Sessions /Tracks
Track 1: Oil and gas technology
The last decade has seen tremendous advances in technology related to finding, estimating, and producing oil and gas. They range from supercomputers to nanotechnology. Seismic imaging technologies let drillers find oil and gas trapped miles underground and undersea.
The oil and gas industry get into a significant amount of money and resources in oil and gas technology whether it’s in adopting new technology or in the maintenance and enhance of existing technological resources. Also as more national oil companies get involved new attest systems are required and this also presents a huge challenge for technology officers and heads in the industry. The worldwide energy industry is also facing up to fact that the era of "easy oil" is coming to an end. As a result, global oil and gas companies are proactively pushing forward the boundaries of digital strategies and embracing "digital oilfields" in an effort to increase production levels from progressively challenging fields.
Track 2: Petroleum Geology and Geoscience
Petroleum Geology is the study of origin, reoccurrence, evolution, inflation, and exploration of hydrocarbon fuels. It attribute to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for hydrocarbons. Petroleum geology is basically concerned with the valuation of seven elements in sedimentary basins; Source, Reservoir, Seal, Trap, Timing, Maturation, and Migration.
In general, all these factors must be predicted by a confined window into the subsurface world, provided by one or possibly more exploration wells. These wells present only a 1-D segment through the Earth and the skill of interpreting 3-D characteristics from them is one of the most fundamental in petroleum geology. Lately, the possibility of economical, high quality 3D seismic data and data from various electromagnetic geophysical techniques such as Magnetotellurics has greatly assisted the accuracy of such analysis. Geoscience is a widely grasp term for the fields of science related to the Earth. It is the branch of science dealing with the physical structure of the earth and its atmosphere.
Track 3: Oil, Gas Exploration and Production
Oil and gas operations can be classified into upstream, midstream and downstream activities. The upstream action involves oil and gas exploration and production, the midstream action focuses on oil and gas transportation and storage, and the downstream action deals with oil and gas purification and retailing. These different trade actions naturally require specially designed and deliberate resources to manage, and there are many staid-line upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas operators. However, unified oil and gas industries with both upstream and downstream operations are still a major force within the oil and gas industry.
The Oil & Gas Exploration & Production industry comprises companies that are committed in the exploration and extraction of crude oil and natural gas. The industry also consists of the recovery of butane, ethane and natural liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) recovered from oil and gas fields. The Oil & Gas Exploration and Production industry eliminate exploration services on settlement basis, classified in Oil Related Services & Equipment, and exploration and production with substantial refining operations, classified in Integrated Oil & Gas.
Track 4: Petroleum Distillation and Refining
Crude oil is also known as petroleum will be a mixture from claiming separate hydrocarbons. Large portions suitable items might a chance to be committed from these hydrocarbons. Anyhow primary those of service ones must be concentrated starting with those unrefined petroleum Furthermore differentiated starting with each other. How will be this done? The separate hydrocarbon parts from claiming raw petroleum known as portions. The portions are differentiated from each other utilizing a methodology known as Fragmentary refining. This methodology is dependent upon the guideline that separate substances bubble at different temperatures. For example, raw petroleum holds lamp oil and naphtha, which are advantageous portions. The point when you dissipate that mixture of lamp oil Furthermore naphtha, et cetera cool it, that lamp oil condenses toward a higher temperature over the naphtha. Similarly as the mixture cools, the lamp oil condenses in and the naphtha condenses after the fact. This is how Fragmentary refining meets expectations. That principle gear will be a tall barrel called a partial refining section. Inside this section there need aid a lot of people trays, alternately level plates, the greater part found toward diverse statures. Every tray collects an alternate portion when it cools will its identity or breaking point What's more condenses. Those unrefined petroleum will be warmed to no less than 350°C, which makes a large portion of the oil dissipate. Those liquid that point enters those section. Likewise the vapor moves up through the fractionator, every portion cools Also condenses in an alternate temperature. Concerning illustration every portion condenses, those fluid will be gathered in the trays. Substances with higher bubbling focuses gather on the more level trays in the section. Substances with bring down bubbling focuses gather on the higher trays. Those trays have valves, which permit those vapor should air pocket through those fluids in the tray. This serves the vapor should cool only the tip of the iceberg rapidly. These fluids starting with each tray that point streams crazy of the section.
Track 5: Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing is an oil and fuel well improvement method that generally entails injecting water, sand, and chemicals underneath excessive strain right into a bedrock formation via the nicely. This method is supposed to create new fractures within the rock in addition to growth the size, quantity, and connectivity of existing fractures. Hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation technique wherein rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid. The process entails the high-strain injection of 'fracking fluid' right into a wellbore to create cracks inside the deep-rock formations thru which natural fuel, petroleum, and brine will float more freely. Hydraulic fracturing produces fractures within the rock formation that stimulate the flow of natural gas or oil, growing the volumes that can be recovered. Hydraulic fracturing fluid typically includes water, proppant and chemical components that open and extend fractures inside the rock formation.
Track 6: Enhanced oil recovery
In a traditional store bored with regular techniques, the commonplace central destruction rate of accessible hydrocarbons possibly as much as 15% – leaving 85+% of hydrocarbons in the supply. Pump jacks and beginning gas infusion or warm recuperation can expand that catch to the 25-30% territory. By applying EOR procedures you can remove another 10-15% of the first accessible hydrocarbons. There are various procedures at present utilized for Enhanced Oil Recovery, each of which has changing ramifications on cost, productivity and security. Of the considerable number of strategies, Surfactant EOR is accepting more consideration lately, essentially because of its expanding cost adequacy against the background of rising oil costs.
That worldwide Normal recuperation figure for an ordinary oilfield is more or less 40%. This brings about an extensive add up about recognized oil left behind in spite of an existing preparation base. Those compelling reason should move forward the recuperation element and the accelerating of the chortled generation is the fundamental driver behind a significant number Enhanced oil recovery schemes for act around the planet.
Track 7: Reservoir Engineering and Reservoir Simulation
Reservoir engineering is a department of petroleum engineering that applies scientific principles to the fluid go with the flow via porous medium throughout the improvement and manufacturing of oil and gas reservoirs a good way to obtain excessive economic recovery. The running tools of the reservoir engineer are subsurface geology, implemented mathematics, and the basic laws of physics and chemistry governing the behaviour of liquid and vapor stages of crude oil, natural gas, and water in reservoir rock. Reservoir engineering includes the assessments of oil and Gas deposits. Reservoir engineers should work collectively with geologists, geo-hydrologists and geosystems engineers to appropriately discover the oil and fuel reserves thru the superior legal guidelines of physics and chemistry.
Reservoir simulation fashions are utilized by oil and fuel organizations in the development of new fields. The purpose of simulation is estimation of field performance (e.x: oil recovery) below one or extra generating schemes. Whereas the field can be produced most effective once, at tremendous expense, a model can be produced or run typically at low rate over a brief period of time. Observation of version consequences that constitute extraordinary producing situations aids selection of a most effective set of manufacturing conditions for the reservoir.
Track 8: Geophysical and Remote Sensing Techniques
Geophysical investigation strategies offer subsurface facts without digging or drilling. They can display vital geotechnical properties such as bedrock intensity and rock fine, as well as reservoirs of water or oil, metallic items or contaminants. If present-day geophysical investigations are integrated with traditional geotechnical investigations and their records, incredibly precise, non-stop and complete models may be produced for utility within numerous areas.
Remote imaging, performed by terrestrial, airborne or satellite-based systems has the capability to appropriately picture the Earth's surface with excessive resolution. This can be used for settlement and deformation tracking, surveying rock slides and making engineering geology critiques. State-of-the-art faraway sensing strategies at NGI consist of radar, optical image evaluation and Lidar and GigaPan Measurements. As with geophysical technology, the quality results are frequently executed via integration with the more conventional geotechnical Methods.
Track 9: Drilling and Well Operations
Drilling engineering is the technology behind the wells that produce oil and gas. Drilling engineering entails the planning, costing, growing and supervising of oil and gas well operations. Drilling engineering typically includes temporarily excessive tasks related to well design, trying out and final touch.
Well planning is possibly the maximum demanding aspect of drilling engineering. It requires for the mixing of engineering ideas, corporate or non-public philosophies, and experience factors. Although properly making planning techniques and practices may additionally range within the drilling industry, the quit result should be appropriately drilled, minimum-price hole that satisfies the reservoir engineer’s requirements for oil/fuel production.
Track 10: On shore and off shore operations
The amount of recoverable oil and natural gas around the world has been unexpectedly expanding, thanks to advanced drilling strategies: onshore and offshore drilling. With great improvements in fracking continuing to steer the industry, those oil drilling strategies have turned in any other case uneconomic drilling places all over the global to unexpectedly turn out to be profitable. But what’s the difference between the two?
In brief, onshore drilling refers to drilling deep holes below the earth’s floor while offshore drilling pertains to drilling under the seabed. These drilling techniques are used so one can extract natural sources – normally oil and gas – from the earth. While extracting oil from under the floor of the sea used to be a whole lot more tough than the conventional onshore drilling approach of making wells on land and drilling holes, offshore drilling has end up less complicated via the progressive techniques that have surfaced consisting of making both floating or fixed systems on the bed of the ocean to support drilling.
Track 11: Innovations in Upstream and Downstream operations
The upstream is known as the exploration and production (E&P) area as it encompasses activities related to searching for, recovering and generating crude oil and natural gas. While processing, transporting and selling refined products crafted from crude oil is the commercial enterprise of the downstream phase of the oil and gas industry.
The upstream enterprise unearths and produced crude oils & natural gas and it consists of three segments, exploration, drilling for drilling wells, production (recovering oil and gasoline from the field).
Downstream operation is known as Marketing and Distribution. Include processing (refining of oil), transporting and refined products this is made from crude oil. These provider converts crude oil into usable product which includes gas, gasoline oils, and petroleum-based products.
Track 12: Advanced Natural Gas Engineering
Natural gas is a combustible, gaseous mixture of simple hydrocarbon compounds, generally determined in deep underground reservoirs shaped by porous rock. Natural gas is a fossil fuel composed nearly completely of methane, but does contain small amounts of other gases, which includes ethane, propane, butane and pentane. Natural gas is used notably in residential, industrial and commercial applications. The use of natural gasoline is also hastily increasing in electric powered energy era and cooling. Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil gasoline, generating more often than not carbon dioxide, water vapor and small amounts of nitrogen oxides. The prevailing scientific theory is that natural gas becomes formed thousands and thousands of years in the past whilst plants and tiny sea animals were buried by sand and rock. Layers of mud, sand, rock and plant and animal remember continued to accumulate until the pressure and warmth from the earth became them into petroleum and natural gas. Three forms of rock formations allow the natural gas to shape and acquire. The supply rock is the rock that produces the natural gas. The reservoir rock is the porous rock that the natural gas seeps into because it rises. And the cap rock, or seal, is the layer of very dense rock above the reservoir rock that continues the fuel from leaking to the surface. The reservoir rock and cap rock collectively are referred to as a fuel trap.
Track 13: Advanced Drilling Techniques and Safety
The drilling platform affords a base for workers to couple and uncouple the sections of drilling pipe which can be used to increase the depth of drilling. As the hole deepens, extra lengths of pipe are brought and the drilling string is suspended from the derrick. When a drilling bit desires to be changed, the entire drilling string of pipe is pulled out of the hole, and every phase is detached and stacked vertically in the derrick. After the brand new bit is equipped in location, the system is reversed, and the pipe is returned to the hollow to keep drilling.
