scholarly journals Estimating the Potential of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Use in the Oil and Gas Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-355
Author(s):  
Anastasia D. Anikaeva ◽  
◽  
Dmitry A. Martyushev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Erdas Imagine

The relevance of the study is explained by the need to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to serve engineering and geodetic tasks in the oil and gas industry. Airborne photographic survey using unmanned aerial vehicles is currently an advanced technology in the area of geodesy and it replaces such methods as tacheometry, satellite-based positioning in RTK modes, manned aerial photography, and aiborne laser scanning (ALS). The potential for using UAVs in the oil and gas industry today is truly enormous. Numerous safety and reliability problems, which traditionally have been cost consuming for oil and gas companies, can be effectively addressed using UAVs. The study included processing of data obtained from the unmanned complex in three modern software packages (Agisoft Photoscan Professional, v 1.2.5.2594 (Russia), ERDAS IMAGINE, v 2015 (USA) and Pix4Dmapper Pro (Switzerland)) of various automation degrees; assessment of accuracy in ArcMap software by superimposing a topographic plan on an orthomosaic with a scale of 1: 500 on the territory under consideration; calculation of economic and labor costs. As part of the study, it was proved that the use of UAVs was possible not only for the geodetic work, but also for solving other equally important tasks of the oil and gas industry, which leads to a decrease in economic and environmental risks, automation of processes related to monitoring of oil facilities, prevention of illegal attempts of pipeline tie-ins, oil spills. In addition, based on the obtained orthophotomaps, the economic, accuracy and labor-time feasibility of using unmanned systems were confirmed. It has been established that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in various fields of oil and gas activities for solving engineering and geodetic problems is an integral part of any company engaged in the production and transportation of hydrocarbons.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES IN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

2015 ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
O. V. Smirnov ◽  
S. V. Vorobjeva ◽  
D. G. Mitrofanov ◽  
D. A. Mayorov ◽  
A. V. Safonov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Pulse Technique ◽  
Aerial Vehicles

In the article some issues of application of pilotless flying vehicles in oil and gas industry are reviewed. It is shown that such vehicles flight can be optimized by using the pulse technique and radiolocation.

Offshore Oil Spill Incidents: Creating a Database in Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Patricia Maggi ◽  
Cláudia do Rosário Vaz Morgado ◽  
João Carlos Nóbrega de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Guanabara Bay ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Offshore Oil

ABSTRACT Brazil has performed an important role in the oil and gas industry mainly because its offshore E&P activities. The volume of oil produced in offshore fields had increased 88% in the last decade and correspond to more than 90% of national production. The maritime Exploration and Production (E&P) operations in Brazil started in the middle of the 1970's. In 1981 a law was promulgated to establish a compulsory environmental permit to many activities, including oil and gas exploration and production activities. Although this regulation has existed for over 25 years, only in 1999 was it effectively brought into force to the E&P sector, with the creation of the oil and gas specialized office integrated to the Intituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis – IBAMA (Brazilian Federal Environmental Agency). On January 2000 Brazil faced one its worst oil spills, in Guanabara Bay. A broken pipeline owned and operated by Petrobras spilt 1300 tone of bunker fuel into Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. At that time, Brazil had no clear environmental scenario regarding the oil industry in Brazil: uncoordinated environmental regulations, debilitated environmental agencies and a relapse industry took part in the scenario. As a result of the repercussion of the disaster, in the same year was enacted the Federal Law 9966/2000, the so called “Oil Law”, on the prevention, control and inspection of pollution caused by the releasing of oil and other harmful substances in waters under national jurisdiction. The provisions of the Law 9966 included, among other things, the requirement for the notification to the competent environmental authority, the maritime authority and the oil regulating agency, of any incident which might cause water pollution. Although IBAMA receives the oil spill communications since 2001, only in 2010 the Agency began to include this information in a database. This paper discusses the offshore oil spill data received between 2010 and 2012.

scholarly journals Generating topographic plans of oil and gas industry depending on a surveying method

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 447-483
Author(s):  
Maxim Altyntsev ◽  
Marina Altyntseva
Keyword(s):  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Classical Method ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Topographic Survey ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Field Works ◽  
Processing Techniques

The territories of oil and gas deposits are represented with complicated and diverse industrial objects. During their operation and building of new constructions it is necessary to conduct topographic survey. Various methods are used for this purpose. The selection of these methods is determined by the degree of area build-up, its size and scale of the topographic plan being created. Aerial methods of topographic surveys are relevant when mapping large territories. Terrestrial methods are used more often when surveying oil and gas objects. Among terrestrial methods classically are accepted tacheometrical survey and GNNS measurements. Terrestrial and mobile laser scanning currently gained great popularity. Introduction of laser scanning methods allowed users to significantly speed up field works keeping high accuracy of obtained data. The advantages of laser scanning application comparing to classical methods when surveying oil and gas deposits are described. It is discussed what cases of classical method application can be more preferable. To cover all the bases the description is provided on the basis of 3 deposit parts, which are different in the degree of area build-up and have different requirements for topographic plan creation as follows: scale, need to input semantic information, a format of representing the result. Introduction of new survey methods requires developing appropriate data processing techniques. As a rule, each new survey territory has its own features which should be taken into account when developing new techniques. The techniques for creating topographic plans using terrestrial laser scanning, mobile one and GNNS measurements are described.

