scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF EXISTING AND JUSTIFICATION OF APPLYING NEW AUTOMATIC SYSTEM FOR FIRE-AND-EXPLOSION PREVENTION AT VESSELS, SHIPS, OFFSHORE OIL PLATFORM

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 50-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. D. Zakhmatov ◽  
S. A. Tursenev ◽  
A. V. Mironchev ◽  
M. V. Chernyshov ◽  
A. V. Ozerov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Automatic System ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Oil Platforms ◽  
Fire Extinguishing ◽  
Offshore Oil Platforms ◽  
Toxic Contamination ◽  
Fire And Explosion ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
Oil And Oil Products

Introduction. A brief analysis of catastrophic fires and explosions on the offshore oil platform, ships and vessels is performed. It’s shown the relevance of the qualitative improvement of marine fire equipment. Analysis of modern fire fighting systems on vessels, ships: sprinkler, deluge, gas and pneumatic-impulse fire extinguishing systems is carried out. It’s substantiated new equipment for upgrading existing systems — subsystems of multi-module pulse, vortex combined quenching for the protection of ships, vessels, tankers, offshore oil platforms. The choice of the arrangement of modules based on the results of polygon tests is described. There are created systems of modules for the upper decks, engine rooms, holds, corridors, gangways, sections, electrical cabinets, etc.The modules create gas-water squalls, gas-powder vortices that extinguish all fires and continuous fires in all or part of the compartment and deck in seconds. The participation of pilot modules in operations for eliminating the consequences of disasters in hard-to-reach zones of collapses, with high levels of radioactive and toxic contamination in emergency locations is described.Description and analysis of experiments. The recommendations on the use of multi-barrel modules based on the analysis of experiments on the creation of fine-dispersed water squalls for extinguishing developed fires of classes A, B, C, F, the inhibition of explosive vapor-air clouds, the deposition and detoxification of gas-air clouds of ammonia and chlorine are substantiated and developed. The localization and liquidation of oil and oil products are described. The possibility of reducing the cost of liquidation of 1 sq m of bottling from $ 20-40 to $ 1-3 is shown, and reducing the time for liquidation of bottles to 5-10 times, which in a more multiple degree will reduce material and environmental losses from oil bottling.Conclusion. The advantages of introducing new technology and techniques for eliminating the consequences of accidents at sea and preventing their development into a catastrophe are summarized.

Fouling assemblages on offshore oil platforms: diverse vertical reefs in the Arabian Gulf

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Range ◽  
Rodrigo Riera ◽  
Mustafa Omerspahic ◽  
Jessica Bouwmeester ◽  
Steffen Sanvig Bach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Oil Platforms ◽  
Offshore Oil Platforms ◽  
Fouling Assemblages ◽  
Offshore Oil

Modelling of methane emissions from offshore oil platforms in the Norwegian sea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio Pisso ◽  
Amy Foulds ◽  
Grant Allen
Keyword(s):  
Radiative Forcing ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Lagrangian Model ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Atmospheric Methane ◽  
Norwegian Sea ◽  
Oil Platforms ◽  
Offshore Oil Platforms ◽  
Offshore Oil

<p>Methane is a major greenhouse gas that has increased since the pre-industrial era and reducing its emissions is potentially an effective way of mitigating the radiative forcing in the short term. The oil & gas industry has a positive contribution to the global atmospheric methane budget with fugitive emissions from infrastructure installations such as offshore oil platforms. As part of the United Nations Climate and Clean Air Coalition (UN CCAC) objective to quantify global CH4 emissions from oil and gas facilities, a series of aircraft campaigns have been carried out in the Norwegian sea among other areas. We report on the Lagrangian modelling activity of the emissions and transport sensitivities used to support the flux assessment. Source identification has been carried out based on backward modelling and has proved useful to interpret observations form the in situ airborne platforms. In addition, forward modelling of the emission plume in high resolution has been applied to constraining the plume height for mass balance methods assessment. Dependency of the resulting uncertainty of the flux estimates on various factors such as the choice of the meteorology and the of the Lagrangian model parameters is also discussed.</p>

Potential invasion of the Gulf of Mexico by Protemblemaria punctata (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae), a cryptobenthic fish endemic to Venezuela

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimmy Argüelles-Jiménez ◽  
Merari Contreras-Juarez ◽  
Eduardo Palacio Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Invasive Species ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Small Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Oil Platforms ◽  
Offshore Oil Platforms ◽  
Viable Population ◽  
Body Sizes ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Offshore Oil

The movement of species to areas outside their native ranges has greatly intensified over the past few decades. However, detecting invasive species often requires detailed and regular surveys, especially for animals with small body sizes. A cryptobenthic fish endemic to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, Protemblemaria punctata (Cervigón, 1966), is reported here from the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, based on the collection of 8 specimens (5 males and 3 females) from Bajo Mersey, a coral reef in the Parque Nacional Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano (PNSAV). The collected specimens were taken from sessile worm tubes that grew on PVC structures previously placed on the reef at a depth of 6 m. The number of P. punctata specimens we collected could indicate that the species has established a viable population on the reefs in the PNSAV. The colonization of P. punctata in the Gulf of Mexico waters may be due to the dispersal of individuals present on offshore oil platforms that are transported from Trinidad to Venezuela and the Gulf of Mexico.

scholarly journals Oceanographic gradients and patterns in invertebrate assemblages on offshore oil platforms

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 851-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry M. Page ◽  
Carolynn S. Culver ◽  
Jenifer E. Dugan ◽  
Brent Mardian
Keyword(s):  
Exotic Species ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Sea Anemones ◽  
Oil Platforms ◽  
Offshore Oil Platforms ◽  
Invertebrate Assemblages ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Channel Patterns ◽  
Offshore Oil

Abstract Page, H. M., Culver, C. S., Dugan, J. E., and Mardian, B. 2008. Oceanographic gradients and patterns in invertebrate assemblages on offshore oil platforms. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 851–861. We explored variability in the composition and cover of subtidal macroinvertebrate assemblages, and the recruitment and growth rates of selected invertebrate species, on seven offshore oil and gas platforms arrayed across a gradient in oceanographic conditions in the Santa Barbara Channel, CA, USA. The major macroinvertebrate taxa (sea anemones, mussels, barnacles, tubiculous amphipods, hydroids, and sponges) were common to all platforms. However, discriminant function analysis (DFA) revealed that the assemblages of two platforms (Gilda and Gail) clearly differed from the other platforms, a pattern attributable, in part, to the presence of conspicuous exotic species (the anemone, Diadumene sp., and encrusting bryozoan, Watersipora subtorquata) on these platforms. If these exotic species were excluded from the analysis, platforms in proximity to each other generally tended to have invertebrate assemblages more similar to each other than to platforms located farther away. Spatial variation in barnacle recruitment onto ceramic plates and mussel growth rate reflected prevailing oceanographic gradients. The existence of along-channel patterns in the composition of platform invertebrate assemblages, and in invertebrate recruitment and growth associated with oceanographic gradients, suggests that assemblages attached to platforms or other artificial structures may be useful barometers of short and perhaps longer term change in ocean climate.

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