Publisher Summary TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. (TransCanada) is Canada's largest natural gas pipeline company. TransCanada owns and operates a 37000 kilometer pipeline system that contains more than 110 gas compression facilities, 1200 gas metering…
The Petroleum Analytics Learning Machine (PALM) is a machine-learning-based, “brutally empirical” analysis system for managing the Internet of Things (IoT) in upstream and midstream oil and gas operations. PALM was developed in the new unconventional…
The Coast Guard is responsible for protecting the marine environment, promotingthe safety of life and property, and ensuring security on the U.S. OuterContinental Shelf (OCS). Based on authorities provided under the OuterContinental Shelf Lands Act…
Over the years, optical fibers and fiber-optic based sensors have seen increased acceptance and widespread use for a variety of industrial, civil, process control, and defense applications. Given their EM immunity, intrinsic safety, small size &…
Well-intended preannounced carbon mitigation policies can lead to adverse impacts such as the green paradox. This paper examines conditions impacting the prevalence of this phenomenon, when suppliers of carbon-free energy, similarly to carbon…
The demand of natural gas in Europe is increasing steadily, thus North African countries, and Middle East producers in a longer term, represent an excellent opportunity to fulfil1 the increasing gap between European demand and indigenous…
Source of Natural Gas Supply: There are rich sedimentary basins which are adequate for production of natural gas in North East Asian countries. Russian Far East region and East Siberia: Sakhalin, Sakha (Yakut), Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk Region. In China,…
A continuance of explosive economic development and increasing concern on environment in northeast Asia has stimulated a significant rise in natural gas demand-a high quality primary energy. It is predicated that the gas demand in northeast Asia will…
Though the problem of urban pollution continues to grow unabated, the demand for transportation fuels remains high. As a result, interest in the development of alternative fuels for vehicles is on the increase in Canada and elsewhere. In recent…
Though the problem of urban pollution continues to grow unabated, the demand for transportation fuels remains high. As a result, interest in the development of alternative fuels for vehicles is on the increase in Canada and elsewhere. In recent…
Venezuela has 297 billion barrels (297 x lo9 bbl, 47.2 x lo9 m') of heavy and extraheavy oil and natural bitumen reserves that are recoverable by primary means and steam injection. An important portion of these reserves, mainly of heavy and…
The majority of the world's crude oil is transported in tanker vessels, currently estimated to be 1300 million tonnes annually rising to approximately 1450 million tonnes by the turn of the century. Transportation of crude oil by sea has increased…
The majority of the world's crude oil is transported in tanker vessels, currently estimated to be 1300 million tonnes annually rising to approximately 1450 million tonnes by the turn of the century. Transportation of crude oil by sea has increased…
The situation in western Europe today is characterized by European integration on the basis of different structures in individual countries. This situation is to be seen against the background of historical developments.Depending on such factors as…
The transportation sector accounts for over 20% of the total energy consumption in member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), reaching 30% in highly industrialized countries and 60% in the U.S.A. To a large…
Petroleum distribution in the United States is accomplished through a complex network of pipelines, ships, barges, railroads and trucks. The tradeoff between scale economies and the need for flexibility greatly influences which transportation mode is…
Understanding the complex process of petroleum expulsion is essential for predicting the timing, amount and composition of petroleum migration and accumulation in a prospect area. The determining factors are related to the depositional environment of…
Medium and heavy duty vehicle fleets of trucks and buses are large users of diesel fuel energy. As the third world continues development, increased needs for transport will create a sharp increase on world fuel energy consumption and…
Medium and heavy duty vehicle fleets of trucks and buses are large users of diesel fuel energy. As the third world continues development, increased needs for transport will create a sharp increase on world fuel energy consumption and…
At present the China natural gas industry has significant development. The accumulated proved gas reserves are 1124.57 G m3, the accumulated proved solution gas reserves are 826.64 G m3 up to 1995.The production of natural gas in China is 16.13 G…
