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• Guidelines issued for composites to build offshore oil structures

  From:Advanced Materials & Processes (Vol. 163, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2005169 words Brief article Guidelines for the application of composite materials on offshore structures is expected to facilitate industry consideration of alternatives to costly steel in the development of mooring systems and risers, says...

• Determinants of foreign direct investment: evidence from a questionnaire survey in the Japanese manufacturing sector

  Author:Kazuo KadokawaFrom:Transnational Corporations (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20118,240 words Survey 1480LThis paper explores the results of a questionnaire survey investigating the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) by Japanese manufacturing firms from 1994 to 2009. Specifically, the questionnaire asked the...

• Summer sea ice concentration, motion, and thickness near areas of proposed offshore oil and gas development in the Canadian Beaufort Sea--2009

  Authors:Ryan J. Galley, B.G.T. Else, S.J. Prinsenberg, D. Babb, and D.G. BarberFrom:Arctic (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20138,070 words Report 1680L(Received 31 October 2011; accepted in revised form 24 May 2012) ABSTRACT. This study was motivated by the potential development of offshore oil exploration leases in the Canadian Southern Beaufort Sea, an area...

• Unitized we stand, divided we fall: a Mexican response to Karla Urdaneta's analysis of transboundary petroleum reservoirs in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico

  Author:Miriam GrunsteinFrom:Houston Journal of International Law (Vol. 33, Issue 2)

  Spring 20117,862 words Article 2230LI. INTRODUCTION Two very different energy industries exist on each side of the U.S.-Mexico border. Market diversity is imprinted on the U.S. model, but the Mexican model rests on exactly the opposite principle:...

• Fatal Attraction: Oil Field Waste Pits

  Author:Pedro Jr. RamirezFrom:Endangered Species Bulletin (Vol. 24, Issue 1)

  Jan. 1999958 words Article Two million migratory birds are estimated to die each year in oil and mining wastewater ponds in the western United States, according to Gary Mowad, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Special Agent in Lakewood,...

• THE IMPORTANCE OF SCOPE MANAGEMENT AND ITS CHANGES IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY THE IMPACTS GENERATED IN THE TIME, COST AND QUALITY AREAS OF AN OFFSHORE OIL EXPLORATION PROJECT/A IMPORTANCIA DO GERENCIAMENTO DO ESCOPO E DE SUAS MUDANCAS A FIM DE IDENTIFICAR OS IMPACTOS GERADOS NAS AREAS DE PRAZO, CUSTO E QUALIDADE DE UM PROJETO DE EXPLORACAO OFFSHORE DE PETROLEO.

  Author:Daniel Jose Teixeira SedaFrom:Revista Inovacao, Projectos e Tecnologias (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  July-Dec 20174,859 words Article This article presents important aspects related to the project management process, mostly based on the PMI (Project Management Institute) methodology. It addresses key issues for project success, such as what should be...

• The Effect of Traffic Levels on the Distribution and Behaviour of Calving Caribou in an Arctic Oilfield.

  Authors:Alexander K. Prichard, Joseph H. Welch, and Brian E. LawheadFrom:Arctic (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 202211,575 words Article 1520LCaribou are the most abundant large terrestrial mammals in Arctic Alaska, providing important cultural and subsistence resource values for local communities. As oil and gas development expands across the Arctic Coastal...

• Effects of Aged Oil Sludge on Soil Physicochemical Properties and Fungal Diversity Revealed by High-Throughput Sequencing Analysis

  Authors:Huihui Wang, Shaoping Kuang, Qiaolin Lang, and Wenjuan YuFrom:Archaea (Vol. 2018) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 20185,108 words Article 1420LThe oilfield soil was contaminated for years by large quantities of aged oil sludge generated in the petroleum industry. In this study, physicochemical properties, contents of main pollutants, and fungal diversity of...

• Forecasting energy supply and pollution from the offshore oil and gas industry

  Authors:Shunsuke Managi, James J. Opaluch, Di Jin, and Thomas A. GrigalunasFrom:Marine Resource Economics (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20049,860 words Report Sound energy and environmental policies require reliable forecasts of production and pollution, as well as supply response to policy actions. In this study, we describe a model for forecasting long-term production and...

• Health care technology today: here's a look at some advances and proposals in the field of health care technology

  From:PT in Motion (Vol. 2, Issue 10)

  Nov. 20101,229 words Article 1340LOil Rig Companies Using Telemedicine To Link Workers to Physicians Oil rig companies are increasingly using telemedicine via Internet or satellite connections to link their workers to emergency medical physicians at...

