Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
Delivery of crude oil from Single Point Mooring (SPM) through subsea pipeline to Onshore Receiving Facility (ORF) play critical role for refinery processing and operation. The pipeline laid in seabed, connecting oil tanker to storage facility on…
Corrosion in the oil and gas industry represents one of the major problems that affect oil production and transportation processes. Several corrosion-inspection technologies are in the market to detect internal and external corrosion of oil storage…
Delivery of crude oil from Single Point Mooring (SPM) through subsea pipeline to Onshore Receiving Facility (ORF) play critical role for refinery processing and operation. The pipeline laid in seabed, connecting oil tanker to storage facility on…
Corrosion in the oil and gas industry represents one of the major problems that affect oil production and transportation processes. Several corrosion-inspection technologies are in the market to detect internal and external corrosion of oil storage…
Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
Delivery of crude oil from Single Point Mooring (SPM) through subsea pipeline to Onshore Receiving Facility (ORF) play critical role for refinery processing and operation. The pipeline laid in seabed, connecting oil tanker to storage facility on…
Inspection interval of safety valves is generally at least once a year specified by the Safety Technical Supervision Regulations for Safety Valves (TSG ZF001-2006) in China, while the maintenance interval of production equipment in oil refining and…
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…
The purpose of the paper is to present the implementation of FSO2 life extension program by using big data and the Industrial Internet of Things (lloT). We will explain why it was decided to implement the program and how to use big data and the…
A review of corrosion monitoring and inspection technologies is presented including descriptions of the available techniques and examples of their application in various industries. The advantages of online corrosion monitoring and inspection are…
Corrosion can cause serious damage, which leads to large economic loss, sometimes combined with environmental pollution, or risk of personnel injuries. Today, corrosion has a far-reaching impact on society and the associated degradation of materials,…
For the detection of cracks and corrosion in pipelines an ultrasonic measuring system (pig) was developed. During the pipeline inspection there is no communication to the outside world, the accumulated data have to be stored on a mass storage device.…
Petroleum pipelines are best mode of transportation of crude oil, refined oil and by products of petroleum not only within the country but outside as well. Within the refinery these pipelines are in form of heater tubes and pipes linked/ connected to…
The X-ray transmission imaging technology is often used for nondestructive testing outside the pipe, but for deep buried petroleum pipelines, its equipment cannot meet environmental layout requirements and one side accessible detection devices are…
The oil and gas industry owns expensive and widely-spread assets. Any fault in this complex transportation network may result in accidents and/or huge losses thereby triggering various environmental and economic issues. Thus, real-time monitoring and…
In order to put an end to rampancy rob oil, reduce losses and protect normal work of oil management department, it is necessary to detect the occurrence of leak immediately and locate the exact leak position. For negative pressure cause by leak will…
Well casing integrity is vital for the safe operations of oil wells, and also significant to detect well casing defects. Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) Detection Technology is widely-used in detecting the defects of various pipelines. Owing to the very…
The risk for accidental leaks of hydrocarbons from pipelines on the seabed is expected to increase due to mainly corrosion effects. To assure uninterrupted hydrocarbon production, and to avoid conflicts with expected more strict environmental…
This paper presents a custom designed in-pipe inspection robot that is developed for a pipe of diameter 0.203 m, commonly found in the oil and gas industry. Several pressure sensors are incorporated on board the robot that are used for detecting…
The pipeline leakage problem is a very challenging and critical issue. Solving this problem will save the nation a lot of money, resources and more importantly, it will save the environment. This paper discusses the state of the art of leak detection…
A VLSI implementation of a data acquisition system processor for failure detection and location inside oil pipelines is presented. The DAQP02 prototype is capable of reading and storing information inside pipelines. With support for two analog…
Memory leak is a situation when the memory taken up by dynamically allocated objects is not deallocated after its use. Memory leak is a serious problem in embedded systems as they are memory constrained devices. This can also be a serious problem in…
Purpose: One of the most important problems in the road fleet transportation of hazardous materials is truck accidents in which the main influential factors are the type of truck and its safety conditions. This research aimed to propose the pattern…
The rapid expansion of production of North American petroleum crude oil from shale has led to a significant increase in rail transport of crude oil. Broken rails are frequent causes of train accidents. Ultrasonic rail defect inspection is widely used…
