scholarly journals PROBLEM-DIALOGUE TECHNOLOGY OF FORMING ENVIRONMENTAL COMPETENCE AMONG SPECIALISTS FOR WORK IN THE ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC CONDITIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 362-374
Author(s):  
Sergei A. PETROV ◽  
Natali L. MAMAEVA ◽  
Maksim V. NARUSHKO
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Strong Wind ◽  
Economic Activities

The economic development of the Arctic and the related disturbances in the natural equilibrium of northern ecosystems have become a source of environmental problems that have now become global. In this regard, the urgent question is about finding an affordable and effective learning technology aimed at developing, humanistic, personality-oriented education. In order to discuss the technology of environmental education, as a means of ensuring environmental safety, environmental management and sustainable development of the Arctic, we proposed a questionnaire for obtaining primary environmental and health information, the key point in which is the relationship of ecology and health. Approbation of the problem-dialogue technology of learning allowed, on the basis of clarifying environmental opinions and assessments, value orientations, attitudes, dispositions and stimulating cognitive motivation on the substantive content, to achieve competences to ensure the environmental safety of northern ecosystems during the economic activities of enterprises of the fuel and energy complex. This is especially important in the conditions of the Far North with difficult climatic conditions (geomagnetic background, sudden temperature changes, strong wind loads, the presence of permafrost, etc.) and the rapid development of the oil and gas complex (in particular, high accident rate associated with the complexity of technical devices, the use of extreme operating conditions, strong environmental influences, flammability and explosive hazards of mined products, human factor).

Technologies for Safe Handling of Drilling Waste during Well Construction in the Ob Bay

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
A.D. Dzyublo ◽  
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S.О. Borozdin ◽  
E.E. Altukhov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Kara Sea ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Gas Condensate ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Field Calculation ◽  
Drilling Waste

Development of the Russian oil and gas fields in the Arctic requires ensuring industrial and environmental safety of conduct of the operations. Large and unique oil and gas condensate fields are discovered in the southern part of the Kara Sea. The Kamennomysskoye-Sea, Severo-Kamennomysskoye, Semakovskoye, Parusovoye, etc. gas condensate fields are located in the Ob Bay of the Kara Sea. The raw material base of the Severo-Obskoye gas condensate field, unique in terms of the reserves, will become the basis for future Arctic LNG projects. Based on the published data, the initial recoverable total hydrocarbon resources in the Ob and Taz bays are about seven billion tons. Active exploration and commissioning of the already discovered fields require the large volumes of well drilling in a freezing sea, the presence of permafrost, and gas hydrates. During construction of the wells and operation of the offshore ice-resistant oil and gas production platforms, it is required to ensure the disposal of drilling waste (cuttings) and domestic water. There are two technologies for waste disposal — injection into the reservoir or into the clay formations. The first one is used in onshore fields, the second one — on the shelf. Injection into a clay reservoir is successfully used in the Lunskoye gas field on the shelf of the Sakhalin island, and on the Prirazlomnoye oil field in the Pechora Sea. The possibility of using the method and the selection of a reservoir for injecting waste into it requires a geological justification, and the reservoir should ensure a stable injectivity of the required volume. The article presents the results of modeling the injection into the formation of drilling waste, and the waste of the household activities for the Kamennomysskoe-Sea gas condensate field. Calculation was made concerning the zone of absorption of the technological waste into the designed well of the offshore ice-resistant stationary platform. Formation allocation for waste injection was made according to the data of a complex of offshore wells geophysical studies. Three packs of sandy-argillaceous rocks with high reservoir properties were selected as the object of industrial waste disposal. Сalculation was carried out related to the radius of the spread of waste (effluent) in the target reservoir considering drilling and operation of twenty five wells, the construction of which is planned for five years. The results of modeling the process of pumping industrial waste of various types into an absorption well showed that the planned volumes can be successfully disposed of in the selected objects. This will allow to ensure functioning of the marine industry and its environmental safety.

scholarly journals Digital technologies in the industry: application of immersive training technologies in the oil and gas complex

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 03003
Author(s):  
Anna Smirnova ◽  
Irina Zaychenko ◽  
Irina Bagaeva ◽  
Polina Gorshechnikova
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Training System ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Personnel Training ◽  
Immersive Technologies ◽  
Oil And Gas Enterprises

