2nd International Conference and Expo on Oil and Gas October 27-28 , 2016 Rome, Italy

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Marcelo Vargas Querino has completed his MS at the age of 22 years from Federal University of São Carlos. He was the chemical engineering for 10 years of food industry. Actually he is doctoral student from Federal University of Santa Catarina in Department of Chemical Engineering. He has experience on falling film distillation of binary mixture and multicomponent mixture, like naphtha.

He is follow of PRH34/aciPG (Human Resources Program / Automation, Control and Instrumentation for Oil & Natural Gas) by PETROBRAS.

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Condensate stabilization refers to light hydrocarbon extraction and removal of acid components to meet the marketing standards and it has key role in the industry. Based on actual plant data in the literature, it carried out a simulation using Aspen HYSYS® software to predict the opposite process behavior on some proposed amendments. In the dynamic software module, a control system was tested and configured to stabilize disturbances in the model. The plant behavior to changes in temperature, pressure and power were evaluated. The results showed good agreement. The proposed amendments were presented promising for MEG purification, distillation of the final product, thermal energy recovery and implementation of the control system. 

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Omnia Hassan Abdelraheem has completed his PhD at 2011 in Chemical Engineering. She is Lecturer of chemical engineering in faculty of Engineering, Beni Suef University Egypt. She has published 5 papers in reputed journals.            

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The effect of electromagnetic field (EMF) on the removal of edible oil from oil-in-water emulsion by means of electrocoagulation was investigated in rectangular batch electrochemical cell with DC current. Iron (Fe) plate anodes and stainless steel cathodes were employed as electrodes. The effect of different magnetic field intensities (1.9, 3.9 and 5.2 tesla), three different positions of EMF (below, perpendicular and parallel to the electrocoagulation cell), as well as operating time; had been investigated. The application of electromagnetic field (5.2Tesla) raises percentage of oil removal from 72.4% for traditional electro-coagulation to 90.8% after 20 min.

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Atif Zafar is a student of M.Sc Oil and Gas Engineering in school of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China). His major is Reservoir Engineering. He is also a Lecturer at the Department of Petroleum Technology, University of Karachi, Pakistan.

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An application of Integration of Well Test Analysis in reservoir characterization and field development is presented in this paper. The real data of Jin Gas Field of L-Basin of Pakistan is used.

The basic concept behind this work is to enlighten the importance of well test analysis in a broader way (i.e. reservoir characterization and field development) unlike to just determine the permeability and skin parameters. Normally in the case of reservoir characterization we rely on well test analysis to some extent but for field development plan, the well test analysis has become a forgotten tool specifically for locations of new development wells.

This paper describes the successful implementation of well test analysis in Jin Gas Field where the main uncertainties identified during initial stage of field development when location of new development well was marked only on the basis of G&G (Geologic and Geophysical) data. The seismic interpretation could not encountered the boundary (fault, sub-seismic fault, heterogeneity) near the main and only producing well of Jin Gas Field whereas the results of the model from the well test analysis played a very crucial rule in order to propose the location of second well of the newly discovered field.

The results from different methods of well test analysis of Jin Gas Field are also verified and supported by other tools of Reservoir Engineering i.e. Material Balance Method and Volumetric Method.

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Rafid Abbas graduated with BSc. Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Baghdad University (Iraq) in 1994. He completed his MSc. in Petroleum Engineering (Drilling) in 1997 from Baghdad University. He has worked as assistant lecturer in Al-Qadisiya University –Chemistry Department in Iraq since 2001. In 2008 he was promoted to lecturer position and has worked for Chemical Engineering department for the same University. He got a scholarship from the Iraqi government to study PhD. He is currently undertaking PhD ( Final year ) in Leeds University  – UK researching in” Analysis of the wear of the oil well drill bits” with Dr. Ali Hassanpour , Dr. Colin Hare and Prof. M. Ghadiri.

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Predicting the wear of drill bits is essential for all oil and gas industries to maximise drilling efficiency and reduce loss in money and time. Typically, this problem has been handled by evaluating the specific energy of the drill bits at drilling formation intervals along with well logs and geophysical analysis. Although these techniques could provide good indication of the bit tooth wear, lack of consideration of material properties of rock and bit in the previous wear models, the bit balling phenomena and high level of vibration of the drill bit might give misleading results that affect the reliability of these techniques.

The present study focused on the determination of the wear of roller-cone bits taking into account the hardness of the rock formation and the materials forming the drill bit, along with other drilling parameters, such as rotary speed, rate of penetration, weight on bit and the time required to drill a specific interval.

The bit wear obtained from the formula developed in this work is compared to the qualitative in-situ bit tooth wear for various drilled formation intervals of a number of wells in the south of Iraq for which a close match is observed.

