Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been widely applied for Safety Inspection in a number of industrial domains. However, individual company usually could not provide sufficient data to support well-trained AI models. Federated Learning, as a new AI…
Aiming at the reservoir with natural fractures in SHB oil and gas field, the support vector machine (SVM) and support vector regression method were used to predict the daily production of 18 blow wells in SHB main fault zone. By inputting variables…
In recent years, polymer flooding has become a mature technology to improve the reservoir recovery rate and has been successfully implemented in many oil fields. Because of high operating costs of a polymer flooding project and the impact to the…
One of the most important tools for studying fluid flow behavior in oil and gas reservoirs is reservoir simulation. It is constructed based on a comprehensive geological information. A comprehensive numerical reservoir model has tens of millions of…
Smart devices in an Internet of Things (IoT) generate a massive amount of big data through sensors. The data is used to build intelligent applications through machine learning (ML). To build these applications, the data is collected from devices into…
Cloud computing technology changes the world, and creates new solutions and opportunities to the enterprises, including petroleum engineering companies. In order to solve more complex drilling problems and optimize oil-field services process control…
High Performance Computing (HPC) has been a dominated technology used in seismic data processing at the petroleum industry. However, with the increasing data size and varieties, traditional HPC focusing on computation meets new challenges.…
Cloud deployment architectures have become a preferable computation model of Big Data (BD) operations. Their scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness motivated this trend. In a such deployment model, the data are no longer physically…
Hydrogen sulfide (h2s) leakage and dispersion from a sulfide recycle installation in different wind speeds are simulated by implementing a 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model. h2s concentrations of monitor points which represent dispersion…
The paper deals with the comparison of different mathematical models with regard to their usage in the model-based leak-monitoring scheme. The pipeline is represented as a two-port system. Three models are compared: a nonlinear distributed parameters…
This paper presents an approach for detecting, locating and estimating the size of leak in a pipeline using pressure sensors, differential pressure sensors and flow-rate sensors. To overcome the problem with existing approaches we use differential…
Petroleum industry has started to embrace the advanced Petroleum Cyber-Physical System (CPS) technologies. Offshore petroleum CPS is particularly difficult to build, mainly due to the challenge in detecting and preventing offshore oil leaking. During…
Distribution service restoration (DSR) is critical for improving the resilience and reliability of modern distribution systems by strategically and sequentially energizing the system components and customer loads. Restoring electricity service to…
As drilling of new oil and gas wells increase to meet energy demands, it is essential to optimize processes to ensure the health and safety of the crew as well as the protection of the environment. Drilling operations represent a dynamic and…
The Deep Water Horizon well blowout on April 20th 2010 discharged between 40,000-1.2 million tons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In order to understand the fate and impact of the discharged oil, particularly on the environmentally sensitive…
Oil & Gas (O&G) industry is extending the extraction operation to remote offshore sites. Cost-effective, efficient, and nature-friendly oil extraction is a challenging issue in these remote sites, due to the disaster-prone nature of oil extraction…
Thermal power generation and heating account for 44 % of total CO2 emissions from energy-related activities. Therefore, it is particularly critical to achieve peak CO2 emissions in electricity generation as soon as possible. This study is aimed at…
With the change of energy consumption structure, the integrated energy system coupled with multiple energy flows such as electricity, natural gas and heat is developing rapidly. At present, the decision-making center of the integrated energy park is…
Under the guidance of carbon neutralization and carbon peaking goals, the energy structure needs to be continuously adjusted and improved. Research about the advantages of the hydrogen storage system’s efficient and optimized operation in the…
This paper develops a novel two-stage coordinated volt-pressure optimization (VPO) for integrated energy systems (IES) networked with energy hubs considering renewable energy sources. The promising power-to-gas (P2G) facilities are used for improving…
Given its physical characteristics and the range of services that it can provide, energy storage raises unique modeling challenges. This paper summarizes capabilities that operational, planning, and resource-adequacy models that include energy…
We formulate a nonlinear optimal control problem for intraday operation of a natural gas pipeline network that includes storage reservoirs. The dynamics of compressible gas flow through pipes, compressors, reservoirs, and wells are considered. In…
Efficient checkpointing of distributed data structures periodically at key moments during runtime is a recurring fundamental pattern in a large number of uses cases: fault tolerance based on checkpoint-restart, in-situ or post-analytics,…
The Internet of things (IoT) has certainly become one of the hottest technology frameworks of the year. It is deep in many industries, affecting people’s lives in all directions. The rapid development of the IoT technology accelerates the process of…
