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Flow Assurance in the Oil Industry

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The gas and water injected to stimulate an increase in the extraction and production of oil can produce gas and sediments that alter significantly the life span of the flow lines, process equipments, and production tanks. With the optimization of the implicit processes of oil production, oil’s flow assurance  has become a key element to predict, prevent, mitigate, and remove organic and inorganic deposits. This engineer process analyses, secures, and guarantees efficient and economic transportation of hydrocarbons from the fields to the extraction and distribution points. With the support of various disciplines like hydraulic, thermodynamic, chemistry and software engineer, it can be prevented harmful effects like corrosion and erosion that affect the flow and transportation of fluid, which constitutes the heart and soul of oil production. To achieve such end, the content levels of CO2, paraffin deposits, hydrates, asphaltenes and incrustations are analyzed. While the
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Impact and Prevention of Oil Spills

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From the use of fungus to decompose the contaminants from hydrocarbons to machines to process hydrocarbons, scientific advances aim to find better methods to collect oil spilled. Unfortunately, in multiple occasions, oil spills happen due to accidents or inadequate practices; extremely dangerous when it happens in the sea, giving origin to the term ‘black tide’. The damage to the marine and land ecosystem once the oil reaches the shores deeply affects marine fauna and fishing. And its damaging effects can last over time.   The black tide affects land and marine ecosystem When the  oil  penetrates the marine environment in small doses, nature can handle it wisely by itself; however, big scale oil spills remain on the surface of the water giving it a pasty consistency that can easily spread due to sea currents and wind. Birds and sea creatures are attracted to the black tide by the similarity with what they eat; this can damage their skin or feathers. It can cause h
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Oil pipelines in the oil industry

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Oil has been transported through pipelines since the XIX century, and it has been carried through a vast extent of the pipe system. This way of bringing the oil from one point to another is considered the most efficient one when it comes to hydrocarbons. Oil pipelines  are the most efficient way to  transport oil and its derivates . It may be carried in big loads and through different ground environments, as well as see environments. This wide transportation network is composed of plastic or metal  pipes  with a diameter from 30 to 120 centimeters. Sometimes these pipes are just one meter underground. When it comes to their purpose, the  pipes  may be used to  transport, gather or distribute . These pipes cover kilometric distances. This kind of system has been used for more than one hundred years. By the moment people started using it, it was an alternate way to the traditional transport in railroad wagons. This alternative made a huge difference in terms of time, security
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Oil derivates

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If we think about oil derivate products, we only have to look around. After all, our modern life is unimaginable without the oil's existence, nor its derivates'. Each  oil deposit  has its singularities that may vary depending on the  relation between the carbon and hydrogen atoms , and each one has variable amounts of  sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen . These mixtures are different in each deposit, and this means that each crude oil varies, it will be different depending on the minerals in the oil deposit. According to the  hydrocarbon  compounds , that are present in the three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, one can get different  derivates  with different uses after the oil's  refining  process. Oil derivates   Among the most important  oil  derivate  products , we can find: Fuels : This kind of derivate is the most demanded worldwide. The reason why this happens is that fuels are needed to maintain fundamental stuff around the
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Hocal Pipe Industries: Oil Engineers

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  The oil industry is a multidisciplinary one A multitasking job boosts optimization and development of the hydrocarbon industry, in which the oil engineer is one of the experts involved.    Oil engineer was born out of necessity to find and explore new oilfields. It is a combined science that studies hydrocarbons, search techniques, and field exploitation. The degree of specialization needed in the industry derived in stages: exploration, drilling, production, transportation, refining, selling, and negotiation of oil contracts. By mixing mathematical, physics, and chemical tools,  oil engineer  uses data provided by geographers, geologist, geophysics, chemists, and physics to optimize every aspect involved in the development of the industry ; as stated by the company  Hocal Pipe Industries . Starting from exploration, the search for hydrocarbons require a geological map to know the configuration of the subsoil strata. Another specialized area is field engineer. It
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Hocal Pipe Industries: Types Of Oil Wells

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CATEGORIZING OILD FIELDS DEPEND ON THE INITIAL STUDIES; A KEY ELEMENT FOR EXTRACTION. The engineer and machinery involved in the processes of oil extraction are directly related to the type of oilfield to be drilled . The subsoil is intervened with bars of different diameters and coated pipes that, once introduced at different depth, allow prospection and extraction. To do so, categorizing the type of oilfield  constitutes the first step. Firstly, drilling the exploratory wells  is the common step to any extraction plan. The purpose is to determine the presence of hydrocarbon, as well as obtaining as much information as possible with a low cost. With this procedure, the data about the cuts, cores, and registers of the field will lead to the use of procedures to extract the hydrocarbon. The first thing to do is categorize the type of field Following the exploration, as it is highlighted by  Hocal Pipe Industries , making the estimations of field are done in evaluat
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The Cannonade in the Perforation of Wells

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ACCORDING TO THE ESTIMATED DEPTH OF THE OIL WELL, THE STRUCTURES TO BE TRAVERSED AND THE SUBSTITUTE CONDITIONS, THE DRILLING EQUIPMENT IS SELECTED. In oil wells, devices called cannons or drilling guns containing pre-molded explosive charges of different sizes and configurations are used for drilling.  Well drilling. Picture from steemit.com The characteristics of the well, as well as the surface conditions, determine the diameter of the barrel to be used for drilling. It is from there that the term cannon is derived, to describe the process of creating openings through the casing and a layer of cement extended within the formation, and so establish effective communication between the well and the reservoir. The cannon work allows to carry out cementation work and improve the production by injection, for which multiple aspects have to be taken into account. First, each site determines the type of equipment needed, the techniques to be used for drilling the well to
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