The new approach for bit wear determination could be used as a trending tool to evaluate the status of the drill bits or predicting the wear of roller-cone bits. The study could potentially be extended and applied to other types of drill bits such as Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) bits. 

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Gianfranco Manes is a former Professor of Electronics at University of Florence, Italy and is an internationally recognized speaker in the area of microwave devices modeling and design and Wireless Sensor Networks Technology and Applications. He contributed more than 300 papers in learned Society Journals and International Conferences. He currently heads the MIDRA Consortium, a Research Institute operating in the areas of Microwave Technology and environmental monitoring.

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This paper describes a distributed point-source monitoring platform for gas level and leakage detection in hazardous environments. The platform, based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture, is organized into sub-networks to be positioned in the plant’s critical areas; each sub-net includes a gateway unit wirelessly connected to the WSN nodes, hence providing an easily deployable, stand-alone infrastructure featuring a high degree of scalability and reconfigurability. Internet connectivity is provided via TCP/IP over GPRS gateways at a one-minute sampling rate. Environmental and process data are forwarded to a remote server and made available to authenticated users through a user interface that provides data rendering in various formats and performs post-processing and multi-sensor data fusion. The platform is designed to provide real-time plant management with an effective, accurate tool for immediate warning in case of critical events, with minimal intrusiveness or obtrusiveness.

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Giuma Maayouf has been working for the Libyan petroleoum institute since 1989 .He has cmpeled his Msc in 2007 of  Durham University, UK and his main speciality is clastic sedimentoloical. His issued alot of technical reports  for oil industrial. He is the head of geology department at teh same institute until now.

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The Abu Shaybah Formation (ASF) ranges in age from Carnian to Norian (Late Triassic), and is exposed from the foothill slopes of the Tarhuna - Gharyan scarp stretching west wards to Ar Rabitah and Al Khums to the eastward along the Jabal Nafusah. The Lower boundary is sharp and unconformable with the Al Aziziyah Formation, (marine deposit) and the upper is locally unconformable with the Abu Ghaylan Formation (marine deposit). Seven sections have been measured in the study area and the maximum thickness of Abu Shaybah Fm. is about 254 m located in Wadi Ghan. It consists of gravely sandstone, coarse sandstone, silty clay and mainly mudstone facies in Abu Ghaylan Road section is about 21m thickness of this formation. Series of sandstone bodies, fining up ward cycles, from 8 to 12m thick of cycles in fluvial meandering and 20 to 25m thickness of fluvial braided cycles. Four main facies association can be characterized in ASF, Facies association 1) fluvial braided, channel deposit (CH). Extensive sandstone coarse to very coarse grained, pebbly scattered and character by graded trough cross stratification , up to 15m thick of channels with no clay content. Fcaies association 2) Fluvial meandering,  Its sandstone, medium to coarse grained highly argillaceous, trough cross stratification point bar deposit overlain by 3 to 5 m thick of shale, (over bank and crevasse splay deposits), and isolated sand bodies lateral accretion. Fcaies association 3) Flood Plain and over bank consist of red to green silty shale commonly mottled and content rootlet, up to 30m thickness in Wadi Ghan section and Facies association 4) It is a marine transitional zone. This sediment of ASF deposited under two strongly controlled by climate and tectonic with large sub-aerial accommodation space rather than increase in subsidence rate in the study area. Sequence startigraphic theory can be applied to these continental deposits, by defining base level and accommodation space, within the context of genetically related, coherent depositional sequences. Amalgamated multi-storey sand bodies are typical of Low stand conditions, isolated ribbon sand bodies typify transgressive conditions (sub-divided into early and late stages) and isolated multi-lateral sand bodies characterize High-stand conditions. 

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Dominic Adaoiza Onimowo has completed BEng degree in Mechanical Engineering and MSc graduate in Petroleum and Gas Engineering, who is currently undergoing his PhD at Anglia Ruskin University on Optimization of inflow control valves.

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The influx of water and or gas into the wellbore is a problem which diminishes oil recovery, increases separation costs and drastically reduces well production life. The current solution to this problem is the use of an Autonomous Inflow Control Valve (AICV) developed through the EU FP7 project called REVIVAL. The valve works to prevent water and or gas breakthrough into the wellbore and only allow oil to flow into the wellbore by detecting viscosity differences amongst the fluids which create varied pressure drops used to control the valves opening or closing. The current research follows the same concept aims on optimisation and control of flow in the inflow control valve by considering various geometries and cases using computational fluid dynamics, CFD to discover more efficient ways to operate the valve. The cases selected are based on fluid flow, oil in particular through various conduits at various Reynolds numbers.  The cases are a straight pipe, a coil pipe, a swirl pipe, a slinky type coil and a coil with an internal coil. The results show that there is a significant increase in pressure drop with the new designs which means the opening and closing of the piston in the inflow control valve would be more efficient hence achieving better valve response. The results obtained from this investigation could be extended to other applications in fluid mixture separation. 

