scholarly journals DISTRIBUTING SERVICES THROUGH THE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE: THE CASE OF A NORWEGIAN SOFTWARE FIRM

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Simon Ritter
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Service Company ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Cloud Technologies

This paper examines how professional practices of software developers forge global assemblages in the oil and gas industry by shedding light on the implementation of cloud technologies within a Norwegian-based digital service company. Delivering digital solutions to oil and gas extracting corporations, this company primarily develops proprietary software providing engineers with business intelligence dashboards that assist in managing the assets involved in the extraction of resources. This extended case study seeks to gain a better understanding of the materialities emerging in cloud environments by illuminating transnational divisions of labor within global assemblages. Committed to a holistic contextualization, this mixed-method investigation is primarily based on ethnographic fieldwork, including participation in industry events and a three-month secondment in a small-scale digital service company. Drawing from a materialistic approach to internet technologies, the study provides a comprehensive account of the digital service company since its founding in 2001. Based on evidence from industry events and a long-term immersion in the working lives of software developers, I suggest that the implementation of cloud technologies in the oil and gas industry prompted new digital divisions of labor and replaced the physical travel of professionals with a remote control system facilitating an enhanced circulation of data. The findings of this investigation imply that cloud computing continues to restructure the global economy and accelerates the migration of data through internet technologies.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Indonesia Gross Split PSC with Fiscal Terms of Several Southeast Asian Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saptianta Aribawa Sabaris ◽  
Asri Nugrahanti ◽  
Dwi Atty Mardiana
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Cost Recovery ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Level Indicator ◽  
Recoverable Reserves ◽  
Early Production ◽  
Better Than

<em>The implementation of the Gross Split PSC in the upstream oil and gas industry in Indonesia has been running since 2017 with the hope of being able to accelerate the decision-making process and increase attractiveness for oil and gas investors. This study is to analyze the implementation of Indonesia Gross Split PSC compared to other fiscal terms in Southeast Asia region from an economics perspective. The comparisons reviewed are between Indonesia Gross Split PSC and the following fiscal terms: Indonesia Cost Recovery PSC, Malaysia R/C PSC, Thailand Concession, and Vietnam PSC. Fields used as input for analysis are producing oil fields with small-scale recoverable reserves according to RF-2005 / SPE, namely Block X (early production fields) and Block Y (terminated fields). From economics calculations and comparisons, sensitivity and profitability characteristics, specifically applied to the field conditions under review, it is concluded that Indonesia Gross Split PSC has improved economics indicators compared to Indonesia Cost Recovery PSC so that Indonesia Gross Split PSC has an economics level indicator that is better than PSC Indonesia Cost Recovery when compared to Malaysian R/C PSC, Thailand Concession and Vietnam PSC.</em>

Small-Scale HISC Testing of a Superduplex Stainless Steel Welded Joint: The Impact and Interaction of Testing and Residual Stresses

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Blanchard ◽  
Kasra Sotoudeh ◽  
Tyler London ◽  
Saurabh Kabra
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Environmental Testing ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Superduplex Stainless Steel ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The combination of high strength and corrosion resistance of duplex stainless steels (DSSs) has promoted their use in subsea environments, particularly for the oil and gas industry. However, in the past 20 years, costly in-service failures of DSS components have frequently been encountered, most of which were attributed to hydrogen induced stress cracking (HISC). This cracking mechanism occurs once a susceptible microstructure coexists with critical levels of hydrogen and stress. In subsea environments, the use of cathodic protection (CP) is a source of hydrogen and the critical stress levels can be reached locally by operation and residual stresses generated during the manufacturing and installation processes. In order to prevent HISC failures, the microstructure, sources of hydrogen and stress levels have to be determined and controlled. An important factor contributing to the total stress experienced by a welded component is the residual stresses induced by welding. In a previous research projects conducted at TWI, residual stresses were measured in a full-scale girth weld between a DSS flange and pipe which had been in service, subsea, for 12 years. This follow-on work, on the same component, tested a number of small-scale cross-weld specimens, under CP to evaluate resistance to HISC of the weld. The observations showed that the cross-weld specimens exhibited superior resistance to HISC than that of the all-parent pipe and flange specimens. This was unexpected, and it was thought that this could potentially be explained by the influence of any compressive residual stresses remained in the small-scale test specimens used for the environmental testing programme. The present work provides the residual stress measurements in small-scale cross-weld specimens, using the neutron diffraction technique, and attempts to explain the relationship between the HISC testing results and residual stresses measured.

scholarly journals EVALUASI SISTEM SMALL SCALE ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT BP INDONESIA

