Petroleum exploration and production is an industry that provides researchers with multi-variant challenging “real world” properties. Recently, some petroleum soft computing techniques have gained a greater interest in prediction within the oil industry. This paper is interested in the analysis, classifying, mining and predictions, based on fuzzy as an intelligent system and an intelligent syst...

The conversion of biomass into biofuels can increase fuel flexibility and reduce the related strategic vulnerability of petroleum based transportation fuel systems. Bioethanol has received considerable attention over the last years as a fuel extender or even neat liquid fuel. Lignocellulosic materials are very attractive substrates for the production of bioethanol because of their low cost and ...

Road vehicles are a key part of the climate change challenge, representing both an important source of petroleum demand and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. In the United States, light-duty vehicles (LDVs, i.e., cars and light trucks) alone account for 43% of petroleum demand and 23% of GHG emissions, when fuel production is considered [MacKenzie, 2013]. The United States, Europe, Chin...

This review and analysis work presents the Campos Basin, in its geological aspects, such as tectonosedimentary evolution petroleum systems exploratory plays, history of exploration production, post-salt pre-salt reservoirs, panorama current production well future perspectives for basin, context national medium long-term forecasts.

Forecasting of petroleum production time series is a key task underlying scheduling of oil refinery production. In turn, forecasting requires analysing whether time series exhibits chaotic behavior. In this paper we consider chaos analysis based forecasting of time series of gasoline and diesel production. Chaos analysis is based on Lyapunov exponents and includes determination of optimal value...

The production of renewable fuels is continuing to expand worldwide as a result of increasing petroleum prices, government regulations, and commitments to greenhouse gas reduction. There has been little integration of renewable fuels production within petroleum refineries to date, despite the rapidly increasing growth in renewable fuels demand. The segregated production of renewable fuel compon...