Offshore petroleum operations are known to take place in some of the most dangerous environments in the world. Hazardous and flammable gas releases pose significate risk to people and assets located on these platforms. In an effort to reduce exposure…
Reciprocating compressors are widely used in petroleum industry. A small fault in reciprocating compressor may cause serious issues in operation. Traditional regular maintenance and fault diagnosis solutions cannot efficiently detect potential faults…
As the oil and gas industry is moving towards digital oil field, the selection of leak detection system (LDS) has become more crucial. Early detection of leaks not only saves environment from Hazardous hydrocarbons but considerable loss in production…
Offshore oil and gas installations are (by their nature) located in remote locations that are both difficult and costly to access. While such challenges exist, the operate & maintain requirements associated with such assets are consistent and must be…
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has increased its estimate of undiscovered, technically recoverable resources in parts of Alaska's federal, state, and tribal lands and waters following recent, bigger-than-expected discoveries. The revisions…
This study aims to introduce the integrated approach, namely the integration of the Faster R-CNN technique and Optical gas imaging (OGI) for real-time natural gas leak detection of offshore platforms. OGI is used to record large number of leak videos…
The prediction of reservoir fluid production law play a key role in offshore oil field development plan design. It determines the parameter selection of pump displacement, oilfield submarine pipe capacity, platform fluid handling capacity, power…
Performance prediction is one of the important contents of oilfield development. It is also an important content affecting investment decision-making, especially for offshore oilfields with large investment. At present, most oilfields in China have…
Sisi and Nubi (SNB) fields are two adjacent primarily gas fields located 25 km offshore from the modern Mahakam delta These fields are complex from a reservoir management point of view with hundred thousands of Static & dynamic data, and continuously…
With the construction of intelligent oil field, profound change is being brought by internet of things and big data, resulting in innovative development and management by information collection, distributed computing and data mining and other…
Cenovus Energy has deployed a rigorous multiphase flow assurance online solution to detect leaks and monitor hydrate formation conditions at the White Rose Field and satellite extensions 350 km east of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.…
Leak detection in pipelines has been a prevalent issue for several decades. Pipeline leaks from sources such as small cracks and pinholes are termed chronic leaks, as they have the potential of going unnoticed for long time periods, causing both…
The gas kicks occur frequently during the ultra-deepwater high-temperature high-pressure (HPHT) exploration in the South China Sea. They can pose severe risks to well control strategies. The traditional detection method is to analyze the mud-log of…
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…
This paper details the successful validation process of advanced DP (Dynamic Positioning) and power management tools and solutions through processing big data from offshore drilling operations. Along with outlining the technical details behind the…
Pipelines are mainly used to transport crude and refined petroleum, such as natural gas, worldwide. Monitoring pipeline health condition at offshore locations is challenging. Despite several attempts to develop leak detection systems, few can…
The objective of this paper is to share the results and benefits from a new artificial intelligence and predictive data analytics process. This new process integrates both geoscience and engineering requirements to enhance non-metallic pipe…
In order to robustly characterize a reservoir and make reservoir management decisions, it is paramount thatan integrated and comprehensive study use all available static and dynamic data including petrophysical,geological, geophysical, engineering,…
In the informatization and intellectualization era of oil and gas, automation is essential to measure and track detailed performance for routine drilling operations by automatically measuring these individual operations consistently. Presently, the…
In order to robustly characterize a reservoir and make reservoir management decisions, it is paramount that an integrated and comprehensive study use all available static and dynamic data including petrophysical, geological, geophysical, engineering,…
Maintaining well integrity is one of the critical factors in the oil and gas industry. It requires close monitoring during the life cycle of the well, especially in offshore fields, to maximize the well life cycle and avoid catastrophic failure.…
The prediction of reservoir fluid production law play a key role in offshore oil field development plan design. It determines the parameter selection of pump displacement, oilfield submarine pipe capacity, platform fluid handling capacity, power…
This paper details the successful validation process of advanced DP (Dynamic Positioning) and power management tools and solutions through processing big data from offshore drilling operations. Along with outlining the technical details behind the…
With the demand for lower carbon emissions and the increasing use of clean energy instead of traditional fossil fuels, offshore production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has become a major mode of energy transportation and storage. Due to its…
There are nearly 1000 million tons of oil and gas resources in the South China Sea, but 83% of the natural gas resources and 70% of the natural gas resources are in the deep water and 500 kilometers away from the mainland of China. How to effectively…