Care is needed to assure that the drilling string pipe does no longer split aside and drop into the hollow, as it may be tough and costly to fish out and can even result in the loss of the properly. Another ability hassle is that if drilling tools stick in the hollow while drilling stops. For this reason, as soon as drilling begins, it usually maintains till the properly is finished.
Track 14: Basin Studies
Basin studies cover a range of disciplines including sedimentology, stratigraphy, palaeontology, sedimentary geochemistry, petroleum geology and sediment-hosted ore deposits. These disciplines are implemented to extensive range of studies tasks that encompass age and origin of Indo-Pacific reefs, Southern Australian cool water carbonate structures, and Neoproterozoic reefs and palaeoceanography.
Track 15: Biofuels and Hydrocarbons
Biofuels can be derived directly from plant life, or in a roundabout way from agricultural, business, domestic, and/or business wastes. Bio-primarily based uncooked substances and related technique technology shape a wholly new engineering project for incorporated petroleum refineries. Those creation kind of crude substances, together with observe additives, Different logistical problems and the undertaking for advancing up with the ones top becoming a member of method contrasted with conventional constructing of gas refineries using petroleum encourage shares, needs new kinds from claiming abilities and come across. Those important engineering check may be must consolidate current propelled petroleum methodology improvements with Different viewpoints of the troubles confronted On renewable fuels technique engineering What's more must thought of the perfect define method that empowers those utilization from claiming bio-material streams to the relatively included technique surroundings of a petroleum refinery.
Track 16: Catalytic cracking
Catalytic cracking is a chemical technique that uses a catalyst to create new, smaller molecules from larger molecules to make fuel and distillate fuels. The catalyst is a solid sand-like material that is made fluid by way of the recent vapour and liquid. The FCC uses the catalyst and heat to interrupt apart the large molecules of gasoline oil into the smaller molecules that make up fuel, distillate, and different better-price merchandise like butane and propane. After the gas oil is cracked through contact with the catalyst, the resulting effluent is processed in fractionators, which separate the effluent based totally on various boiling points into several intermediate products, which includes butane and lighter hydrocarbons, gasoline, light fuel oil, heavy gas oil, and clarified slurry oil.
The butane additionally lighter hydrocarbons could transformed further with separate them below gas gasoline (in the main methane and ethane), propane, propylene, butane, and butane on the market, or to further preparing alternately make use of. The slurry oil might be blended with lingering gas oil alternately further converted inside the Coker. Carbon could be saved on the catalyst in the course of those cracking process. This carbon, called catalyst coke, adheres of the catalyst, decreasing its functionality with split that oil. That coke on the used catalyst may be burned off, which reheats the catalysts will include warmness of the FCC technique. Recovery produces a flue gasoline that passes thru environmental manage system then launched into the ecosystem.
Track 17: Energy Conversion and Storage
Research and development in energy conversion and storage have become more and more crucial due to the increasing strength demand for economic and social improvement and it's miles fast turning into one of the essential challenges facing the strength zone Energy storage can be described as storing energy generated for the duration of intervals of low demand to apply throughout periods of high demand.. Electrical electricity may be used to supply gaseous and liquid fuels in addition to feedstock chemical compounds. Potential packages include converting off-peak renewable energy to hydrogen for injection into the gasoline network, street fuel and other packages. ETP universities are studying the electrolyser-grid interface, efficient excessive temperature electrolysis and new ceramic oxide electrode materials.
Fuel cells convert fuels into energy and heat. Those Different power module kinds allow differed provisions on electric grid control; long amplify electric vehicles Furthermore in reality to own family unit warmth additionally electricity technology. ETP need exam in; new materials to use on sturdy oxide strength gadgets (SOFC); those integrative from claiming renewables and hydrogen; new ceramic proton conductors and new substances for propelled fundamental electricity devices.
