Experience From Norwegian Programme on Ageing and Life Extension

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Ersdal ◽  
Erik Ho¨rnlund ◽  
Hans Spilde
Keyword(s):  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Special Priority ◽  
The Way

In 2005, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), gave special priority to a programme of ageing and life extension. The programme comprised technical investigations into how ageing will reduce the safety of the facilities and how this can be managed, plus cooperation with the petroleum industry to develop standards and guidelines for assessment of ageing facilities for life extension. In addition, audits have looked into the way operators are dealing with the implications of ageing facilities. This paper summarizes the outcome of the programme and the experience gained from it.

2. Speaking of God in the Post-Human Era: An Examination of Radical Life Extension in Relation to Key Theological Concepts and Narratives

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn Barton
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
The Core ◽  
Psychological Suffering ◽  
The Cross ◽  
And Function ◽  
Radical Life Extension ◽  
The Way ◽  
Changing World

Rapid advancements in radical life extension technologies contribute to humanity’s ever-changing world. The normalization of radical life extension technologies would signify that the present era in which biology and evolution act as dictators of human life and health would come to an end, thereby ushering in the age of the post-human. The purpose of this paper is to engage in a theological analysis of how and to what degree the ways in which humanity speaks about God could be changed or influenced if radical life extension becomes normative within society. . It is likely that this powerful technology would have a significant impact on many facets of culture, including the way in which humanity engages with religion, in particular Christianity. To accomplish this, the technology that could potentially support radical life extension, namely nanotechnology and cybernetic immortality, will be explained in terms of their relevance and function. Subsequently, the affects of radical life extension for human life will be addressed. Specifically, the implications of the partial or full eradication of human biological and psychological suffering and death through the use of cybernetic immortality and nanotechnology and will be considered. From there, the core theological concepts and narratives will be analyzed in the context of the potential actualization of radical life extension technology. A focus will be placed on the ethic of loving thy neighbour, Christ’s suffering on the cross, the hope of salvation and the Christian hope of entrance into heaven after death. 

Industry Developed Guidelines and Standards for Ageing and Life Extension

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Otto Selnes ◽  
Gerhard Ersdal
Keyword(s):  
Oil Production ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Industry Association ◽  
Initial Design ◽  
Safe Life ◽  
Design Life ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Guidelines And Standards ◽  
Production Facilities

A large number of the Norwegian gas and oil production facilities have exceeded their initial design life but the respective fields are still producing substantial levels of hydrocarbons. In order to ensure technical and operational integrity of these ageing facilities, the Norwegian oil industry Association (OLF) has initiated a project to establish the necessary standards and guidelines for assessing and ensuring safe life extensions. This paper presents this project and the headlines of these standards and guidelines.

Modeling Hydrocarbon Processing

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teh C Ho
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Hydrocarbon Processing ◽  
Minimum Capital ◽  
Microscopic Interactions ◽  
The Way

Driven by the global competition and market demand, the petroleum industry is under increasing pressure to produce clean, high-value products from low-cost feedstocks with minimum capital outlays. This has triggered an urgent need to develop robust process models capable of predicting the effects of feedstock composition, operating conditions, and catalyst properties on product quality. To develop such models, one generally splits the reaction mixture at the molecular level, examines microscopic interactions among individual reactions, and then works all the way up to the macroscopic level. Along the way one performs lumping to keep the size and complexity of the problem at bay. This is not only crucial for practical applications, but also important for fundamental understanding, since one does not want to lose sight of the forest for too many trees. This paper gives an overview of new and emerging theoretical tools for building kinetic models for hydrocarbon processing. While the emphasis is on reaction kinetics, the question of reducing hydrodynamic complexities is addressed as well.

scholarly journals Let's close the gap: Revising teaching materials to reflect how the Federal Reserve implements monetary policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (089) ◽  
pp. 1-49
Author(s):  
Jane Ihrig ◽  
◽  
Scott Wolla ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Implementation Of Monetary Policy ◽  
Dual Mandate ◽  
The Way

The topic of the Federal Reserve’s (the Fed’s) implementation of monetary policy has a significant presence in economics textbooks as well as standards and guidelines for economics instruction. This presence likely reflects the fact that it is the implementation framework that helps ensure that the Fed’s desired level of its policy interest rate is transmitted to financial markets, which helps it steer the economy toward the Congressional dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability. Over the past decade or so, the Fed has purposefully shifted the way it implements monetary policy to an environment with ample reserves in the banking system, and it has introduced new policy tools along the way. This paper shows that, unfortunately, many teaching resources are not in sync with the Fed’s current framework. We review six, 2020 or 2021 edition, principles of economics textbooks, and we find they vary greatly in their coverage of the concepts associated with the way the Fed implements policy today and in the longer run. We provide recommendations on how the authors can improve the next editions of their textbooks. We also review standards and guidelines used by secondaryschool educators. All of these are out of date, and we provide proposals for how these materials can be updated.

The Standardization of Oil and Gas Law: Transnational Layers of Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 348-376
Author(s):  
Djakhongir Saidov
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Operations ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter investigates the main sources governing international oil and gas operations around the world, with a view to examining whether we are witnessing the emergence of transnational petroleum law (lex petrolea). The chapter explores the nature of governance in the petroleum industry and the extent to which the oil and gas industry is self-governed or governed by the state-made law. It assesses the degree of standardization of governance to determine whether it is so high as to give rise to the emergence of lex petrolea. The main focus is on sources, specific to the oil and gas industry, such as: model contracts, industry usages, standards, and guidelines promulgated by industry organizations and associations. This chapter argues that lex petrolea is not yet a mature legal order. Its sources are best characterized as transnational layers of governance of the international exploration and production operations. As to the relationship between the alleged lex petrolea and the state-made law, it is demonstrated that the two are vitally important to and mutually dependent on each other.

Oil and natural gas prospects in South America: Can the petroleum industry pave the way for renewables in Brazil?

Energy Policy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 58-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Goldemberg ◽  
Roberto Schaeffer ◽  
Alexandre Szklo ◽  
Rodrigo Lucchesi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
South America ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Corrosion Processes Relevant to the Integrity of Oil and Gas Facilities1

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Morten A. Langøy ◽  
Erik Hörnlund ◽  
Ole Jacob Næss ◽  
Rolf H. Hinderaker
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
High Level

The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway will set the terms for and follow up that players in the Norwegian petroleum industry maintain a high level of health, safety and the environment and emergency preparedness, and thereby contribute to creating the highest possible value for society. Ensuring good material selection process and structural integrity is an important effort where different corrosion forms are of concern and corrosion protection measures of interest, especially in respect to major accidents.PSA addresses corrosion in rules and regulations, requiring “robust material selection”, with reference to international standards and guidelines. The operators addressing and monitoring of the corrosion effects on the process and structural integrity by incident reporting, reviews and site audits are the key tools for PSA in assessing the corrosion challenges and control in the industry.It is of paramount importance to avoid major accidents. The subject of this paper is to address the challenges with material degradation in ageing structures, and the challenges associated with life extension considerations. Corrosion plays a major role in this respect; especially PSA is concerned with corrosion under insulation (CUI). This paper presents some of our work in these areas.

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