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Nerisa Pitrasari ◽  
Nuryani Nuryani ◽  
Tony Pribadi ◽  
Edi Abdurrachman
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Electronic Procurement ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Procurement System

Along with the development of increasingly advanced technology, industrial companies under pressure of increased competition. One of the efforts is to improve business processes through procurement, in which there is the process of purchasing and inventory control. For the procurement performance, many companies are turning to e-procurement, a procurement transaction application of technology-based information which can reduce administrative activities, purchase and invoice process. As a multinational company engaged in the oil and gas industry, BP Indonesia implementing e-Procurement with two systems, namely the procurement card (pro-card) and e-bidding with Small Scale Electronic Procurement System (SSEP). The purpose of this study is to analyze and SSEP monitoring system, which in turn evaluate the system in terms of user satisfaction, so it can be things that need to be improved to increase user satisfaction. This study uses data collection by distributing questionnaires to vendors BP Indonesia using the SSEP system. The collected data will be analyzed by paired t-test and analysis of performance expectations. From the results of this study showed that SSEP system is running well but the performance should be improved with new innovations.

Using Small-Scale Testing in Integrity Assessment of Clad Pipes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afshin Motarjemi
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Toughness ◽  
Fracture Mechanics ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Integrity Assessment ◽  
Cladding Layer ◽  
Testing Techniques

Utilization of clad pipes has significantly improved the performance of components used in the oil and gas industry because of their potentially higher corrosion resistance. However, a clad pipe has more complexity than a solid pipe in terms of fracture mechanics based fitness for service (FFS) assessment. To be able to properly address this issue, precise mechanical data, such as tensile properties and fracture toughness values of the both cladding and the backing materials should be known. However, as the cladding layer is normally thinner than the backing material, conventional specimens are unable to provide the required mechanical data and instead small-scale tensile and fracture toughness specimens should be used. Current paper will introduce some of the small-scale mechanical testing techniques that may be used to determine the required input data for performing a fracture-mechanics based FFS assessment of a clad pipe.

Deployment of Digital NDT Solutions in the Oil and Gas Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
pp. 861-868
Author(s):  
Casper Wassink ◽  
Marc Grenier ◽  
Oliver Roy ◽  
Neil Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry

What Does Rent Give to Federal Budget (on the Russia's Budget Dependence upon "Oil Dollars")

2004 ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Sharipova ◽  
I. Tcherkashin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Resource Rent ◽  
Tax Legislation ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Government

Federal tax revenues from the main sectors of the Russian economy after the 1998 crisis are examined in the article. Authors present the structure of revenues from these sectors by main taxes for 1999-2003 and prospects for 2004. Emphasis is given to an increasing dependence of budget on revenues from oil and gas industries. The share of proceeds from these sectors has reached 1/3 of total federal revenues. To explain this fact world oil prices dynamics and changes in tax legislation in Russia are considered. Empirical results show strong dependence of budget revenues on oil prices. The analysis of changes in tax legislation in oil and gas industry shows that the government has managed to redistribute resource rent in favor of the state.

The Political Economy of Power: Approaches to the Analysis of Relationships between the State and Business in Russia

2011 ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
A. Oleinik
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Business Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Road ◽  
Ruling Elites

The article deals with the issues of political and economic power as well as their constellation on the market. The theory of public choice and the theory of public contract are confronted with an approach centered on the power triad. If structured in the power triad, interactions among states representatives, businesses with structural advantages and businesses without structural advantages allow capturing administrative rents. The political power of the ruling elites coexists with economic power of certain members of the business community. The situation in the oil and gas industry, the retail trade and the road construction and operation industry in Russia illustrates key moments in the proposed analysis.

Consideration of Geopolitical Challenges within the Analysis of Geoenvironmental Risks for Oil and Gas Development of the Russian Arctic

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
O. P. Trubitsina ◽  
V. N. Bashkin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Optimal Operation ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Geopolitical Risks

The article is devoted to the consideration of geopolitical challenges for the analysis of geoenvironmental risks (GERs) in the hydrocarbon development of the Arctic territory. Geopolitical risks (GPRs), like GERs, can be transformed into opposite external environment factors of oil and gas industry facilities in the form of additional opportunities or threats, which the authors identify in detail for each type of risk. This is necessary for further development of methodological base of expert methods for GER management in the context of the implementational proposed two-stage model of the GER analysis taking to account GPR for the improvement of effectiveness making decisions to ensure optimal operation of the facility oil and gas industry and minimize the impact on the environment in the geopolitical conditions of the Arctic.The authors declare no conflict of interest

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