Wireless infrastructure for oil and gas inventory management

Abstract

The oil and gas industry has unique workflow, working conditions, and other operational and environmental factors that demand an online inventory management solution which can effectively monitor the offshore operations,provide safe workplace for site personnel and track the movement of assets for distribution across the supply chain. Tremendous growth in wireless technologies for tracking and communication provides plethora of opportunities for developing an inventory management system which enables productivity and timely operation of the the offshore plant. In this paper, we have demonstrated an online inventory management system which enables monitoring the essential events in oil and gas offshore environment using a user intuitive web interface application.Through remote monitoring of tote operations, this approach ensures safety of the site personnel by minimizing the need to be available at offshore environment for extended periods to record and perform manual inventory. This proposed online inventory monitoring/management system for tote inventory is built using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks). The operators at remote control room can monitor and take actions based on the real scenario and generated alarms from the monitoring system placed offshore. The site owner can receive timely information about the arrival of totes from onshore and dispatch of totes from offshore yard. In this paper, we have highlighted one of the methods to design an inventory management prototype and emphasize the challenges foreseen in the oil and gas offshore deployment scenario.

Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH-WSNs)

“…Furthermore, human errors can lead to a significant revenue loss, hence, automating the supply chain process using WSNs can enhance quality of service, improve efficiency, and increase revenue . Similarly, inventory management using WSNs can prevent manual process errors and ensure personnel safety by limiting the need to be in dangerous environments such as offshore oil rigs (Vellingiri et al 2013).…”

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in Oil and Gas Industry: Applications, Requirements and Existing Solutions

“…The authors in [43] have tackled the problem of the safety in gas fields by introducing a multi-sensor gas monitoring platform that detects possible gas leakage in reliable manners and provides an accurate positioning of the source. The authors in [32] have addressed the moisture problem related to LPG, LNG pipeline in oil and gas production plant by introducing a monitoring system that is equipped with RFIDs sensor to detect the level of the received signal energy in a certain amount of time and thus the existence of moisture in the pipeline is determined.…”

Implementação de plataforma de automação por dispositivos móveis para gestão operacional em refinaria de petróleo

“…O pensamento de sistemas e a solução de problemas de sistemas para a fábrica inteligente devem ser priorizados (Li, 2016). Na literatura se encontram vários trabalhos relacionados à aplicação de sistemas inteligentes em processos de gestão, operação e manutenção na indústria de petróleo e gás (Gharbi & Mansoori, 2005); (Espíndola et al, 2013); (Sayda & Taylor, 2007); (Sweatt et al, 2015); (reza Akhondi, Talevski, Carlsen, & Petersen, 2010a); (Vellingiri, Ray, & Kande, 2013); (Gil, Santos, & Cardoso, 2013).…”