Analysis of safety and environmental regulations for downstream petroleum industry operations in Nigeria: Problems and prospects

Ambituuni, Ambisisi; Amézaga, Jaime M.; Emeseh, Engobo

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2013.12.002

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“…A number of definitions for the term ''regulation'' exist in the literature. Selznick (1985) in Ambituuni et al (2014) indicates that ''regulation'' generally involves a continued, deliberate and focused control exercised by a public authority over activities and/or resources valued by the community. Following this, safety and environmental regulation in coal industry can be defined as all efforts and requirements by government for coal firms to invest in safety and environmental governance in their operations, respectively, so as to improve respective working and physical environment.…”

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SWOT analysis of safety and environmental regulation for China and USA: its effect and influence on sustainable development of the coal industry

Dzonzi-Undi

2015

Environ Earth Sci

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SWOT analysis of safety and environmental regulation for China and USA: its effect and influence on sustainable development of the coal industry

Dzonzi-Undi

2015

Environ Earth Sci

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“…concerns with national economic development. This is done through the establishment of an adequate regulatory framework consisting of laws and regulations setting out rights, obligations, procedures and standards, and regulatory institutions charged with responsibility for monitoring compliances [18].…”

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“…However, the petroleum is industry has been associated with major issues incident and disaster which have contributed to vast safety and environmental problems [18]. The social and environmental costs of oil production have been extensive.…”

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“…The upstream segment explores and produces crude sources from onshore and offshore reserves, while the downstream segment develops crude and natural gas into various refined products and derivatives [17]. The increase in consumption of petroleum product has obvious implications for the operations of the petroleum industry in the country in both upstream and downstream including the risks posed to the natural environment and human safety [18]. Any of the activities either in upstream or downstream sectors pose human health, safety and environmental risk is balancing these…”

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A Review in Oil Exploration and Production Waste Discharges According to Legislative and Waste Management Practices Perspective in Malaysia

Lodungi¹,

Alfred²,

Khirulthzam³

et al. 2017

Int J Waste Resour

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IntroductionOil and gas are one of the most important resources in the world and it plays a role in the global economy. However, the activities of oil and gas from most of companies in the world have many negative impacts on the environment. One of the reasons is due to the waste production from the oil and gas industry. According to Environmental Quality Act 1974, waste can be defined as any matter prescribed to be waste and any matter, whether liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive, which is discharged, emitted, or deposited in the environment in such volume, composition or manner as to cause an alteration of the environment. The exploration and extraction of oil and gas processes produce the waste materials such as used drilling fluids and drilling cuttings like complex mixtures of clays and chemicals. Usually the waste is discharged directly from the platforms into the surrounding marine water.Based on the standard procedure, the waste has to clean first before discharge the waste into the marine water by various physical means and the company has to follow the limits on levels of contaminants based on the regulations and legislations. If the disposal of these wastes is not regulated, the resulting environmental pollution may lead to radiation exposure, whether for people directly involved in oil and gas operations, the general public, animals and plants. There are several potential adverse impacts to the marine water due to disposal of wastes. For example is it can pollute of the marine environment, surface soil and water degradation and groundwater contamination?In general, this paper provides an overview on the oil exploration and production waste discharges according to legislative and waste management practices perspective in Malaysia and the study of the effect of the waste produced from the oil and gas industry to the environment. The scopes of the study are covered by several sections as follows: the oil exploration and production waste discharges, waste management in oil and gas waste products, the regulations and legislations act related to oil and gas in Malaysia and the possible environment impact due to disposal of wastes to marine water. Literature ReviewOil exploration and production waste discharges AbstractThe core frame of research is dominated by the waste management practice of the oil exploration and production waste discharges from Malaysia's petroleum industry related to legislation. As the waste harms the environment, the composition and possible environmental impact of the waste produced from the offshore drilling process activities are studied. This research will lead to a better waste management practices framework which comply Malaysia's legislation and regulation act. In this study, the biggest issues that limits the waste management practices in petroleum industry in Malaysia is lacking of practices on petroleum waste management. The main difference between waste management practices between Asian and African countries is the African country has more utilization of waste into us...

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“…The transportation and distribution of liquid petroleum products in Nigeria is mainly by pipeline and road truck tankers [1]. Pipelines are generally considered the safest form of transporting energy, including petroleum products [2].…”

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Risk assessment of a petroleum product pipeline in Nigeria: the realities of managing problems of theft/sabotage

Ambituuni

Hopkins²,

Amézaga

et al. 2015

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Pipelines carrying oil and gas are very safe forms of energy transportation, but they do sometimes fail.In the Developed World these failures are usually associated with impact damage (e.g. from earth moving equipment), corrosion, or manufacturing faults in the pipeline materials. In the Developing World theft and sabotage is a major, and increasing cause of failure. Countries such as China, Mexico, and Nigeria have major problems with theft of pipeline products, sabotage, and vandalism. This paper reviews pipeline failures in Nigeria, focusing on pipelines carrying hydrocarbon liquids. The review clearly shows that theft/sabotage is the major cause of failure to pipelines, and the recorded failure rates (0.35 per km-year) are well above failure rates reported on other pipeline systems around the world.Fatalities from pipeline failures range from 0.04 to 0.38 per km-yr, depending on the region in Nigeria. Additionally, on average, the operator of the pipeline system considered in this paper loses about $US100million/year due to these failures. This value does not consider the costs associated with payment of compensation, fines, environmental clean-ups, litigation, etc. The paper concludes with recommendations to improve pipeline safety systems to reduce these fatalities and costs.

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Analysis of safety and environmental regulations for downstream petroleum industry operations in Nigeria: Problems and prospects

Cited by 78 publications

References 17 publications

SWOT analysis of safety and environmental regulation for China and USA: its effect and influence on sustainable development of the coal industry

SWOT analysis of safety and environmental regulation for China and USA: its effect and influence on sustainable development of the coal industry

A Review in Oil Exploration and Production Waste Discharges According to Legislative and Waste Management Practices Perspective in Malaysia

Risk assessment of a petroleum product pipeline in Nigeria: the realities of managing problems of theft/sabotage

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