This paper takes the safety in emergency processes as the starting point, from the perspective of scenario deduction, to study the consequences of fire accidents for oil-gas storage and transportation. Through the statistical analysis of actual…
The oil tanker shipping market always presents periodicity following varied laws in different periods. However, most of the studies on the tanker freight rate market are short-term projections, while those on its long-term periodicity characteristics…
Drop-in biofuels, which are functionally equivalent to petroleum-based transportation fuels and fully compatible with existing petroleum infrastructure, have been widely used in developed countries in recent decades as an effective means of reducing…
Evolving energy needs and the global energy transition call for proper evaluation of how Natural Gas could support a Decarbonisation path, considering Natural Gas well recognised contribution to GHG emission reduction approaching the ambitious Green…
Monitoring oil transporting pipelines is an important task for economical and safe operation, loss prevention, and environmental protection from crude oil emission. The leak detection of oil pipelines, therefore, plays a key role in the overall…
The smart field has drawn much attention for the field business functions to be tied into a smoothly operating system. However, its operation decisions still cannot meet the ever-increasing multiple data source requirements. This paper proposes a…
The import and export of crude oil are vastly affected by the economy of a developing country. It can be useful for the production of petroleum products. Likewise, the developing country, India is completely relying on the import of crude oil from…
Nowadays, most of the taxi drivers have become users of the relocation recommendation service offered by online ride-hailing platforms (e.g., Uber and Didi Chuxing), which could oftentimes lead drivers to places with profitable orders. At the same…
This paper aimed to evaluate three different types of city buses’ life cycle, including the manufacturing, shipping, and operation phases. On this basis, this study is applying both a hybrid life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) and…
With the rapid development of energy industry, more requirements are put forward for the processing of energy data. In order to extract more value from multi-source heterogeneous data, it is necessary to combine various sources and different forms of…
The smart field has drawn much attention for the field business functions to be tied into a smoothly operating system. However, its operation decisions still cannot meet the ever-increasing multiple data source requirements. This paper proposes a…
Across the natural world, many species have evolved methods for amplifying their decision-making accuracy by thinking together in real-time closed-loop systems. Known as Swarm Intelligence (SI) in the field of biology, the process has been deeply…
This paper presents an extension of the RMFinder technique, previously proposed for scenario reduction within the decision-making process in oil fields. As there are several uncertainties associated with this process, a large number of scenarios…
The Camisea Pipelines Transportation System (STD) owned by Transportadora de Gas del Peru (TGP) is operated and maintained by Compania Operadora de Gas del Amazonas (COGA). The system consists of two pipelines: a 730-kilometer long Natural Gas (NG)…
Drastic growth in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the last few decades, due mainly to the development of industrial activities, is one of the most important parameters that greatly influence global warming and climate change. While oil and gas…
Heavy oil produced in Pemex Marine Northeast Region (Brownfields Cantarell and Ku Maloob Zaap) have an °API density around 12-21 degrees and high water cut, approximately 50 % and salinity. Current conditions are affecting crude oil quality to…
The decision analysis process to develop a petroleum field can be very complex. This process contemplates a set of tasks, which include the study of various representative scenarios, and different production strategies that aid decision-making.…
The smart field has drawn much attention for the field business functions to be tied into a smoothly operating system. However, its operation decisions still cannot meet the ever-increasing multiple data source requirements. This paper proposes a…
Multiobjective optimization (MOO) techniques are of much interest with their applications to petroleum refinery catalytic processes for finding optimal solutions in the midst of conflicting objectives. The rationale behind using MOO is that if…
To select the optimum methods, such criteria like reservoir heterogeneity, reservoir pressure, reservoir temperature, crude oil type API (American Petroleum Institute), and brine salinity. EOR methods contained water flooding, chemical flooding,…
Evolving energy needs and the global energy transition call for proper evaluation of how Natural Gas could support a Decarbonisation path, considering Natural Gas well recognised contribution to GHG emission reduction approaching the ambitious Green…
Production performance forecasting is considered as one of the most challenging and time consuming tasks in petroleum engineering disciplines, it has important implications on decision-making, planning production and processing of facilities. In…
Decision making in new fields with little data available relies heavily on physics-based simulation models. However, due to a lack of full understanding of the physical processes governing flow in the unconventional resources, data-driven modeling…
The East Natuna gas field in Indonesia is planned to be developed to meet the increasing natural gas demand of Indonesia. This research investigates the sustainable development of the field using a multi-criteria decision analysis method (MCDA),…
Over the past few years, machine learning and data analytics have gained tremendous attention as emerging trends in the oil and gas industry. The usage of modern tools and high-end technologies produces a large amount of heterogeneous data. The…
