scholarly journals Energy integration: Green future for late-life offshore oil and gas assets

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Thu Hương Nguyễn ◽  
Thị Thanh Lê Nguyễn
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Energy Integration ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Offshore Oil

In recent years, the oil and gas industry has been facing objections from a public greatly concerned with the severe environmental impact caused by fossil fuels and their infrastructures, and strong demands from policy makers seeking to meet decarbonisation goals. Amidst a global energy transition, the future demand, finance, and social responsibilities of oil and gas companies are increasingly in question. One of the biggest problems of the industry is what are the “green” solutions for the late-life offshore oil and gas assets. Energy integration with reusing or repurposing oil and gas assets for new technologies could be a worthwhile investment strategy helping reduce carbon emission from oil and gas production as well as accelerating carbon capture and storage (CCS) and green hydrogen development to support the global decarbonisation. According to research, the late-life offshore oil and gas assets play an important role in energy integration while helping to have more opportunities to develop the new technologies that are in the early stages of development with high capex, necessary to make them more economically attractive and facilitate maximum energy integration. Reusing or repurposing oil and gas infrastructure can lead to 30% capex saving and million tons of CO2 pa emission reductions. In this paper, potential concepts of energy integration for offshore oil and gas assets are introduced, and some lessons learned and implications for reusing or repurposing late-life offshore assets for Vietnam are also presented.

History and Evolution of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana: Worker Perspectives

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Austin ◽  
Thomas McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Early Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
Southern Louisiana

The history of the offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico is one of both progressive and punctuated development. New technologies, forms of work organization, and regulatory regimes have all combined over the past seventy years to influence the evolution of this industry. This paper reports early results of a multiyear, multi-team effort to document this history and its impacts on southern Louisiana. It focuses on the work of one team, applied anthropologists from the University of Arizona, to capture the history from the perspectives of the workers and local entrepreneurs who made this industry happen.

Brazil Subsea Processing & Boosting Technologies Yard: More Than 20 Years of Lessons Learned

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Augustus Ramos Roberto ◽  
Herbert Prince Koelln ◽  
Rodrigo Iunes De Rezende
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Electrical Submersible Pumps ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Offshore Oil

Abstract Over the last 20 years Brazil has been the stage where subsea processing and boosting (P&B) technology has supported and pushed the offshore oil and gas production to overcome its challenges and maximize field production and recovery factor. Subsea Oil-Water and Gas-Liquid Separation Systems, Multiphase Pumps, Electrical Submersible Pumps, Raw Water Injection Systems, and other innovative, enabler, optimizer or even disruptive technologies have been developing and applying in Brazil's fields to increase the NPV of projects and make feasible long tiebacks scenarios. This paper will present a retrospective of the most significant P&B systems developed and deployed in Brazil's fields, their operational experience, lessons learned, the next generation under development to surpass Pre-Salt and brown fields challenges and some initiatives to maximize these technologies applications.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN OCEAN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 783
Author(s):  
M. Renilson ◽  
J.E. Soholt ◽  
G. Macfarlane
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Ocean Engineering ◽  
Naval Architecture ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Offshore Oil

Ocean engineering is a broad branch of engineering covering all aspects of engineering associated with the design, construction and operation of fixed and floating structures in the marine environment. It differs from naval architecture which traditionally focusses on ships and related ocean vehicles, and is of relevance to engineers in the offshore oil and gas industry.The Australian Maritime College (AMC) commenced running Australia’s first Bachelor of Engineering (Ocean Engineering) degree in 1997, with the first students graduating in 2000. The program was designed to meet the growing need of the Australian offshore oil and gas industry for graduate engineers skilled in the analysis and design of structures and facilities capable of operating in ever-increasing water depths. It builds on the already successful naval architecture degree offered by AMC, and has the first year completely in common.AMC makes use of its uniquely maritime focus and its wide variety of specialist facilities to produce graduates with a strong hands-on approach to complement their theoretical studies. The program features a unique blend of traditional marine and ocean-related subjects with a thorough grounding in hydrodynamics, wave theories, reservoir engineering, drilling technology, well design, offshore operations, oil and gas production technology and sub-sea engineering. As such, it is believed that the syllabus has a composition that is basically unique in the world.To support this new degree, AMC has commissioned the construction of a new Model Test Basin to complement its existing towing tank. This will have a plan form of 35 x 12 m and will be equipped with multi-directional wavemakers, making it ideal for student use, as well as consulting and staff research.The aim of the program is to produce engineering graduates with a broad theoretical background and a practical approach to problem solving. The ocean engineering graduates from AMC will be exceptionally well equipped to pursue successful careers within the international oil and gas industry.This paper describes briefly the various subjects that are unique to the ocean engineering degree and shows how the subject syllabi come together into a coherent program which will produce systems engineers rather than specialists. The course has just recently received Full Accreditation from The Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust).

An Analysis of the Trends in US Offshore Oil and Gas Safety and Environmental Performance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy M. Gernand
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Offshore Oil

Abstract The production of oil and gas in the offshore waters of the United States continues to be a major part of US energy extraction activities amounting to just less than a third of total US oil and gas production. However, this industry has been marked by occasional safety and environmental disasters including most famously the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill that resulted in the deaths of 11 workers and the release of more than 130 million gallons of oil in to the Gulf of Mexico. In response, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) was created in 2011 to separate enforcement activities from federal lease management activities and reduce the possibility for conflicts of interests and regulatory capture. This paper presents an analysis of the safety and environmental performance of the US offshore oil and gas industry in the years before and after the creation of the BSEE to quantify the changes in the industry record and the level of risk that remains. Recorded events including fires and explosions, spills, and gas releases, collisions, and injuries and fatalities are included in the analysis. The overall level of exposure is estimated based on rig counts and oil and gas production quantities since detailed employment records by facility are not available. Data is sourced from the BSEE, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the Energy Information Agency (EIA). In addition to linear regression analysis of trends, this paper presents the results of a random forest-based machine learning investigation of the characteristics of safety and environmental incidents to evaluate the most significant contributors that remain, especially those amenable to control through engineering system design. Facility type, water depth, distance to shore, and time of day or year in the relevant incident reports were included in the input dataset for the random forest model. Results indicate that the overall oil and gas industry has become safer in recent years, though significant risks remain. It is yet unclear whether the BSEE approach bears any responsibility for this change as the data are not yet sufficient to declare the post-2011 period as statistically significantly improved from prior years, though additional data in line with 2016–2017 level of performance would satisfy this condition. The random forest model indicates that increased risk is associated with time of day, quarter of the year, water depth, and distance to shore. Data quality concerns remain present as minor incidents and injuries may be under-reported. BSEE enforcement does not appear to be a direct cause of the noted improvements.

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