Oil Pipeline Project Research Articles

Fuzzy Logic Method To Manage The Risks Of Oil And Gas Pipeline Projects To The Environment

Pipes are one of the supporting infrastructures that are needed in oil and gas projects. However, oil and gas pipeline construction projects have very complex risks and have a major impact on the environment. On the other hand, environmental factors are one of the risk factors for oil and gas pipeline projects with a value of 14% [2]. The existence of risk factors that are not managed properly will have a negative impact that accumulates and causes a hazard. Therefore, an affective risk analysis method is needed. The purpose of this study is to analyze the risks of oil and gas pipeline construction projects to the environment using the Fuzzy Logic method based on data obtained from questionnaires distributed to Oil and Gas Cooperation Contract Contractors operating in East Java – Indonesia. The results of the analysis show that of the 20 (twenty) risk factors, there are 2 risk factors that are at a high level, namely financial performance risk with a value of 14.9 and contractor experience risk with a risk value of 14.9 and the fuzzy logic method are considered to be used as an effective reference in decision making, this can be seen from the results of the calculation of the accuracy value which shows that the risk analysis system for the environment is accurate with an accuracy value of 0.90 which means the accuracy level is very high.

Identifying and Ranking the Root Causes of Schedule Delays in Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction Projects

Delays in completing the construction of oil and gas projects impact the production, sustainability, reliability, and revenues of the company, which result in market share losses in the long term. This research aimed to determine, evaluate, and rank the root causes of schedule delays in oil and gas pipeline projects in Saudi Arabia. Forty-seven different causes were identified firstly from a wide-ranging literature review and then finalized through conducting interviews with two local experts. These causes were ranked by distributing and analyzing questionnaires on the topic. Client-related materials, delays in materials and equipment delivery, permit approval, delays in subcontractor work, and delays in preparing and approving engineering drawings were found to be the top five major causes affecting oil and gas pipeline construction projects. From the initial analyses, it was observed that an adversarial relationship was apparent as the results indicated that the parties tended to blame each other for the delays. The sub-causes of the initial five causes were identified and root cause analysis was performed. A delay in the material and equipment delivery category had the most weighted sub-causes; hence, it is of high importance to mitigate it. Further recommendations were made for different delay causes.

Strengthening Risk Management and Control Ability to Enhance Project Quality Control Level in Long-distance Oil and Gas Pipeline Project

Strengthening Risk Management and Control Ability to Enhance Project Quality Control Level in Long-distance Oil and Gas Pipeline Project

UAV Based on Communication Network to Obtain Oil Pipeline Data and 3D Modeling

With the advancement of science and technology and the development of industry, the demand for oil is increasing, and the measurement of oil is becoming more and more reliable and accurate. The communication network refers to the physical connection of various isolated devices to realize the link of information exchange between people, people and computers, and computers and computers, so as to achieve the purpose of resource sharing and communication. Oil and natural gas pipelines are an important strategic resource and the economic lifeline of a country. China’s long-distance oil and natural gas pipelines have developed rapidly in recent years, and the Beijing-Shijiazhuang Pipeline, the “West-East Gas Pipeline,” and the western crude oil and refined oil pipeline projects have been completed. The UAV can produce geometric data with high precision and build its 3D model. Therefore, this study proposed a UAV based on the communication network to obtain oil pipeline data and 3D modeling. The study mainly talked about the energy consumption in the era of communication. The energy acquisition was analyzed, the pipeline transportation measures for petroleum energy under UAV technology were focused on, the three-dimensional modeling of its terrain capture was carried out, and then the experimental data were analyzed after the equipment was debugged in the experimental part. The final experimental results showed that, under different frequencies, the data collected by the host computer were compared with the field measurement data, and the errors of the water and oil phases were calculated. It can be clearly seen from the data that the error was less than 5%, which also proved that this method was feasible.

Unpacking Institutional Complexity: A Configuration Approach of Organizational Success

This study investigates the conditions that influence organizational success in protecting the legiti-macy of large capital investment projects in plural and complex institutional contexts. Following a bottom-up approach, we distinguish and measure the different components that characterize plural and complex institutional contexts. Then, we investigate under which context-specific conditions are different organizational responses linked to low organizational success? Our results show that contexts of volatile complexity lead to low success irrespective of the type of organizational re-sponse. Additionally, we find that incompatibility alone, a key feature of complex institutional con-texts according to prior research, does not seriously compromise organizational success. Our da-taset is comprised of the hearing transcripts of the regulatory review processes of 35 oil pipeline project proposals in Canada (1993 – 2018). Our research design combines topic modeling and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA).

