During natural gas processing and gathering and transportation, water dew point and hydrocarbon dew point as two of control parameters in natural gas because of safety, economy and efficiency etc. In the field chilled mirror manual visual method…
With the increased availability of low-cost natural gas, the co-conversion of natural gas and biomass-to-liquid fuels has attracted attention from industry due to its potential for improving liquid fuel yields while lowering greenhouse gas emissions.…
The projected increase in the availability of gaseous fuels by growing popularity of household natural gas (NG) filling stations and the increase in the production of gaseous biogas-derived fuels is conducive to an increase in the use of NG fuel.…
Petroleum contamination of environmental matrices is a pervasive, global problem. Crude oil exploration, processing, handling and transport release significant amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons into the environment. Many petroleum compounds are known…
Fields that are in the late stages of development have low potential and opportunities to solve the accumulated technical and environmental problems due to insufficient profitability of their operation, lack of sources of financing. This fully…
A method for identifying straits of rocket kerosene (RG-1 and T-1 brands) and various types of hydrocarbon fuels (aviation fuel TC-1 and diesel fuel) in soil has been developed. The proposed version of identification is based on the preliminary…
Conversion of olefin-rich side streams of petroleum distillate cracking operations, pyrolysis gasoline (pygas), to hydrocarbon resins (HRs) represents a promising technology to upgrade the pygas byproduct and facilitate pygas valorization. Several…
Although condensate oils are neither well defined nor have a known chemical composition, they are considered by the petroleum industry to be good candidates for the dilution of heavy crude oil as this generates a blend with a lower viscosity. This…
Growth in the world economy requires an increase in global energy demand. And oil remained the worlds leading fuel, accounting for a third of global energy consumption (BPs Energy Outlook, 2017 edition). However, the amount of conventional light oils…
A light Arabian crude oil was separated by distillation into 27 fractions, including 25 very narrow distillation cuts, the light ends, and a vacuum residue (VR), which were extensively characterised using standard methods. Overall, the properties…
Nowadays, most of the worlds energy consumption is from fossil fuels. One of these fossil fuels is natural gas condensate which consists of various hydrocarbon components and could be used as the main fuel resource. However, these condensates contain…
An oil and gas field requires careful operational planning and management via production optimization for increased recovery and long-term project profitability. This article addresses the challenge of production optimization in a field undergoing…
The current problem of the last decade in the world is the increase of oil production volume due to the extraction of its hard-to-recover reserves. The difficulty of its extraction is determined not only by the petro-physical characteristics of the…
Natural gas sweetening is an essential process within hydrocarbon processing operations, enabling compliance with product quality specifications, avoiding corrosion problems, and enabling environmental care. This process aims to remove hydrogen…
The process of monitoring the gas compositions outside from the separation stages of gas from oil, is a very important process and gives a complete perception of the optimization of these facilities, for processing oil and through this can be…
Some deep-water offshore fields produce oil with high gas/oil ratios and ultra-high %CO2 (>60%mol) with the onus of processing low-grade gas simultaneously handling huge CO2 dispatch goals. Thus, processing solutions are needed to make feasible such…
The study aims to evaluate ground deformations in a vast area characterized by the coexistence of intense anthropic activities and offshore natural gas production. Onshore subsidence can be studied by GNSS, InSAR, high precision leveling and…
This study analyzes the possibility to use the winds kinetic energy to produce electricity in Northern Qatar for the natural gas processing industry. An evaluation of the wind potentiality is performed based on a thorough analysis of parameters such…
In offshore oil-and-gas fields with high CO2 content, oil-and-gas processing entails recycling CO2 to the field for enhanced oil recovery. Despite blocking fossil CO2 ingress into the biosphere and improving oil production, this entails increasing…
Hyperspectral imaging technology is a rapid and nondestructive technique, which has the characteristic of combining the image and spectra, each band will represent an image, each pixel displays a spectra. Hyperpectral image can not only obtain…
Associated petroleum gas (APG) is of considerable interest and is one of the priority directions of development of the oil and gas industry. In this context, the problem of environmental safety of hydrocarbon gas extraction processes is being solved…
1 Scope This document provides requirements and guidelines for marine geophysical investigations. It is applicable to operators/end users, contractors and public and regulatory authorities concerned with marine site investigations for offshore…
