Chapter 1 - What makes hydrogen exciting?

1.01 Introduction (6 min.) Sample Lesson
1.02 What Makes Hydrogen Exciting? (13 min.) Quiz: 1.02 What Makes Hydrogen Exciting?

Chapter 2 - What is Hydrogen?

2.01 What is Hydrogen? (19 min.) Quiz: 2.01 What is Hydrogen?

Chapter 3 - Is Hydrogen a new technology?

3.01 Is Hydrogen a New Technology? (12 min.) Quiz: 3.01 Is Hydrogen a New Technology?

Chapter 4 - Is Hydrogen safe?

4.01 Is Hydrogen Safe? - Part 1 (19 min.)
4.02 Is Hydrogen Safe? - Part 2 (21 min.) Quiz: 4.02 Is Hydrogen Safe? - Part 2

Chapter 5 - Different kinds of Hydrogen? What? How?

5.01 Natural Hydrogen (18 min.)
5.02 Water-Sourced Hydrogen (23 min.) Quiz: 5.02 Water-Sourced Hydrogen
5.03 Hydrocarbon-Sourced Hydrogen - Part 1 (25 min.)
5.04 Hydrocarbon-Sourced Hydrogen - Part 2 (12 min.) Quiz: 5.04 Hydrocarbon-Sourced Hydrogen - Part 2
5.05 Other Technology (12 min.) Quiz: 5.05 Other Technology

Chapter 6 - What is Hydrogen used for?

6.01 What Is Hydrogen Used For? - Part 1 (15 min.)
6.02 What Is Hydrogen Used For? - Part 2 (9 min.) Quiz: 6.02 What Is Hydrogen Used For? - Part 2

Chapter 7 - How to store and distribute Hydrogen?

7.01 How To Store and Distribute Hydrogen (16 min.) Quiz: 7.01 How To Store and Distribute Hydrogen

Chapter 8 - My take...

8.01 My Take... (21 min.)

Hydrogen 101 / Chapter 1 - What makes hydrogen exciting?

Lesson 1.01 Introduction

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01. Lesson 1.00: Introduction 02. Who Am I?

01. Lesson 1.00: Introduction

Hi, let me introduce myself. My name is Januar Wirawan and I'm your Saga Wisdom Hydrogen 101 course instructor.

02. Who Am I?

I was born and brought up in Jakarta, Indonesia, and I got my bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Indonesia. And then I got my master's degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. I'm an Aggie and I do bleed maroon, so 'gig 'em.
So after obtaining my master's degree, I started my career in 1993, working as a reservoir engineer for Total in Indonesia. Notice the logo on the right there. If you recognize that logo, you must have been around for quite a long time, just like me.
I resigned from Total to move my family to Canada in 2001. And APA, a consulting company, opened the door to Calgary's oil patch for me. I did reservoir engineering for them, mostly reservoir simulation modeling and well testing.
I joined in Encana in 2004. That was my first experience in exploration and production in Canada. In that same year, I obtained my P.Eng designation from APEGA, that's the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. Ten years at Encana, I did Development Engineering, which covered long and short term development planning and execution, budget planning, monitoring and look-back. I also did reservoir engineering for their DuVernay Shale development group, which covered well and fluid testing, well start-up and frac planning.
In 2014, I joined Husky Energy's Unconventional Resources Exploration Group. I was there for five years, again doing well and fluid testing, well start-up and frac planning. In addition, I also did asset valuation for acquisition prospects and reserves evaluation and reporting, which at Husky, that was done in-house. So my 25+ years of experience covered reservoir, development and reserve engineering. I was also involved in drilling and completion planning, which exposed me to leading edge technology. I work onshore and offshore, local and international, conventional and unconventional plays.
In 2021, I was grateful to have landed a job at Proton Technologies, a hydrogen production company that is working on converting hydrocarbon to a hydrogen by way of in-situ combustion. We are going to discuss this subject here in this course. I currently do reservoir simulation modeling for Proton, finding an optimized recipe to generate hydrogen from heavy oil reservoirs. In 2022, I was honored to be working with Saga Wisdom to spread the knowledge of hydrogen and hopefully help in creating excitement in this new form of energy. Canada and America, in my opinion, have some catching up to do, especially in comparison to Europe.
In mid to end of 2022, I started to become active in the Society of Petroleum Engineers or SPE, which I've been a member of since I was at school at Texas A&M, but never been involved in any of their activities. SPE is a global, not-for-profit professional organization that provides a worldwide forum for oil and gas professionals to exchange technical knowledge and best practices. They recognize the importance of hydrogen as clean energy and its potential as a clean replacement for oil and gas. This led to the creation of SPE's Hydrogen Technical Section or H2TS. I'm one of the founding members and its first and current membership chair.
Hydrogen is a very interesting new realm. I do believe that hydrogen will be a clean replacement for most of humanity's needs in oil and gas, especially when it requires oil and gas to be burned. The best thing about it is that hydrogen generation will be different regionally, depending on the resources available in each region. Keep in mind that hydrogen, however method it was generated, is clean. What we need to keep in check is how clean is the generation process. We need to keep the carbon intensity of the process low. In my opinion, oil and gas will always be produced, however, it will be produced as feed for other industries and not to be burned.
Someone told me that I should choose my horse and ride it. Oil and gas was my horse of choice. I rode it and it was a great ride. In hydrogen, I'm choosing a pony, which I believe would grow into a beautiful horse. So after you go through this course with me, I hope you'll get as excited about hydrogen as me and start your contribution to this realm in any way.