The boil-off gas (BOG) produced from liquefied natural gas (LNG) mixtures in cryogenic storage tanks must be predicted reliably as a function of tank shape, heat ingress, thermal stratification, pressure, and liquid volume fraction. However, current…
The ability of pipelines to store gas by increasing their operating pressure, or linepacking, is a common operational practice used to mitigate future operational uncertainty. The optimal operation of a gas pipeline network considering linepacking is…
Based on the characteristics of short transmission and distribution distance, large fluctuation angle and intermittent operation, the corrosion of pipelines of crude oil storage and transportation unit transporting crude oil to refinery processing…
The emulsification of heavy crude oil is the most economical way to transport it through offshore pipelines. In this research article, distinct oil-in-water (o/w) emulsions were developed from an Indian heavy crude oil using…
According to a survey of corrosion releases in hazardous liquids pipelines, of the 52 internal corrosion releases reported in 2009-2012, 31 occurred in intermittently operated lines. Pigging operations cannot be performed in many of these pipelines…
As an important strategic resource, petroleum has an important significance in real-time analysis and detection of its components in the petrochemical industry. With the continuous development of petroleum resources, in the production process of…
This paper presents the results of techno-economic modelling of hydrogen production from otherwise wasted wind energy in the Republic of Ireland (ROI), and its transportation to the natural gas network, for injection. The model includes the…
Pump-to-wheels (PTW) methane emissions from the heavy-duty (HD) transportation sector, which have climate change implications, are poorly documented. In this study, methane emissions from HD natural gas fueled vehicles and the compressed natural gas…
Gorontalo Gas Turbine Power Plants (GGTPP) 4x25 MW used on the peaking load condition in the electricity system at Sulawesi Island of Indonesia can use weather High Speed Diesel (HSD) or Natural Gas as fuel. Due to the Sulawesi Island has no gas…
In this paper, we focus on oil & gas storage and transportations facilities (OSTF), and research on the risk assessment and the hysteretic nature of contingency plans. First, with principal component analysis to select forewarning indicators, we…
A low-pressure gas supply system for dual fuel engines was designed to transport liquid natural gas from a storage tank to a dual fuel engine and gasify it during transportation. The heat exchange area and pressure drop in the spiral- wound heat…
Natural gas engineering entails production, processing, storage and transportation of natural gas. A good handling of the gas requires a sophisticated understanding of how its density, compressibility, pseudo-pressure and specific heat capacity vary…
In the oil and gas industry, it is common to use gas liquefaction that allows storage and transport of large quantities of LNG and LPG. One of the main disadvantages of this storage mode is the BLEVE risk, which remains a major concern for risk…
In order to facilitate transport, natural gas is cooled down by a cycle process of compression, condensation, expansion, and evaporation that transforms the gas into a liquid form, as known as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). However, once any leak…
Crude oil is an unrefined petroleum composed of wide range of hydrocarbon up to n-C40+. However, there are also a percentage of light hydrocarbon components present in the mixture. Therefore, to avoid their flashing for safe storage and…
This paper develops a rigorous and advanced data-driven model to describe, analyze, and forecast the global crude oil demand. The study deploys a hybrid approach of artificial intelligence techniques, namely, the genetic-algorithm, neural-network,…
Oil and gas are strategic, non-renewable natural resources and are vital commodities. It is explained that upstream business activities are business activities that are cored or rely on exploration and exploitation. While downstream business…
Siting a new underground water-sealed crude oil storage adjacent to an existing one is a potential way to increase the capacity of strategic energy storage. The study presented herein is a comprehensive case study to assess the water-sealed safety on…
CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a potential way for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). However, the effect of CO2 injection is greatly influenced by the reservoir conditions. Typically, Minimum miscible pressure (MMP) is selected as…
Crude oil tank fire and explosion (COTFE) is the most frequent type of accident in petroleum refineries, oil terminals or storage which often results in human fatality, environment pollution and economic loss. In this paper, with fault tree…
Based on the characteristics of short transmission and distribution distance, large fluctuation angle and intermittent operation, the corrosion of pipelines of crude oil storage and transportation unit transporting crude oil to refinery processing…
The emulsification of heavy crude oil is the most economical way to transport it through offshore pipelines. In this research article, distinct oil-in-water (o/w) emulsions were developed from an Indian heavy crude oil using…
Geotechnical monitoring is one of the important means for the control of safety of underground structure in both construction and operation phase. In this study, geotechnical monitoring on the stability was performed on a pilot underground crude-oil…
According to a survey of corrosion releases in hazardous liquids pipelines, of the 52 internal corrosion releases reported in 2009-2012, 31 occurred in intermittently operated lines. Pigging operations cannot be performed in many of these pipelines…
As an important strategic resource, petroleum has an important significance in real-time analysis and detection of its components in the petrochemical industry. With the continuous development of petroleum resources, in the production process of…
