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Pipeline Risk Assessment
This chapter offers a comprehensive exploration of risk assessment methodologies in the context of pipeline and facility management within the oil and gas industry. Aimed at risk management, integrity manageme...
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Flow Modeling and Simulation in Pipelines
Thermo-hydraulic simulation of a pipe flow implies in the numerical determination of the flow field and temperature distribution to evaluate flow rates, pressure drop, and heat loss. The numerical prediction o...
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Flexible Pipes: An Overview from Design to Installation
Several different pipeline technologies can be used for develo** offshore oil and gas field. The choice of pipeline technology has a significant impact on the detailed design, project schedule, and construct...
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Gas Distribution Pipeline Systems
A natural gas distribution system involves all pipelines in their various materials, diameters, and operating pressure, all pi** components, gas odorization and chromatography system, gas heating system, pre...
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Hydrogen Pipelines
Hydrogen is the oldest and most abundant element in the universe, and it has a high potential as a clean and renewable energy source.
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Basics of Finite Element Applications to Pipelines
The use of finite element analyses (FEA) is widespread in pipeline engineering practice, in particular for major hazard industries such as oil and gas. It allows a comprehensive understanding of the loadings a...
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Metering in Pipelines
Pipeline operators are important agents for product owners, since they transport valuable products from one point to another. Usually, transportation fees are much lower than the price of the products (crude o...
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SCADA System of Pipelines
This chapter intends to describe a broad and comprehensive understanding of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, examining its definitions, evolutionary history, telecommunications princip...
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Leak Detection of Pipelines
The chapter provides an in-depth analysis of leak detection in pipelines, emphasizing the importance of monitoring for environmental protection and pipeline integrity. It explores the complexities of leak dete...
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Planning and Execution of Pipeline Operations
This chapter, Pipeline Operations: Planning and Execution, has the primary objective of offering the reader an introductory but wide overview of pipeline operations in oil and gas segment in general. Each of t...
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Pipeline Repairing
This chapter presents a summary of pipeline repair systems, their characteristics, application procedures, advantages, disadvantages, and limitations. The chapter initially approaches the response time between...
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Geotechnical Aspects of Pipelines
Oil pipelines and linear works are long structures that cross the most diverse types of terrain, including areas subject to mass movements, such as landslides, erosions, and settlements. Considering the enormo...
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Pipeline Coatings
The chapter on pipeline coatings addresses the activities to be developed to properly select, specify, and apply coatings to a steel pipeline. The objective of the coating is to maintain the integrity of the pipe...
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Fitness for Service of Onshore Pipelines
This chapter describes the basics for quantitatively assessing pipeline structural integrity. Elementary concepts are presented to define the implicit resistance of pipelines and calculate its probability of f...
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Rigid Offshore Pipelines
The rigid offshore pipelines chapter addresses the activities to be developed during the design phase of a rigid offshore pipeline including its static and dynamic sections, namely, flowline and riser, respective...
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Pipeline Threats
We all face hazards or threats; for example, driving, crime, illness, etc. We can minimize the risk associated with the threats by: reducing our exposure to these threats (e.g., driving less); and, minimizing ...
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Carbon Dioxide Pipelines
Carbon dioxide pipelines are similar to natural gas pipelines in many ways. Where they are similar, the pipeline industry has considerable experience and can rely on existing standards and regulations. But whe...
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Fuel Ethanol Pipelines
On September 20, 1925, Henry Ford predicted in an interview published by the Christian Science Monitor that “ethyl alcohol will be the fuel of the future.” This chapter will be dedicated to addressing the oper...
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Regulation of Pipelines
Oil and gas industries are regulated for several factors, like technical, safety, environmental, and economic reasons. Regulatory measures are adopted even before hydrocarbon production. In the natural gas ind...
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Stress Analysis with Applications to Pipelines
The Mechanics of Materials establishes a simplified analytical methodology, based on linear and elastic relationships between loads that are imposed on structural components, to determine and analyze the state...
