Oil testing has found widespread use in assessing the quality of the insulation system of a transformer. Techniques such as Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) have been proven to be reliable in this task, but are expensive, laborious and time consuming. It is also not available for field use. This paper proposes the combined use of gas and optical sensing technology for the testing of transformer oil...

INTRODUCTION History and Background Objectives Data Sources Need for the Study Method of Analysis GENERAL INFORMATION • The Oil Shale Resource Retorting Technologies State of the Industry TABLE OF CONTENTS Assumptions about Oil Shale Technology Application . CARCINOGENIC POTENTIAL OF OIL SHALE AND SHALE PRODUCTS Background Description of Oil Shale Shale Oil Spent Shale • Indicator Compound POTE...

Pengrowth has targeted East Bodo (Alberta side) and Cosine (Saskatchewan side) for waterflood optimization and subsequent enhanced oil recovery applications. Currently, the most practical EOR technology for this heavy oil reservoir seems to be the polymer flood technology in combination with horizontal wells. Several investigators(1-4) have demonstrated the potential of the polymer flood techno...

Qualification of employees who operate technological processes directly influences the safety of production. However, the employees’’ qualification cannot completely exclude human factor. Today, there are many technologies that can minimize or eliminate human factor impact on production safety ensuring. The augmented reality technology is an example of this technology. Nowadays, the augmented r...

The worldwide global demand for oil has grown by 150% since 1965 and 20% in the past 20 years to the current 80 million barrels per day, and is projected to grow by 50% more in the next 20 years [1]. The growth in global demand for oil comes at a time when the supply from relatively cheap conventional sources is declining, and reserves are not being replaced with new discoveries [2]. However, t...

Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a technology that could potentially increase the tertiary recovery of oil from mature oil formations. However, the efficacy of this technology in fractional-wet systems is unknown, and the mechanisms involved in oil mobilization therefore need further investigation. Our MEOR strategy consists of the injection of ex situ produced metabolic byproducts pro...

Crude oil is the major source of energy worldwide being exploited as a source of economy, including Oman. As the price of crude oil increases and crude oil reserves collapse, exploitation of oil resources in mature reservoirs is essential for meeting future energy demands. As conventional recovery methods currently used have become less efficient for the needs, there is a continuous demand of d...

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Francesco Zitarosa is Director of the Global Crankcase Ventilation Application Technology Department at the Reinz-DichtungsGmbH in Neu-Ulm (Germany). Philipp Zedelmair, B. Eng. works on Oil Separation Development at the Plastics Systems Division of the Reinz-DichtungsGmbH in Neu-Ulm (Germany). Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Christoph Erdmann is Development Director at the Plastics Systems Divi...

The main challenge facing the oil industry is to reduce development costs while accelerating recovery with maximizing reserves. One of the key enabling technologies in this area is intelligent well completions. Intelligent well technology (IWT) is a relatively new technology that has been adopted by many operators in recent years to improve oil and gas recovery. Intelligent well completions emp...