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This book evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Norway and Australia. It provides an interdisciplinary approach with legal, technological and sociological perspectives on efforts to assess and prevent major accidents and improve safety performance. Presented in three parts, it begins with a review of the factors involved in designing, implementing and enforcing a regulatory regime for industrial safety. It then evaluates the four regimes exploring the contextual factors that influence their design and implementation, their reliance on industrial expertise and standards and the use of performance indicators. Finally the book assesses the resilience of the Norwegian regime, its capacity to keep pace with new technologies and emerging risks, respond to near miss incidents, encourage safety culture, incorporate vested rights of labor, and perform inspection and self-audit functions. This book is relevant for those in government, business and academia, and anyone involved in offshore safety issues.

Offshore oil industry --- Offshore gas industry --- Gas industry --- Natural gas in submerged lands --- Oil industry, Offshore --- Petroleum in submerged lands industry --- Tidelands oil industry --- Petroleum in submerged lands --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Risk management. --- Safety measures. --- Government policy. --- Risk management --- Safety measures --- Government policy --- E-books --- Law --- General and Others

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This book includes a selection of oral and poster presentations from ""Onshore-Offshore Relationships on the Nordic Margin Conference"" held in Trondheim in 2002. The conference was jointly arranged by the Norwegian Geological Society (NGF) and the Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF), and attempted, through different thematic sessions, to bridge the gap often noted between industry and academic research. The first part of the conference included presentations under the theme ""Basement control on offshore structuring"" with representative articles from that segment included in this boo

Rocks. Minerals --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Earth Sciences --- General and Others --- Petroleum --- Geology --- Offshore oil industry --- Offshore gas industry --- Gas industry --- Natural gas in submerged lands --- Oil industry, Offshore --- Petroleum in submerged lands industry --- Tidelands oil industry --- Petroleum in submerged lands --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Coal-oil --- Crude oil --- Oil --- Caustobioliths --- Mineral oils

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The book is an up-to-date basic reference for natural gas hydrate (NGH) in the Arctic Ocean.  Geographical, geological, environmental, energy, new technology, and regulatory matters are discussed. The book should be of interest to general readers and scientists and students as well as industry and government agencies concerned with energy and ocean management. NGH is a solid crystalline material that compresses gas by about a factor of about 164 during crystallization from natural gas (mainly methane) - rich pore waters over time. NGH displaces water and may form large concentrations in sediment pore space. Its formation introduces changes in the geotechnical character of host sediment that allows it to be distinguished by seismic and electric exploration methods. The chemical reaction that forms NGH from gas and water molecules is highly reversible, which allows controlled conversion of the NGH to its constituent gas and water. This can be achieved rapidly by one of a number of processes including heating, depressurization, inhibitor injection, dissolution, and molecular replacement.  The produced gas has the potential to make NGH a valuable unconventional natural gas resource, and perhaps the largest on earth. Estimates for NGH distribution, concentration, economic targets, and volumes in the Arctic Ocean have been carried out by restricting the economic target to deepwater turbidite sands, which are also sediment hosts for more deeply buried conventional hydrocarbon deposits.  Resource base estimates are based on NGH petroleum system analysis approach using industry-standard parameters along with analogs from three relatively well known examples (Nankai-Japan, Gulf of Mexico-United States, and Arctic permafrost hydrate). Drilling data has substantiated new geotechnical-level seismic analysis techniques for estimating not just the presence of NGH but prospect volumes. In addition to a volumetric estimate for NGH having economic potential, a sedimentary depositional model is proposed to aid exploration in the five different regions around the deep central Arctic Ocean basin. Related topics are also discussed. Transport and logistics for NGH may also be applicable for stranded conventional gas and oil deposits. Arising from a discussion of new technology and methodologies that could be applied to developing NGH, suggestions are made for the lowering of exploration and capital expenses that could make NGH competitive on a produced cost basis. The basis for the extraordinarily low environmental risk for exploration and production of NGH is discussed, especially with respect to the environmentally fragile Arctic region. It is suggested that because of the low environmental risk, special regulations could be written that would provide a framework for very low cost and safe development.

Clathrate compounds. --- Natural gas -- History. --- Natural gas -- Hydrates. --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Chemical Engineering --- Geology, Economic. --- Oceanography. --- Energy. --- Fossil fuels. --- Economic geology. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Economic Geology. --- Oceanography, Physical --- Oceanology --- Physical oceanography --- Thalassography --- Earth sciences --- Marine sciences --- Ocean --- Economic geology --- Physical geology --- Mines and mineral resources --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- Geology, economic. --- Natural gas in submerged lands

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SCIENCE --- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) --- Offshore oil industry --- Offshore gas industry --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Environmental impact analysis --- Environmental Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental aspects --- Oil industry, Offshore --- Petroleum in submerged lands industry --- Tidelands oil industry --- Analysis of environmental impact --- Environmental assessment --- Environmental impact assessment --- Environmental impact evaluation --- Impact analysis, Environmental --- Gas industry --- Natural gas in submerged lands --- Petroleum in submerged lands --- Environmental auditing --- Environmental monitoring --- Environmental protection --- Energy industries --- Oil industries

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This book provides an overview of the major changes induced by hydrocarbons (HCs) affecting rocks and surface sediments and their implications for non-seismic exploration methods, particularly for marine territories near Cuba. It examines the use of a digital elevation model (DEM) at 90x90m resolution for the detection of subtle, positive geomorphic anomalies related to hydrocarbon microseepage (vertical migration) on possible oil and gas targets. The results support the conclusion that the DEM data provides a low cost and fast offshore oil and gas preliminary exploration strategy. This data is useful serving to focus prospective areas with supplementary unconventional methods such as magnetic-induced polarization (MIP), useful to propose more expensive volumes for detailed 2D–3D seismic surveys. .

Petroleum --- Offshore gas well drilling. --- Prospecting. --- Earth sciences. --- Fossil fuels. --- Structural geology. --- Oceanography. --- Mathematics. --- Visualization. --- Earth Sciences. --- Structural Geology. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Offshore drilling for gas --- Offshore gas operations --- Gas well drilling --- Ocean mining --- Natural gas in submerged lands --- Oil exploration --- Petroleum exploration --- Petroleum prospecting --- Petroleum engineering --- Prospecting --- Geology, Structural. --- Visualisation --- Imagination --- Visual perception --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Oceanography, Physical --- Oceanology --- Physical oceanography --- Thalassography --- Earth sciences --- Marine sciences --- Ocean --- Geotectonics --- Structural geology --- Tectonics (Geology) --- Physical geology --- Math --- Science --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals