Maintaining well integrity is critical to sustaining production from mature and aging fields. Disposable fibre optic technology has been deployed in wells in the North Sea to locate known tubing leaks in the completion. The disposable fibre optic…
Maintaining well integrity is critical to sustaining production from mature and aging fields. Disposable fibre optic technology has been deployed in wells in the North Sea to locate known tubing leaks in the completion. The disposable fibre optic…
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…
Objectives/Scope: Mature fields operations, which are almost 70% of today's production have a high water cut content. For each barrel of oil produced there can be 3 or more barrels of water. This means that operational conditions are challenging and…
Oil sludge presents a harmful but economically valuable waste. A large amount of oil sludge is produced during the processes of extraction, refining, storage, and transportation of petroleum. The contents of oil, water, and slag in the oil sludge are…
Standard Bottle Test is often the most common technique to gauge the demulsification performance of a newly formulated crude oil demulsifier. In our work, we have attempted to devise a more specific reliable and reproducible technique for monitoring…
Objectives/Scope: Mature fields operations, which are almost 70% of today's production have a high water cut content. For each barrel of oil produced there can be 3 or more barrels of water. This means that operational conditions are challenging and…
Pipeline plays an important role in the transportation of oil and gas. In-pipe detection technology is currently widely used at home and abroad. It is of great significance to develop in-pipe detection equipment with independent intellectual property…
Oil sludge presents a harmful but economically valuable waste. A large amount of oil sludge is produced during the processes of extraction, refining, storage, and transportation of petroleum. The contents of oil, water, and slag in the oil sludge are…
In this paper, an experimental study was conducted using terahertz (THz) spectroscopy to assess the electromagnetic properties in the THz range of various materials that can be found in oil and gas fields. This includes the absorbance, transmittance,…
Oil sludge presents a harmful but economically valuable waste. A large amount of oil sludge is produced during the processes of extraction, refining, storage, and transportation of petroleum. The contents of oil, water, and slag in the oil sludge are…
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…
Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a highly sensitive method for the quantification of microorganisms in natural and engineered environments such as oil and gas facilities. This study developed in-field methods for sample…
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…
In this paper, a modal resolution model of an open ended coaxial probe has been applied to the characterization of biphasic flows composed with water and gas. The sensitivity of the probe to the local fluid structure has been underlined. It has been…
In this paper, an experimental study was conducted using terahertz (THz) spectroscopy to assess the electromagnetic properties in the THz range of various materials that can be found in oil and gas fields. This includes the absorbance, transmittance,…
In this paper, an electrically small loop loaded with a spiral resonator is proposed for in-situ quality characterization of amine solution in gas sweetening units. The proposed UHF probe resonates at 508 MHz with a miniaturized footprint of 7.2 mm ×…
In this paper, an optical-based device for online black powder detection in gas pipelines is proposed. The device uses different optical wavelengths within the infrared (IR) range and applies chemometric algorithms to quantify the actual amount of…
This paper suggests a new near-infrared (NIR)-based device to accurately measure the concentration of solid contaminants passing through gas-oil pipelines. It consists of a ring of NIR sources and receivers, which are evenly distributed across a…
This paper proposes a new lightweight, low cost, and high performance detection method of pipeline defects through compact off-axis magnetization and sensing. By deploying the magnetic sensor below the edge of the tiny magnet instead of its center,…
Sand production is considered one of the major problems facing the petroleum industry since a small amount of sand in the produced fluid can result in significant erosion in a very short time period. Installation of a system to monitor and quantify…
Black powder (BP) is a recognized threat to gas transmission pipelines' integrity and operation in many different regions around the world. Early detection of black powder in susceptible lines becomes a prerequisite for efficient pipeline management…
To ensure the safety of oil and gas pipelines, the key point is the effective detection of defects, and to make an accurate assessment of their damage. The technology of alternating current field measurement (ACFM) is one kind of non-contact…
The ultrasonic detection is one of the important ways to inspect the wall-loss defects on-line for oil pipeline. The on-line power spectral estimation what characterized short time serial, higher resolution and anti-noise was a key technology to…
In the field of industrial ultrasonic testing, ultrasonic thickness measurement (UTM) is a method of performing non-destructive measurement of the local thickness of a solid element basing on the time taken by the ultrasound wave to return to the…
A microwave sensor constituted of both low- and high-frequency probes is presented. The role of the sensor is to determine the proportion of mixed fluids in a pipeline used in petroleum engineering to extract oil from an oil layer. In this paper, the…
Pipeline plays an important role in the transportation of oil and gas. In-pipe detection technology is currently widely used at home and abroad. It is of great significance to develop in-pipe detection equipment with independent intellectual property…
To solve the problem of deficiency detecting, it is necessary to detect the wall thickness of pipe rapidly, continuously, successively and accurately. For that purpose, this paper introduces a dynamic testing facility for on-line high-speed…
Oil sludge presents a harmful but economically valuable waste. A large amount of oil sludge is produced during the processes of extraction, refining, storage, and transportation of petroleum. The contents of oil, water, and slag in the oil sludge are…
Pipes are important components for well drilling, production, and transportation in petroleum industry. However, due to factors such as vibration, corrosion, fatigue damage, etc., pipes are prone to cracks. This paper presents a novel ACFM probe with…
Osaka Gas Co. Ltd has utilized ultrasonic flaw detection systems (time of flight diffraction method) to externally inspect the inner and outer surfaces of weld seams on spherical storage tanks while the tanks are in use. In these systems, the vehicle…
CNG storage well, long term exposed under effects of sulfur element and underground water, corrodes and thins. To solve this problem, a Gas well NDT system is proposed based on ultrasonic testing. The system mainly includes ultrasonic signal…
In this paper, an experimental study was conducted using terahertz (THz) spectroscopy to assess the electromagnetic properties in the THz range of various materials that can be found in oil and gas fields. This includes the absorbance, transmittance,…
Pipeline plays an important role in the transportation of oil and gas. In-pipe detection technology is currently widely used at home and abroad. It is of great significance to develop in-pipe detection equipment with independent intellectual property…
Oil sludge presents a harmful but economically valuable waste. A large amount of oil sludge is produced during the processes of extraction, refining, storage, and transportation of petroleum. The contents of oil, water, and slag in the oil sludge are…
The present paper deals with a current and complex topic, namely - a technical problem solving regarding the modeling and then optimization of some technical parameters related to the natural gas extraction process. The study subject is to optimize…
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…
The aim of this technical paper is to present the idea through an experiment that magnetic field can be used as an alternative tool to change the relaxation modulus of crude oil and thus improving its transportation efficiency. During the experiment,…