Track 18: Petro chemistry and Applications in Polymer Science
Petrochemistry can be a science that would promptly be connected will key mankind's desires, as an instance, fitness, hygiene, lodging and sustenance. It will be an exciting technological know-how also innovative business zone, continually adapting to new situations Furthermore assembly new exams.
Chemicals inferred from petroleum or characteristic gas - petrochemicals - could be a fundamental a piece of the substance enterprise today. Petro technology may be an in reality junior enterprise; it just off must broaden in the Forties, more than 80 a vast length of time after the penetrating of the principle enterprise oil properly on 1859.
Polymer technology is interdisciplinary territory constituted of chemical, physical, engineering, making ready and hypothetical viewpoints. It moreover desires tremendous sway round cutting-edge materials science. Its goal is to gatherings supply the aid for the making and characterization for polymeric materials and a Comprehension to shape/belongings connections. Polymer technology might be about increasing importance to each person's every day an aggregation. A quantity slicing side sensible materials, gears, what are extra gadgets have polymers as important analytics elements. Not exceedingly, harshly 30% of at researchers within the substance enterprise partake) energizes those subject for polymers.
Track 19: Global Crisis and Challenges in Oil and Gas Industry
In the midst of one of the greatest periods of expansion in its history, the global oil and gas industry is facing a labour crisis, brought on by years of layoffs that could jeopardize its future. Even as companies unveil increasingly ambitious plans to uncover new sources of oil projects that have led oil companies to boost capital expenditure roughly 20 per cent in the last two years the industry has continued to shrink its labour force. And because the shortage is most severe among specialized workers such as senior scientists and engineers, it will take seven to 10 years to train replacements to help close the gap. Over the closing 12 to 18 months, a confluence of occasions, consisting of growing oil prices, planned capital investments, and converting enterprise demographics, has stretched enterprise sources to the breaking factor. From rig workers to petroleum engineers, there’s greater work to be carried out than there are workers to perform it.
Track 20: Current Economics & Market Trends in Petroleum, Oil and Gas Industry
In 2018, global oil call for appears probable to have breached a hundred MMbbl/d for the primary time, herbal fuel keeps to amplify its proportion of key markets, and chemical substances has visible strong revenue growth. Now, the enterprise is entering the New Year with multiplied volatility in fees and regulatory overhangs amidst many new enterprise possibilities. What elements will shape the fast- and lengthy-term trajectory of the enterprise.
After several years of oversupply, the oil and gas industry could thoroughly be shifting headlong into a supply crunch. In fashionable, the enterprise feels a lot healthier than it did 365 days in the past: The fee of oil has rebounded. After acting restrained to a selection between the mid-$40s and $50 per barrel (bbl), The industry is accordingly convalescing from the brutal last few years of weak costs, enforced capital area, portfolio realignments, and productivity efficiencies.
Track 21: Recent Development in Oil and Gas industries
Oil and gas industry may be a standout amongst the necessity fields in the advancement methodology to planet. Oil handling is not just the hotspot about remote money for those countries, as well as those the greater part significant intention power to that present investment improvement. After more than 30 A long time for development and development, oil and gas industry in the globe need attained momentous advancement. As stated by the law for remote investments, handfuls for oil organizations need aid generating oil Furthermore gas. The downright measure for ventures will be over billion us dollars. A lot of people new oil Furthermore gas fields need been discovered; oil what’s more gas yield need been developed quickly. We see a combination of factors contributing to the rising price trend this year — even though, throughout, the market has remained well-supplied with crude and fundamentals have been sound: higher-than-expected oil demand growth, especially in China and the USA; refining and distribution industry bottlenecks in some major consuming regions, coupled with more stringent product specifications and compounded by the recent hurricanes in the Americas; and the present geopolitical tensions and concern about adequacy of spare capacity to meet possible supply disruptions. Combined, these factors have led to fears about a possible future supply shortage of crude oil, which, in turn, have resulted in increased speculation in the futures markets, with substantial upward pressure on prices.
