Who will man the rigs when we go?” transnational demographic fever dreams between Qatar and Texas

2022 ◽  
pp. 239965442110632
Author(s):  
Danya Al-Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Land Grant University ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Fossil Fuel Industry ◽  
Fuel Industry ◽  
The University ◽  
The Military

The educational project of producing engineers in Qatar is uniquely embedded in global capitalism, particularly as a field closely tied to the development of the oil and gas industry, the military and logistics spaces across the Gulf. Over the past two decades, U.S. universities based in the region have become significant spaces where new generations of managerial engineering labor are educated. Drawing on 18 months of institutional ethnographic research, I examine Texas A&M University at Qatar’s (TAMUQ) role in managing the gender demographics of Qatari engineering labor and the experiences of students navigating these institutional mechanisms. The increasing number of women studying at Texas A&M’s engineering branch campus are publicly celebrated by the university as the embodiment of progress in Qatar. At the same time, TAMUQ has worked to mitigate the feminization of engineering through outreach activities that present engineering as a masculine patriotic endeavor. To unpack these contradictory tendencies, I build on the feminist concept of “demographic fever dreams.” Through an examination of contradictory population-based anxieties about Qatari engineering students, I argue that a U.S. land-grant university is a participant and driver of fantasies and fears regarding the future of racialized and gendered labor hierarchies and fossil-fueled capitalism in the Gulf. In doing so, this article offers a grounded feminist intervention to examine the connections between transnational education, U.S. hegemony, and the fossil fuel industry.

Three-Dimensional Multibody Tracked Vehicle Modeling and Simulation

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corina Sandu ◽  
Jeffrey S. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Vehicle Model ◽  
Road Vehicles ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Tracked Vehicles ◽  
Applied Forces ◽  
The Military ◽  
Recursive Dynamics

Off-road vehicles have broad areas of application (in agriculture, in the construction industry, in the transport industry, in the military, in the U.S. space programs, in the oil and gas industry). A large segment of the off-road vehicles is made up by the tracked vehicles. The purpose of this study is to develop and implement an independent vehicle model. The vehicle model is general, in the sense that it is not restricted to a specific vehicle; it can model vehicles with varying numbers of road wheels, or different suspension characteristics It can be used, together with a track model, to analyze several types of tracked vehicles. A recursive dynamics formulation approach is used to model the vehicle. All the computations are performed in relative coordinates. The kinematic formulation of the model is presented, as well as the dynamic analysis, including the external and the internal applied forces. Dynamic settling simulations of the vehicle model on several types of soil are presented. The vehicle model presented in this study serves as a support, to help testing and comparing different track models and track-terrain interaction formulations.

Cybersecurity: The Forever Problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (07) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Blake Wright
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University

The oil and gas business has become as much about bytes as barrels in recent years. Artificial intelligence, the internet of things (IoT), big data, and the ongoing digitization of the industry have not only made it a more-efficient machine but also a target to unscrupulous sorts looking to confound, cash in, and move on. As more information comes forward regarding the May 2021 ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, it appears to have been a cash grab with the knock-on effect of physically crippling the company’s flow of fuel to East Coast states. The outage was never the goal, but what it if had been? That question, or one similar, was part of what got the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) involved and the subsequent announcement of a Security Directive that will require critical-pipeline owners and operators to report confirmed and potential cybersecurity incidents to the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and to designate a cybersecurity coordinator, to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It will also require critical-pipeline owners and operators to review their current practices as well as to identify any gaps and related remediation measures to address cyber-related risks and report the results to the Transportation Security Administration and CISA within 30 days. The bad guys made off with over $4 million in the Colonial attack; however, the US Department of Justice was able to recover about $2.3 million in the cryptocurrency paid by the pipeline operator. But the Colonial breach wasn’t a first for the oil and gas industry, and it certainly won’t be the last. As more of the oil field comes online, it creates additional access points for would-be villains to pounce. What makes the cybersecurity threat unique compared to other obstacles in the industry is that it is likely unsolvable, only manageable. “This will likely be a forever problem,” said Donald Paul, research professor of engineering at the University of Southern California and former CTO at Chevron. “It’s not like you can do something and fix it all, because ultimately, as the technology changes, as you add more digital systems, more vulnerabilities show up, and then the bad guys figure out how to crack them. It’s an ongoing process.”

scholarly journals Make Fossil Fuels Great Again? The Paris Agreement, Trump, and the US Fossil Fuel Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Lukas Hermwille ◽  
Lisa Sanderink
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
International Governance ◽  
Fossil Fuel Industry ◽  
Fuel Industry ◽  
Climate And Energy Policy

