Legislation On Oil Pollution Prevention And Control During Petroleum Production

1988 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Abu Azam Md. Yassin
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
The World ◽  
Pollution Prevention And Control ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
And Control ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
And Storage

Malaysia has long been victim of oil pollution well before the start of her own offshore exploitation of oil. With the effort to exploit offshore oil and gas, Malaysia has now become causer of pollution herself. Legislation existed for oil pollution prevention and control, along each and every stage of offshore petroleum operations which include exploration, development, production, transportation, treatment and storage. But procedures to explain the existing legislation is lacking and hence it is important to expound the existing legislation for controlling and preventing oil pollution from offshore operation in line with current practices around the world.

Retaining the Sustainability of Oil and Gas Operations: Qualifying the Best Available Techniques

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. S. M. K. Samarakoon ◽  
O. T. Gudmestad
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Fitness For Purpose ◽  
Best Available Techniques ◽  
Oil And Gas Operations ◽  
Schedule Risk ◽  
Pollution Prevention And Control ◽  
And Control ◽  
Safety And Environment

By nature, oil and gas operations are sensitive to Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) requirements. Within the Norwegian Continental Self (NCS), it is mandatory to implement the Best Available Techniques (BAT) guidelines as required in the European Union’s Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) directive. The directive provides guidelines for selecting BAT in industrial activities while protecting the environment as a whole. One of the major challenges for an oil and gas operator is to satisfy the guidelines while confirming fitness for purpose with respect to the different technologies applied. Hence, the concept of technique qualification is paramount to reveal opportunities to improve system design, to minimize schedule risk and to reduce cost risks during operations by reducing uncertainties and increasing reliability. In this paper, we are concerned with the process of selecting a technique for supplying power from shore to an offshore unit. This paper discusses how we can give priorities to HSE concerns, while also satisfying financial objectives, in the context of implementing the BAT guidelines. The analysis aims to qualify the technique as a whole, considering the capability of satisfying the underlying objective of controlling environmental pollution.

scholarly journals Long-term trends and drivers of aerosol pH in eastern China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou ◽  
Guangjie Zheng ◽  
Hongli Wang ◽  
Liping Qiao ◽  
Shuhui Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Health Effect ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Control Action ◽  
Haze Pollution ◽  
Pollution Prevention And Control ◽  
And Control

Abstract. Aerosol acidity plays a key role in regulating the chemistry and toxicity of atmospheric aerosol particles. The trend of aerosol pH and its drivers are crucial in understanding the multiphase formation pathways of aerosols. Here, we reported the first trend analysis of aerosol pH from 2011 to 2019 in eastern China. The implementation of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan leads to −35.8 %, −37.6 %, −9.6 %, −81.0 % and 1.2 % changes of PM2.5, SO42−, NHx, NVCs and NO3− in YRD during this period. Different from the fast changes of aerosol compositions due to the implementation of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan, aerosol pH shows a moderate change of −0.24 unit over the 9 years. Besides the multiphase buffer effect, the opposite effects of SO42− and non-volatile cations changes play key roles in determining the moderate pH trend, contributing to a change of +0.38 and −0.35 unit, respectively. Seasonal variations in aerosol pH were mainly driven by the temperature, while the diurnal variations were driven by both temperature and relative humidity. In the future, SO2, NOx and NH3 emissions are expected to be further reduced by 86.9 %, 74.9 % and 41.7 % in 2050 according to the best health effect pollution control scenario (SSP1-26-BHE). The corresponding aerosol pH in eastern China is estimated to increase by ~0.9, resulting in 8 % more NO3− and 35 % less NH4+ partitioning/formation in the aerosol phase, which suggests a largely reduced benefit of NH3 and NOx emission control in mitigating haze pollution in eastern China.

Environmental Effect on Fatigue Life of FPSO Hull Structures

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaozhi Wang ◽  
Booki Kim ◽  
Yanming Zhang ◽  
Ping Liao
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Work Area ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Fields ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
And Storage

Floating production, storage and offloading systems (FPSOs) have been widely used in the development of offshore oil and gas fields because of their many attractive features. These features include a large work area and storage capacity, mobility (if desired), relatively low construction cost and good stability. They are mostly ship shaped, either converted from existing tankers or purpose built. The hull structural scantling design for tankers may be applicable to FPSOs; however, FPSOs have their own unique characteristics. FPSOs are located at specific locations with a dynamic loading that is quite different from that arising from unrestricted ocean service conditions for tankers. It is also noted that the wave conditions in recent FPSO applications may be very complicated when operating in areas such as those offshore West Africa and offshore Brazil where both seas and swells exist and propagate in different directions. In this paper, the unique FPSO operational aspects, especially the load assessment due to on-site environments will be described. The methodology of handling complicated wave conditions in fatigue assessment will be addressed. Special considerations for converted FPSOs, which need to take into account their operational history as a trading tanker and low cycle fatigue due to FPSO operations, will also be introduced. Case studies will be presented and appropriate analysis methodology will be summarized. The methodology has also been adopted by ABS Guide, see ABS [1].

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