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Ezeddine Hamida graduated with BSc Degree in Physics from Tripoli University(Libya) in 1996, in 2010 completed his MSc in Radiation and Environmental Protection (REP) from University of Surrey (UK). He has number of training courses and approved certificates in training and communication skills. He is  a professor of physics and fluid mechanics since 2001 for PTQI (Petroleum Training and Qualifying Institute-Tripoli-Libya) and as a collaborator  for some Libyan Universities since 2011. He was a founder of Fluid Mechanics Lab and author of methodic  book of  Fluid Mechanics Lab for PTQI in 2003 , he has10 years experience as a supervisor of Fluid Mechanics Lab. He  participated  by scientific papers locally and  international  in NORM  area (Tripoli 2014 - Budapest 2016). He  published scientific paper entitled “Quantifying the Nuclear Slow-Process via Neutron Activation” in the scientific journal “Alnawa ”  which issue from Center of Nuclear Research-Tajoura in 2015, and scientific article entitled “ Nuclear Techniques at service of Oil & Gas Industry” in the scientific bulletin “The Atom and Development” which issue by aaea (Arabic Atomic Energy Agency)  was published in June 2016. He has  official invitations to participate in the following scientific conferences, 2^nd Conference of Oil & Gas -Roma, Italy 27-29 / October / 2016. And 2^nd Conference on Petroleum  Resources and oil  Manufacturing– organizing   University of Al-Anajem  Alsata- Brega- Libya, 7-9/November/2016. And  13nd  Arab Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, -organizing  Arabic    Atomic Energy Agency-  Hammamet, Republic of Tunisia, 18-22 December 2016.      

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This paper is the second part of a comprehensive research, its goal is to create a database about the existence of the NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) in petroleum fields, terminals & gas export stations across Libya, the NORM was measured in two oil ports (Al-Hariqa Port Tobruk, east of the country, and Zawia Port, west of the country) where oil is exported there from, which is coming from two oilfields in which a relatively high proportion of radiation in scales’ samples was recorded (the first part of the research, which was presented in -RANC2016- Budapest) in order to try to track the spread of pollution resulting of the Scales’ NORM and make sure the possibility of arriving at the ports. From the results, it is clear that the NORM levels in oil ports and commercial ones are within the allowed limits (Exemption level). Samples were of 1.5 litres of water taken from the ports’ basins where the oil tankers are shipped in shipping oil ports at the shipping & discharge basins into the commercial ports. Gamma Ray which was emitted from the samples was measured by High pure Germanium Detector –HPGe at the Radiation Prevention Department in Tajura Nuclear Research Center-Tripoli, Libya.

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Yuqing Liu is a PhD candidate from China University of Petroleum (East China), studying in the area of structural analysis of petroliferous basi006E.

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The basins developed quite differently in the SCS, which was due to the complicated dynamic background. Based on the interpretion of high-accuracy seismic data, different structures of four basins from different continental margins were analyzed. The results showed that the faults in Yinggehai basin were mainly strike-slip, extensional strike-slip as well as extensional faults, and the evolution of the basin could be divided into three stages, including strike-slip extensional rifting stage, extensional strike-slip rifting stage and the stage of subsidence; two types of faults were formed in Pearl River Mouth Basin, including extensional and strike-slip extensional faults, and the basin experienced three stages, which were rifting, subsidence and tectonic activation; there were mainly extensional faults in Reed Basin, and the evolution could also be divided into three stages which were rifting, drifting and subsidence; both extensional faults and compression faults occurred in Taixinan Basin, and the evolution stages of the basin were rifting, compression inversion and subsidence. Combined with peripheral dynamic events in that period, the mechanism of the above differences of the basins in response to dynamic background was under discussion，which showed that plate interaction, deep mantle activities and large strike-slip faults were three key factors affecting basin development in different degree. This study can support the further geological researches on basins in the South China Sea and guide the exploration in oil and gas in this area.

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Mohsen M Khazam, Ph.D., P.E., is a Senior Manager with Mubadala Petroleum, currently managing Libya office branch and also give part of my time to supervise some B.Sc. petroleum graduation projects at University of Tripoli.

Before joining Mubadala he has started his career with Libyan National Oil Corporation for 13 years in positions ranged from senior reservoir engineer at EOR and Production Departments to a senior member of negotiation committee related to upstream EPSA and DPSA contract license award. He was one of the founders of Millitah gas project from designing of the field development plan until the negotiation of gas sales agreements.

He has  joined Mubadala Petroleum in 2001, in the early stage of Dolphin project establishment, and  was one of the key developers of this project. Also, he has been involved in concluding other upstream commercial deals for Mubadala in Oman and Libya countries.