This poster session focuses on processing options to condition natural gas for pipeline transport and use as a feedstock for petroleum refinery and petrochemical processing. New advances in technology make this route for converting low-value gas to…
This poster session focuses on processing options to condition natural gas for pipeline transport and use as a feedstock for petroleum refinery and petrochemical processing. New advances in technology make this route for converting low-value gas to…
Oil and product transport in a trunk pipeline causes high energy costs. The transport costs should be considered in the Transport Schedule. The pipeline scheduler has to find a Transport Schedule that fulfills the transport orders from the shippers…
The National Energy Board (NEB) is Canada's independent federal energy regulatory tribunal. The NEB is responsible for protecting the public interest by regulating specific activities of the oil, natural gas industries including pipeline safety.…
Before the 1990's, about 90% of the crudes produced in China had a wax content of over 10%.Pipelining these waxy crudes has been carried out by means of crude heating together with pipeline operation optimization. Changes in the Chinese economic…
Recent developments in numerical basin modelling in combination with increasingly efficient computational processing provide the possibility of a detailed simulation of the dynamic evolution of hydrocarbon systems on a basinwide scale. This holds…
Increasing oil demand is driving the development of the world's large resources of heavy oil and bitumen, more than 70% of which are located in Canada and Venezuela. Moving these heavy crudes and bitumens to market will require alternative pipeline…
Internal combustion engines are widely used in all walks of live and consume a large share of liquid fuel. Due to their unique specificatios and high speed, gasoline engine is used mainly in the transportation sector which considered the main…
Plastics are materials composed of polymers, defined as repeating chains of molecules that can be easily processed and shaped. Common plastics are obtained from fossil fuels, such as crude oil and natural gas, and are nowadays the main materials of…
In this paper, an attempt is made to (a) estimate the magnitude of the actual loss o/ petroleum and petroleum products between the well-head and the consumer, (b) isolate these losses by each major phase of the operation, (c) indicate the sources of…
The purpose of this paper is to provide some perspective regarding the complex pattern of worldwide marine flow which links producing areas, refineries and consuming centers in the petroleum industry. Some statistics are woven into a brief historical…
Crude oil is the largest source of energy, and it has a strong influence on the country’s economy. Researchers are looking for different renewable and sustainable energy resources to meet the future energy requirements. However, these renewable…
During the last decade, the world has been assessing the adverse effects of climate change on human life, animal life, and plant life. It has been accepted by all Governments and experts that even a 1.5°C−2°C rise in atmospheric temperature will be…
The biorefinery concept is analogous to petroleum refinery (Petrorefinery) that utilizes nonrenewable petroleum to produce a wide range of products, mainly fuels, electricity, heat, chemicals, and various materials. Biorefinery processes employ…
Petroleum transportation has become vital to the economy of the world during the past few years. Increased offshore drilling and production has brought about a greater demand for off shore production lines and for sealoading lines. The natural…
Due to rapid population, urbanization and industrialization, the demand of energy source is increasing regularly. However, it is estimated that the petrochemical source of energy will be exhausted in coming decades. Therefore, there is an urgent need…
While gas transport in soil is commonly assumed to be driven by molecular diffusion, pressure-pumping due to small air pressure fluctuations was found to enhance the gas transport rate during periods of high wind speed. A possible explanation is…
Hydrate management has become a key topic in flow assurance due to the oil & gas production in cold environments (deep waters) and due to the high flow rates of water, especially in brownfields. Considering this, a hydrates formation and transport…
For the transportation of crude and refined petroleum and oil, industries are dependent on the pipeline system. However, these pipeline surfaces get corroded by the impurities and presence of chromates and sulfur which cannot be avoided. Both…
The present work was carried out to assess the 210Pb content in “black-powder” found in pigging operations on gas pipelines in Brazil, in particular, on the Campos Basin gas pipeline. Additionally, the chemical composition of such deposits was…
The Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) reporting system is used in Well Intervention (WLI) Division of PT Pertamina Hulu Mahakam as one of Oil and Gas Company. WLI operations are considered massive with 21 barges and 890 workers. The…