Yeraltı Petrol Boru Hatlarının Güzergâh Seçiminde Yüzey ve Çevre Koşulları Kaynaklı Risklerin HTEA, Pareto ve AHP Yöntemleri ile İncelenmesi

Petrol, günümüzde kentlerin hızla gelişmesiyle, kömür gibi oldukça yoğun olarak kullanılan fosil enerji kaynaklarının başında gelmektedir. Bu enerji kaynağının, yeraltından çıkarılmasından, kullanıma hazır hale gelmesine ve hatta lojistiğine kadar olan bütün işlemlerde disiplinler arası çalışma, planlama ve projelendirilme uygulamalarının yapılması gerekmektedir. Petrol’ün lojistiğinde ya da taşınmasında, petrol boru hattı projelerinin önemi oldukça büyük bir paya sahiptir. Özellikle bu tür projelerin oluşturulmasında, güzergâh seçimlerinin önemi daha da artmaktadır. Petrol yakıtının lojistiği için hazırlanmış olan güzergâh projelerinde topografik (yüzeysel), jeolojik, çevresel vb. unsurları göz önünde bulundurmak gerekmektedir. Bu projelerin hazırlanması sırasında, bu unsurlara bağlı bazı hata ve risklerle karşılaşmak da mümkün olabilmektedir. Bu çalışmada Hata Türü Etkileri Analizi (HTEA), Pareto ve Analitik Hiyerarşi Proses (AHP) yöntemleri kullanılarak bu hata ve risklerin belirlenmesine çalışılmıştır. Yine bu hata ve riskler belirlenirken bu konu ile ilgili uzmanların literatürde belirtmiş oldukları risk ve hatalar da göz önüne alınarak bir çalışma ortaya konulmaya çalışılmış ve literatüre bu anlamda katkı verilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Ayrıca bu yöntemler ile bulunan sonuçlar birbirleriyle de karşılaştırılmış ve sonuçlar grafiklerle desteklenmiştir.

Pipelines in the “Public Interest”? The Jurisdictional Work of a Concept in Canadian Pipeline Assessment

AbstractThis paper contributes to research on the means by which the Canadian state authorises, enables, and secures new major petroleum pipelines. While disruptions to pipeline construction are now increasingly common, state and industry alike have continued to finance and approve new projects, even despite serious and ongoing concerns about impacts on ecologies and Indigenous jurisdiction. The paper focuses on one under‐researched mechanism of state authorisation: federal impact assessments for new oil and gas pipeline projects, undertaken by the National Energy Board (NEB), Canada’s now former energy regulator, which operated between 1959 and 2019. The NEB’s mandate was to deem, via impact assessment, whether a new project would be in the “public interest”. I argue public interest is an effective legal‐political mechanism for securing and obscuring the state’s claim to jurisdiction, the traction of which lies partly in an underlying colonial scalar logic and imaginary.

Rank-based risk target data analysis using digital twin on oil pipeline network based on manifold learning

Oil and Gas Pipeline (OGP) projects face a wide scope of wellbeing and security Risk Factors (RFs) all around the world, especially in the oil and gas delivering nations having influencing climate and unsampled data. Lacking data about the reasons for pipeline risk predictor and unstructured data about the security of the OGP prevent endeavors of moderating such dangers. This paper, subsequently, means to foster a risk analyzing framework in view of a comprehensive methodology of recognizing, dissecting and positioning the related RFs, and assessing the conceivable pipeline characteristics. Hazard Mitigation Methods (HMMs), which are the initial steps of this approach. A new methodology has been created to direct disappointment investigation of pinhole erosion in pipelines utilizing the typical pipeline risk strategy and erosion climate reenactments during a full life pattern of the pipeline. Hence in the proposed work, manifold learning with rank based clustering algorithm is incorporated with the cloud server for improved data analysis. The probability risk rate is identified from the burst pressure by clustering the normal and leak category to improve the accuracy of the prediction system experimented on the lab-scale oil pipeline system. The numerical results like auto-correlation, periodogram, Laplace transformed P-P Plot are utilized to estimate the datasets restructured by the manifold learning approach. The obtained experimental results shows that the cloud server datasets are clustered with rank prioritization to make proactive decision in faster manner by distinguishing labelled and unlabeled pressure attributes.

