WESTERN AUSTRALIA—A TECHNOLOGY BASE FOR THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 777
Author(s):  
B.F Ronalds
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
International Industry ◽  
Analytical Tools

Oil and gas production is characterised by a truly international industry, and yet a unique local environment. Solutions developed elsewhere cannot always be imported directly for Australian use. For this reason alone, a strong local technology base is of value to the Australian oil and gas industry. Other benefits include the ability to provide high quality education and training for people entering, and already in, the industry.A case study is described where the Western Australian technology base is facilitating solutions to a specific challenge faced on the North West Shelf (NWS); namely, that the criteria for reliable development and operation of its offshore infrastructure for oil and gas production are more severe than other petroleum provinces, requiring new analytical tools to be developed.

Shaping the decommissioning landscape of tomorrow

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 537
Author(s):  
Andrew Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Industry Growth ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Research Organisations ◽  
Growth Centres

Associated with the growth of Australia’s oil and gas industry over the past 40 years, our oceans currently host oil and gas production and transportation infrastructure that will cost ~AU$30 billion to decommission. National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) is one of six industry growth centres (IGC) funded by the Australian Government. NERA is investigating opportunities for transforming the way that Australia manages its upcoming decommissioning activities. In 2019, NERA undertook a series of stakeholder consultations to refresh our understanding of Australia’s decommissioning outlook. Feedback was received through more than 20 interviews and follow-up surveys with the service sector, operators, research organisations, regulators and consultants. This paper highlights the outcomes of this review and NERA’s view on opportunities to position Australia favourably to manage decommissioning in a way that maximises benefits.

Erosion of Elbows in Oil and Gas Production Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 479-481 ◽  
pp. 1129-1132
Author(s):  
Wang Ming Bo
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Sand Erosion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Erosion Mechanisms ◽  
Definitive Methods

This paper gives an overview of erosion mechanisms in elbows in oil and gas production systems. The nature of the erosion process itself makes it very difficult to develop some definitive methods or models to prevent or predict the erosion in elbows in all conditions. This paper provides a review of the subject which will help petroleum engineers to handle the erosion problems in oil and gas industry. This review is given of different erosion mechanisms connected with sand erosion and the factors that influence them, and then the review goes on to look at particulate erosion in elbows in more details. Conclusions are then drawn based on the above analyses.

VARIABILITY OF ORE MINERALIZATION IN THE NORTH-WEST-TRENDING EXTENSIONOF THE LUBIN–SIEROSZOWICE DEPOSIT

2017 ◽  
pp. 109-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sławomir OSZCZEPALSKI ◽  
Andrzej CHMIELEWSKI ◽  
Stanisław SPECZIK
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Core Material ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Sulphide Mineralization ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Ore Mineralization ◽  
Exploration Drilling ◽  
Drill Holes

The Polish Geological Institute – NRI has conducted investigations of the Kupferschiefer series since 1957, when the giant sediment-hosted stratiform Cu-Ag ore deposit was discovered in the central part of the Fore-Sudetic Monocline. Until 1991, a number of drilling programs were completed by PGI-NRI and later research has been focusing mainly on cooperation with oil and gas industry and their core material. Over the last few years, thanks to systematic examination of the drill holes located in the north-western extension, many prospective areas have been recognized and delineated. These prospects are located between Lubin-Sieroszowice deposit and the eastern part of the Zielona Góra oxidized field. In the Kożuchów area, the lower part of Zechstein copper-bearing series contain only relict sulphide mineralization accompanied by iron oxides while reduced rocks with metal sulphides occur in the uppermost part of Zechstein Limestone or at the base of Lower Anhydrite. Grochowice area, where reduced facies prevail in copper-bearing series, is characterized by the predomination of rich Cu-Ag mineralization proximaly to oxidized area. The western part of studied area is dominated by Cu-S type sulphides (chalcocite, digenite, covellite) whereas the eastern part is represented by Cu-Fe-S type minerals (bornite, chalcopyrite) with high galena and sphalerite concentrations. The spatial variability of sulphide mineralization with respect to the oxidized rocks indicates that Bytom Odrzański deposit extends in the north-west direction, continuing in the form of a copper belt along the eastern border of the oxidized area. An extensive deep exploration drilling program is implemented to verify the resource potential within predicted copper belt.

