The operation of crude oil pipeline: Examination of wax thickness

The operation of crude oil pipeline: Examination of wax thickness

Artificial intelligence

Petroleum industry

Deposition

Offshore pipelines

Petroleum transportation

Systems engineering

Gas industry

Offshore oil well production

Models

Public utilities

Social networking (online)

Human engineering

Solid and wax precipitation during production, transportation, and storage of petroleum fluids is a common problem faced by the oil industry throughout the world. Continuous wax deposition is a critical issue for offshore transport pipeline and for the oil and gas industry. Significant amount of effort and capital are typically spent annually by the Oil & Gas companies for the prevention and removal of wax in production and transportation lines. This study examines a new technology to monitor wax deposition thickness in sub-sea pipelines. The wax thickness predictions from the wax thermal sensing method is expected to be promising compared with conventional measurement techniques. It is expected that this sensing method can support the operators of Oil & Gas companies to predict accurately wax deposition which enables operators to adjust operation quickly to prevent a complete clogging of pipelines. Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019.

514-522

787

Joint Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Human Factors in Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing, Software and Systems Engineering, The Human Side of Service Engineering and Human Factors in Energy, 2018, July 21, 2018 - July 25, 2018

2019

Alnaimat, Fadi

Mathew, Bobby

Ziauddin, Mohammed

conferencePaper

21945357

10.1007/978-3-319-94229-2_49