Pipeline transportation is the most economic and reasonable transport means of petroleum and natural gas. Influenced by complex corrosion environment, it is challenging to detect anomalies accurately with precise boundaries. Inspired by the idea of…
Corrosion in the oil and gas industry represents one of the major problems that affect oil production and transportation processes. Several corrosion-inspection technologies are in the market to detect internal and external corrosion of oil storage…
Chemical, petrochemical, and refinery sectors have been facing tougher safety, environmental and mechanical integrity regulations as well as challenges associated with the need for cost reduction to improve competitiveness. Risk-based Inspection…
Magnetic flux leakage (MFL) methods are widely employed for the nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of gas pipelines. The inspection typically generates over 25 GB of compressed data for every 100 mile of pipeline inspected. Currently, the data is…
Recently developed optical inspection tools provide images from the inside of natural gas pipelines to monitor pipeline integrity. The vast amount of data generated prohibits human inspection of the resulting images. We designed an image processing…
Food waste by end-consumers is a topic that is under-studied although this is an issue that has direct and indirect consequences on greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and health. One reason for food waste in homes in the United States is the…
Memory leak is a situation when the memory taken up by dynamically allocated objects is not deallocated after its use. Memory leak is a serious problem in embedded systems as they are memory constrained devices. This can also be a serious problem in…
Submerged Arc Welding (SAW) is one of the most applied technology in manufacturing structural shape, larger diameter petroleum pipe, pressure vessels, storage tanks and machine components for all types of heavy industry. Digital radiography (DR)…
Natural gas pipeline network extends over 2.5 million miles in the united states of America. The aging of these infrastructures combined with damage from various external threats are creating safety concerns for both operators and residents in the…
In industrial production, fabric products will always inevitably appear flaws due to uncontrollable factors such as production and transportation. However, there are many problems with the manual inspection methods used by manufacturers, such as low…
The ultrasonic in-line inspection is one of the important ways to inspect the wall-loss defects on-line for crude oil pipeline. As an integrative device, ultrasonic in-line inspection system contains complex mechanism, electronic instruments and a…
Petroleum pipelines are best mode of transportation of crude oil, refined oil and by products of petroleum not only within the country but outside as well. Within the refinery these pipelines are in form of heater tubes and pipes linked/ connected to…
This study collected and analyzed field data to validate the probabilistic model developed previously for predicting internal corrosion threats resulting from condensed water from nominally dry natural gas. Model-predicted wall loss was compared to…
Dry Gas Internal Corrosion Direct Assessment (DG-ICDA) specified in NACE SP0206-2006 was developed in an attempt to proactively prevent and predict locations susceptible to internal corrosion in natural gas pipelines normally transporting dry gas.…
This study collected and analyzed field data to validate the probabilistic model developed previously for predicting internal corrosion threats resulting from condensed water from nominally dry natural gas. Model-predicted wall loss was compared to…
Inchworms use their morphology and evolved behaviors to crawl and climb various complex surfaces. This has inspired the development of different robots that can demonstrate similar capabilities for various applications such as the inspection of a…
The Remote-Field Eddy-Current (RPEC) technique is used to nondestructively inspect both ferrous and nonferrous metal tubes. It is especially helpful when both the inside and outside of the pipe need to be examined, but only the inside of the pipe can…
This paper describes both the design and technical integration of a deep water ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) that is able to employ visual inspection in deep water, as well as to take samples with an underwater arm. Visual inspection is the…
Corrosion related issues cost billions every year in the oil and gas industry. One consequence of corrosion is the wall thickness loss in pipelines, this issue could cause leaks and stop the production which leads to an economic slowdown. In-line…
This paper developed a single right angle line-focusing ultrasonic transducer array to detect all the dents, metal loss and crack-like flaws. By using the A-scan ultrasonic signals captured from the array, 2D images of the pipe flaws can be obtained,…
The key-objective of the inspection process in Oil & Gas offshore facilities is to assess the operational condition of all the equipment and infrastructure of the facilities on a continuous basis. It should also investigate the cause of accidents or…
This paper presents a custom designed in-pipe inspection robot that is developed for a pipe of diameter 0.203 m, commonly found in the oil and gas industry. Several pressure sensors are incorporated on board the robot that are used for detecting…
Nowadays, the ocean plays a fundamental role in the global economy, mainly due to oil extraction industry. It makes this environment be populated with human-made structures that needs to be inspected and maintained. In this context, this paper…