Estimation of oil loss depending on spill degree in industrial pipelines

Abstract

The failures and damages in the process of production, gathering, preparation and transportation of hydrocarbons lead to the spills in gathering systems and pipelines and considered one of the major aspects negatively affecting the environment. Oil spills due to the various failure (damage) types in industrial oil pipelines from environmental point of view are extremely hazardous. Onshore oil spills alongside with the oil floods on the land surface are followed with their penetration to the soil. This case, in its turn, stimulates the vegetation and soil cover destruction in the failure areas, the pollution of air, water reservoirs and underground waters as well. The installation of up-to-date automated monitoring and measuring system, if possible, the development of new methods of diagnostics with the aim of well-timed specification and immediate prevention of oil spills in pipeline damages, the evaluation of their environmental impact are the urgent issues of present day. The paper shows the possibility of identification of oil spill points, as well as the estimation of the quantity of flowed out from the oil pipeline, if oil spill point is fixed.