Download or read book Dynamic Safety Analysis of Decommissioning and Abandonment of Offshore Oil and Gas Installations written by Ahmed Babaleye and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study on Decommissioning of Offshore Oil and Gas Installations written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decommissioning offshore oil and gas infrastructure is the process of permanent resealing of wells such that remaining hydrocarbons cannot leak to the sea, or move between different rock strata, and the removal of offshore oil and gas infrastructure from the marine environment with the objective of leaving a clean sea-bed where technically possible, environmentally beneficial, and with the minimum risk to the safety of personnel involved in the decommissioning operation. Other than long-term environmental monitoring, decommissioning is the final stage in the lifecycle of an oil and gas production installation. The Offshore Safety Directive (2013/30/EU) sets a legal framework for the safe decommissioning of offshore installations with respect to major (safety) hazards and the environmental impact that may follow such a major hazard event and the requirement for permanent sealing of the wells from the installation and the environment, but it does not explicitly address the overall aims of decommissioning and any remaining longer-term environmental effects if all infrastructure is not removed. There is no EU legislation on offshore oil and gas decommissioning specifically, although decommissioning is a 'project' as defined in the EIA Directive (2014/52/EU) and so falls within its scope and also under the scope of other EU environmental legislation, such as the Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/EC) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC to assess the pressure and impacts of this human activity on the marine environment). Collectively, under this legislation, the physical process of decommissioning is well-regulated, but EU legislation does not directly cover the principle aims of decommissioning that are in country-specific legislation, or in international conventions such as the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR). Given the above, the European Commission, through DG ENER, has commissioned Trinomics and DNV to carry out a technical, legal and political analysis of decommissioning of offshore oil and gas infrastructure in the EU to identify where potential gaps in the current decommissioning legislative framework exist and whether EU regulation on decommissioning is warranted.
Download or read book Decommissioning Offshore Structures written by D.G. Gorman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly over the next few decades, the oil and gas industry faces the complex task of decommissioning its offshore platforms, pipelines and sub-sea equipment as they reach the end of their operational capabilities. Decommissioning involves and integrates many distinct aspects: engineering, environmental, economic, legal, political and safety considerations. A practical strategy for removing and disposing these structures needs to be developed which best meets the demands of all of these different aspects. Specialists in these various fields have been brought together for this volume to contribute their assessments of the situation. The result is an important step toward the development of a co-ordinated approach to the subject. It is essential reading for all those who are involved with major decommissioning projects, their possible environmental impact and their implications in politics and law.
Download or read book Decommissioning Topic Strategy written by Health And Safety Executive Staff and published by . This book was released on 2001-06-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was established to assist with development of a Topic Strategy on Decommissioning of Offshore Installations. The study begins by highlighting the key issues relating to abandonment of offshore installations and identifying knowledge gaps. A review is included of the likely decommissioning schedule for all UK sector North Sea installations together with their classification and the weight and water depth of the largest structures affected by the OSPAR decision. The abandonment process is described as a framework for considering safety management and technical issues related to decommissioning. Previous HSE research is reviewed and new issues are identified as a result of recent experience and the changing regulatory requirements.
