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Changjing Fu, Yangming Xu and Tianlong Zhao
One of the major geological hazards that can cause harm to long-distance oil and gas pipelines are water-induced disasters. These disasters are quite common and widespread. Pipelines that cross river channels are at a higher risk of facing damage due to ...
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Fengming Du, Cong Li and Weiwei Wang
Oil and gas exploration is a sector which drives the global economy and currently contributes significantly to global economic development. The safety of subsea pipelines is deeply affected by factors such as pipeline buckling, corrosion and leakage. Onc...
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Ezra Wari, Weihang Zhu and Gino Lim
This paper proposes a continuous state partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) model for the corrosion maintenance of oil and gas pipelines. The maintenance operations include complex and extensive activities to detect the corrosion type, de...
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Ezra Wari, Weihang Zhu and Gino Lim
Corrosion is one of the major causes of failure in pipelines for transporting oil and gas products. To mitigate the impact of this problem, organizations perform different maintenance operations, including detecting corrosion, determining corrosion growt...
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Xing Zou, Botao Xie, Zhipeng Zang, Enbang Chen and Jing Hou
Sand waves are commonly formed on the sandy seabed of the continental shelf and characterized by their regular wave-like shape. When a submarine pipeline is laid on this type of seabed, it often experiences free spans due to the unevenness of the seabed....
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Kang Zhang, Ruize Ma, Tao Geng, Jiannan Yang and Yongjun Gong
The leakage of subsea oil and gas pipelines can have adverse impacts on production progress and the ecological environment. Investigating the sound source and near-field sound propagation of pipeline leaks is essential for understanding the acoustic char...
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Youkou Dong, Enjin Zhao, Lan Cui, Yizhe Li and Yang Wang
Submarine pipelines are widely adopted around the world for transporting oil and gas from offshore fields. They tend to be severely ruined by the extreme waves induced by the natural disaster, such as hurricanes and tsunamis. To maintain the safety and f...
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Sumayh S. Aljameel, Dorieh M. Alomari, Shatha Alismail, Fatimah Khawaher, Aljawharah A. Alkhudhair, Fatimah Aljubran and Razan M. Alzannan
Detection of minor leaks in oil or gas pipelines is a critical and persistent problem in the oil and gas industry. Many organisations have long relied on fixed hardware or manual assessments to monitor leaks. With rapid industrialisation and technologica...
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Qingchao Fang, Xin Zhao, Sunbo Li, Zhengsong Qiu, Zhiyuan Wang and Qi Geng
Effective control of the cohesive force between hydrate particles is the key to prevent their aggregation, which then causes pipeline blockage. The hydrophilic?lipophilic balance (HLB) value of surfactants was proposed as an important parameter for the e...
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Dong Liu, Feihong Yun, Kefeng Jiao, Liquan Wang, Zheping Yan, Peng Jia, Xiangyu Wang, Weifeng Liu, Xiaoquan Hao and Xiujun Xu
Underwater oil and gas pipelines are prone to alignment differences and angle offsets during docking, and the spherical flange connector can address this problem. Its main function is to enable compensation of the different angles of the pipeline during ...
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