Analyses have been widely applied in production forecasting of oil/gas production in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. In order to forecast production, traditional regression and machine learning approaches have been applied to various…
Route optimization has been a research topic for many years in the maritime industry and it constitutes one of the key components to improving energy efficiency and sustainability in ship operations. This paper deals with the challenge of estimating…
Analyses have been widely applied in production forecasting of oil/gas production in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. In order to forecast production, traditional regression and machine learning approaches have been applied to various…
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…
Route optimization has been a research topic for many years in the maritime industry and it constitutes one of the key components to improving energy efficiency and sustainability in ship operations. This paper deals with the challenge of estimating…
This paper describes a smarttracer- portfolio testing and design solution for multistage hydraulic fracturing which will, write the authors, enable operators to reduce operating cost significantly and optimize production in shale wells. The…
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…
Analyses have been widely applied in production forecasting of oil/gas production in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. In order to forecast production, traditional regression and machine learning approaches have been applied to various…
Chinas designation of the "21st-century Maritime Silk Road" (MSR) region is of extraordinary significance to its maritime rights, transportation security, and socio-economic development. We developed a technical framework allowing the use of "big…
This paper describes a smarttracer- portfolio testing and design solution for multistage hydraulic fracturing which will, write the authors, enable operators to reduce operating cost significantly and optimize production in shale wells. The…
Route optimization has been a research topic for many years in the maritime industry and it constitutes one of the key components to improving energy efficiency and sustainability in ship operations. This paper deals with the challenge of estimating…
Current multistage hydraulic fracturing operations in shale are costly, environmentally challenging and inefficient. Multistage hydraulic fracturing operations already represent close to 60% of the total drilling and completion cost for each shale…
Chinas designation of the "21st-century Maritime Silk Road" (MSR) region is of extraordinary significance to its maritime rights, transportation security, and socio-economic development. We developed a technical framework allowing the use of "big…
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…
For many years the aerospace and automotive industries have realized significant improvements in efficiency, performance and cost savings by simulating multiple prototype vehicle designs and control systems under various operating conditions. These…
This paper describes a smarttracer- portfolio testing and design solution for multistage hydraulic fracturing which will, write the authors, enable operators to reduce operating cost significantly and optimize production in shale wells. The…
Current multistage hydraulic fracturing operations in shale are costly, environmentally challenging and inefficient. Multistage hydraulic fracturing operations already represent close to 60% of the total drilling and completion cost for each shale…
Chinas designation of the "21st-century Maritime Silk Road" (MSR) region is of extraordinary significance to its maritime rights, transportation security, and socio-economic development. We developed a technical framework allowing the use of "big…
For many years the aerospace and automotive industries have realized significant improvements in efficiency, performance and cost savings by simulating multiple prototype vehicle designs and control systems under various operating conditions. These…
Current multistage hydraulic fracturing operations in shale are costly, environmentally challenging and inefficient. Multistage hydraulic fracturing operations already represent close to 60% of the total drilling and completion cost for each shale…
Analyses have been widely applied in production forecasting of oil/gas production in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. In order to forecast production, traditional regression and machine learning approaches have been applied to various…
Route optimization has been a research topic for many years in the maritime industry and it constitutes one of the key components to improving energy efficiency and sustainability in ship operations. This paper deals with the challenge of estimating…
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…
This paper describes a smarttracer- portfolio testing and design solution for multistage hydraulic fracturing which will, write the authors, enable operators to reduce operating cost significantly and optimize production in shale wells. The…
Analyses have been widely applied in production forecasting of oil/gas production in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. In order to forecast production, traditional regression and machine learning approaches have been applied to various…
Route optimization has been a research topic for many years in the maritime industry and it constitutes one of the key components to improving energy efficiency and sustainability in ship operations. This paper deals with the challenge of estimating…