An investigation of mitigating the safety and security risks allied with oil and gas pipeline projects

Oil and Gas Pipeline (OGP) projects face a wide range of safety and security Risk Factors (RFs) globally, particularly in the oil and gas producing countries having insecure environment and poor safety records. Inadequate information about the causes of pipeline failures and poor knowledge about the safety and the security of the OGP hinder efforts of mitigating such risks. This paper, therefore, aims to develop a risk management system that is based on a holistic approach of identifying, analysing and ranking the associated RFs, and evaluating the possible Risk Mitigation Methods (RMMs), which are the first steps of this approach. A qualitative document analysis was adopted to design a semi-structured industry-wide questionnaire, which was conducted to collect stakeholders’ perceptions about existing RFs and RMMs for the OGP projects in Iraq. From the survey results, probability and severity levels of the RFs were used as inputs for a computer-based risk analysis model. The model used the fuzzy theory to judge the probability and consequence levels of the RFs and rank them with regards to their degree of impact in the projects. The results revealed that terrorism, official corruption and insecure areas are the most critical risks. Similarly, the RMMs were evaluated based on their degree of efficacy to mitigate the risk in OGP projects. This paper presents a prototype of the risk management system that will be further developed in the next stage of the study.

Fractured alliance: state-corporate actions and fossil fuel resistance in Northwest British Columbia, Canada

The northwest region of British Columbia, Canada has been at the center of multiple fossil fuel projects over the past decade as corporations have sought access to the coastline in order to export their products. Analyzing the dynamics of how and why groups and communities responded to two specific fossil fuel projects, we address the question: why did the "unlikely alliance" formed at the local level in northwest B.C. to resist the Enbridge oil pipeline project fracture just a few years later in the case of the LNG Canada/Coastal GasLink Liquefied Natural Gas project and pipeline project? We argue that the fracturing arose in part because of historic vulnerabilities of the resource periphery, and the legacy of settler colonial governance but also because state and corporate actors used their powers to increase the financial incentives for communities to support LNG projects, to change the discourse on fossil fuels by promoting the concept of LNG as "clean"energy, deflecting attention from the fracking of natural gas, and to isolate environmental organizations by casting them as "outsiders." The findings contribute to the literature by analyzing the reasons not only for the formation but also for the fragility and fracturing of alliances in contemporary energy politics.

Research progress and prospect of key technologies for high-strain line pipe steel and pipes

The development and supporting technologies of high-strain line pipe steel and pipes used for oil and gas pipeline projects in special geological environments (such as earthquake zone, landslide zone, mine goaf and subsidence zone) is one of the international research hotspots, and it is also a major problem that China's major oil and gas pipeline projects have to solve. Focusing on a series of key technical difficulties in the research & development and application of high-strain line pipe steel and pipes, a number of theoretical and technological innovations have been achieved after more than ten years of joint researches. And the main achievements are as follows. First, the method of applying many different parameters (e.g. stress ratio, yield to tensile ratio and uniform elongation (UEL)) to comprehensively characterize and evaluate the deformation behavior of steel pipes is proposed, and a technical index system and standard for the new products of X70HD/X80HD high-strain line pipe steel and pipes are established. Second, a complete set of X70HD/X80HD steel plate manufacturing technology is researched and developed, and the high-strain steel plate with the properties of low yield to tensile ratio, high uniform elongation, high stress ratio and high strength and toughness is worked out. Third, the X70HD/X80HD JCOE and UOE high-strain longitudinal submerged arc welded pipe manufacturing technology is researched and developed, reasonable performance matching between a steel pipe and a welding seam is realized, and the performance deterioration in the process of forming, welding, diameter-expending and thermal coating is solved. Fourth, a full-scale test device of steel pipe internal pressure + bending large deformation is independently developed, and the physical simulation based steel pipe deformation test technology is formed. X70HD/X80HD high-strain line pipe steel and pipes have been applied in the West to East Gas Pipeline, the China–Myanmar Pipeline and other major gas pipeline projects in the large scale, and their application effects are remarkable. To satisfy the new needs of pipeline construction and long-term safe operation under complex geological conditions, some suggestions were put forwarded, such as developing new methods of strain-based pipeline design, and researching and developing or improving the supporting technologies suitable for the higher matching requirements of girth weld, such as welding methods, welding materials, welding processes, and girth weld performance quality and defect control requirements.

