Horizontal Directional Drilling Application in a Wide River Crossing in the Amazon Rain Forest

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robson Santana Nóbrega Alves ◽  
Byron Gonçalves de Souza Filho
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Amazon Forest ◽  
Directional Drilling ◽  
Horizontal Directional Drilling ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline ◽  
Single Well

Horizontal Directional Drilling, as known as HDD, is a method of construction that requires few trenches or no continuous trenches, used for making crossings under rivers, roads and existing structures. In the oil and gas industry, it is most commonly used in offshore and onshore well drilling activities to better explore the reservoir from a single well. It is also very much used when laying pipelines, where no other feasible option is possible. This technology was widely applied in the Urucu-Manaus natural-gas pipeline construction by Petrobras, and Transpetro has been responsible for the operation and maintenance of this pipeline since November 2009, flowing Natural Gas from the heart of the Amazon forest mainly to the growing market of thermoelectric plants. Due to its extension in the forest, the crossing of numerous wide navigable rivers and other natural obstacles was unavoidable, and no other construction methods were more suitable than the HDD technology. This work shows the application of this method in the 1777m long crossing of the Solimões River during the construction of this 662km Natural Gas pipeline. It also shows the challenges faced due to the logistical adversities in the rainforest, as well as the operations by Transpetro.

Research on the Consequence Assessment System of Natural Gas Pipeline Leakage Accidents

2013 ◽  
Vol 295-298 ◽  
pp. 744-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Qun Wang ◽  
Jian She Chai ◽  
Wei Wei Niu
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Diffusion ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Emergency Rescue ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline ◽  
Space Data

With the rapid oil and gas industry development, the city gas pipeline has become a necessary infrastructure of the modern city. The Pipe leakage emergency rescue often involving multiple people and departments at all levels, also a large number of geographical space data for piping around. The Geographic Information System (GIS) has many advantages that it can conduct spatial data management, data visualization, analysis, simulation, and integrating with other systems. The main study line is simulating the gas diffusion, firing and exposing, once leaking, researching to the establishment of accident prevention, reducing damage caused by an accident emergency rescue system of city natural gas pipeline. The system can make a visual show of the assessment area of accident consequence with different grades through inputting physical and chemical parameters of natural gas, initial state of gas leakage and weather conditions.

The Oil and Gas National Master Stations of Transpetro: Design and Implementation

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Mackie ◽  
Paulo de Tarso Arruda Correia ◽  
Alberto Mitsuya Shinzato ◽  
Julio Cesar Barreto Venancio
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Implementation Strategy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline ◽  
Scada Systems ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
Master Station

This paper presents the design and implementation of Transpetro’s national master station project for oil and natural gas. The national master stations allow the centralized operation of Transpetro’s entire liquid and natural gas pipeline grid from their new headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The implementation strategy includes transferring operations of the existing regional master stations — four for oil and two for gas — to the national master. Two of the regional masters are maintained as backups for the oil and gas national master stations, respectively. The project foresees the total deactivation of the existing regional master stations as their operations are migrated to the national master. The national master stations complement Transpetro’s integrated oil and gas SCADA systems.

scholarly journals COST – BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR NIGERIAN NATURAL GAS PIPELINE INVESTMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Gift Nwabueze ◽  
Joel Ogbonna ◽  
Chijioke Nwaozuzu
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Transport Cost ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Present Value ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline

This paper performs cost-benefit analysis of a pipeline infrastructure project based on a given natural gas demand in order to estimate the net present value and payback time for natural gas pipeline investment in Nigeria. The result of the cost-benefit analysis indicates a positive net revenue and net present value (NPV) at the current regulated transport cost and availability factor for gas pipelines in Nigeria. However, with a payback period of 14 years, a natural gas pipeline project in Nigeria is likely to lose-out investment capital to other competing investments within the oil and gas sector. Scenario analysis indicates that by doubling the regulated transport cost with a 50% tax reduction, the pipeline investment results in a much higher NPV and a payback of 4 years, which is more acceptable to investors.

Energy tussles ahead as Canada's governments shift

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Gas Pipelines ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relative Ease ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline ◽  
Oil And Gas Pipelines

Significance He has pledged to revive Alberta's energy sector, build oil and gas pipelines to allow global energy exports and repeal Alberta's carbon tax, among other pro-business promises. Impacts Automation and consolidation will reduce the number of jobs in Canada's energy industries. The GNL Quebec natural gas pipeline will be built with relative ease, aiding the Quebec and Alberta economies. British Columbia's government will push back against the Trans Mountain pipeline extension, likely to be approved by end-May.

scholarly journals Economic and Strategic Expectations of Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Nuri Aras ◽  
Elchin Suleymanov ◽  
Fakhri Hasanov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Oil Pipeline ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline ◽  
Pipeline Project

The Republic of Azerbaijan is one of the oil and gas rich countries of the former Soviet Union. After the second stage of the Shah Deniz gas field, natural gas extraction and exportation became one of the key elements of Azerbaijan’s oil and gas strategy. Diversification of the oil and gas transportation has a great importance in Azerbaijan’s energy security policy and in this regard, TANAP is an important project after Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. TANAP is a proposed natural gas pipeline project to transport Azerbaijani natural gas through Turkey to Europe in two directions. The project was firstly announced on 17 November 2011 at the Third Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum in Istanbul. It was launched in 2014 and will be expected to finish in 2018. TANAP will cost seven billion USD and will have the capacity of 23 billion cubic meters by 2023 and 31 billion cubic meters by 2026. This paper analyzes expected strategic and economic outcomes of TANAP.

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