Download or read book Safety and Offshore Oil written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Assessment of Safety of OCS Activities and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decommissioning of Offshore Oil and Gas Facilities written by consultant expert mohamed taha and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS1. Introduction..................................................................................................................11.1 Methodology - Mapping Material, Energy and Financial Flows................. 12. Boundaries, scope and sources.....................................................................................72.1 Temporal Boundaries................................................................................. 72.2 Spatial Boundary ....................................................................................... 72.3 Economic and Fiscal Scope........................................................................ 72.4 Scope of the Analysis................................................................................. 82.5 Sources for the Analysis............................................................................. 83. OPTIONS FOR DECOMMISSIONING...................................................................103.1 Introduction to the Issues ......................................................................... 103.1.1 Introduction to offshore oil and gas structures .................................. 103.1.2 Introduction to regulatory issues....................................................... 103.1.3 Decommissioning experience and industrial legacy .......................... 133.1.4 Health & safety ................................................................................ 143.1.5 Economics of decommissioning ....................................................... 143.1.6 Brief description of decommissioning options .................................. 163.2 The Reference Scenario ........................................................................... 203.3 Top side, Jacket and Footings .................................................................. 213.3.1 Energy assessment experience.......................................................... 213.3.2 Material, energy and value chain analysis......................................... 223.3.3 Footings ........................................................................................... 243.4 Pipelines .................................................................................................. 253.4.1 Decommissioning scenarios ............................................................. 253.4.2 DTI guidelines ................................................................................. 263.4.3 Risk to trawling activities................................................................. 263.4.4 Material, energy and value assessment of pipeline decommissioning 273.5 Drill Cuttings ........................................................................................... 273.5.1 Characterisation of cuttings piles...................................................... 283.5.2 Dredging of cuttings scenarios.......................................................... 303.5.3 Leaving in-situ scenarios.................................................................. 324. Assumptions for the flow analysis..............................................................................354.1 Financial expenditure assumptions........................................................... 354.2 Material flow assumptions ....................................................................... 374.3 Summary Assessment of Material and Energy Flows............................... 425. Non-financial outcomes..............................................................................................435.1 Methods of assessing the non-financial outcomes..................................... 435.1.1 Clear seabed..................................................................................... 435.1.2 Health and safety.............................................................................. 445.1.3 Jobs in the UK....
Download or read book The Regulation of Decommissioning Abandonment and Reuse Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Industry written by André Pereira da Fonseca and published by Kluwer Law International. This book was released on 2020 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Regulation of Decommissioning, Abandonment and Reuse Initiatives in the Oil and Gas Industry is an expansive book which divulges a comprehensive description and critique of the key issues that must be addressed by nations, and of the current international, regional, and national law and policy in this field. With thousands of offshore oil and gas platforms in place across the globe, the decommissioning of these ageing installations is becoming of increasing concern to regulators, industry and other stakeholders in the marine environment. This book elucidates current initiatives aimed at maximising reuse and repurposing opportunities, such as wind power, hydrogen, carbon capture, and storage by analysing the relevant law and practices of selected oil- and gas-producing nations.
Download or read book Offshore Process Safety written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods in Chemical Process Safety, Volume Two, the latest release in a serial that publishes fully commissioned methods papers across the field of process safety, risk assessment, and management and loss prevention, aims to provide informative, visual and current content that appeals to both researchers and practitioners in process safety. This new release contains unique chapters on offshore safety, offshore platform safety, human factors in offshore operation, marine safety, safety during well drilling and operation, safety during processing (top side), safety during transportation of natural resources (offshore pipeline), and regulatory context - Helps acquaint the reader/researcher with the fundamentals of process safety - Provides the most recent advancements and contributions on the topic from a practical point-of-view - Presents users with the views/opinions of experts in each topic - Includes a selection of the author(s) of each chapter from among the leading researchers and/or practitioners for each given topic
Download or read book The Politics Economics and Ecology of Decommissioning Offshore Oil and Gas Structures written by Michael Vincent McGinnis and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Permanent Plug and Abandonment of Wells written by Mahmoud Khalifeh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book offers a timely guide to challenges and current practices to permanently plug and abandon hydrocarbon wells. With a focus on offshore North Sea, it analyzes the process of plug and abandonment of hydrocarbon wells through the establishment of permanent well barriers. It provides the reader with extensive knowledge on the type of barriers, their functioning and verification. It then discusses plug and abandonment methodologies, analyzing different types of permanent plugging materials. Last, it describes some tests for verifying the integrity and functionality of installed permanent barriers. The book offers a comprehensive reference guide to well plugging and abandonment (P&A) and well integrity testing. The book also presents new technologies that have been proposed to be used in plugging and abandoning of wells, which might be game-changing technologies, but they are still in laboratory or testing level. Given its scope, it addresses students and researchers in both academia and industry. It also provides information for engineers who work in petroleum industry and should be familiarized with P&A of hydrocarbon wells to reduce the time of P&A by considering it during well planning and construction.