热成像监控技术在海外油气管道工程中的应用

热成像监控技术在海外油气管道工程中的应用

TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND ASEAN COUNTRIES

The perspective of development of trade relations between the Russian Federation and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been considered. The following projects: transport (“Russian Railways” OJSC with Indonesia; PJSC “Gazprom” projects, the South China Sea; “Petros” company projects), as well as the “East Siberia-Pacific Ocean” oil pipeline project have been considered. The import and export of Russia with some of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries for today and over the past ten years have been analysed. The prospect of a comprehensive association between Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Eurasian Economic Union has been proposed. The most substantial and significant moments in maintaining the data of trade relations between countries have been highlighted. The possible reasons for the lack of large-scale and strong ties in some areas of activity between the Russian Federation and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have been revealed, various options for creating and supporting mutually beneficial trade relations also have been offered.

Explaining Variation in Oil Sands Pipeline Projects

AbstractWhile the vast majority of oil pipeline projects in Canada have been successfully built, several mega oil sands projects within and passing through Canada have been cancelled or significantly delayed. This article explains why these delays and cancellations have occurred. A systematic cross-case analysis is used to provide insight into the changing politics of oil sands pipelines. Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is used to identify combinations of causal conditions that co-occur across cases of proposed new oil pipelines and pipeline expansion projects. The pipeline projects were proposed to the federal regulator—the National Energy Board—between 2006 and 2014. The QCA reveals that social mobilization and major regulatory barrier(s) are necessary conditions in explaining variation in pipeline project outcomes. The analysis of sufficiency reveals more complex configurations of conditions. This article contributes to the literature on the politics of oil sands pipelines by using a comparative approach to identify the impacts of socio-political and legal dynamics that have emerged around pipelines in the last 15 years.

Visual Storytelling, Intergenerational Environmental Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty: Exploring Images and Stories amid a Contested Oil Pipeline Project.

Visual practices of representing fossil fuel projects are entangled in diverse values and relations that often go underexplored. In Canada, visual media campaigns to aggressively push forward the fossil fuel industry not only relegate to obscurity indigenous values but mask evidence on health impacts as well as the aspirations of those most affected, including indigenous communities whose food sovereignty and stewardship relationship to the land continues to be affronted by oil pipeline expansion. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation, based at the terminal of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada, has been at the forefront of struggles against the pipeline expansion. Contributing to geographical, environmental studies, and public health research grappling with the performativity of images, this article explores stories conveying health, environmental, and intergenerational justice concerns on indigenous territory. Adapting photovoice techniques, elders and youth illustrated how the environment has changed over time; impacts on sovereignty—both food sovereignty and more broadly; concepts of health, well-being and deep cultural connection with water; and visions for future relationships. We explore the importance of an intergenerational lens of connectedness to nature and sustainability, discussing visual storytelling not just as visual counter-narrative (to neocolonial extractivism) but also as an invitation into fundamentally different ways of seeing and interacting.

Using stakeholders’ judgement and fuzzy logic theory to analyze the risk influencing factors in oil and gas pipeline projects: Case study in Iraq, Stage II

Oil and gas pipelines are safe and economic to petroleum products transportation. Nevertheless, enormous risk influencing factors are threatening the safety of these pipelines during the planning, construction and operations stages of these projects. Risk analysis in these projects is hindered by the inaccurate data about the probability and severity levels of the risk influencing factors. This problem is exacerbated further in troubled and developing countries, where the documentations and records are not at the best conditions. This study aims to identify and analyze potential risk influencing factors using a more integrated risk analysis framework. In this a such framework, the critical risk influencing factors and some of applied risk mitigation methods were identified based on a comprehensive review of pipelines projects worldwide. The impact of the identified factors and the effectiveness of mitigation methods were evaluated based on an industry-wide questionnaire survey, which was conducted in Iraq. A Computer-Based Risk Analysis Model (CBRAM) was designed to analyze the risk influencing factors using a fuzzy logic theory to consider any uncertainty that is associated with stakeholders’ judgments and data scarcity. The CBRAM has confirmed the most critical risk influencing factors, which this study has explained the effective methods to manage them.

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