The article substantiates the need to apply training and retraining programs for personnel for permanent work in the Arctic using digital technologies, namely VR / AR / MR technologies. The geopolitical features of the Arctic zone, difficult climatic conditions do not allow directly practicing the development of professional competencies and, therefore, require the introduction of a multi-stage system of personnel training using technologies of approximate reality. Such requirements for the personnel training system predetermine the need to search for relevant digital technologies that can create conditions that are as close as possible to the conditions of professional activity in hard-to-reach Arctic regions. When forming a personnel training / retraining system for oil and gas enterprises, in addition to the specified specific working conditions, it is also necessary to take into account the sectoral features of oil and gas enterprises, which also forms a number of functional requirements for the selection of relevant digital tools, the main of which for personnel training can be considered immersive technologies. Based on the above, the paper analyzes the use of immersive technologies by oil and gas enterprises, a comparative analysis of the directions of using immersive technologies in personnel training at oil and gas enterprises, identifies the positive and negative aspects of using VR / MR / AR technologies.

scholarly journals Ecological risks during offshore construction of oil platforms

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 04002
Author(s):  
Ksenia Derevtsova ◽  
Vladislav Ginevskii ◽  
Gleb Kataev ◽  
Semion Kim ◽  
Polina Veselova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
The North ◽  
Low Culture

The article tells about the risks of low-culture construction of oil facilities on the Arctic shelf. The long-term, practically neglected exploitation of the unique natural resources of the Russian North and the low culture of their development led in a number of its regions, including the waters of the Arctic seas with islands, to an emergency ecological situation - the partial and sometimes complete destruction of the fragile Arctic natural habitat of the small peoples of the North and the created cities and villages. Without proper environmental support, economic activities continue in the field of extraction, transportation and processing of natural resources. The progressive pollution of rivers and lakes leads to a qualitative depletion of water resources - a change in the composition of the waters of the Arctic Ocean. The danger of oil pollution of the marine environment is associated with plans for its production on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation. The oil and gas production complex in the Russian Arctic regions are being formed on the basis of already discovered fields and will develop as other promising fields are developed.

scholarly journals Geoenvirоnmental risks on the background geopolitical challenges for the oil and gas industry in the Arctic

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. P. Trubitsina ◽  
V. N. Bashkin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Arctic Ecosystems ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Projected Changes

The article is devoted to the issues of geoecology and geopolitics in the Arctic. The authors reveal the need to consider geopolitical challenges in the analysis of geoecological risks (GER) of oil and gas development of the Arctic region. This is due to the intersection here of the strategic interests of several States and their focus to prove the inability of Russia to ensure environmental safety in the development of Arctic fi elds. Th e subject of GER is used as a geopolitical tool against Russia due to the probability of it becoming a key player in the region. The authors propose a model for the analysis of GER, which is based on critical loads (CL) of acidity of pollutants and includes 2 stages: 1) the stage of quantitative assessment of GER, which allows to calculate not only the magnitude of the projected changes in the state of the Arctic ecosystems, but also the probability of their occurrence; 2) the stage of management of GER taking into account geopolitical factors, assuming a qualitative expert assessment, which is a procedure for making a management decision to achieve acceptable levels of the total GER.

scholarly journals HARMFUL IMPACT OF HORSEFLIES (DIPTERA, TABANIDAE) ON THE ORGANISM OF ANIMALS AND HUMAN (REVIEW)

2019 ◽  
pp. 575-579
Author(s):  
Sivkova
Keyword(s):  
Anthropogenic Impact ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Biting Midges ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Blood Sucking ◽  
Main Factors

The study of bloodsucking dipterans, including gadflies, was conducted mainly in the 60-70s of the last century, when the rapid development of oil and gas production began and was associated with the development of means and methods for the pro-tection of humans and animals. Since then, more than 40 years have passed. Dur-ing this time, there was a noticeable warming of the climate, and due to technical progress, the anthropogenic impact on nature increased. Currently, the interest of scientists and researchers to Diptera has significantly increased. Blood-sucking two-winged insects (midges) include mosquitoes (blood line Culicidae), gadflies (blood line Tabanidae), midges (blood line Simuliidae) and biting midges (blood line Cera-topogonidae). The main factors determining the high abundance of midges are favor-able climatic conditions for their reproduction and existence in combination with the abundance of biotopes of hatching (various water bodies and marsh formations) and the habitat of the imago (presence of tree, shrub or high grassy vegetation), as well as the presence of a sufficient number of warm-blooded animals – the source of blood saturation. The damage caused by horseflies to humans and animals is very great. The aim of our work was to summarize the information in the literature about the damage caused by horseflies to farm animals and their role in the transmission of pathogens of humans and animals.

