Biodiversity offsetting: implications for the oil and gas industry in Australia

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Toivo Zoete
Keyword(s):  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Licence To Operate ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Social Licence To Operate

Energy and infrastructure developments often involve or traverse extensive tracts of land that are frequently covered with stands of native vegetation, providing habitat to a range of different plant and animal species. The biodiversity (biological diversity) contained in these stands is the subject of several pieces of legislation in Australia that place restrictions and conditions on those whose activities interfere with this biodiversity. Social licence to operate is another motivation for development organisations to tread softly when it comes to preparing for activities within these zones. With sound and early planning, much interference can be prevented, but sometimes it is unavoidable and measures will need to be developed to address the resulting impacts. Offsetting is one form of measure available to conserve biodiversity when all other options fail, although it can also be used in addition to other measures. Offsetting allows for actions to be taken by developers to compensate for adverse impacts of their developments. Several policies have been released outlining State and Commonwealth positions on biodiversity offsetting in the last few years. When seeking approvals, energy and infrastructure development organisations need to plan ahead according to these policies. To this purpose, this paper outlines the various policy frameworks that exist for biodiversity offsetting across Australia. Implications for the oil and gas industry are provided. The industry has several characteristics that allow it to take advantage of the new policies, which are discussed. Among these are the ready access to land for offsets and, in the case of the coal seam gas industry, the availability of water to kick-start the creation or restoration of biodiversity on land that was previously cleared.

Galvanising the opposition: social media campaigns and the new risks for the oil and gas industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 448
Author(s):  
Robyn Glindemann
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
The North ◽  
Licence To Operate ◽  
Social Licence To Operate ◽  
Great Australian Bight

Globally, the oil and gas industry has been at the forefront of social licence to operate issues for over 20 years: from Brent Spar in the North Sea in the mid-1990s to the Greenpeace-led Lego campaign in 2014. However, the increasing demand from stakeholders for transparency from both companies and regulators, combined with the use of social media platforms to bring disparate groups of people together and globally disseminate information, has created new issues and risks for the industry to manage, often within compressed timeframes. To date, the focus of environmental groups has been on exploration activity in the oil and gas sector. The formation of the Great Australian Bight Alliance to oppose the development of resources in the Great Australian Bight, the Wilderness Society’s freedom of information (FOI) request for BP’s oil spill modelling data (which was the subject of an August 2016 decision from the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal) and the rise of the Lock the Gate Alliance in the context of the onshore gas sector are three examples of mixing traditional protest tactics with social media strategies. Using these and other examples, this paper will discuss the new issues and risks that oil and gas companies and regulators have to address as a consequence of social media being added to the stakeholder arsenal, and consider what new issues may arise in the social licence to operate space as the industry begins to address decommissioning and rehabilitation issues.

Addressing the productivity challenge using a build, own, operate, maintain (BOOM) contracting model

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Geoff Bird ◽  
Rob Radici
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Risk Environments ◽  
Subsequent Phase ◽  
Contracting Model ◽  
Project Lifecycle

Poor productivity is one of the major challenges facing the oil and gas industry in Australia. This is evidenced by significant cost and schedule overruns on every major LNG development during the recent Australian LNG construction boom. In a world where gas is a global commodity that can be easily exported, the consequences of poor productivity mean that investment dollars are directed overseas to lower risk environments to the detriment of resource development in Australia. This extended abstract explores the causes of poor productivity and it argues that one of the principle reasons is a fragmented contracting strategy, which results in the scope being split among different contractors at various phases of the project lifecycle, requiring complex and often inefficient interface management. This combined with little commercial incentive for contractors to minimise cost for the subsequent phase of the project means the responsibility falls with the operator to optimise costs during the project lifecycle. This extended abstract proposes that BOOM commercial model and contracting strategy is one way to address the productivity challenge. This model incentivises the contractor to engineer to reduce construction cost and to construct to minimise operational and maintenance costs by ensuring the contractor has a significant stake. This better aligns the commercial interests of the contractor and operator. This extended abstract also addresses the types of infrastructure development the model is best suited to and some of the critical success factors required to deliver a successful BOOM outcome.

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.

scholarly journals Health and safety in the offshore oil and gas industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (65) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
Liz Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
Safety And Environment

Since the 'Piper Alpha' disaster in 1988 the system of regulating occupational health and safety in the offshore oil and gas industry has been the subject of radical reorganization. During vacation employment in the Safety and Environment Department of a North Sea oil producer during 1993 the difficulties that can arise in identifying a particular regulation or in obtaining a specific document were experienced at first hand. Standard bibliographic tools do not identify sources of health and safety information specific to the industry and it was felt that further guidance would be beneficial.

scholarly journals Innovation-oriented resource management model proposed on the basis of the methodology of economic assessment of resource capabilities of oil and gas industry contractors

2021 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 00010
Author(s):  
Inna Vinokur ◽  
Svetlana Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Scientific Problem ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Economic Justification ◽  
The Subject

