Integrating Sustainability into Material Management Practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Maggioni ◽  
Francesca Giliberti ◽  
Emanuele Panunzio
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Linear Process ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Product Management ◽  
Steel Cast ◽  
Buy Back

Abstract Modern Society followed, and it is still largely following, a linear process for natural resources utilization: raw material extraction, goods manufacturing, use/consumption, waste generation. Such a model is proven to be not sustainable because it cannot go forever considering the limited quantity of available resources on Earth but also because of waste and process by-product management. A multitude of diverse initiatives to change this process started at different levels and within several industries in the last years including the O&G sector. Most of these initiatives share the same principle of "regeneration": waste and materials represent, in this view, the "feedback loop" able to make the production process a circular process, instead of an open-end one. Eni promotes and supports different initiatives to implement the principles of a Circular Economy and the objective of this paper is to describe a process implemented within Eni aimed at reducing the footprint of the Oil and Gas Industry with reference to material usage. Surplus and damaged materials are no more treated as waste, but they are re-engineered or re-conditioned (if necessary) in order to be redeployed to other projects within Eni affiliates all around the world. Nowadays this process is well structured and formalized within Eni and it is extensively applied involving all worldwide affiliates, reducing the overall CO2 footprint. Results achieved within Eni, in the last few years, averages between 6,500 and 17,500 ton of steel of material redeployed among Eni's affiliates for a value ranging between 26 and 71 million USD. The overall average result is 23,000 CO2 equivalent ton not released per year and 242,000 GJ of energy saved (ref. to steel manufacturing estimated impact:1.9 ton di CO2/ton steel cast and 20 GJ/ton steel cast). Extending this process to involve material and equipment manufacturers, it is possible to improve the whole supply process reducing at the "source" the material storage needs, the material surplus and the produced wastes, including the CO2 emission produced in the transport phase. Initiatives like "Just in Time" delivery and material "Buy Back", mainly applied in Countries where Framework Agreements are already in place between Eni and its manufacturers and where manufacturers have their production sites and other facilities, are essential to achieve this target. Eventually, applying the approach to the whole supply chain and operations management will allow to reduce the "last mile" warehousing and transportation needs, including the dimension and capability of the operations fleet.

Numerical Investigation of Sand-Screen Performance in the Presence of Adhesive Effects for Enhanced Sand Control

SPE Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 2195-2208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Nur Shaffee ◽  
Paul F. Luckham ◽  
Omar K. Matar ◽  
Aditya Karnik ◽  
Mohd Shahrul Zamberi
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Voronoi Tessellation ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Solid Particles ◽  
Particle Adhesion ◽  
Sand Production ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Particle Filtration ◽  
Sand Control

Summary In many industrial processes, an effective particle–filtration system is essential for removing unwanted solids. The oil and gas industry has explored various technologies to control and manage excessive sand production, such as by installing sand screens or injecting consolidation chemicals in sand–prone wells as part of sand–management practices. However, for an unconsolidated sandstone formation, the selection and design of effective sand control remains a challenge. In recent years, the use of a computational technique known as the discrete–element method (DEM) has been explored to gain insight into the various parameters affecting sand–screen–retention behavior and the optimization of various types of sand screens (Mondal et al. 2011, 2012, 2016; Feng et al. 2012; Wu et al. 2016). In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of particle filtration using a fully coupled computational–fluid–dynamics (CFD)/DEM approach featuring polydispersed, adhesive solid particles. We found that an increase in particle adhesion reduces the amount of solid in the liquid filtrate that passes through the opening of a wire–wrapped screen, and that a solid pack of particle agglomerates is formed over the screen with time. We also determined that increasing particle adhesion gives rise to a decrease in packing density and a diminished pressure drop across the solid pack covering the screen. This finding is further supported by a Voronoi tessellation analysis, which reveals an increase in porosity of the solid pack with elevated particle adhesion. The results of this study demonstrate that increasing the level of particle agglomeration, such as by using an adhesion–promoting chemical additive, has beneficial effects on particle filtration. An important application of these findings is the design and optimization of sand–control processes for a hydrocarbon well with excessive sand production, which is a major challenge in the oil and gas industry.

