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Applying a Sound Methodology to Oil and Gas Projects
From offshore to onshore, from upstream to downstream, and from exploration to decommission, processes make up the heart and soul of oil and gas activities. Proposals, inspections, designs, constructions, and operations all incorporate processes. They in turn must use...
Professional Right-of-way Services Vital to Project Timelines
Oil and gas projects — especially those that span across several property lines — require significant planning and analysis before construction can even begin. The legal placement of power lines, pipelines, pump stations, and communication infrastructure depends on a...
What Is Predictive Analytics and How Could It Help the Oil and Gas Industry?
Discussion of the uses of predictive analytics in the oil and gas industry has been around at least since 2008, though only recently has the conversation gotten more intense. Publications like E&P, Oil & Gas Journal, Oil & Gas Monitor, and The American Oil...
The Expertise Behind Placing Gathering Systems
Gathering systems are a collection of distribution, regulation, and separation equipment designed to "transport and control the flow of oil or gas" from its source to a particular destination. They act as a vital midstream component to the industry, keeping the flow...
Commissioning Management Systems Keep Facility Planning and Operation Efficient
A commissioning management system (CMS; sometimes referred to as a completions and commissioning management system or CCMS) is often used on upstream and downstream installations due to the large quantity of activities and data affiliated with the entire process....
Pipeline Monitoring Moving Forward with Technology
With over 1.3 million miles of energy pipelines in the U.S. alone, failure points are inevitable. The U.S. Department of Transportation has found that 28 percent of those failure points are at welds or operating equipment, requiring millions of dollars of repairs and...
What Is Your Formula for Risk Management Success?
From personnel and environmental safety to financial solvency, operational risks in the oil and gas industry wait at every turn. Companies in the industry work to mitigate those risks through effective risk management strategies. Drilling platforms represent one area...
Finding Material and Energy Balance in Downstream Systems
Physical systems, when analyzed, have several aspects in common. Among them is the important concept of "mass and energy in should equal mass and energy out." Of course, this concept is rarely a simple one; measuring mass and energy conversions within a complex system...