Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Friday, 18 May 2018
Research advances energy savings for oil, gas industries
Efficiently
converting methane:
Methane gas is a result in a significant part of the oil and gas
industry, where it might develop amid activities and cause a safety concern.
Methane additionally an essential fixing in flammable gas used to warm homes,
and it can be changed over into numerous valuable products including electricity.
In any case, breaking the solid bond between its carbon and hydrogen takes an
enormous measure of continuity. To change over methane, the oil and gas
industry frequently utilizes a nickel-based catalyst. Be that as it may,
usually more affordable to just consume the methane in giant flares nearby; in
any case, this is adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, contributing to
global warming. If we can efficiently and effectively convert methane from
shale or gas fields to electric power or useful products, that would be very
good thing.
Nickel
carbide an effective catalyst:
The scientists set up that they can decrease the energy required to
break the bond between hydrogen and carbon by including a modest piece of
carbon inside the nickel-based catalyst. Which makes nickel carbide, which
creates a positive electrical field, these novel catalysts debilitates the
methane atom’s hydrogen-carbon bond; enable it to break at very low temperatures.
Oil and petroleum gas blast makes methane emissions increment like carbon
dioxide; methane is a standout amongst the most critical ozone harming
substances.
The order to
thermo genic methane from the oil and flammable gas industry depends on our
vertical estimations of ethane and methane focuses between the ground and the
highest layers of the Earth's environment. Aside from thermo genic methane
framed inside profound shake layers at high temperatures and transmitted into
the air because of oil and gas creation, developing biogenic emanations by
anaerobic procedures are another reason, Ethane is fundamental for evaluating
the commitment of thermo genic methane. Like methane, it is a hydrocarbon
compound and one of the fundamental segments of petroleum gas.
Friday, 11 May 2018
Distillation process of Crude oil
Crude oil is the term for
"unrefined" oil, it is also known as petroleum. Crude oil is a fossil
fuel, it was made naturally from decaying plants and animals living in ancient
seas millions of years ago - most places you can find crude oil were once sea
beds. Crude oils vary in color, from clear to tar-black, and in viscosity, from
water to almost solid. Hydrocarbons are molecules that contain hydrogen and
carbon and come in various lengths and structures, from straight chains to
branching chains to rings. Crude oil is refined to produce useable products
such as gasoline. The process is very complex and involves both chemical
reactions and physical separations. Crude oil is mixture of thousands of
different molecules. It would be nearly impossible to isolate every molecule
and make finished products from each molecule. Chemists and engineers deal with
this problem by isolating mixtures of molecules according to the mixture's
boiling point range. The problem with crude oil is that it contains hundreds of
different types of hydrocarbons all mixed together. Crude Oil refinery process:
The oil refining process starts with a fractional distillation column. The
various components of crude oil have different sizes, weights and boiling
temperatures; so, the first step is to separate these components. Because they
have different boiling temperatures, they can be separated easily by a process
called fractional distillation. After going through the fractional
distillation, crude oil is chemically processed to change one fraction into
another. Finally, Distillate and chemically processed fractions are treated to
remove impurities. Fractional distillation: This process is based on the
principle that different substances boil at different temperatures. For
example, crude oil contains kerosene and naphtha, which are useful fractions .When
you evaporate the mixture of kerosene and naphtha, and then cool it; the
kerosene condenses at a higher temperature than the naphtha. As the mixture
cools, the kerosene condenses first, and the naphtha condenses later.
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Saturday, 5 May 2018
Compressed Natural Gas and Liquefied Hydrocarbon Gases
The arrangement of normally
happening hydrocarbon gases is like unrefined oils in that they contain a blend
of various hydrocarbon particles relying upon their source. They can be removed
as flammable gas from gas fields; oil related gas which is extricated with oil
from gas and oil fields; and gas from gas condensate fields, where a portion of
the fluid segments of oil change over into the vaporous state when weight is
high .When the weight is diminished condensate containing heavier hydrocarbons
isolates from the gas by build-up. Petroleum gas contains 90 to 99%
hydrocarbons, which comprise predominately of methane together with littler
measures of ethane, propane and butane. Petroleum gas additionally contains
structure of nitrogen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and
dormant gases, for example, argon or helium. Normal gases containing in excess
of 50 g/m3 of hydrocarbons with particles of at least three carbon iotas are
delegated lean gases.
