Global flaring and venting of petroleum–associated gas is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and airborne contaminants that has proven difficult to mitigate over the years. In the petroleum industry, poor efficiency in the flare systems often result in incomplete combustion which produces a variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and i...

As part of a broad, multldlsciplinary effort to monitor the impact of petroleum exploration activities on the outer continental shelf areas of the Gulf of Mexico, the local effects of a drilllng rig on the benthic environment have been investigated. Petroleum hydrocarbons in or on seawater can become associated with suspended sediment partlcles I and be transported downward and incorporated int...

Off-shore petroleum exploration nowadays routinely uses the marine controlled-source (MCSEM) survey, which consists of a set of sea-bottom receivers and a moving electrical bipole transmitter. We show that the MCSEM survey with its dense system of transmitters and receivers, is extremely well suited for application of the holography/migration method. The combined EM signal in the receivers form...

We present a simple model of petroleum exploration and development that can be applied to study the performance of alternative tax systems and identify potential distortions. Although the model is a highly simplified, it incorporates many factors and some of the key tradeoffs that would influence an investor’s investment behavior. The model recognizes the role of enhanced oil recovery and treat...

optimization of reservoir parameters is an important issue in petroleum exploration and production. the ant colony optimization(aco) is a recent approach to solve discrete and continuous optimization problems. in this paper, the ant colony optimization is usedas an intelligent tool to estimate reservoir rock properties. the methodology is illustrated by using a case study on shear wave velocity...

The utilization of electrical techniques in oil and gas exploration has always been a subject of great interest to geophysicists, largely because of the hope that the application of such techniques would eventually lead to the direct detection of hydrocarbons through their insulating properties. However, 60 years of constant and at times frenzied debate over direct detection has failed to produ...