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Proactive Reservoir Management
Published in Ashok K. Pathak, Petroleum Reservoir Management, 2021
In the modern business environment, smart fields can serve as an instrument to change the business model and operating strategies. Riding the wave of these successful disruptive processes and technologies, the companies visualize a future where they can extract oil and gas from challenging environments without much risk to company assets and human safety. Most of the operations that earlier required the on-site physical presence of staff can now be accomplished via automated processes from the safety of a remote control/collaboration room set up in company offices. The intelligent field technologies have practically defuncted the traditional organizational structures along the functional lines. The new ways of working have demonstrated all-round improvements in drilling and completions, production optimization, surveillance and control of subsea production systems, reliability and maintenance, environmental monitoring, asset integrity management, and decision-support (Figure 9.4).
PSM (Process Safety Management)
Published in Dhananjoy Ghosh, Safety in Petroleum Industries, 2021
An asset and integrity management system relates to maintenance and inspection departments, ensuring the uninterrupted availability of rotary and stationary equipment for operation. In earlier days the system was a manual process with respect to documentation, historization, and standardization on quality assurance. In current times software systems driven with data banks from the designer and continuous validation from the operating system have been introduced where integration of online operation DCS data, online quality control data on operation, SAP data on maintenance history and spare inventory and on stores and purchases, finance system online data, technical services online performance evaluation data (wherever allowed), and online tank farm accounting and management data systems are done to a single system to ensure quality asset integrity management. The efficacy of the system depends not only on integration, but also (and mainly) on, strength of corrosion control data bank and documentation and rotary equipment performance histories.
Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Business: Health, Safety, and Environment Issues
Published in Pramod Paliwal, Sudhir Yadav, Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Business, 2019
Apart from providing for all sophisticated tool and techniques, equipment, following best practices in operations and maintenance (O&M), and adhering to tenets of asset integrity management for HSE management, it is equally important to have a company-wide strategy to make HSE a top priority around the clock. There must be an organization-wide strategic commitment to fostering a robust and positive safety culture. This commitment can be achieved by continually modeling and reinforcing a strong safety culture, along with effective processes and systems in which natural gas transmission and distribution companies strive towards the goal of zero accidents, hazards, and losses. Following two exhibits describing the commitments from two leading organizations—one from the natural gas transmission business and the other from the natural gas distribution business—clearly demonstrate this (Exhibits 7.1 and 7.2).
Solar Energy Measurement and Monitoring Model by Using Internet of Things
Published in Electric Power Components and Systems, 2023
Ramakrishnan Raman, Mehul Gor, R. Meenakshi, G. M. Jayaseelan, Abhay Chaturvedi, Syed Noeman Taqui, P. Ganeshan, Mohamed Ouladsmane, M. A. Kalam
Conformity to service evaluation is a method used by companies operating in the oil, natural gas and chemical processing industries to determine the suitability of service equipment for continuous service [1]. Applicability to serviceability provides a rational basis for defining defect acceptance limits and enables engineers to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable defects and damage based on industry-accepted and generally accepted good engineering practices. The suitability of any material or equipment for service is determined by evaluation according to standard methods and criteria [2]. Getting the right appraisal is an integral part of equipment asset integrity management. A tool’s suitability for service is determined based on its current and future service life [3]. And for the entire period of operation, the power loss in silicon mono- and palacastal elements is more than 10%, while in the first two years of thin-film uniform batteries, the capacity is reduced by 10–40%. Some equipment may continue to serve despite minor defects. Repairing or replacing equipment that is still usable wastes unnecessary time and money. Additionally, unnecessary resource repairs can further damage equipment and in many cases create unnecessary risks for employees [4]. This is currently the most widely used assay method in the refining and petrochemical industries (serviceability) and its applications. This method, in addition to calculations, involves evaluating additional data such as pit shapes and depths, corrosion morphology or shape and depth, crack depth and length, operating conditions, and material properties [6].
Corrosion control for achieving sustainable development
Published in Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology, 2018
V. S. Raja, Vivekanand Kain, Supratik Roychowdhury, Baldev Raj
APCCC17 was unique, as for the first time, four pre-conference workshops, viz. (a) Experimental Methods for Corrosion Research, (b) New Technologies for Refinery Corrosion and Asset Integrity Management, (c) Corrosion Control in Chemical Process Industries and (d) Corrosion in Upstream Oil & Gas Industry were organised. These workshops were attended by 182 participants and brought in synergy between academia and industry. Further, a key feature of the main Conference was three theme symposia: (a) Automobile Corrosion, (b) Management of Defense Assets Against Corrosion and (c) 2nd Asian Forum for Materials Aging in Nuclear Systems. The other symposia covered in the APCCC17 included coatings, electrochemical test techniques, aqueous corrosion, environmentally assisted cracking, bio-corrosion and inhibitors.
A new risk-based inspection methodology for offshore floating structures
Published in Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology, 2020
The primary reasons why Risk Based Inspection (RBI) had become an important element of Asset Integrity Management and how it had to be applied in a cost-effective manner on FPSO and Gas projects around the world. Practical experience from a number of case histories to highlight how the RBI Plans could be practically implemented through baselines and ongoing inspections using non-destructive testing methods applied with minimum operational disruption Constantinis et al. (2011).