Flammable gas from gas and
gas condensate fields is prepared in the field to meet particular
transportation criteria before being packed and bolstered into gas pipelines.
This readiness incorporates evacuation of water with driers, oil expulsion
utilizing blending channels, and the evacuation of solids by filtration.
Hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide are additionally expelled from gaseous
petrol, with the goal that they don't consume pipelines and transportation and
pressure hardware. Propane, butane and pentane, display in gaseous petrol, are
likewise expelled before transmission so they won't consolidate and shape
fluids in the framework. Flammable gas is transported by pipeline from gas
fields to liquefaction plants, where it is compacted and cooled to around – 162
°C to create melted gaseous petrol (LNG).The arrangement of LNG is not the same
as petroleum gas because of the evacuation of a few polluting influences and
segments amid the liquefaction procedure. LNG is fundamentally used to enlarge
gaseous petrol supplies amid crest request periods and to supply gas in remote
regions from real pipelines. It is degasified by adding nitrogen and air to
make it practically identical to gaseous petrol before being nourished into gas
supply lines. LNG is additionally utilized as an engine vehicle fuel as another
option to gas.
Oil related gases and
condensate gases are delegated rich gases, since they contain huge measures of
ethane, propane, butane and other immersed hydrocarbons. Oil related and
condensate gases are isolated and melted to deliver condensed oil gas (LPG) by
pressure, adsorption, retention and cooling at oil and gas process plants.
These gas plants likewise deliver regular gas and other hydrocarbon portions.
Saturday, 28 April 2018
Recent Advances in Petrochemical Science
There are very limited role for thermal processing in the
refinery because it does not give selective product as well as its processed
stream has to pass through hydro processing. However, due to the production of
heavy oil feeds using catalytic refinery process may not be efficient process.
Thermal cracking processes are designed to handle heavy residues with high
Asphaltenic and metal contents. Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle is one
of the oldest thermal process, which is used for electricity, which can handle
a wide range of poor quality feed stocks coal, heavy oil, natural gas and even
plant waste and produce a wide range of products such as syngas Hydrogen,
carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide . The process also crucial for hydrogen,
ammonia, methanol and synthetic fossil fuel For example liquid gasoline, it
contains no sulphur or benzene, making it extremely clean burning by using
methanol to gasoline processes. Syn-fuels better than conventional fuel but at
significantly which have higher price, Hence, syn fuels more expensive, which
have wide scope for technological development in order to make production
economically viable. Under gasification, the sulphur in heavy oil can be
converted into carbonyl sulphide while conversion of fuel bound nitrogen to
gaseous nitrogen and ammonia. Currently, process mainly used with the
association of steam reforming, dry reforming and partial oxidation mainly for
the coal, bottom of the barrel, asphalt or petroleum coke.
Refining Integration and Petrochemical:
The petrochemical industries and integration of refining is
a mutual benefit where utilization of refinery products and by-products as a
feedstock for petrochemicals. Therefore, it is a strategic benefit over
reducing the costs of feed and utilizing in the form of customize products. And
also both industries are looking for opportunity to make use of their processing
option where refinery can process dirtier feedstock (heavy oil) while commodity
supply can be improved in the petrochemical. specifically this model can be
effectively utilize in the refinery for heavy oil processing mainly using
cracking process or the thermal processes ,whereas petrochemical benefited from
their value products such as propylene and BTX, FCC naphtha, surplus Coker
naphtha, etc.
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Friday, 20 April 2018
Oil Recovery Techniques - Enhanced Oil Recovery:
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) is
a more technologically advanced method for bringing production to surface than conventional
methods of drilling. EOR is the final stage implemented in recovering all the
crude oil possible from an oil reservoir. There are a number of techniques used
for Enhanced Oil Recovery, each of which has variations on cost, efficiency and
safety. From all these techniques, Surfactant EOR is receiving more attention
in recent years.