The paper presents an innovation-oriented model of resource management, which was built on the basis of the methodology of economic assessment of resource capabilities of contracting companies of the oil and gas industry. Assessment and choice of resource capabilities of contracting companies is the most important scientific problem of large companies and enterprises of the oil and gas industry when purchasing material resources. Currently, the increase in the supply of the same type of resources exacerbates the problem of choice. Thus, a large number of algorithms, methods and other procedures were developed to select organizations that supply resources. However, there are not enough comprehensive tools to assess the feasibility of selecting a supplier taking into account factors that allow evaluating suppliers of a certain industry. The purpose of the study is to create an innovative resource management model based on the methodology of economic justification for choosing resource suppliers for oil and gas enterprises. The object of the study is enterprises and large companies of the oil and gas industry. The subject of the study is effective resource management based on the methodology of economic assessment of the resource capabilities of contracting companies.

scholarly journals Analysis of approaches for creating pipe connections in oil and gas equipment

2021 ◽  
Vol 2094 (4) ◽  
pp. 042012
Author(s):  
K A Bashmur ◽  
V A Kukartsev ◽  
V S Tynchenko ◽  
E G Kravcova ◽  
A V Kuznetsov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Electron Beam Welding ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Patent Review ◽  
Pipe Joints ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Submerged Arc

Abstract The article deals with the problem of connecting pipelines in the oil and gas industry. One of the connection methods is resistance welding. Often, the use of this approach shows muted efficiency as it depends on the qualifications of the welder. A technique for creating flange (plane) connections with a pipe in the oil and gas industry is considered. The necessary equipment and types of welds within the considered area are considered. Thus, it is necessary to conduct a literature-patent review to find an alternative method for creating welded joints in oil and gas pipelines in order to increase the reliability of such joints and reduce the cost of production. The analysis of the subject area and the search for possible solutions to the problem posed were carried out. Various welding methods (manual electric arc, automatic submerged-arc welding, induction brazing, etc.) are considered and a comparison of the main welding methods is given, as well as the rationale for the use of electron beam welding to create such pipe joints.

scholarly journals Design of a system for fastening the pipelines’ elements to be brazed of an automated gas metering unit

2021 ◽  
Vol 2094 (4) ◽  
pp. 042021
Author(s):  
V S Tynchenko ◽  
V A Kukartsev ◽  
N V Kuzmin ◽  
A V Lysyannikov ◽  
S N Katargin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Schematic Diagram ◽  
Contact Reaction ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Basic Diagram ◽  
Measuring Installation ◽  
The Subject

Abstract The article discusses an automated measuring installation, and also analyzes the subject area. Some types of soldering are considered (capillary, diffusion, contact-reaction and others). The choice of induction brazing for the soldering of pipeline elements of an automated gas metering installation has been substantiated. The work presents the installation of induction heating, considering the required technological parameters. Based on this installation, the basic diagram of the Fitting and the schematic diagram of the connecting sleeve were corrected, which will allow the development of a mobile induction installation as well as collapsible inductors. Potential induction equipment and the developed designs can be used to connect pipelines in the oil and gas industry.

Recent Developments in the Law of Interest to Oil and Gas Lawyers

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Robert P. Desbarats ◽  
Lorne W. Carson ◽  
Donald E. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Separate Paper ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
Tax Legislation ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Federal Income Tax ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent developments in the la w which are of interest to lawyers whose practice relates to the oil and gas industry. It deals with both judicial decisions and statutory developments during the last year. Some of the cases discussed do not pertain directly to the oil and gas industry. These cases have been included either because they involve situations analogous to those which occur frequently in the oil and gas business or because they concern principles of law which are applicable to that industry. In order to place some limit on the scope of the paper, only federal and Alberta legislative developments are reported. In addition, we have not discussed federal income tax legislation, which is the subject of a separate paper delivered at this year's conference. The review of the legislation is effective as of May 1, 1985.**

scholarly journals MODERN STATE AND ROLE OF TAX RECEIPTS FROM OIL INDUSTRY IN FORMING OF PROFITABLE PART OF FEDERAL BUDGET OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
Elena N Gorbunova ◽  
Tatiana V Psuk
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
The Subject

Oil and gas industry has a strategic value for forming of profitable part of the budgetary system. Taxation of booty of oil in our country was and remains the subject of special discussion. During a long period the Russian legislation concerning taxation in oil industry was aimed to provide at any cost a due level of tax receipts in the budget of Russian Federation. In this connection, the article reveals the content of the tax system in oil industry and opens up estimation of consequences of its changes during the last years. The special attention is spared to the analysis of receipts of taxes from oil industry in the budget of Russian Federation. An author draws conclusion, that for providing continuous and stable stream of tax receipts in the budget of Russian Federation it is necessary to perfect the system of taxation in oil industry.

scholarly journals Applications of Diamond to Improve Tribological Performance in the Oil and Gas Industry

Lubricants ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Adhesive Wear ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
High Hardness ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Mechanical Seals ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Drill Bits ◽  
Attractive Option ◽  
The Subject

The use of diamond in tribological applications in the oil and gas industry is reviewed. The high hardness, strength, and corrosion resistance of diamond make it an attractive option for components that are susceptible to degradation by abrasive, erosive, or adhesive wear; such components may also be prone to corrosion owing to the nature of the environments to which they are often exposed. Applications such as drill bits, bearings, and mechanical seals benefit from the use of diamond, while choke valves are the subject of research programs to assess the suitability of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond for these components. Also discussed are some of the conditions experienced by the components and how the properties of diamond enhance their operating lives.

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