scholarly journals Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Performance: An Empirical Study of Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Moses M. Adagbabiri ◽  
Ugo Chuks Okolie
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Human Resource Management Practices

The impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational performance has been subject of discourse among social scientists from a wide range of disciplines in the last two decades. But unfortunately, very insufficient number of studies in this area has been conducted in Nigeria and other developing countries. This study was undertaken to fill this obvious research gap. The author applied descriptive method and collected the data via a survey of 164 respondents in Nigerias Oil and Gas Industry. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation and t-test analysis. The study found that there is a significant relationship between HRM practices and organizational performance. As predicted, the study revealed that human resource management practices exert positive and statistically significant impact on organizational performance. Requisite conclusion and recommendations were provided in the light of theoretical and empirical findings. With this study, we hope to contribute to a better understanding of the role of HRM practices in creating and sustaining organizational performance, specifically in the Nigerian context.

scholarly journals Mediation Analysis Using the Hierarchical Multiple Regression Technique: A Study of the Mediating Roles of World-Class Performance in Operations

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wakhid S. Ciptono ◽  
Abdul Razak Ibrahim ◽  
Ainin Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Quality Management Practices ◽  
World Class ◽  
Operational Excellence

The changing environment in an organization is forcing the organization to find a plan of integrated management framework and adequate performance measurement. Failure to plan basically means planning failure for the business. Finding the critical factors of quality management practices (QMP), themediating roles of the contextual factors of world-class performance in operations (i.e., world-class company practices or WCC, operational excellence practices or OE, company nonfinancial performance or CNFP), and the company financial performance would enable the company to facilitate the sustainability of TQM implementation model.This empirical study aims to assess how TQM—a holistic management philosophy initially developed by W. Edward Deming, which integrates improvement strategy, management practices, and organizational performance—is specifically implemented in the oil and gas companies operating in Indonesia. Relevant literature on the TQM, the world-class performance in operations (world-class company and operational performance), the company performance (financial and non-financial performances), and the amendments of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia concerning the oil and gas industry, and related research on how the oil and gas industry in Indonesia develops sustainable competitive advantage and sustainable development programs are reviewed in details in our study. The findings from data analysis provide evidence that there is a strong positive relationship between the critical factors of quality management practices and the company financial performance mediated by the three mediating variables, i.e., world-class company practices, operational excellence practices, and company non-financial performance.

scholarly journals Group Collaboration And Group Decision Making Information Technologies In Petroleum Industry

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Alpana M. Desai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Oil Companies

The technical management of important natural resources such as oil and gas resources is a challenging responsibility that faces oil companies. The increasing global demand for oil and gas coupled with declining oil and gas reserves has forced the oil industry to make significant changes in its business processes. Major oil companies have exploration and production operations that span several continents. Massive amount of data that is generated at all levels in an oil company has to be stored, analyzed and disseminated. In this paper, the changes in the management practices and business processes in the oil industry are traced over the past several decades. The use and application of information technology as change agents is also explored and evaluated. In particular, this paper focuses on the role of visualization centers in the oil and gas industry in revolutionizing effective group decision making that has enabled teams to be more productive, innovative, and outcome-focused.