Risk-based Winterization for Vessels Operations in Arctic Environments

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 199-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Yang ◽  
Faisal I. Khan ◽  
Leonard Lye ◽  
Heri Sulistiyono ◽  
John Dolny ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Temperature Data ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Hydrocarbon Exploration ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
Exploration And Production

Because the oil and gas industry has an increasing interest in the hydrocarbon exploration and development in the Arctic regions, it becomes important to design exploration and production facilities that suit the cold and harsh operating conditions. In addition to well-established minimum class requirements for hull strengthening, winterization should be considered as a priority measure early in the design spiral for vessels operating in the Arctic environments. The development of winterization strategies is a challenging task, which requires a robust decision support approach. This article proposes a risk-based approach for the selection of winterization technologies and determination of winterization levels or requirements on a case-by-case basis. Temperature data are collected from climatology stations located in the Arctic regions. Loading scenarios are defined by statistical analysis of the temperature data to obtain probabilistic distributions for the loadings. Risk values are calculated under different loading scenarios. Based on the risk values, appropriate winterization strategies can be determined. A case study is used to demonstrate how the proposed approach can be applied to the identification of heating requirements for gangways.

О находках Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus (Say, 1821) (Acari, Ixodidae) на западе Атырауской области

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Z.Z. Sayakova ◽  
A.A. Bashmakova ◽  
I.G. Kozulina ◽  
I.B. Mellatova
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Ixodid Tick ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Ixodid Ticks ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Blood Sucking ◽  
Natural Foci ◽  
Ixodes Ticks ◽  
Rickettsial Diseases

Blood-sucking ticks are vectors of protozoal, bacterial, viral and rickettsial diseases. The study of ixodes ticks: fauna, ecology, biology is of great importance not only for epidemiology but is also of scientific interest. Changes in natural and climatic conditions, hydrological regime, rapid development of human economic activities lead to the changes in the fauna of invertebrates including ixodid ticks. As they invade new territories ticks may expand their habitats for these dangerous for animals and humans infections. That is why the study of tick fauna, changes in species diversity of ticks and monitoring of their abundance is so important for monitoring of natural foci. The emergence of a new species of ixodid tick Rhipicephalus annulatus, in western Kazakhstan, which began to be registered from 2019 in Kurmangazy district of Atyrau region, bordering the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation and its re-finding in 2020 is a very important fact to assess the epidemiological danger for humans and animals in this territory.

Frost-Resistant Elastomeric Nanocomposites for Operation in the Far North Conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 945 ◽  
pp. 412-416
Author(s):  
Natalia N. Petrova ◽  
V.V. Portnyagina ◽  
V.V. Mukhin ◽  
E.N. Timofeeva ◽  
N.V. Matveeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
New Mineral ◽  
Detonation Synthesis ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
The North ◽  
Elastomeric Materials ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
Bentonite Clays

Operation of elastomeric materials in the extreme climatic conditions of the North is a complex and expensive, since not always existing materials can provide the required level of low-temperature characteristics (down to-60 ° C). This leads to failure of machines and mechanisms, equipment downtime, additional costs for repair or replacement of rubber parts. The need for such materials is continuously growing due to the intensive development of the northern territories, the need to develop new mineral deposits and development of offshore hydrocarbon production. Propylene oxide rubber (Tg = -73 °С) and epichlorohydrin rubber Hydrin T6000 (Tg = -60 °С) have unique frost resistance, but there is a need to improve aggressive media resistance, wear resistance and relaxation properties (the ability to restore its shape after relieving the load). For the modification of rubbers, additives of both organic and inorganic nature were chosen: ultrafine polytetrafluoroethylene, single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes, nanodiamond-containing carbon charge obtained by detonation synthesis, shungite, natural zeolites and bentonite clays. The operating properties of rubber were studied in accordance with standard methods. The structure of the obtained materials was studied by means of DSC, XRD, electron and atomic force microscopy. All developed materials are recommended for use in various industries (oil and gas, road, rail) in the Arctic regions with extreme climatic conditions.

