API Foundation for Refinery Safety Regulations
Refineries are petrochemical industrial plants where substances derived from crude oil and gas are obtained. Within their walls, transformation and refining processes occur to obtain...
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What are the Most Relevant New Technologies for the Upstream Sector?
The upstream sector of the oil and gas industry is based on the first stage of a reservoir’s lifetime. This cycle takes into account the...
Digitalization of the Oil and Gas Industry
At more than 100 years old, the oil industry is one of the most faithful industrial disciplines to its principles; in oil fields or in...
Geomechanics, the Nemesis of the NPT
In the oil industry, project calculations are made based on two values: time and investment, making it clearer than ever that time is money. For...
Use of Natural Gas Production for a Thermoelectric Power Generation Plant
Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons that contains methane (CH4) at an amount greater than 80 percent, volumes of alkanes and, in some cases,...
Reuse of Well Production Water from Oil and Gas Wells
Water is one of the most important resources on the planet. Composed by two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen, it represents a renewable...
Virtual Reality is Not Just a Game, But Training
With the passage of time, it is increasingly difficult to get trained personnel for the oil industry. The experience as a crane operator, drilling rig,...
Has Skynet Taken Over Diving Work in the Oil Industry?
Diving as a profession goes back to very ancient times. The first divers collected a great variety of sea products as organisms that were used...
There Is More than One Way to Practice Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing is a highly practiced branch of the production discipline that is commonly used in sands with low permeability. Sometimes it is used for...