Track 22: Environmental Hazards & Risk Assessment in Oil and Gas Industry
Some of the largest oil reserves in the globe are located beneath arctic and subarctic regions. These areas have unique geology, climate, hydrology, vegetation, and natural world. One significant and unique geologic feature of the arctic is the permafrost layer that underlies maximum of the terrain. Climatologically, the arctic is characterised with the aid of long bloodless winters and a quick summer time growing season. Bogs and different wetlands are not unusual hydrologic functions. Many rivers, strongly tormented by the once a year ice regime, have big floodplains; big regions are situation to periodic inundation. Vegetation varies from mosses in the arctic tundra to grasses and boreal forests in the subarctic areas; natural world, which includes birds, mammals, and fish, is generally migratory. All of these unique environmental functions are situation to disruption by human activity, inclusive of oil and gas development.
Oil and gas development usually actions thru several phases, from exploration, to development, exploitation, and decommissioning. The direct and indirect results of oil and gas improvement on the surroundings rely on the development degree. The initial prospecting with remote sensors has not a harmful impact on the environment. Exploratory drilling, to verify the oil deposit and determine manufacturing engineering info, can begin to contaminate the surroundings on to begin with small scale thru oil spills, avenue construction, produced water, and other wastes. Methods of management and environmental safety for the duration of high-latitude oil exploration and manufacturing had been stepped forward in current years. These new techniques include better personnel education, more environmentally friendly operational techniques, and advanced environmental attention at the part of top control and operational body of workers. The procedural framework for environmental management includes environment profiles, environmental impact assessments, monitoring, and auditing.
Track 23: Entrepreneur Investment Meet
Petroleum Refinery 2022 facilitates a unique platform for transforming potential ideas into great business. The meeting creates a global platform aimed to connect global Entrepreneurs, Proposers and the Investors in the field of Oil, Gas, Petroleum and many more. Its allied fields to develop and facilitate the most optimized and great business for engaging people in to constructive discussions, evaluation and execution of promising business.
Session on: Petrochemistry and Process Engineering
Chemicals made from petroleum oil or natural gas, either directly (pyrolysis) or indirectly (chemical processing). Petrochemicals such as acetylene, benzene, ethane, ethylene, methane, propane, and hydrogen are used to make hundreds of different compounds. These derivatives are used to make elastomers, fibres, plasticizers, and solvents, as well as feedstock for thousands of other goods.
Process engineering is an important phase in the petrochemical industry, and it is used to design, build, maintain, and upgrade huge equipment and facilities that are used to process and produce oil and gas, either onshore or offshore.
Session on: Petroleum Exploration and Field Management
Exploration for oil and gas in the earth's sedimentary basins is known as petroleum exploration. The procedure is based on the methodical use of technology by innovative geoscientists, which results in viable drilling prospects and the drilling of exploratory and appraisal wells. Geological prospecting and exploration for oil and gas is a combination of industrial and R&D activities aimed at geologically studying subsurface resources, identifying potential locations, and discovering fields, as well as evaluating and pre-developing them. The preparation of subsurface resources is the ultimate goal of geological prospecting.
Session on: Petroleum and Petrochemical
Refined oil yields petrochemicals. Other petroleum derivatives, such as coal or gas, or inexhaustible sources, such as corn, palm natural product, or sugar stick, are also used to make several chemical mixes that need oil. Olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, and aromatics, such as benzene, toluene, and xylene isomers, are two of the most common petrochemical classes. By breaking oil parts with liquid reactants, petroleum treatment plants produce olefins and aromatics. Steam splitting of gaseous petrol fluids such as ethane and propane produces olefins in synthetic plants. Reactant converting of naphtha delivers aromatics.