scholarly journals Late Cretaceous basin development of the southern Danish Central Graben

1969 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Finn Jakobsen ◽  
Claus Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Seismic Inversion ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Oil Accumulation ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Basin Development

The Danish oil and gas production mainly comes from fields with chalk reservoirs of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and early Paleocene (Danian) ages located in the southern part of the Danish Central Graben in the North Sea. The area is mature with respect to exploration with most chalk fields located in structural traps known since the 1970s. However, the discovery by Mærsk Oil and Gas A/S of the large nonstructurally and dynamically trapped oil accumulation of the Halfdan Field in 1999 north-west of the Dan Field (e.g. Albrechtsen et al. 2001) triggered renewed exploration interest. This led to acquisition of new high quality 3-D seismic data that considerably enhanced imaging of different depositional features within the Chalk Group. Parallel to the endeavours by the operator to locate additional non-structural traps in porous chalk, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland took advantage of the new data to unravel basin development by combining 3-D seismic interpretation of a large number of seismic markers, well log correlations and 2-D seismic inversion for prediction of the distribution of porous intervals in the Chalk Group. Part of this study is presented by Abramovitz et al. (in press). In the present paper we focus on aspects of the general structural development during the Late Cretaceous as illustrated by semi-regional time-isochore maps. The Chalk Group has been divided into two seismically mappable units (a Cenomanian–Campanian lower Chalk Unit and a Maastrichtian–Danian upper Chalk Unit) separated by a distinct basin-wide unconformity.

scholarly journals Utah

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Burghardt ◽  
Gage Hart Zobell
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Crude Oil Production

Oil and gas production continues to be an important sector of Utah’s economy. Following a 25% loss in production between 2014 and 2015, Utah’s production continues to slowly rebound. Crude oil production in 2019 appears to be slightly ahead of 2018 production. Monthly production averages slightly over three million barrels, placing Utah among the top ten states in crude oil production. Along with the continuing increase in production, the state’s legal framework governing oil and gas continues to develop. This Article examines recent changes in Utah statutes and regulations along with new case law developments involving the oil and gas industry. In particular, this Article discusses a recent federal bankruptcy decision involving midstream agreements, the revision to a Utah statute that now requires mandatory reporting of unclaimed mineral interests, and recent revisions to Utah’s oil and gas regulations.

scholarly journals Design of inductors for the installation of induction soldering of pipeline joints in the oil and gas industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 2094 (4) ◽  
pp. 042017
Author(s):  
A O Stupin ◽  
D V Rogova ◽  
E A Nozdrenko ◽  
V V Kukartsev ◽  
A I Cherepanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Schematic Diagram ◽  
Mathematical Apparatus ◽  
Gas Pipelines ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Induction Brazing ◽  
Oil And Gas Pipelines

Abstract The article discusses the use of induction brazing for connecting oil and gas pipelines. The rationale for the choice of induction brazing in the oil and gas industry is considered. The work calculates the main parameters of the inductor. On the basis of calculations, using a mathematical apparatus, a schematic diagram of an inductor with a diameter of 90 mm is created for installing induction soldering. It is proposed to use and develop inductors of various diameters (60, 90 and 135 mm) to create an induction unit that allows connecting pipelines of oil and gas equipment in order to increase the reliability of equipment and the efficiency of oil and gas production and processing.

scholarly journals LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FEATURES OF THE ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY OF OIL AND GAS SPHERE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 164-168
Author(s):  
Mariana Shtohryn ◽  
Myroslava Muchka
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Process Equipment ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Heterogeneous Model ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Semantic Categories