Currently the use and application of technology in every company's operational activities has changed the way companies conduct their business. With the use of technology, business competition is increasing, companies in this case petroleum industry…
Routine inspection and maintenance are critical for the proper functioning of civil infrastructures such as bridges, pavements and underground structures. Civil infrastructures are being inspected less frequently because of the high cost and long…
With ever increasing global demand and depleting resources for fossil fuels, oil and gas industry is now positively looking for advanced robotic solutions to increase their productivity and safety. With time easy resources of the fossil fuels are…
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is commonly used for heating, cooking, automotive power, and various other uses worldwide. LPG is a particularly flammable gas, and LPG leaks cause significant incidents. The cause may arise from improper installation to…
Field-pipeline operations are more easily affected by complex environment in comparison of common long-distance pipeline. Its failures such as leakage demand to be dealt with more urgently and efficiently. This paper proposes a leakage detection…
Since the high accuracy of the leakage detection can not be achieved at present, singularity analysis based on wavelet transform is adopted to analyze the pressure signals of the oil pipeline and then get the singularity points. To locate the…
The Gas Leak Detection and Location System is based on ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), it is used on production safety for the Petrochemical Industry. Gas-sensitive sensors and ZigBee WSN are used in this system. ZigBee is reliable, low-cost,…
The development of the natural gas exploitation and transport industry involves both research in the field of compressor mechanics and their automatic control. The paper contains four parts and presents the state of research regarding the automation…
Automation is expected to effectively address the growing demand for passenger and freight transportation, safety issues, human errors, and increasing congestion. The growth of autonomous vehicles using the state-of-the-art connected vehicle…
With the continuous development of society and economy, human demand for petrochemical-related products and derivatives is becoming more and more vigorous. However, the increase in oilfield development time and the expansion of scale easily make it…
Petroleum quality indicators should be monitored at all stages of petroleum production, preparation and transportation quickly and efficiently. Such a critically important indicator as the mass fraction of water in petroleum determines not only its…
With the development of oil fields entering the middle and late stages, the crude oil output of each exploitation factory is gradually decreasing, and the contradiction between insufficient crude oil output and excess processing capacity is becoming…
The increased ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to generate and parse texts will inevitably lead to more proposals for AIs use in the semantic sentiment analysis (SSA) of textual sources. We argue that instead of focusing solely on…
Petroleum quality indicators should be monitored at all stages of petroleum production, preparation and transportation quickly and efficiently. Such a critically important indicator as the mass fraction of water in petroleum determines not only its…
With depletion and natural decline of the sour gas fields in Germany, many conventional gas sweetening plants have been abandoned for economic reasons. A study and a concept selection were conducted to identify technical and economical competitive…
Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is the major biogenic volatile sulfur compound in surface seawater. Good quality DMS data with high temporal and spatial resolution are desirable for understanding reduced sulfur biogeochemistry. Here we present a fully…
The presence of benzene and similar aromatic compounds in civil environments is due to anthropic actions but also to natural sources. Natural gas consists of a gas mixture where benzene and related compounds are usually presents. Thus, the detection…
In a petroleum cyber-physical system (CPS), interwell connectivity estimation is critical for improving petroleum production. An accurately estimated connectivity topology facilitates reduction in the production cost and improvement in the waterflood…
This paper presents a control system design methodology for the drill-string rotary drive and draw-works hoist system aimed at mature drilling rig retrofitting. The rotary drive is equipped with an active damping speed control system featuring a…
With the development of oil fields entering the middle and late stages, the crude oil output of each exploitation factory is gradually decreasing, and the contradiction between insufficient crude oil output and excess processing capacity is becoming…
As drilling of new oil and gas wells increase to meet energy demands, it is essential to optimize processes to ensure the health and safety of the crew as well as the protection of the environment. Drilling operations represent a dynamic and…
Crude oil blending is an important unit in petroleum refining industry. Most of blend automation system is a real-time optimizer (RTO). RTO is a model-based optimization approach that uses current process information to update the model and predict…
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…