scholarly journals Model studies of a prototype of a small multifunctional ekranoplan

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
К.В. Грибов ◽  
Г.А. Федореев ◽  
А.Ю. Журенко
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Water Transport ◽  
3D Modeling ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Model Studies ◽  
Snow Water

Использование экранопланов в различных климатических условиях, как многофункционального транспортного средства, обладающего амфибийными свойствами, позволяет решить множество задач на водном пространстве. Для труднодоступных территорий России экранопланы могут обеспечить доступность прибрежных населенных пунктов, расширив использование водного транспорта в межсезонье и при организации транспортных линий в зимний период или в Арктике. В статье рассмотрены результаты исследований по созданию лёгкого 2х-местного амфибийного экраноплана-трансформера для круглогодичного индивидуального и служебного использования в отсутствие транспортной инфраструктуры. Разрабатываемое транспортное средство будет объединять несколько принципов движения, адаптированных к различным условиям эксплуатации: по льду, снегу, воде, над водой посредством его конструктивной трансформации в аэросани, аэроглиссер и экраноплан для обеспечения конкурентного преимущества на потребительском рынке индивидуального водного транспорта. Выполнены работы по оптимизации аэродинамических схем трансформера с использованием продувок экспериментальных аэротрубных моделей и математического 3D моделирования. Акцент сделан на решении вопроса достижения максимального аэрогидродинамического качества. The use of ekranoplans in various climatic conditions as a multifunctional vehicle with amphibious properties makes it possible to solve key tasks on water areas. For remote territories of Russia, ekranoplans can maintain accessibility of coastal settlements, expanding the use of water transport in the off-season and when organizing transport lines in the winter and in the Arctic. The article discusses the results of research on the construction of a light 2-seater amphibious transformer ekranoplan for year-round personal and official use in the absence of transport infrastructure. The vehicle under development will combine several principles of movement adapted to various operating conditions: on ice, snow, water, over water - by means of its constructive transformation into an aerosled, an airboat and an ekranoplan to provide a competitive advantage in the consumer market for individual water transport. Work has been done to optimize aerodynamic schemes of the transformer using virtual blowdowns of experimental wind tunnel models based on mathematical 3D modeling. The emphasis is placed on solving the issue of achieving maximum aero- and hydrodynamic quality.

Accident risk analysis of oil and gas facilities in Arctic climatic conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
N. A. Makhutov ◽  
A. M. Bol’shakov ◽  
M. I. Zakharova
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Accident Risk ◽  
Acceptable Risk ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Hazardous Production ◽  
Event Trees

The probability of occurring emergency situations increases in conditions of severe climate of the Arctic. Therefore, addressing the problems related to the risk assessment of accidents at oil and gas facilities in the Arctic zones based on acceptable risk criteria is of particular importance. Uncontrollable development of emergency situations is followed by emission of a significant amount of oil products and constitutes serious ecological danger, and also can lead to considerable destructions and death of people resulted from fire and explosion. Therefore, the goal of the study is development of the methods for analysis and assessment of the risk of accidents in reservoirs and gas pipelines at low temperatures to increase the industrial safety of hazardous production facilities operating in conditions of the Arctic North. The results of brittle fracture analysis and accident risk assessment for reservoir and gas pipeline under arctic climatic conditions are presented. Statistical data processing of accidents allowed us to determine the rupture sources, develop a “fault tree” of brittle fracture of reservoirs, “event trees” of reservoir explosion and gas outflow from a gas pipeline, with allowance for the frequency of scenarios for quantitative risk assessment. Currently the probabilistic approach is considered one of the most promising. Accident statistics and experience of previous risk analyses can provide a useful contribution to the process of hazard identification. We focus on the scenario approach to the problems of hazard identification and assess the probability (frequency) of emergencies proceeding from the analysis and systematization of the statistical data on the accidents on reservoirs and gas pipelines at low ambient temperatures using the “event trees” and “fault trees” which provide determination of the most critical scenario and expected risk from accidents. Thus, risk assessment of accidents at hazardous production facilities in the Arctic zone using criteria of acceptable risk will allow estimation of hazards with unacceptable level of risk and development of recommendations and measures to reduce them.

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