The Study of Technological Mode Options for Production of Oil of Required Quality

2017 ◽  
Vol 743 ◽  
pp. 394-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Dzhalilova ◽  
Vladimir Erofeev
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil Processing ◽  
Market Relations

In the recent years, due to the introduction of new Technical Regulations in the Oil and Gas Industry in 2008, high technical and environmental performance values were set to be met by production volume and by the quality of hydrocarbons and a variety of oil products coming from the fields to factory processing and trade parks. The presence of a powerful raw material base, the shortage of petroleum products and the development of market relations create objective conditions for increased use of a variety of natural hydrocarbons, for improved technological schemes of oil preparation and oil processing on the oil fields and for modernizing the equipment used. On small and remote oil fields, which for economic reasons cannot be linked by transport pipelines, a complex system of preparation of liquid hydrocarbons is used with the ultimate goal of obtaining some refined products such as gasoline, diesel fuel and furnace oil.

scholarly journals Resilience beyond Formal Structures: A Network Perspective towards the Challenges of an Aging Workforce in the Oil and Gas Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Bento ◽  
Luciano Garotti
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Knowledge Loss ◽  
Logic Network

Changes in workplace demographics in the oil and gas industry have raised a concern about the risks of a knowledge-loss crisis due to mass retirement. The industry response has often consisted of strategies aimed at mapping knowledge across organizational units, codifying knowledge in databases, and mentoring new staff. However, such common managerial responses show important limitations in terms of grasping tacit and network-based dimensions of knowledge in complex oil production operations. Therefore, there is an industrial need for innovative knowledge management practices. In this conceptual article, we look at the knowledge-loss crisis from the perspective of network resilience in complex systems. A central assumption here is that it is important to look at retiring staff not only in terms of their explicit knowledge, but also in relation to their roles in evolving networks of interactions. Why do some social systems adapt to the departure of some individuals, recover from eventual knowledge-loss crises, and keep performing its functions? From an anticipatory logic, network analysis may show the initial conditions of a system and identify possible loss scenarios. From an adaptive logic, network analysis may inform interventions aimed at facilitating processes of interactions from which new knowledge may emerge and spread. Integrated operations may be a step in this direction.

scholarly journals The Arctic Environment and Legislation

1972 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
A. R. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Arctic Environment ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Administrative Framework

This is the first of three papers presented at the Tenth Annual Research Seminar on the special problems of the oil and gas industry in the Canadian Arctic. The paper examines the background to the industry's participation in the Arctic, the special problems of the Arctic environment, and the jurisdictional and administrative framework in the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and the Northern offshore areas. In discussing the Arctic environ ment and legislation, the paper raises the question of whether or not there is new environmental law, and suggests that there is new environmental law taking shape which consists of demands for public participation in, and for broad range of inquiry with respect to, the decision making processes in modern society.

scholarly journals Comprehensive assessment and analysis of the oil and gas potential of Meso-Cenozoic sediments in the North Caucasus

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 648-657
Author(s):  
Igor Bosikov ◽  
Andrey Мaier
Keyword(s):  
Bearing Capacity ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Qualitative Interpretation ◽  
Seismic Sections ◽  
Gas Bearing

At the present stage, the development of the oil and gas industry in the Russian Federation is impossible without replenishing the raw material base, so the urgent task is to conduct investigations, prospecting and evaluation of oil and gas bearing capacity prospects in undiscovered areas. The purpose of the investigations is to analyze facies and thicknesses, choose the methodology of prospecting and exploration in reservoirs, make a comprehensive assessment of oil and gas bearing capacity prospects based on experimental investigations and construct a map of oil and gas bearing capacity prospects of the studied sediment structure. The methodology of the conducted investigations was to identify and trace zones of increased fracturing by qualitative interpretation of time seismic sections. Methods for qualitative interpretation of time seismic sections, the model of physical, chemical and geochemical criteria developed by I.A.Burlakov, gas and geochemical surveying and correlation analysis were used in the investigations. A number of prospecting criteria, established based on the analysis of reference seismic materials on well-studied areas in comparison with the results of well tests, were also used. Structural plan for forecast prospects of oil and gas bearing capacity in the studied area was made; zonal and local objects with prospects for oil and gas were identified. Graphical plotting of Eh and pH concentrations distribution and various gas and geochemical indicators allowed identifying zones of possible oil and gas accumulations and starting their detailed survey. Processing of gas and geochemical materials by means of software allowed efficient assessment of prospects for oil and gas bearing capacity of the investigated objects.

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