scholarly journals Rice Husk Use In Oil Spills Demonstrated With Cod And Phytotoxicity Tests

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Leticia Alves Goulart ◽  
Rômulo Henrique Batista de Faria ◽  
Larissa Loebens ◽  
Louise Hoss ◽  
Maurízio Silveira Quadro
Keyword(s):  
Rice Husk ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Lubricating Oil ◽  
Basic Medium ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Acid And Base ◽  
Object Of Study

Abstract Motivated to develop faster and faster contemporary society has been using more and more fossil and energy resources that can, unfortunately, cause environmental accidents. Petroleum is responsible for providing different products derived as lubricating oil widely used in different production chains and object of study of the work in question. Many environmental problems faced by the Oil and Gas Industry are associated with leaks, accidents and irregular discharges. Thus an alternative for cleaning and adsorption of oil spilled in the sea is presented the validity in this article: the rice husk, being the main objective of this article to prove its effectiveness with lubricant oil adsorbent. It was used as a low cost alternative adsorbent. Performing physical order treatments such as heating and using acid and base that could increase their efficiency. Some COD and Fitoxicity tests of the generated effluent were performed and analyzed during the work, generating excellent results related to the adsorption of lubricating oils, showing a total adsorption of 6.15 g / g when treated in basic medium and 4.7 g / g in acid medium.

scholarly journals Inter- and Intra-Annual Bacterioplankton Community Patterns in a Deepwater Sub-Arctic Region: Persistent High Background Abundance of Putative Oil Degraders

mBio ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelina G. Angelova ◽  
Barbara Berx ◽  
Eileen Bresnan ◽  
Samantha B. Joye ◽  
Andrew Free ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Water Masses ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Bacterioplankton Community ◽  
Degrading Bacteria

ABSTRACT Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria naturally degrade and remove petroleum pollutants, yet baselines do not currently exist for these critical microorganisms in many regions where the oil and gas industry is active. Furthermore, understanding how a baseline community changes across the seasons and its potential to respond to an oil spill event are prerequisites for predicting their response to elevated hydrocarbon exposures. In this study, 16S rRNA gene-based profiling was used to assess the spatiotemporal variability of baseline bacterioplankton community composition in the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC), a deepwater sub-Arctic region where the oil and gas industry has been active for the last 40 years. Over a period of 2 years, we captured the diversity of the bacterioplankton community within distinct water masses (defined by their temperature and salinity) that have a distinct geographic origin (Atlantic or Nordic), depth, and direction of flow. We demonstrate that bacterioplankton communities were significantly different across water samples of contrasting origin and depth. Taxa of known hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria were observed at higher-than-anticipated abundances in water masses originating in the Nordic Seas, suggesting these organisms are sustained by an unconfirmed source of oil input in that region. In the event of an oil spill, our results suggest that the response of these organisms is severely hindered by the low temperatures and nutrient levels that are typical for the FSC. IMPORTANCE Oil spills at sea are one of the most disastrous anthropogenic pollution events, with the Deepwater Horizon spill providing a testament to how profoundly the health of marine ecosystems and the livelihood of its coastal inhabitants can be severely impacted by spilled oil. The fate of oil in the environment is largely dictated by the presence and activities of natural communities of oil-degrading bacteria. While a significant effort was made to monitor and track the microbial response and degradation of the oil in the water column in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill, the lack of baseline data on the microbiology of the Gulf of Mexico confounded scientists’ abilities to provide an accurate assessment of how the system responded relative to prespill conditions. This data gap highlights the need for long-term microbial ocean observatories in regions at high risk of oil spills. Here, we provide the first microbiological baseline established for a subarctic region experiencing high oil and gas industry activity, the northeast Atlantic, but with no apparent oil seepage or spillage. We also explore the presence, relative abundances, and seasonal dynamics of indigenous hydrocarbon-degrading communities. These data will advance the development of models to predict the behavior of such organisms in the event of a major oil spill in this region and potentially impact bioremediation strategies by enhancing the activities of these organisms in breaking down the oil.

PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN PREDICTIVE OCEANOGRAPHY OF BENEFIT TO THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 799
Author(s):  
Kerry Black
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Ocean Circulation ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Produced Water ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Biological Responses

With improvements in equipment, satellite observations and basic knowledge, oceanographers are becoming more effective in predicting or hindcasting coastal and ocean circulation. Advantages which lead to better environmental outcomes for the oil and gas industry which arise from some of these improvements are discussed with case studies drawn from the Great Barrier Reef and Bass Strait. New developments in knowledge are particularly relevant to issues such as dispersal of produced water, oil spill modelling and environmental impact assessment, including a better understanding of the links between physical processes and biological responses. The case studies form part of a comprehensive hydrodynamic database developed on behalf of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority for an effective numerical modelling response to oil spills.