Types of Enhanced Oil Recovery:
Oil production can be done
into three phases: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary (or Enhanced Oil Recovery).
Each phase requires an increasing amount of technology and energy to recover
the oil. This increases the cost of well production.
Primary & Secondary Recovery
Primary recovery relies on
naturally occurring pressure within the oil reservoir to drive oil to the
surface. Secondary oil recovery initiates external energy to the oil reservoir
when naturally occurring pressure is no longer sufficient to bring oil to the
surface. It has done this by injecting water or by pumping compressed gasses
into the reservoir.
The Global Need for Enhanced Oil Recovery:
As global demand for oil
increases so its value and this makes more expensive oil extraction techniques
more and more viable. In the long term, fossil fuels will need to be replaced
by renewable energy sources. In the meantime, however, Enhanced Oil Recovery
offers the only viable solution for retrieving anywhere up to 80% of the
world’s oil reserves. When oil prices are low the general practice has been to
extract somewhere between 20-50% of the oil through primary and secondary
processes and then abandon it. Generally speaking establishing new wells has
been a cheaper production method than EOR and that's why it has been slow to
take off.
It is only now with improved
bio-based surfactant systems that can be used at lower concentrations, the
decline in new oil field discovery and rising oil prices that EOR is becoming
economically viable.
Relieving the tension on
global oil supply in the near and medium term is vital in securing the futures
of developed and emerging economies. Whilst enhanced oil recovery is more
costly, at a practical level it means the difference between expensive oil and
no oil at all.
Enhanced Oil Recovery of various methods including:
Thermal EOR
Gas EOR
Chemical EOR
Hydrodynamic EOR
Combined EOR
With new advances in chemical research
Chemical EOR is fast gaining
well-deserved attention as a long-term option for almost complete oil field extraction
Recent developments in Chemical EOR have made even further developments making
the processes safer, cleaner and more cost efficient than ever.
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recovery techniques join at our “World Congress on Oil, Gas and Petroleum
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Friday, 13 April 2018
Advancement on Drilling Technology in Petroleum Industry
There are
two drilling techniques used in the petroleum industry, the cable tool technique,
and rotary drilling technique, second technique is the most common method that
performs a rotary grinding action. Only these two techniques applied in the
drilling phase till date. The rotary drilling technique also proved successfully,
by applying laser technology in this drilling, which is a modern technology.
Cable tool drilling is the first method of these two techniques. Hole boring is achieved by repeatedly lifting and dropping a heavy string of drilling tool into the bore hole with the bit crushing the rocks into small fragments. In this method, more result was not achieved with this because it is too much time consuming, has a very less penetration rate, blowout preventers were not easily adapted and it is almost limited to drilling consolidated formations. How-ever, at the turn of the 20th century, the rotary drilling technique was introduced and it immediately replaced the cable tool method from operation. The major difference between both is that with the cable tool, drilling has to be stopped in other for cuttings to be removed from the hole, whereas with the rotary drilling technique, a mud circulates throughout the system and carries away edges from the whole whilst drilling continuously.
Cable tool drilling is the first method of these two techniques. Hole boring is achieved by repeatedly lifting and dropping a heavy string of drilling tool into the bore hole with the bit crushing the rocks into small fragments. In this method, more result was not achieved with this because it is too much time consuming, has a very less penetration rate, blowout preventers were not easily adapted and it is almost limited to drilling consolidated formations. How-ever, at the turn of the 20th century, the rotary drilling technique was introduced and it immediately replaced the cable tool method from operation. The major difference between both is that with the cable tool, drilling has to be stopped in other for cuttings to be removed from the hole, whereas with the rotary drilling technique, a mud circulates throughout the system and carries away edges from the whole whilst drilling continuously.
Rotary technique method is most like a common hand held drill, rotating drill bit with applied force to drill down the earth crust. The prime mover, hoisting equipment, rotating equipment, circulating equipment and blowout preventers complement each other to give the rotary technique is better nowadays for drilling. These components make a complicated looking rotary drilling method is very easy method. Whereas the cable tool method; it can drill through most rock formations, has a high penetration rate and can drill deeper wells, blowout preventers are easily adapted and can drill directionally as well.
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