mr.M.RabindranathMr. Anoop Jaiswal, I.P.S.

Honoured by Secretary

Program “BEYOND THE SENSES” BY :Mr.ANOOP JAISWAL I.P.S.Responding to the welcome and introduction

given by S.Ramkumar, the Secretary of AUETAA on the 17’th August at our AUETAA House, Mr Anoop Jaiswal, IPS stated that even though he is a Physics student he developed deeper interest in Quantum mechanics over the last 10 to 15 years. Mr Jaiswal explained about the Scientific development especially in Physics over the last 4 centuries where fascinating researches, disclosures and discoveries were made; more so during the 20' th and 21’st centuries and added that there is a realm which is beyond our senses more than conventional accounting of our mind which receives the sensory stimuli. Even though so many scientists like Archimedes and Newton are credited with the discovery of the law of floatation, law of gravity it was left to their genius to perceive everything. Whether it is Science or Spirituality perception varies from person to person. There are instances to show that identical perceptions have taken place simultaneously between people who live far away from one another. Mr Jaiswal also s p o k e a b o u t c o n s c i o u s n e s s , awareness and the p l a c e b o e f f e c t . P e r c e p t i o n i s t o understand through the s e n s e s o r o f t h e mind/cognition and intuition has nothing to d o w i t h r a t i o n a l explanation but is to k n o w s o m e t h i n g instinctively without necessarily having valid proof about what has been observed.

We are in the midst of a materialistic age, when many are asking whether there may not be another and truer view of the universe. The psychological

Dr S. Sathikh (former Vice Chancellor Madras University and one of the founding members of AUETAA), Mr K.S Jeyaraman, Managing Director,

Autotech Industries, Mr S.Ramachandran, Chairman Changepond Technologies, Mr M.Subramaniam, 58 Civil, (one of the founding members of AUETAA) Mr Harihararaghavan, General Manager,

Theosophical Society and many other alumni with their families had come to attend the program.

confinement to the region of the five senses is responsible for the unhappy situations. Those who go through near death experience (NDE) understand the depth and the beauty of the afterlife perceptions beyond the senses and mind. There are many who shrink from the suggestion of any real existence beyond the world of sense, and many more who habitually live as if there were none. Even those who repudiate materialism on formal philosophical grounds, live in practical accordance with its outlook, and accept a picture of the world which is reminiscent of the maps of ancient times. In the centre is placed the continent of the world of sense, and all around it is filled in with a vague ‘supernatural’ sea. Uneasy glances are cast at this, and the map-reader is given the instructions: ‘The unexplained, does not exist’. However, the very science which launched this age has tumbled on facts, which the materialistic thinking

cannot account for and the spiritual Ghost has entered our life again not through any new religion but through m o d e r n s c i e n t i f i c laboratories. That is to say there is a life beyond the cognition of normal senses and it could be understood by really earnest open minded researches and by stilling the mind for sometime every day for a few minutes, purity in thoughts, purity in f e e l i n g s a n d b y unders tand ing the inseparability of the oneness and noneness.

More about the subject could be got by getting in to “NDE” in the internet.

S.Ramkumar-81E&E.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill

How True... by Mr. Kasi Viswanathan - 70 M

I was jogging one day and I noticed a person In front of

me, about 1/4 of mile. I could tell he was running a little

slower than me and I thought, good, I shall try to catch

him. I had about a mile to go my path before I needed

to turn off. So I started running faster and faster.

Every block, I was gaining on him just a

little bit. After just a few minutes I was

only about 100 yards behind him, so I really

picked up the pace and push myself. You

would have thought I was running In the

last leg of London Olympic competition. I

was determined to catch him. Finally, I did

It! I caught and passed him by. On the

Inside I felt so good.

“I beat him” of course, he didn’t even know we were

racing.

After I passed him, I realized I had been so focused on

competing against him that I had missed my turn. I had

gone nearly six blocks past It. I had to turn around and

go all back. Isn’t that what happens In life when we

focus on competing with co-workers, neighbours,

friends, family, trying to outdo them or trying to prove

that we are more successful or more Important?

We spend our time and energy running after them and

we miss out on our own paths to our God given destinies.

The problem with unhealthy

competition Is that It’s a never

ending cycle.

There will always be somebody ahead

of you, someone with better job,

nicer car, more money In the bank,

more education, a prettier wife, a

more handsome husband, better

behaved children, etc. But realize that “You can be the

best that you can be, you are not competing with no one.

Take what God has given you, the height, weight &

personality. Dress well & wear It proudly! You ‘all be

blessed by It. Stay focused and live a healthy life.

There’s no competition In DESTINY, run your own RACE and wish others.

Dr. Thirupura Sundari Agoram Mother of

A Chandrasekar 87 M&P passed away on

09.08.2013.

Professor T. Rangarajulu 72 E&E

Expired on 21/08/13

Mr. M.V.Sundaram - 68 EExpired on 6/09/2013

in Chennai.

CONDOLENCE AUETAA express it’s deep condolence to bereaved

family Members with our prayers to the almighty for

the departed soul to rest inpeace.


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