Dichotomising compulsory land acquisition and land contamination valuations

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-288
Author(s):  
Victor A. Akujuru ◽  
Les Ruddock
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Valuation Methods ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The Government

Purpose – This study aims at identifying the consequences of adopting statutory rather than market basis in assessing damages due to contamination to land. Most valuations undertaken to assess compensation for damages due to contamination on land are done with valuation methods prescribed by law for the compulsory acquisition of land. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 80 registered valuation firms with experience in both compulsory acquisition and damage assessment participated in a questionnaire survey to ascertain the methods adopted in valuing when determining the compensation payable as damages due to land contamination and the need for a framework for such valuations, in addition to some archival documents relating to the relevant laws and some purposively selected valuation reports, which were reviewed. Findings – The results of the analysis indicate that the use of compulsory acquisition valuation methods results in inadequate damages, which engenders conflicts among the stakeholders. The absence of any framework for damage assessment is responsible for the current practice in the Niger Delta, and it is recommended that international best practices utilising market basis of valuation be adopted. Research limitations/implications – Most valuation methods available are useful for valuing commercial properties regularly traded in the market and not applicable to the Niger Delta, which is mostly rural with very few market transactions. It is expected that this study will enable oil and gas industry operators, professional valuers advising the land owners or operators in the industry and the government to differentiate compensation paid for compulsory acquisition and compensation required to placate those suffering losses due to contamination. Practical implications – The findings will assist professional valuers to be more professional in valuing contaminated land devastated by oil spills. Social implications – Adopting the findings will engender a greater acceptability of the results of valuations undertaken in the wake of an oil spillage disaster and ensure a peaceful environment for the oil operators and the entire populace. Originality/value – The findings of this study are expected to assist policymakers in emerging economies and professional valuers acting in these environments to avoid precipitating crises by adopting inappropriate valuation techniques when assessing damages due to contamination. This study is original and has not been published elsewhere.

scholarly journals Legal Liability in the Canadian Arctic Relating to Oil Spills and Blowouts

1972 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 440
Author(s):  
D. E. Lewis, Q.C.
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Legal Liability ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Property Damage ◽  
Gas Industry

There is an ever-increasing concern in today's society about problems arising from pollution, but issues of liability for and prevention of pollution in the Arctic are particularly acute. This article discusses the pollution problems of the oil and gas industry in the Arctic with respect to liability for oil spills and blowouts. The article considers possible common law and statutory liability for personal injuries and property damage caused by blowouts and oil spills that may occur both on and off shore. The article concludes with) discussion of the special problems of foreseeability of damage in the Arctic.

scholarly journals Monitoring of Technogenic Destructions of Oil and Gas Facili-ties using 3D Laser Scanning

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Olga Aleksandrovna Gubanova ◽  
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lovchikov ◽  
Aleksey Vladimirovich Mironchev ◽  
Iliya Danilovich Cheshko ◽  
Alexander Sergeevich Krutolapov
Keyword(s):  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Measurement Methods ◽  
3D Laser Scanning ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Complex Engineering ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Equipment Application ◽  
Modern Instrumentation

This article discusses application of 3D laser scanning aimed at assessment of consequences of destructions resulted from fires and other technogenic disasters of oil and gas facilities. Deformations of structures and equipment as a consequence of emergencies sometimes cannot be detected visually. It is required to apply modern instrumentation to determine deviations from designed parameters. In addition, after disasters it is required to determine the scope of loss and faults of equipment. Application of 3D laser scanning makes it possible to estimate both availability of buildings and equipment for further operation and the scope of destructions at complex engineering facilities of oil and gas industry. Laser scanning makes it possible to reduce significantly time required for examination and data processing in comparison with other measurement methods.   

scholarly journals EVALUASI SISTEM SMALL SCALE ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT BP INDONESIA

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Nerisa Pitrasari ◽  
Nuryani Nuryani ◽  
Tony Pribadi ◽  
Edi Abdurrachman
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Electronic Procurement ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Procurement System

Along with the development of increasingly advanced technology, industrial companies under pressure of increased competition. One of the efforts is to improve business processes through procurement, in which there is the process of purchasing and inventory control. For the procurement performance, many companies are turning to e-procurement, a procurement transaction application of technology-based information which can reduce administrative activities, purchase and invoice process. As a multinational company engaged in the oil and gas industry, BP Indonesia implementing e-Procurement with two systems, namely the procurement card (pro-card) and e-bidding with Small Scale Electronic Procurement System (SSEP). The purpose of this study is to analyze and SSEP monitoring system, which in turn evaluate the system in terms of user satisfaction, so it can be things that need to be improved to increase user satisfaction. This study uses data collection by distributing questionnaires to vendors BP Indonesia using the SSEP system. The collected data will be analyzed by paired t-test and analysis of performance expectations. From the results of this study showed that SSEP system is running well but the performance should be improved with new innovations.

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