Proper Use of Technical Standards in Offshore Petroleum Industry

Working hours in the offshore petroleum industry

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in Norway's offshore petroleum industry.

BACKGROUND Since 1992, physicians have reported work-related diseases among workers in Norway's offshore petroleum industry to the Petroleum Safety Authority, as required by law. AIMS To analyse the number of reported work-related musculoskeletal disorders and risk factors (occupation and reported exposure) from 1992 to 2003. METHODS Data from the Petroleum Safety Authority's registry of wo...

Co-materialization: Digital Innovation Dynamics in the Offshore Petroleum Industry

This paper empirically explores the concept of co-materialization to explain the digital innovation dynamics in offshore petroleum production. The central insight developed is that the very nature of subsurface processes and phenomena that may be monitored and controlled is transformed as offshore petroleum production is digitalized. The paper shows how digital technologies are intrinsic to thi...

Potentials of Solar Energy Use in Upstream Petroleum Industry

Extraction and processing of oil products consume 10% of the total energy produced by fossil resource. to prevent operational problems in downstream units Oil extracted from oil fields will be sent to the desalting plant for desalination and dehydration. One of the most important steps that have a vital role in this unit is pre-heating by heaters which use natural gas produced with crude oil at...

Medical and psychological challenges in the offshore petroleum industry.

The offshore oil industry is an important industry employing a huge number of employees, involving a huge amount of money, having a huge influence on national and international economies, and thereby representing a huge political impact and influence. Despite being a huge industry, it has many characteristics of a small family. The number of operators, service-companies, and contractors is rela...