Olefins and aromatics are structural inhibitors in a variety of materials, including solvents, cleaners, and glues. Polymers and oligomers used in plastics, filaments, elastomers, greases, and gels are made from olefins. Plastics, soaps, detergents, paints, fertilisers, insecticides, synthetic fibres, explosives, rubbers, and flooring and insulating materials are all
Session on: Extraction of Petroleum and its By-Product
Petroleum extraction is the process of extracting petroleum from the earth's surface. Seismic surveys are used by petroleum geologists to locate geological formations that could be employed in the creation of oil reservoirs. To look for petroleum, a variety of devices such as gravimeters and magnetometers are utilised. Oil wells are drilled into the ground with the help of oil rigs. Drilling wells into the ground is the first step in extracting crude oil.
Session on: Manufacturing Process involved in the Petroleum Refining
Chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries to change crude oil into useful products such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), gasoline or petrol, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel oil, and fuel oils are referred to as petroleum refining processes. Petroleum refineries are massive industrial complexes that house a variety of processing units as well as supporting facilities including utilities units and storage tanks. The refinery location, targeted products, and economic factors all influence the refinery's particular structure and combination of refining processes.
Session on: Oil and Gas Technology
As the world's primary fuel sources, oil and natural gas are major industries in the energy industry and have a significant impact on the global economy. Oil and gas production and distribution processes and systems are very complicated, capital-intensive, and require cutting-edge technology.This guide examines the oil and gas industry and is meant to serve as a research tool for sources all around the world, with a focus on the United States. It includes an overview of firms and organisations, statistics and pricing information, and laws, as well as a brief history of the oil and gas industry.
Session on: Oil Well
An oil well is a hole drilled into the ground to deliver petroleum, oil, or hydrocarbons to the surface. Along with the oil, some natural gas is usually discharged. A gas well is one that is specifically designed to generate solely gas. Drilling, completion, and production are all part of the process. Wells come in a variety of shapes and sizes, depending on the substance they produce, and they can be found on land or offshore.
Session on: Safety Hazards Associated with Oil, Gas and Petroleum
The oil and gas industry's primary criterion is now safety. According to the Petroleum Institutes, the rate of injury was down to 1.8 per 100 workers in 2012. Workplace safety and more advanced technologies to monitor and prevent injuries and accidents are needed. Many different types of equipment and materials are used in the drilling and servicing of oil and gas wells. To avoid injuries and deaths, it's crucial to recognise and control potential hazards.
Session on: Drilling and Well Operation
Drilling refers to the entire set of procedures required to construct circular-section wells using excavation techniques. Well concept, well proposal, data collecting & analysis, well design, and drilling programme are all part of the drilling planning process.
Session on: Conventional and Unconventional Gas
Natural gas that can be extracted from reservoirs using typical drilling, pumping, and compression procedures is referred to as conventional gas. When natural gas can be recovered from the Earth using either naturally occurring pressure or pumping systems, it is referred to as conventional. Shale gas, tight gas, and coal bed methane are examples of unconventional gas sources. Due to the common nature of production techniques, conventional gas is less expensive and complex to extract than unconventional gas. Natural gas has become increasingly popular as a source of power and heat due to historically low pricing.
Session on: Natural Gas Processing
Natural gas is a by-product of the oil extraction process. Exploration for natural gas begins with geologists studying and examining the earth's surface structure, pinpointing places where petroleum or gas resources are geologically probable to exist. Natural gas wells come in a variety of shapes and sizes, including oil, gas, and condensate wells. When natural gas is substantially free of hydrogen sulphide, it is referred to as sweet gas. Acid gas is natural gas or any other gas mixture that contains high amounts of hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide, or acidic gases.
Session on: Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling Operation
The practise of producing petroleum from reserves beneath the Earth's oceans rather than deposits on the mainland is known as offshore drilling. Offshore oil rigs have grown in size and complexity in recent years, becoming massive constructions that can house hundreds of employees at a time. Some of the facilities are housed in structures that reach depths of 1220 metres below the surface, dwarfing any skyscraper ever built.