Today's smart grid faces many challenges due to the rapid evolution of generation, distribution, and storage means which enable users to produce, store, and sell energy back to the providers. Demand response management plays a key role in achieving…
The computer model of a solar power plant based on a multifunctional integrated electromagnetic component has been developed. This model consists of rectifier-inverter blocks, a battery and a load. The main tasks of modeling are the study of matching…
Reservoir characterization is a crucial step in developing the oil and gas fields. In this research, a new technique has been demonstrated for analyzing pressure transient tests conducted in oil wells using deep learning. The pressure data recorded…
Fast and accurate remote sensing image retrieval from large data archives has been an important research topic in the remote sensing research literature. Recently, hashing-based remote sensing image retrieval has attracted extreme attention because…
With the development of science and technology in the field of energy, the concept of Integrated Energy System (IES) has attracted more and more researchers’ attention. However, it is difficult to evaluate the reliability of the coupled energy system…
This paper develops an optimal electricity-gas flow (OEGF) framework considering power line and pipeline congestions to coordinate the energy supplies, flexible electricity and gas loads, electricity and gas storages within an integrated electricity…
With the deep interaction of power and natural gas systems, the security-constrained optimal power and gas flow (SCOPGF) is pivotal to ensure a safe operation of the integrated electricity and natural gas system (IEGS). Considering that…
Water injection exploration is a primary technology to ensure crude oil production. Especially during the mid to late term of oil field development, no water injection means no crude production. Therefore, oilfield companies set up large injection…
This work addresses the large-scale crude scheduling problem of a real case refinery importing various types of crude oil from two ports via long-distance pipelines. We employ a spatial-based decomposition approach to construct a two-stage model of…
The accurate prediction of vacant parking space availability is becoming increasingly essential for assisting drivers to determine where to park in advance. It helps ease traffic pressure and reduce gas emission and pollution. This article proposes a…
The study is devoted to various structures of the temperature control loop in the outlet pipe of the cooling unit. The control loop structures are built on the basis of the well-known mathematical model of the condenser. The results of the…
Machine learning, especially deep learning, has been extensively applied and studied in the area of machine health monitoring. For machine health monitoring systems (MHMS), major efforts have been put into designing and deploying more and more…
Fuel represents one of the main transport costs and, consequently, of a logistical operation. So, a computational tool that allows reliable forecasts on the fuel prices becomes a competitive differential for the logistics operator, especially in a…
Traffic congestion in Lebanon is a growing issue with no remedy insight. Traffic is so severe that an 80 km road may take between two to four hours to cross. This is mainly due to the old and poor planning techniques that are applied in the design,…
To improve the flow characteristics of diesel engines with twin intake ports, this study evaluates the installation of guide vanes of varying lengths, heights and angles in front of the intake runner of a CA4DD diesel engine. Considering the…
Considering present transportation scenario, pollution caused by the conventional vehicle is one of the major reason for global warming. With these growing pollution concerns, and recurring hikes in the prices of the petroleum an increasing effort is…
The hot oil pipeline of northeast has been worked for 30 years, and it's using life has exceed the designing life. Corrosion protective covering breakage and oil scattering are very common appearance, so it urgent needs to be repaired in the…
In order to study the rule of wax deposition of Daqing oilfield crude oil in oil pipeline, an experimental unit is made by self. Based on experimental results, the relationship between the wax deposition rate and its influencing factors are…
Multiphase flow and complex flow regimes of asphalt-base crude oil with solid-state asphalt and gas presenting in submarine pipelines bring difficulty to the design and operation. For multiphase flow in risers, flow regimes are often very complex. So…
It is generally a few hundred to several thousand kilometers of long distance oil pipeline, and modern oil pipeline often adopt the close-line oil transportation, so the whole pipeline is a unified set of hydraulic system. Once the disturbance occurs…
This study considers the simulation of the pipeline that transports crude oil from Sarir field in the South East of the Libyan Sahara desert to the Tobruk terminal which is located in the East of the Libyan coast. The VariSim pipeline simulation…
A petroleum storage tank vapor recovery system is described. The project involves development of many different types of software for different platforms, including multiple programmable logic controller (PLC) code development. The CASE tool allows a…
The main goal of this study was supporting economic evaluation by assessing which new projects will be necessary and when they should be operating in order to achieve the customer service level required under a scenario of fast growth in jet fuel…
Stratified Tubular Structures (STSs), such as pipeline, are extensively adopted in such engineering fields as nuclear, petroleum, chemical and aerospace, etc. Wall-thinning Defects (WTDs) are usually found within in-service STSs, and taken as…
Oil & Gas (O&G) industry is extending the extraction operation to remote offshore sites. Cost-effective, efficient, and nature-friendly oil extraction is a challenging issue in these remote sites, due to the disaster-prone nature of oil extraction…