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Project dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY IN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION

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DELTA STUDIES INSTITUTE ANDHRA UNIVERSITY VISAKHAPATNAM

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the work incorporated in this dissertation entitled is original and carried out by me in . It has not been submitted in part or in full for any Degree of any other University.

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Mr./Ms/Mrs.________________________________ during the year 200 - 200 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree of Master of Technology in Petroleum Exploration, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. This work is not submitted to any University for the award of any Degree / Diploma.

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DIRECTOR, DELTA STUDIES INSTITUTE

CERTIFICATE FROM INDUSTRY

To The Director Delta Studies Institute Andhra University Sivajipalem Visakhapatnam 530 017.

CERTIFICATE OF PROJECT COMPLETION This is to certify that ______________________________________ has completed the project in our organization as per the particulars given below.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1. University 2. Director, DSI 3. Internal/External guide 4. Industry 5. Teaching staff & Non-teaching staff of DSI 6. Any others

PREPARATION OF M.TECH. PROJECT - GUIDE LINES The purpose of this note is to describe how to organize the written Dissertation submitted as partial fulfillment of your M.Tech. Degree. The distinguishing mark of a dissertation is an original contribution to knowledge. The dissertation is a formal document whose sole purpose is to prove that you have made an original contribution to knowledge. To prove the originality and value of your contribution, you must present a thorough review of the existing literature on the subject, and on closely related subjects.

The Dissertation should be organized on the following lines.

1. INTRODUCTION This is a general introduction to what the dissertation is all about. Briefly indicate the objectives of your work, giving an overview of its importance. This is a birds-eye view of the dissertation.

2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION A brief background information may be given under the title. A Brief Review of Literature on the dissertation topic. 3. MATERIALS AND METHODS Indicate the methods and the materials you have made use of for investigating the topic you have chosen for your dissertation.

4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Describe your experimental or other observations and discuss them in detail in support of achieving and fulfilling the objectives as mentioned in section 1.

5. CONCLUSION It should cover (i) salient features of your project work point wise, and (ii) its contribution to future research work.

6. REFERENCES The list of references is closely tied to the brief review of literature (section 2), materials and methods (section 3) and results and discussion (section 4). All references given must be referred to in the main body of the dissertation. Organize the list of references either alphabetically by author surname (preferred), or (b) order of citation in the dissertation (by numbers).

7. APPENDICES Any material which impedes the smooth development of your presentation, but which is important to justify the results of a dissertation. Generally it is a material that doesnt fit for detailed inclusion in the main body of the dissertation, but should be available for perusal by the examiners to convince them sufficiently. Examples include program listings, immense tables of data, lengthy mathematical proofs or derivations, etc.,

GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF AN ABSTRACT Because on-line search databases typically contain only abstracts, it is vital to write a complete but concise description of your work to notice potential readers into obtaining a copy of the dissertation. In a business context, an executive summary is often the only piece of a report read by the people who matter; and it should be similar in context if not tone to an abstract. The abstract should include brief statement, importance of your work, and the impact it might have if successful. This should be following by a brief statement of results and the conclusions you arrived at from the project work.

FORMAT OF M.TECH. DISSERTATION The dissertation should be in the following format. Cover / Title Page 1st Page=Cover Page Certificate (Dept.) Certificate from Industry Acknowledgements Abstract Table of Contents with page numbers Rest of the Dissertation : follow the guidelines given References

References Journals 1. Creties, D. Jenkins., 2008. Coal bed and Shale-Gas Reservoir, Journal of Petroleum Technology, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 92-99. Books 1. Chester, R., 1965. Elemental geochemistry of marine sediments. In: Chemical Oceanography., Vol. 2, Riley, J.P. and Skirrow. G., (Eds.), Academic Press, London, p. 508. 2. Krishnan, M.S., 1982. Geology of India and Burma. 6th Ed; CBS publishers, New Delhi. P. 536. Proceedings of Seminar 1. Biswas, S.K., Bhasin, A.L., and Jokhan Ram, 1993. Classification of Indian sedimentary basins in the Framework of plate tectonics. In: Biswas, S.K. (Ed.) Proc. Second Sem. on Petroliferous basin of India. Ind. Petrol. Publ. Dehradun, Pt. 1, pp. 1-46. Thesis 1. Reddy, D.R.S., 1990. Sedimentology and Geochemistry of shelf sediments off Cannanore Calicut, West Coast of India. Ph. D. Thesis, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (Unpublished). Appendix

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Paper Size A4 Left Margin 1 Right Margin 1 Top Margin 1 Bottom Margin 1 Line Space 1 Font-Times New Roman 12 Page Numbers at the Bottom Centre 2 Hard Bound copies are to be submitted

SEMINAR ON PROJECT WORK: Each student has to present his project work covering key points of the work for an hour followed by 15 minutes discussion. Results of the project work should be

presented by figures / graphs or tables preferably through power point presentation, not exceeding 15 20 slides.