Integrating The Emerging Concept Of Ecosystem Services Into Oil and Gas Industry Environmental Management Practices

Summary In many industrial processes, an effective particle–filtration system is essential for removing unwanted solids. The oil and gas industry has explored various technologies to control and manage excessive sand production, such as by installing sand screens or injecting consolidation chemicals in sand–prone wells as part of sand–management practices. However, for an unconsolidated sandstone formation, the selection and design of effective sand control remains a challenge. In recent years, the use of a computational technique known as the discrete–element method (DEM) has been explored to gain insight into the various parameters affecting sand–screen–retention behavior and the optimization of various types of sand screens (Mondal et al. 2011, 2012, 2016; Feng et al. 2012; Wu et al. 2016). In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of particle filtration using a fully coupled computational–fluid–dynamics (CFD)/DEM approach featuring polydispersed, adhesive solid particles. We found that an increase in particle adhesion reduces the amount of solid in the liquid filtrate that passes through the opening of a wire–wrapped screen, and that a solid pack of particle agglomerates is formed over the screen with time. We also determined that increasing particle adhesion gives rise to a decrease in packing density and a diminished pressure drop across the solid pack covering the screen. This finding is further supported by a Voronoi tessellation analysis, which reveals an increase in porosity of the solid pack with elevated particle adhesion. The results of this study demonstrate that increasing the level of particle agglomeration, such as by using an adhesion–promoting chemical additive, has beneficial effects on particle filtration. An important application of these findings is the design and optimization of sand–control processes for a hydrocarbon well with excessive sand production, which is a major challenge in the oil and gas industry.

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Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Performance: An Empirical Study of Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria

RUDN Journal of Public Administration ◽

10.22363/2312-8313-2020-7-1-53-69 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 53-69

Author(s):

Moses M. Adagbabiri ◽

Ugo Chuks Okolie

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Human Resource Management ◽

Organizational Performance ◽

Human Resource ◽

Management Practices ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Hrm Practices ◽

Human Resource Management Practices

The impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational performance has been subject of discourse among social scientists from a wide range of disciplines in the last two decades. But unfortunately, very insufficient number of studies in this area has been conducted in Nigeria and other developing countries. This study was undertaken to fill this obvious research gap. The author applied descriptive method and collected the data via a survey of 164 respondents in Nigerias Oil and Gas Industry. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation and t-test analysis. The study found that there is a significant relationship between HRM practices and organizational performance. As predicted, the study revealed that human resource management practices exert positive and statistically significant impact on organizational performance. Requisite conclusion and recommendations were provided in the light of theoretical and empirical findings. With this study, we hope to contribute to a better understanding of the role of HRM practices in creating and sustaining organizational performance, specifically in the Nigerian context.

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Mediation Analysis Using the Hierarchical Multiple Regression Technique: A Study of the Mediating Roles of World-Class Performance in Operations

Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business ◽

10.22146/gamaijb.5509 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 139 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wakhid S. Ciptono ◽

Abdul Razak Ibrahim ◽

Ainin Sulaiman

Keyword(s):

Quality Management ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Management Practices ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Critical Factors ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Quality Management Practices ◽

World Class ◽

Operational Excellence

The changing environment in an organization is forcing the organization to find a plan of integrated management framework and adequate performance measurement. Failure to plan basically means planning failure for the business. Finding the critical factors of quality management practices (QMP), themediating roles of the contextual factors of world-class performance in operations (i.e., world-class company practices or WCC, operational excellence practices or OE, company nonfinancial performance or CNFP), and the company financial performance would enable the company to facilitate the sustainability of TQM implementation model.This empirical study aims to assess how TQM—a holistic management philosophy initially developed by W. Edward Deming, which integrates improvement strategy, management practices, and organizational performance—is specifically implemented in the oil and gas companies operating in Indonesia. Relevant literature on the TQM, the world-class performance in operations (world-class company and operational performance), the company performance (financial and non-financial performances), and the amendments of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia concerning the oil and gas industry, and related research on how the oil and gas industry in Indonesia develops sustainable competitive advantage and sustainable development programs are reviewed in details in our study. The findings from data analysis provide evidence that there is a strong positive relationship between the critical factors of quality management practices and the company financial performance mediated by the three mediating variables, i.e., world-class company practices, operational excellence practices, and company non-financial performance.

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Reducing the complexity of environmental approvals: learnings from an industry-wide collaborative effort

The APPEA Journal ◽

10.1071/aj18273 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 59 (2) ◽

pp. 719

Author(s):

Matthew Smith

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Petroleum Industry ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Collaborative Effort ◽

Reference Case ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Intractable Problems ◽

Intractable Problem ◽

Offshore Petroleum

This extended abstract uses the reference case project, initiated by National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority, now led by National Energy Resources Australia, to delve into the underlying issues in the environmental approvals process and propose the root causes that have influenced this flagship collaborative effort. Collaboration for competitors is inherently difficult. The basis for meaningful collaboration is to find intractable problems that are better solved by a collection of participants with a common purpose. The environmental approvals process has evolved into an intractable problem that is adversely affecting the oil and gas industry’s ability to explore by becoming a barrier to investment and a source of uncertainty in project execution. Successive Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association conferences, and oil and gas industry leaders, have frequently promoted the collaboration imperative to the industry. Indeed, there is broad agreement, and many international examples on matters of health, safety and environmental management, that there is no value in competition. Why then is meaningful collaboration so difficult to deliver in an environmental management setting in Australia? This paper explores the successes and failures of the reference case project to illuminate the realities of collaboration in the Australian offshore petroleum industry. The paper shares insights from project leads, participants, decision makers and stakeholders and covers how collaboration can unlock barriers to investment and deliver greater certainty to the oil and gas industry and the Australian community.

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Pollution Prevention/Best Management Practices Training Manual for the New Mexico Oil and Gas Industry

10.2118/52678-ms ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Jeffrey B. Weinrach ◽

Dave Friday ◽

Judy Kowalski

Keyword(s):

New Mexico ◽

Best Management Practices ◽

Management Practices ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Pollution Prevention ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Training Manual ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Best Management

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Resilience beyond Formal Structures: A Network Perspective towards the Challenges of an Aging Workforce in the Oil and Gas Industry

Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity ◽

10.3390/joitmc5010015 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 15 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Fabio Bento ◽

Luciano Garotti

Keyword(s):

Network Analysis ◽

Management Practices ◽

Explicit Knowledge ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Initial Conditions ◽

Social Systems ◽

Oil And Gas Industry ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Knowledge Loss ◽

Logic Network

Changes in workplace demographics in the oil and gas industry have raised a concern about the risks of a knowledge-loss crisis due to mass retirement. The industry response has often consisted of strategies aimed at mapping knowledge across organizational units, codifying knowledge in databases, and mentoring new staff. However, such common managerial responses show important limitations in terms of grasping tacit and network-based dimensions of knowledge in complex oil production operations. Therefore, there is an industrial need for innovative knowledge management practices. In this conceptual article, we look at the knowledge-loss crisis from the perspective of network resilience in complex systems. A central assumption here is that it is important to look at retiring staff not only in terms of their explicit knowledge, but also in relation to their roles in evolving networks of interactions. Why do some social systems adapt to the departure of some individuals, recover from eventual knowledge-loss crises, and keep performing its functions? From an anticipatory logic, network analysis may show the initial conditions of a system and identify possible loss scenarios. From an adaptive logic, network analysis may inform interventions aimed at facilitating processes of interactions from which new knowledge may emerge and spread. Integrated operations may be a step in this direction.

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