He has obtained  his  Ph.D. from Heriot Watt University in 1995 and the B.Sc. from Tripoli University in 1988, all  his degrees in Petroleum Engineering. Also, he is  the author of some technical publications with SPE and other organizers.

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The minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is one of the most important parameter to be determined in miscible gas injection projects to ensure and maximize the displacement sweep efficiency inside the reservoir. Usually the most effective way of determining the MMP is to run slim tube experiments. However, in the early screening stage, we often relay on the published empirical correlations to estimate the MMP and identify the most suitable candidates for the EOR gas injection projects. Also reliable estimation of the MMP helps the operator to develop injection conditions and to plan suitable surface facilities. In this paper, our main aim objective was to examine different published empirical CO₂ MMP correlations using measured data mainly obtained from Libya and other published resources, and also to develop a new simple reliable correlation to be applied in the oil industry. The data collected covered a wide range of CO₂ MMP (1544–6244 psia) and oil API gravity (28-52ºAPI). Minitab regression tool was deeply used in our study and a wide range of new constructed correlations ranging from simple to complex ones were developed and statistically evaluated. Different PVT variables including P_b, T, API, g_g, R_si, molecular weight, volatile oil fraction, and intermediate oil fraction were considered in our study. The proposed simple CO₂ MMP correlation is mainly function of the measured P_b, API, T, and R_si and has very reliable degree of accuracy (SD=6.7%, RE =0.44%, AbsRE = 5.74%, R² =95.22%) for the examined data.  Also, this new correlation is more superior to all other industry published correlations that demonstrated an abs relative error ranges between 14.04% to 20.40% which are much higher percentage of error than our correlation and the standard deviation ranges between 14.67% to 29.52% which almost triple times of our correlation accuracy. The new correlation was validated against 100 measured PVT variables (P_b, R_si, T & API) obtained from Libya, and the predicted CO₂ MMP results have demonstrated very reliable trend (within the measured CO₂ MMP trend) with no anomalies. Introducing more variables such as mole fraction of the light components and the molecular weight of the C₇₊ to the simple proposed correlation will add minor improvement to the accuracy, which supports the emphasis on adopting the simple correlation.

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Gholam Abbas Shairali has completed his PhD from Hamedan University. He is an Assistant Professor in department of occupational safety and health engineering at the Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. His primary research is on the system safety and resilience engineering. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has done much research in the chemical and petrochemical industries.
 

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Along with the improvement of equipment reliability, human error has become a great threat to the oil industry reliability and safety. Statistics show that human error is a major contributor to over 80% of accidents in chemical and petrochemical industries. Therefore, in order to ensure effective prevention of catastrophic accidents, the role of human in accident dynamics should be considered during risk assessment processes. The purpose of this study is to provide a method for estimating the instant and precise of human error probability (HEP) using cognitive reliability and error analysis method (CREAM) and Bayesian network. For this purpose, data related to dynamic context (or common performance conditions) was collected by a self-design questionnaire. Then, the gathered data was processed via MSBNx software. The results indicate that the highest HEP value is associated to the outside operators with 0.0912. In this study, factors such as unavailability of procedures/plans, multiple simultaneous goals, inadequacy of training and experience, and poor crew collaboration were identified as the common performance conditions that could effect on the HEP. Therefore, the method can be used as a useful and applicable tool to estimate the HEP value, in particularly in complex and uncertain systems such as oil industries.

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He is a teacher, research professor. He is a professor of "water treatment" and "environmental management" since 1982.He did  PhD in "Environmental Management".He worked a lot on "the life cycle analysis" and he has several publications as he worked on several "national research project" (adsorption and LCA). He is also Vice dean of  Pedagogy of the "Faculty of engineer sciences" at the University of boumerdes algeria .

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The mud causes considerable pollution impacting several sectors, especially the groundwater system and the staff working on Drilling wells so as to mitigate the environmental effects of the sludge on the environment we propose two treatment processes (scenarios 1 and scenario 2) like: thermal desorption, stabilization/solidification off line), these treatments are very privileged and used in the field of treatment of oil muds, in (Hassi-Messaoud) Algeria.  We use the "life cycle analysis" to evaluate the environmental impacts of each process (the two scenarios),   the environmental impacts of each scenario are compared. Which are performed by the use of models of eco-indicator 99 by software “SIMAPRO7”. This evaluation allowed us to identify and quantify the contributions of emissions on human toxicity, the depletion of resources and the ecosystem quality, which are the main categories of impact in this specific Saharian context. The main substances of the assignment of the environment seem to be the chemicals added to the mud.  As regards the comparison of the two treatment scenarios, the thermal desorption  could be considered as the best method; it has the lowest impact in the three dominant categories scores, aside from the very large consumption of fossil energy causing from atmospheric emission.