The lexical-semantic features of the English terms of oil and gas sphere are considered. Attention is drawn to the phraseological and metaphorical features that are characteristic of the terms of the oil and gas industry. It has been revealed that English oil and gas terminology is built on a heterogeneous model, that is, the result of the interaction of several areas of human knowledge. It includes geological, geophysical, geochemical terms, as well as terms related to drilling, washing, fastening and cementing of oil and gas wells, development of oil and gas fields, underground hydraulics, oil and gas production, processing methods, pipeline terminology, offshore drilling terminology, economic terminology. It is has been found out that the semantic categories of English oil and gas terminology are evidence that the terminology under study reflects a particular sphere of human activity that can be structured in some way by the means of language. In this process, the human factor is important. On the one hand, it is inherent in each of the categories, and serves as a basis for subjectivity in identifying the peculiarities of the content.The semantic categories of English oil and gas terminology are analyzed. These include: Human, Process, Equipment, Substance, Method, and Characteristics. The study showed that among the English oil and gas terms formed by metaphorization, we can distinguish terms conventionally grouped under the following lexical-semantic groups: “Parts of the human body”, “World of animals and birds”, “Clothes”, “Society”, “Cooking”, “Construction”, “Nature”, “Traveling”, “Weapon”, “Tool”, “Geometric figure”, “Hunting”, “Fishing”, “Medicine”, “Furniture” та “Quality”.

scholarly journals Life-Support Model of Supply Systems of Oil and Gas Industry Objects

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 01028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fares Abu-Abed ◽  
Alexey Khabarov
Keyword(s):  
Service Time ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Distribution Functions ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production

At present, repair and diagnostic complexes are being developed for repair of oil and gas production facilities, including control areas for working capacity, diagnosing components used in maintenance stations, as well as areas equipped with the necessary technological equipment, measuring instruments, tools and equipment for carrying out current repair of replacement elements. For maintenance of repair, repair-diagnostic complexes are equipped with means of power supply, sets of spare property and accessories and operational documentation. Repair-diagnostic complexes can be represented using a three-phase multi-channel queuing system. The study of such a system with the distribution functions of the service time of applications different from the exponential makes it difficult to use analytical models. The developed simulation model of the repair and diagnostic complex allows to evaluate the characteristics of its functioning, the most important of which is the average service time of the application in the system, as well as to determine the required number of channels on each site. The developed model can be aggregated into a general model of research into the operation of complex technical systems for supplying oilfield facilities.

DECOMMISSIONING-AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 560
Author(s):  
H.B. Goff
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
North West ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
The North ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Long Term Impact

The traditional planning for decommissioning oil and gas projects has included the option to remove platforms from the project area leaving the site clear for other uses. However, decommissioning presents a number of opportunities for alternative uses for facilities that are relatively close to the coast and in developing areas.This paper examines the potential for the alternative use of facilities on the North West Shelf using the WMC operated Airlie Project as an example.Airlie Island presents an opportunity to conduct a number of research activities which would have the capability to enhance the understanding of the natural environment in the region and to gain better understanding of the long-term impact of the oil and gas industries impact on the natural environment. There is also the supplementary opportunity to conduct engineering research applicable to the oil and gas industry without the distraction and hazards of an operating field to interfere with the research projects. Allied to these possibilities is the potential to conduct research applicable to tourism and fishing related activities which are beginning to exert more pressure and the North West Shelf environment than has been the case in the recent past.In addition to the research opportunities, there exists the potential to manage Airlie Island as a support base for tourism activities on a commercial basis. The example presented could easily be applied to other projects nearing decommissioning.

OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
M. Meaton
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
The State ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Petroleum Companies

The oil and gas production sector in Western Australia has grown dramatically in recent years and now represents the largest resource sector in the State economy. The industry has a very promising future but it faces a number of challenges if it is to achieve its full potential. Its production location in remote parts of the State confers both advantages and disadvantages. Chief among the disadvantages is the challenge of convincing the community and government of the benefits from the industry when many of those benefits are not apparent to the majority of the population. The emphasis in this paper is on economic impacts, social benefits and community attitudes.WA has produced about 820 million barrels of oil and 2000 million barrels of natural gas when gas is calculated in energy equivalent terms. Petroleum energy production has increased dramatically over the last 15 years and the State is now a substantial energy exporter. Petroleum sources provide the energy for over 85% of the final energy used in the State. Total industry investment over the last 18 years has been nearly $21,000 million for an average of $3.2 million each day. Direct employment by petroleum companies is around 2,500 people with flow-on employment in the services sector estimated at over 17,000 people. Petroleum companies have been major contributors to government revenue and to the development of remote regions in WA.

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