Download or read book Health Safety and Environmental Management in Offshore and Petroleum Engineering written by Srinivasan Chandrasekaran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares the technical knowhow in the field of health, safety and environmental management, as applied to oil and gas industries and explains concepts through a simple and straightforward approach Provides an overview of health, safety and environmental (HSE) management as applied to offshore and petroleum engineering Covers the fundamentals of HSE and demonstrates its practical application Includes industry case studies and examples based on the author's experiences in both academia and oil and gas industries Presents recent research results Includes tutorials and exercises
Download or read book Public Workshop Decommissioning and Removal of Oil and Gas Facilities Offshore California written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decommissioning Offshore Oil and Gas Installations written by International Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production Industry and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Offshore Safety Management written by Ian Sutton and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 was a defining year for the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) floating drilling rig suffered a catastrophic explosion and fire. Eleven men died in the explosion — 17 others were injured. The fire, which burned for a day and a half, eventually sent the entire rig to the bottom of the sea. The extent of the spill was enormous, and the environmental damage is still being evaluated. Following DWH the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulations and Enforcement (BOEMRE) issued many new regulations. One of them is the Safety and Environmental System (SEMS) rule, which is based on the American Petroleum Institute's SEMP recommended practice. Companies have to be in full compliance with its extensive requirements by November 15, 2011.
Download or read book Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry written by B.S. Dhillon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Insightful Guide to Avoiding Offshore Oil- and Gas-Industry Disaster Designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining offshore oil and gas industry equipment and systems can sometimes result in accidents, injuries, and other serious problems. Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Practical Approach focuses on oil and gas indus
Download or read book Managing the Risk of Offshore Oil and Gas Accidents written by Günther Handl and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the international legal dimension of the management of the risk of accidents associated with offshore oil and gas activities. It focuses on the prevention and minimization of harm as well as the post-accident management of loss through liability and compensation arrangements and the processing of mass claims for compensation. Government officials of countries with offshore industries, international civil servants and academics in related fields will find the book a valuable resource.
Download or read book Macondo Well Deepwater Horizon Blowout written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blowout of the Macondo well on April 20, 2010, led to enormous consequences for the individuals involved in the drilling operations, and for their families. Eleven workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig lost their lives and 16 others were seriously injured. There were also enormous consequences for the companies involved in the drilling operations, to the Gulf of Mexico environment, and to the economy of the region and beyond. The flow continued for nearly 3 months before the well could be completely killed, during which time, nearly 5 million barrels of oil spilled into the gulf. Macondo Well-Deepwater Horizon Blowout examines the causes of the blowout and provides a series of recommendations, for both the oil and gas industry and government regulators, intended to reduce the likelihood and impact of any future losses of well control during offshore drilling. According to this report, companies involved in offshore drilling should take a "system safety" approach to anticipating and managing possible dangers at every level of operation-from ensuring the integrity of wells to designing blowout preventers that function under all foreseeable conditions-in order to reduce the risk of another accident as catastrophic as the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. In addition, an enhanced regulatory approach should combine strong industry safety goals with mandatory oversight at critical points during drilling operations. Macondo Well-Deepwater Horizon Blowout discusses ultimate responsibility and accountability for well integrity and safety of offshore equipment, formal system safety education and training of personnel engaged in offshore drilling, and guidelines that should be established so that well designs incorporate protection against the various credible risks associated with the drilling and abandonment process. This book will be of interest to professionals in the oil and gas industry, government decision makers, environmental advocacy groups, and others who seek an understanding of the processes involved in order to ensure safety in undertakings of this nature.