Crude oil is an unrefined petroleum composed of wide range of hydrocarbon up to n-C40+. However, there are also a percentage of light hydrocarbon components present in the mixture. Therefore, to avoid their flashing for safe storage and…
Oil and gas are strategic, non-renewable natural resources and are vital commodities. It is explained that upstream business activities are business activities that are cored or rely on exploration and exploitation. While downstream business…
Carbonate reservoirs are estimated to contain around half of the total oil and gas reserves in the world. Exploitation of these reservoirs is specifically challenging and their recovery factor is generally lower than clastic reservoirs, due to their…
Primary recovery of heavy-oil is remarkably low due to high viscosity and low energy by solution gas exsolution to drive the oil. Gas injection to improve foamy flow and also to dilute the oil in such reservoirs has been proposed as a secondary…
The demand for digital oil field solutions in artificially lifted wells is higher than ever, especially for wells producing heavy oil with high sand content and gas. A real-time supervisory control and data acquisition solution has been applied in a…
Miscible displacement of oil by CO2 injection is one of the most successful enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes and has been widely implemented in fields around the world since the early 1980s. The advantage of CO2 compared to the other gases is…
Energy efficiency in oil and gas industry is of a paramount importance and the economy of Brunei Darussalam is mainly based on this industry. Aim of the paper is to present Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) in production and utility of the industry.…
On the basis of the extremum statistical principle, a method to evaluate the overhaul interval of crude oil tanks was put forward, which includes statistical analyses of corrosion inspection data, the determination of corrosion rates and the…
Thinking about structures far beyond 2000, it has to be remember about those, who are exist. From that point the durability of RC systems in crude oil product environments is now recognised as a very important part of the design process. Durability…
CO2 injection has been used in the oil industry as an effective technique for enhanced recovery of light to medium oils. However, its utilization for heavy oil recovery has not gained enough attention because of the immiscible nature of heavy oil and…
D oil field located at the west of Bohai Bay of China is characterized as a complex fluvial reservoir with multiple oil-water systems. It is classified as a marginal field because of the thin sand channels (average 12m), low oil columns(less than…
KOC's Umm Gudair/Abduliyah Tayarat reservoir has large oil reserves but is a challenging target due to low formation permeability and high oil viscosity. This study is focused on feasibility assessment of hybrid thermal and chemical methods…
Fire flooding process has been applied to the thick and deep heavy oil reservoirs G3618 and G3 in Liaohe oil field in China. Currently, there are two main operating issues: the serious combustion front gravity override, and the low areal sweep…
A low-cost multi-level gauging system employing a one-port time-domain measurement in a short-circuited coaxial geometry inserted vertically in a liquid tank is designed and presented in this paper. For small physical liquid levels, the attenuation…
The Lower Congo Basin is known to discharge a substantial volume of oil towards the sea surface, from more than one hundred seafloor seep sites distributed throughout the deep province of the Lower Congo Basin. A large geochemical coring survey…
Primary recovery of heavy-oil is remarkably low due to high viscosity and low energy by solution gas exsolution to drive the oil. Gas injection to improve foamy flow and also to dilute the oil in such reservoirs has been proposed as a secondary…
In the present work, H2S of crude oil was removed via a two-step method including stripping followed by adsorption. First, ZnO/MCM-41 adsorbents containing 5, 17.5 and 30 wt% of zinc were synthesized and characterized using XRD and nitrogen…
Soil-side corrosion of the bottom plates of above ground crude oil storage tanks is a major corrosion challenge in the oil and gas industry, especially when these tanks are constructed on oiled-sand pads. Severe corrosion has been identified on tank…
Cyclic solvent injection (CSI)a non-thermal process option for development of post-CHOPS (cold heavy oil production with sand) heavy oil reservoirsworks by dissolving a gaseous solvent, mainly Methane (CH4) or Carbon Dioxide (CO2), and sometimes…
Primary production using horizontal wells has been successfully applied in extra-heavy oil reservoirs, heavy oil belt, Orinoco, Venezuela. During drilling period, formation damage due to drilling fluid invasion lowers the effective permeability…
As an important production facility, storage tank plays a more and more important role in the storage and transportation of crude oil and chemical product. The remaining life prediction of storage tank is to forecast the thinning trend of plate…
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of oil price shocks on the US Consumer Price Index over the monthly period from 1876:01 to 2014:04. Design/methodology/approach: The author uses the Bai and Perron (2003) structural break…
A full understanding of the phase behavior of CO2-hydrocarbon mixtures at reservoir conditions is essential for the proper design, construction and operation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes. While…
A serious fire and explosion accident that resulted in massive crude oil leakage and severe environmental pollution occurred on 16 July, 2010, in Dalian Port, China. To investigate the root cause of accident and conduct a wide-range investigation,…
The development of giant fields of extra-heavy crude oil (XHO), through the massive application of thermal EOR processes, involves investments of several millions of dollars. It is a technical challenge to evaluate, by means of numerical simulation,…