This paper considers the issue of associated petroleum gas utilization during hydrocarbon production in remote petroleum fields. Due to the depletion of conventional oil and gas deposits around the globe, production shifts to hard-to-recover…
During natural gas processing and gathering and transportation, water dew point and hydrocarbon dew point as two of control parameters in natural gas because of safety, economy and efficiency etc. In the field chilled mirror manual visual method…
Fields that are in the late stages of development have low potential and opportunities to solve the accumulated technical and environmental problems due to insufficient profitability of their operation, lack of sources of financing. This fully…
In a time of prolonged low oil prices and uncertainty in the future outlook for the oil and gas industry, oil companies and operators are looking for innovative ways of combining available technologies in order to maximize hydrocarbon production…
Engineering and economic optimization of the value of water as an essential commodity and successful management of the overall water cycle are of great interests for the petroleum industry. The general objective is to maximize the benefits and safety…
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) categorizes "oil sludge" as a hazardous waste that is subject to hazardous waste handling rules. The oil sludge may contain many different compositions. The challenge is that these sludges cannot be…
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), a product of natural gas processing is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases mainly propane, butane, butylene and impurities such as Sulphur compounds. The production of LPG depends largely on available natural gas.…
The gas compressibility factor, also known as the deviation or Z-factor, is one of the most important parameters in the petroleum and chemical industries involving natural gas, as it is directly related to the density of a gas stream, hence its flow…
With the increasing energy demand and call for cleaner energy, industry has ventured out for challenging environment such as deepwater and unconventional natural gas resources. While new development is necessary, improvement in gas supply can also be…
This study analyzes the possibility to use the winds kinetic energy to produce electricity in Northern Qatar for the natural gas processing industry. An evaluation of the wind potentiality is performed based on a thorough analysis of parameters such…
During recent years the active development of Achimov deposits in the Urengoy oil and gas-condensate field has begun. The development of these deposits will not only reduce the gas production decline rate from traditional Cenomanian and Valanginian…
In offshore oil-and-gas fields with high CO2 content, oil-and-gas processing entails recycling CO2 to the field for enhanced oil recovery. Despite blocking fossil CO2 ingress into the biosphere and improving oil production, this entails increasing…
Supersonic separators offer a cleaner offshore processing of natural gas with carbon dioxide content from deep-water oil-gas fields. Conventional offshore gas processing comprises water dew-point adjustment via glycol-absorption, hydrocarbon…
Engineering and economic optimization of the value of water as an essential commodity and successful management of the overall water cycle are of great interests for the petroleum industry. The general objective is to maximize the benefits and safety…
Flow assurance has been a major problem in the development of a heavy oil field. It is not common that this issue has a multiplier effect from reservoir up to processing facilities, reducing productivity and in turn, increasing financial burden. Many…
Engineering and economic optimization of the value of water as an essential commodity and successful management of the overall water cycle are of great interests for the petroleum industry. The general objective is to maximize the benefits and safety…
In a time of prolonged low oil prices and uncertainty in the future outlook for the oil and gas industry, oil companies and operators are looking for innovative ways of combining available technologies in order to maximize hydrocarbon production…
Engineering and economic optimization of the value of water as an essential commodity and successful management of the overall water cycle are of great interests for the petroleum industry. The general objective is to maximize the benefits and safety…
Libra Field is a giant oil and gas offshore field situated in Santos Basin, at 200 km from southeastern Brazil coast, 2200 m water depth and 5 km crust depth. The product of Libra is a 27API oil with a remarkable characteristic: an impressive gas/oil…
The Brazilian offshore pre-salt cluster is one of the most important recent discoveries of hydrocarbon resources in the world. These fields normally present high CO2 content (more than 10%) and also high Gas Oil Ratio (GOR), thus might limit the oil…
With the increasing energy demand and call for cleaner energy, industry has ventured out for challenging environment such as deepwater and unconventional natural gas resources. While new development is necessary, improvement in gas supply can also be…
During recent years the active development of Achimov deposits in the Urengoy oil and gas-condensate field has begun. The development of these deposits will not only reduce the gas production decline rate from traditional Cenomanian and Valanginian…