The water injection system, which is prone to failure and high energy consumptions, consists of many different parts, perform complex system behaviors and has a high degree of correlation with the environment and strong coupling with each other. In…
With the cost reducing and efficiency increasing background in the oil and gas industry, due to the huge cost advantage, the application of acoustic emission detection technology in storage tank bottom corrosion has gradually expanded. Firstly, the…
Temperature and pressure variations have important significance in environmental protection and safety operation of oil reservoir in salt caverns. Shrinkage of salt caverns, effect of permeability and fluid thermal pressurization rate were discussed…
In summer, the coastal areas of southern Iran suffer from the freshwater shortage and electricity instability. Meanwhile, this region benefits from the high intensity of solar radiation and the huge potential of brackish water resources. Hence, this…
In recent years, due to the lack of water resources and environmental protection reason, less water and dry fracturing technology has been paid more and more attention by oil companies. CO2 foam fracturing technology and liquid CO2 fracturing…
Oil has become an integral part of our world, if we look around and think about it, we will see familiar objects made thanks to this wonderful natural hydrocarbon. Now everyone is used to criticizing oil and everything connected with it, but let us…
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…
Land subsidence due to groundwater extraction can cause a permanent loss of groundwater storage, and thus mitigating this is crucial for sustainable groundwater management. One challenge in effective mitigation is accurately predicting the effect of…
Due to the close coupling between subsystems and complex energy flow, the distributed energy system is different from the traditional power grid in terms of optimal operation. Therefore, it is necessary to study the optimal operation strategy of…
Given a spatial network and a set of service centers from k different resource types, a Multiple Resource Network Voronoi Diagram (MRNVD) partitions the spatial network into a set of Service Areas that can minimize the total cycle-distances of…
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has one of the country's largest and most diverse collection of large pumps and motors. These pumps and motors, along with their power, control, and valving support…
With the development of China's economy, the nation's crude oil production is far from meeting the demand now. Therefore, China requires a large amount of crude oil imported from abroad to meet the domestic consumption demand. Except for small part…
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…
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…
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…
Through analyzing experimental data in oilfield, threshold temperature and pressure of lowered temperature and gathering-transportation technology were determined in Daqing Putaohua Oilfield, and then a set of control software was compiled in order…
Development of deep water oil reservoirs are presently being considered in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) where the flowline product temperatures is approaching 177degC (350degF), and the water depths are in excess of 3,050 m (10,000 ft). The installation…
This article describes how to use a three-dimensional MODFLOW model, paired with MT3D, to predict groundwater pollution caused by oil pipeline leakage. Then using geological and hydraulic data, the potential area of oil pollutant transport and its…
Deep-sea Flange Connection Tooling (DFCT) is a special kind of tools to complete the flange connection of deepwater pipeline, which will greatly enhance the development of China's deepwater Tie-ins technology. In this paper, through analyzing the…
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is a multi-mission project required by law to maintain a prescribed degree of readiness and a mandated performance criteria. The prediction of operational availability is essential to determine operational…
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has one of the country's largest and most diverse collection of large pumps and motors. These pumps and motors, along with their power, control, and valving support…
This paper is aimed at discussing the effect of corrosion propagation caused by the presence of oxygen in fluid flow induced corrosion in a pipeline. The yield and wall shear stresses of the carbon steel pipeline and the fluid flow pattern were…
With the development of China's economy, the nation's crude oil production is far from meeting the demand now. Therefore, China requires a large amount of crude oil imported from abroad to meet the domestic consumption demand. Except for small part…
The United States is critically dependent on natural gas, petroleum liquids, water and sewer transported through pipelines. The infrastructure that currently transports these resources is aging, with a significant fraction being more than 50 years…
The concept of ecology can be extended to the urban infrastructure as well when the infrastructure components are not analyzed individually but as an interlinked system, which then can be termed as `infrastructure ecology'. Urban infrastructure can…
With the cost reducing and efficiency increasing background in the oil and gas industry, due to the huge cost advantage, the application of acoustic emission detection technology in storage tank bottom corrosion has gradually expanded. Firstly, the…
This paper presents an expert system model designed for wide geographic sparse scheduling applications. Fuzzy logic and knowledge based formalism are combined with classical solving tools (e.g. constraint analysis rules, date propagation and…
The looming challenges of global warming and peak oil have begun to spur the development of alternatives to our current petroleum based transportation system. However, before these alternatives are implemented on a significant scale, it is important…
Due to the close coupling between subsystems and complex energy flow, the distributed energy system is different from the traditional power grid in terms of optimal operation. Therefore, it is necessary to study the optimal operation strategy of…
While many people think of natural gas as the "go-to" fuel of the decade and near future, it is remarkable how much renewable energy is being installed. In 2013, approximately 44% of all new electric generation capacity (on a nameplate megawatt…
Electric utilities need quickly-available sources of power for supplying expected and unexpected peak loads. Among useful sources have been the energy stored in water by pumping it to elevated storage reservoirs, in air compressed into underground…
The technology of steam injection on the development of heavy oil and low permeability reservoirs has been successfully applied in the worldwide, and one of the key process is the amount of steam injected. The fresh water can be supplied for steam…
The reinjecting of produced water into stratum is becoming a major process to treat produced water. However, the studies of deep confined aquifer pollution concerning produced water reinjection are rare, since the hydrological and geological…
Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) is a recent development aiming at the destruction of organic pollutants. The present paper focuses on the process simulation of oxidation of oil-field sludge in supercritical water with simple experimental…
Desalination of seawater and river water is a known technology with the capability of addressing the needs for clean and clear water. The process has a unique capability of storage which has a nexus to energy storage. The concomitant potential for…
Gasoline is a complex contamination agent, which may be originated from a variety of contamination sources. Sources may include, among others, leakage of underground fuel storage tanks in gas stations and large farms. Identifying and quantifying the…
An advanced technology, double poles electro-Fenton system was used to treat oil pollution from water. Effects of electricity density, pH value and initial oil concentration were studied to test and to validate the kinetic model for the oxidation of…
Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) is a recent development aiming at the destruction of organic pollutants. The present paper focuses on the process simulation of oxidation of oil-field sludge in supercritical water with simple experimental…
The author documents the analysis of an actual strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) mission and compares the result obtained during the mission with results predicted by availability models. The drawdown (removal of oil) from an oil storage unit at the…
Temperature and pressure variations have important significance in environmental protection and safety operation of oil reservoir in salt caverns. Shrinkage of salt caverns, effect of permeability and fluid thermal pressurization rate were discussed…
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is a multi-mission project required by law to maintain a prescribed degree of readiness and a mandated performance criteria. The prediction of operational availability is essential to determine operational…
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has one of the country's largest and most diverse collection of large pumps and motors. These pumps and motors, along with their power, control, and valving support…
With the cost reducing and efficiency increasing background in the oil and gas industry, due to the huge cost advantage, the application of acoustic emission detection technology in storage tank bottom corrosion has gradually expanded. Firstly, the…
A superhydrophobic silica has been utilized as adsorbed the Crude oil leaked during transport in the water of the Iraqi rivers, the capacity absorbing of the aerogel powder for crude oil has been determined. This technique is very important to get…
Brazil is a country whose electrical energy generation comes mainly from hydroelectric and thermoelectric power plants. In order to optimize the water resource and minimize the cost of electricity generation, the National System OperatorONS solves an…