Theoretical advances suggest that international governance in general and the Paris Agreement in particular provide a strong signal guiding sociotechnical systems toward decarbonization. We assess this signal and its effects empirically, by examining the struggle of competing narratives as present in the communications of leading US fossil fuel industry associations and companies. The results are then discussed in the context of the national and international climate and energy policy debates in a study period from late 2014 until the announcement of withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in June 2017. We find that the Paris Agreement has institutionalized a narrative paradigm that is surprisingly resilient. While the election of Donald Trump and his climate and energy policy led to a narrative shift in the coal industry, the oil and gas industry remained conspicuously silent in its immediate response and maintained its narrative strategies despite its alignment with the Paris Agreement.

The Development of Student Professional Competence in the Field of Modeling Technological Processes in the Oil and Gas Industry Based on Computer Mathematics

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 4755-4761
Author(s):  
Anatoly Kozlov ◽  
Svetlana Lapteva ◽  
Tatyana Shevnina
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Mathematical Software ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Technological Processes ◽  
Equipment Operation

The purpose of the study is to improve the professional competence of students in the field of modeling technological processes in the oil and gas industry and performing strength calculations of the oil and gas equipment operation based on mathematical software (MathCAD). The research relies on the analysis of scientific and educational literature, generalization of the experience of specialized universities, comparative analysis of teaching methods used in the area, as well as a pedagogical experiment, which confirmed the effectiveness of the results achieved. The study resulted in the development of specialized courses (MathCad-based modeling of the technological equipment operation and Modeling of technological processes of the transportation of oil and gas products) based on the formulated mathematical problems for the MathCAD system, which effectively improved the professional competence of students in the field of modeling oil and gas production processes based on computer mathematics. The acquired competences can further contribute to the improvement of academic performance and more effective training of engineering students. The specialized courses and fundamental approaches to the use of mathematical software to facilitate the solution of engineering problems can be widely implemented in the learning process to train specialists in the oil and gas industry and related sectors.

scholarly journals Development of mobile technology for the disposal of oily waste

2021 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 06011
Author(s):  
L.G. Goverdovskaya ◽  
Y.E. Klimavichus ◽  
N.S. Nosarev
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Oil Sludge ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Oily Waste ◽  
Fuel Industry

Currently, one of the key sectors of the Russian Federation is the fuel industry. Oil and gas production is growing annually; in 2018, 555 million tons of oil and 733 billion m3 of gas were produced. The problem of the oil and gas industry is the negative impact on the environment, namely, the activities of oil and gas companies produce dangerous envi-ronmental pollutants, one of which is oil sludge. At the same time, it is a valuable raw material (potential product) that can be used in various indus-tries. Despite the fact that large amounts of oil sludge are formed in specia-lized facilities (barns), the volume of disposal and the degree of their use are low, which leads to the concentration of oily waste in sludge barns. These factors have an anthropogenic impact on the environment, thereby creating a threat to human health.

Deployment of Digital NDT Solutions in the Oil and Gas Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
pp. 861-868
Author(s):  
Casper Wassink ◽  
Marc Grenier ◽  
Oliver Roy ◽  
Neil Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry

What Does Rent Give to Federal Budget (on the Russia's Budget Dependence upon "Oil Dollars")

2004 ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Sharipova ◽  
I. Tcherkashin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Resource Rent ◽  
Tax Legislation ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Government

Federal tax revenues from the main sectors of the Russian economy after the 1998 crisis are examined in the article. Authors present the structure of revenues from these sectors by main taxes for 1999-2003 and prospects for 2004. Emphasis is given to an increasing dependence of budget on revenues from oil and gas industries. The share of proceeds from these sectors has reached 1/3 of total federal revenues. To explain this fact world oil prices dynamics and changes in tax legislation in Russia are considered. Empirical results show strong dependence of budget revenues on oil prices. The analysis of changes in tax legislation in oil and gas industry shows that the government has managed to redistribute resource rent in favor of the state.

The Political Economy of Power: Approaches to the Analysis of Relationships between the State and Business in Russia

2011 ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
A. Oleinik
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Business Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Road ◽  
Ruling Elites

The article deals with the issues of political and economic power as well as their constellation on the market. The theory of public choice and the theory of public contract are confronted with an approach centered on the power triad. If structured in the power triad, interactions among states representatives, businesses with structural advantages and businesses without structural advantages allow capturing administrative rents. The political power of the ruling elites coexists with economic power of certain members of the business community. The situation in the oil and gas industry, the retail trade and the road construction and operation industry in Russia illustrates key moments in the proposed analysis.

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