In recent decades, the development of natural gas hydrates has become a research hotspot of scholars all over the world. However, the decomposed gas and water in marine gas hydrate production system may regenerate gas hydrates due to the…
In recent years, the global demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an energy source is increasing at a very fast rate. In order to meet this demand, a large number of facilities such as platforms, FPSO (floating production, storage and…
In recent years, the global demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an energy source is increasing at a very fast rate. In order to meet this demand, a large number of facilities such as platforms, LNG-FPSO's, floating storage and regasification…
1 Scope This document specifies minimum requirements for materials exposed to sour environments as defined in ISO 15156 (all parts). It does not provide guidelines for material selection. The selection of suitable materials for a specific service…
Natural gas hydrate emerges as a sustainable and alternative clean energy source. Japan (2013) and China (2017) have performed production trials on marine natural gas hydrate successfully. Sand production with associated risk is one of the main…
Natural gas is a kind of clean energy with high calorific value, but raw natural gas contains a certain amount of acid gas CO2, which will cause problems like heating value reduction and pipeline corrosion. Therefore, it is necessary to remove CO2…
The National Transportation Safety Board investigated numerous accidents involving the release of natural gas from polyethylene pipelines. The industry manufactures polyethylene pipes and fittings in many shapes and they can be installed/joined in a…
Natural Gas production and transportation are at risk of Gas hydrate plugging especially when in offshore environments where temperature is low and pressure is high. These plugs can eventually block the pipeline, increase back pressure, stop…
India is expected to grow at a rate of more than 6% over the next two decades [1]. A growing economy requires increasing quantities of fuel to satisfy its energy needs. Natural gas is expected to take up a noteworthy share of the total energy…
The high-pressure and low-temperature environment prevailing in the process of offshore oil and gas development is very prone to the formation of hydrate in the wellbore to block the tubing, which leads to production reduction and shutdown and causes…
Cote d'Ivoire is a small mature crude oil producer in West Africa. In 2015, Cote d'Ivoire produced around 27,000 bblsbbl/day (IEA, 2015). Crude oil production started in the early 1980s and peaked in 2006 at 63,000 bblsbbl/day. Today, there are a…
1 Scope This document specifies requirements and provides recommendations and guidance for the design, construction, transportation, installation and decommissioning of offshore structures related to the activities of the petroleum and natural gas…
Offshore storage capacity has been identified as an essential part of long-term Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) strategies. Transporting the CO2 from the source onshore to the offshore storage site will be a critical aspect of the…
Crew must be transported to offshore platforms to regulate the production of oil and gas. Helicopter is the preferred means of transportation, which incurs a high cost on oil and gas companies. So, flight schedule should be planned in a way that…
1 Scope This European Standard specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the design, materials, construction, testing, operation, maintenance and abandonment of pipeline systems used for transportation in the petroleum and natural gas…
Scope: This part of ISO 21809 specifies requirements for field joint coating of seamless or welded steel pipes for buried and submerged sections of pipeline transportation systems used in the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries as…
The produced fluids in a subsea field development can be transported from the subsea well to a floating production unit using pipelines where they are thereafter offloaded to a tanker (surface ship). The flow direction is reversed in the case of CO2…
Recently, safety protection research on the risk of flammable gas leakage and deflagration between adjacent offshore facilities is easy to be ignored and the fire and explosion accidents are also harmful to interactive operations, causing great…
Scope: This International Standard specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the design, materials, construction, testing, operation, maintenance and abandonment of pipeline systems used for transportation in the petroleum and natural gas…
This paper summarizes an investigation of certain operating parameters on the viscosity of petroleum emulsions. The production of crude oil is accompanied by emulsified water production, which comes along with various challenges like corroding the…
Offshore transportation vessels are used for the ocean delivery of structures for oil and gas production and also for renewable energy facilities. The paper will consider the requirements of Marine Warranty Surveyor stability guidelines for temporary…
1 Scope This document defines the minimum requirements for validation of wet thermal insulation systems applied to pipelines and subsea equipment in the petroleum and natural gas industries. This document is applicable to wet thermal insulation…
The creation of an effective system of rescue support (the abbreviation ASO is adopted on the territory of the Russian Federation) in the implementation of the processes of oil and gas production and transportation in the Arctic seas of Russia is an…
1 Scope This document specifies requirements and gives recommendations on the management of integrity of a pipeline system throughout its life cycle, which includes design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance and abandonment. This…