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Abstract A multi-million dollar environmental research program consisting of thirty-three wildlife, biological, oceanographic, meteorological, sea ice and oil clean-up studies related to the southern Beaufort Sea is described. The studies are designed to provide ecological baselines, a better understanding ...
Abstract Norske Shell plans to develop and demonstrate a new technology for power generation from natural gas, which allows efficient and economic capture of the exhaust CO2 for subsurface sequestration. The technology will be suitable for deepwater offshore deployment on floating production facilities. ...
Abstract A continuous improvement in dealing with hydrocarbon spill in Mahakam Delta is important due to the rapid change and more stakeholders in the area. Geographic Response Strategy (GRS) can answer the challenge to help spill responder in decision making by providing integrated essential information ...
Abstract During recent years, many changes and innovations in deep sea drilling techniques and equipment have been required to meet the objectives of an increasingly sophisticated and diversified scientific program. These include such developments as a deep-penetrating hydraulic piston corer, drill ...
Abstract Following a very thorough planning process, initiated in the early nineties, the cessation plan for the Ekofisk I field was submitted to Norwegian authorities October 1999. Ekofisk I, containing some 14 steel jacket based and one concrete based installation, some 40 pipelines as well as some ...
Abstract In 1996 BAPCO embarked on a project to expand the Khuff Gas Transmission and Distribution networks in Bahrain. The project was divided into four discrete segments, namely, Transmission, Distribution, Offshore and Downstream. The paper and presentation will briefly describe the overall project ...
Abstract BP Alaska Wells Team executes the highest wellwork volume in all of BP's worldwide operations. On the North Slope of Alaska, BP plans and executes wellwork for all of the fields it operates including Prudhoe Bay. This paper describes the process and use of technology to effectively plan ...
Abstract BP Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey (AGT) Region has developed an Integrated Environmental Monitoring Program (IEMP) for its upstream activities, which include the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) and Shah Deniz (SD) Contract Areas located in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea, as well as near-shore ...
Abstract Three drillstring fatigue failures occurred while drilling two deep wells below 16,500 ft true-vertical depth (TVD) in the U.S.A. midcontinent region. All the failures occurred across 2°/100 ft to 3°/100 ft dogleg severity intervals from 6,000 ft to 8,000 ft. The well conditions (i.e., pipe ...
Abstract Environmental studies of offshore drilling activities, conducted over a period of more than two decades, have shown that the mercury present at trace levels in drilling fluid barite has very limited bioavailability to marine organisms. However, media reports during 2002 about the presence ...
Abstract The use of continuous coiled tubing to perform various types of remedial treatments or workovers has been well documented. Numerous successful treatments have been obtained with this device in oil, gas, injection and geothermal wells. However, the occurrence of and, more importantly, the causes ...
Abstract Culture-based methods of traditional microbiology applied to the microbiological processes involved in souring of oil fields and microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) pose a threat of yielding inadequate and contradictory results. Any cultivation step will almost certainly alter the ...
This paper was prepared for the Second Biennial Symposium on Environmental Conservation presented by the Evangeline Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, to be held in Lafayette, La., Nov. 13-14, 1972. Permission to copy is restricted to an abstract of not more than 300 words. Illustrations ...
Abstract Recent conventional wells drilled around the Chachaloula Salt Dome field in South Louisiana have been drilled directionally from central pads due to wetland environmental issues. These wells often encounter borehole instability and lost circulation drilling problems. Some take multiple sidetracks ...
Abstract This paper describes the new technology used to kill an underwater, deep, high-pressure blowout. A new method of offset subsea capping extinguished a fire and killed a blowout in 95 ft of water. Success of the methods for subsea well capping proved that safe and cost-effective work is possible ...
Abstract Decisions about using dispersants are made in the context of reasons for treating spilled oil which threats to valuable habitat and nursery areas or to vulnerable early stages of marine life. The potential use of chemical dispersants raises some primary questions, principally: Are they effective? ...
Abstract This paper describes how simulations with a recently developed model systemhave been used as input to a Net Environmental Benefit Analysis, to evaluate astrategy for use of chemical dispersants as an integrated part of the initialresponse at two Norwegian oil fields. A scenario with release ...
Abstract The 3-dimensional, multiple component pollutant transport, exposure, dose, and effects assessment model DREAM is described. This software tool has been designed to support rational management of environmental risks associated with operational discharges of complex mixtures. Each component ...
Abstract Since mercury is known to be a naturally occurring component of geologically derived hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Thailand, the Bongkot Operation Marine Environmental Monitoring concentrated on the measurement of mercury content in commercial species of demersal fishes in the vicinity of the ...
Abstract The oil and petrochemical industries have unquestionably been key drivers in the development of the complex, modern world we live in. They have helped power our cities, transport our goods and provided the raw materials for the development of countless pharmaceuticals, dyes, plastics and consumer ...