Many factors affect production strategy selection in petroleum field development. Decision makers many times rely on informal procedures and professional experience to base decisions because tools to quantify their expectations are sometimes unclear…
In order to reduce the cost of phytoremediators selection in phytoremediation on petroleum-contaminated soils, long-term experiments and in-situ trials included, an evaluation system for plant selection in phytroremediaiton was conducted in…
To identify the full potential of a brown field, it is crucial to validate its existing field development and production operation plan, to evaluate the feasible development strategies to further enhance oil recovery, to operate the asset safely and…
As oil prices are fluctuating, decision makers are challenged to make the "best" decisions for field's developments. Decision Tree Analysis (DTA) can help decision makers to make the "best" decisions. DTA focuses on managerial decisions, such as…
Currently, it is hard to imagine oil field development management without various surveys, involving resource optimisation for more economical reserves recovery. In this context, the application of new technologies aimed at diagnostics of the state…
The paper analyses the business process of the oilfield engineering technology public service market information management system through UML modelling. Then, according to the work requirements of the engineering and technical management department…
In this work, the Flow Performance Index (FPI) is introduced to guide the analysis of the performance of well systems for petroleum production. For some time now, the oil industry has been investing in the technological advancement of the…
Petroleum field development involves critical decisions such as well location, well completion design and optimal control setting that have a significant impact on revenues and costs. These decisions are associated with a large degree of engineering…
This paper presents a unique E&P knowledge management system which has been widely accepted and applied by upstream petroleum industry. This knowledge management system started in mid-1990s and consists of standard static and dynamic knowledge base,…
The smart field has drawn much attention for the field business functions to be tied into a smoothly operating system. However, its operation decisions still cannot meet the ever-increasing multiple data source requirements. This paper proposes a…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that deals with information extraction by representing and interpreting written and spoken human language in various forms. In the last decade, the drilling industry has…
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants require large amounts of energy to liquefy natural gas (NG). Therefore, many optimization studies have been conducted to minimize this energy consumption. Such studies have usually focused on optimization approaches…
Along with the maturation of main oil exploration and production (E&P) areas in the world, the industry has started to seek for new investment opportunities that have been considered unattractive so far. Among such opportunities might be small oil…
Along with the maturation of main oil exploration and production (E&P) areas in the world, the industryhas started to seek for new investment opportunities that have been considered unattractive so far. Amongsuch opportunities might be small oil…
Determining the physicochemical properties of petroleum is important for rapid decision-making during the production process. True boiling point (TBP) curve is the most important parameter in the petroleum characterization. However, the TBP can be…
This paper takes the safety in emergency processes as the starting point, from the perspective of scenario deduction, to study the consequences of fire accidents for oil-gas storage and transportation. Through the statistical analysis of actual…
By modifying underground spaces of abandoned coal mines into underground pumped storage power stations, it can realize the efficient and reasonable utilization of underground space and, at the same time, meet the increasing demand for energy storage…
Variability of renewable energy sources (RES) creates great challenges for their owners and power system operator. In recent years energy storage system is employed to mitigate the fluctuation of RESs. This paper addresses optimal decision-making of…
It is crucial to ensure the safety and integrity of underground gas storage (UGS) infrastructure for energy reliability in California, and many other places around the world. To address the risk management need in UGS industry, we take advantage of…
Optimal injector selection is a key oilfield development endeavor that can be computationally costly. Methods proposed in the literature to reduce the number of function evaluations are often designed for pattern level analysis and do not scale…
Over the last decades, electricity generation from natural gas has substantially increased, mostly driven by low natural gas prices due to fracturing and lower extraction costs. The geographic distance between natural gas resources and load centers…
The oil tanker shipping market always presents periodicity following varied laws in different periods. However, most of the studies on the tanker freight rate market are short-term projections, while those on its long-term periodicity characteristics…
This paper provides a review on the most relevant research works conducted to solve natural gas transportation problems via pipeline systems. The literature reveals three major groups of gas pipeline systems, namely gathering, transmission, and…
We present a modeling framework for analyzing if the use of interruptible transportation services can improve capacity utilization in a natural gas transportation network. The network consists of two decision makers: the transmission system operator…
The advance of the dynamic wireless charging technique for electric vehicles makes the electrified transportation system to be the development trend. On the other hand, the interdependency between electricity and natural gas systems has been…