• A Hybrid Analytical/Numerical Model for the Characterization of Preferential Flow Path with Non-Darcy Flow

  Authors:Sen Wang, Qihong Feng, and Xiaodong HanFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 30, 20139,371 words Article 1570LDue to the long-term fluid-solid interactions in waterflooding, the tremendous variation of oil reservoir formation parameters will lead to the widespread evolution of preferential flow paths, thereby preventing the...

• Speciation of VOC emissions related to offshore North Sea oil and gas production.

  Authors:Shona E. Wilde, Pamela A. Dominutti, Grant Allen, Stephen J. Andrews, Prudence Bateson, Stephane J.-B. Bauguitte, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 12, 2021430 words Article The North Sea is Europe's key oil and gas (O&G) basin with the output currently meeting 3 %-4 % of global oil supply. Despite this, there are few observational constraints on the nature of atmospheric emissions from this...

• Research on calibrating rock mechanical parameters with a statistical method

  Authors:Zhen Liu, Ye Guo, Shuheng Du, Gengyu Wu, and Mao PanFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 18, 20174,670 words Author abstract, Rep... 1360LResearch on the modeling of rock mechanics parameters is of great significance to the exploration of oil and gas. The use of logging data with the Kriging interpolation to study rock mechanics parameters has been proven...

• Oil in the Gulf, 2010

  Author:Anthony OpalFrom:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 208)

  Dec. 201076 words Brief article 980LAdd a drop of ink to water, add a drop of blood. Watch as it spreads and curls like a midnight lily aching into the open air, blooming with a certain placidity, a certain un-industrious possibility. But this is not a...

• Study on relation between hydrodynamic feature size of HPAM and pore size of reservoir rock in Daqing oilfield

  Authors:Qing Fang, Jinfeng Chen, Chunnan Lu, Dandan Yin, and Yiqiang LiFrom:Advances in Materials Science and EngineeringPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20152,947 words Report 1500LThe flow mechanism of the injected fluid was studied by the constant pressure core displacement experiments in the paper. It is assumed under condition of the constant pressure gradient in deep formation based on the...

• A Novel Artificial Neural Network-Based Correlation for Evaluating the Rate of Penetration in a Natural Gas Bearing Sandstone Formation: A Case Study in a Middle East Oil Field.

  Authors:Ahmad Al-AbdulJabbar, Ahmed Abdulhamid Mahmoud, Salaheldin Elkatatny, and Mahmoud AbughabanFrom:Journal of Sensors (Vol. 2022) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 13, 20226,225 words Case study 1430LThis study presented an empirical correlation to estimate the drilling rate of penetration (ROP) while drilling into a sandstone formation. The equation developed in this study was based on the artificial neural networks...

• HP Brief

  From:Hydrocarbon ProcessingPeer-Reviewed

  June 20131,092 words Company overview 1510LByline: Thinnes, Billy Major energy supply and flare reduction project in Iraq South Gas Co., Shell and Mitsubishi have joined together to form Basrah Gas Co. (BGC), which will oversee what the group claims to be...

• Biomarkers in Natural Fish Populations Indicate Adverse Biological Effects of Offshore Oil Production

  Authors:Lennart Balk, Ketil Hylland, Tomas Hansson, Marc H. G. Berntssen, Jonny Beyer, Grete Jonsson, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 23, 20117,902 words Article 1450LBackground Despite the growing awareness of the necessity of a sustainable development, the global economy continues to depend largely on the consumption of non-renewable energy resources. One such energy resource is...

• Evaluation of the Performance of Conventional Water-Based Mud Characteristics by Applying Zinc Oxide and Silica Dioxide Nanoparticle Materials for a Selected Well in the Kurdistan/Iraq Oil Field.

  Authors:Ahmed R. AlBajalan and Hunar K. HaiasFrom:Advances in Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 2021) Peer-Reviewed

  July 28, 20214,006 words Article 1510LNanomaterials have gained a wide interest in the oil and gas industry due to their immense applicability. Nanomaterials are being used to formulate a new generation of drilling mud known as Nanomud or Smart mud, where it...

• Russia's real drive to the south

  Author:Stephen BlankFrom:ORBIS (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 19958,338 words Article Azerbaijan's President Gaidar Aliyev signed a contract with SOCAR, an international oil consortium led by British Petroleum Company PLC, to develop oil and gas fields in Azerbaijan's territorial waters in the Caspian...