BACKGROUND Literature abounds linking one's job to certain unpalatable health outcomes. Since exposures to hazardous conditions in industrial environments often results in sundry health effects among workers, we embarked on this study to investigate the hepatic health effects of occupational activities in the petroleum refining and distribution industry. METHOD Biochemical markers of liver fu...

The availability of real-time drilling data communication is highly critical to the exploration and production business of any petroleum company. Such critical mission requires oil companies to use the cutting edge technology because doing that can increase the profitability of the company by millions of dollars. Moreover, even short delay in data transfer could results in severe damages, injur...

In this paper we discuss the scenario of Petroleum Engineering projects at Petrobras, a large Brazilian governmental oil & gas company. Based on this scenario, we propose a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for a Collaborative Problem Solving Environment (CPSE), that we call Collaborative Engineering Environment (CEE), responsible for controlling and executing specialized engineering projects...

In this paper we discuss the scenario of Petroleum Engineering projects of Petrobras, a large Brazilian governmental oil & gas company. Based on this scenario, we define a set of requirements and system architecture to guide the construction of a Collaborative Engineering Environment for assisting the control and execution of large and complex in dustrial projects in oil industry, specifically ...

Optimisation of PM scheduling for multi-component systems – a simulated annealing approach Mohammad Doostparast a , Farhad Kolahan b & Mahdi Doostparast c a Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunication Company (IOPTC) , Tehran , Iran b Department of Mechanical Engineering , Ferdowsi University of Mashhad , Mashhad , Iran c Department of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences , Ferdowsi Unive...

The rapid changes in oil prices in last five years forced companies to rethink about their manufacturing process. This paper examines application of DEA and revenue management models for measuring and improving of productivity of a Canadian packaging company. The critical success failure factors are also highlighted.