A significant quantum of crude oil is trapped in reservoirs and often unrecoverable by conventional oil recovery methods. Further downstream, the petroleum industry is facing challenges to remove sulfur, metal, nitrogen as well as undesirable organic compounds from the crude. Conventional secondary recovery methods such as water and gas injections helped to increase the productivity of the well...

Wireless sensors and measurement devices are widely deployed in oil and gas refineries to monitor the health of the pipes. These sensors are deployed along the pipes in an open area and thus are subject to large scale failures due to cyber-physical attacks and hazardous environments. In this paper, we study the resilience issues in collecting data from a dense and large scale set of sensors dep...

The greenhouse gas emission intensity of refining lower quality petroleum was estimated from fuel combustion for energy used by operating plants to process crude oils of varying quality. Refinery crude feed, processing, yield, and fuel data from four regions accounting for 97% of U.S. refining capacity from 1999 to 2008 were compared among regions and years for effects on processing and energy ...

Accidents involving rotating equipment in chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, and gas plants can result in damage to other process equipment and catalysts along with lost production. Conversely, process upsets, process instrumentation failure, or failures of other process equipment can result in damage to rotating equipment. An effective rotating equipment loss prevention program will be an int...

This study describes the simulation of gas demand for greenhouses in the agricultural area. Using the data provided by an energy company providing gas to over 3600 individual greenhouses , several models are developed to predict the gas demand of an individual green house. Using these models peak smoothing strategies for the overall gas demand can be developed and tested. Three of such peak smo...

On 9 October 2001 two US oil companies Chevron and Texaco merged. Their long-term joint venture operation, known as Caltex (formed in 1936 and operating in East and Southern Africa, Middle East, Asia and Australasia), was incorporated into the one global energy company. This global enterprise will be highly competitive across all energy sectors, as the new company brings together a wealth of ta...

The petroleum industry plays a vital role in the economies of developing countries. Refinery wastewater pollution has increased recent years due to increase industrial and urban use products. present work demonstrates how textile waste can be modified into material that effectively remove sulfur pollutants from refinery wastewater. An economic activated carbon (AC) was developed by using cotton...

The present paper describes and analyses three proposed cogeneration plants include back pressure steam-turbine system, gas turbine diesel-engine the Dura refinery plant. Selected actual operating data are employed for analysis. same amount of electrical thermal product outputs is considered all systems to facilitate comparisons. theoretical analysis was done according 1st 2nd law thermodynamic...