Introduction to geothermal exploration on ascension island, South Atlantic Ocean

The exploration for a geothermal resource on Ascension Island utilized a strategy that initially employed geologic mapping. On the basis of this, subsurface faults were mapped using an aeromagnetic survey. The faults were then explored using electrical resistivity surveys to define areas of potential hydrothermal fluid up-welling. The results of all of these techniques were used to site temperature gradient holes. A deep geothermal exploration well was then drilled in the area with highest heat flow adjacent to a rhyolite-to-trachyte volcanic complex.     

寻找非构造油气藏的新思路

目前,一种新的理论体系和研究方法已经形成,并正在发展和逐步完善。那就是层序地层学和油气成藏系统理论的诞生和发展;以及由计算机的快速发展带动起来的地震测井资料的采集、处理、显示和各种地质问题的计算机模拟技术,使得地质学和石油地质学都在朝着从定性到定量,从推测到更科学的预测方向发展。在今后的5～10年中,中国的石油地质家们不仅要注意方法和技术方面的进步,还应当重视在陆相层序地层学和陆相层序中油气成藏机制等基本理论方面的研究。     

Vibration Monitoring and Diagnosis of Pipe-line Pumps on Offshore Platforms

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石油焦原料性质及炭化工艺对活性炭性能的影响

从分析石油焦原料着手，考察了其热解特性、孔隙率和石墨化程度。由于石油焦结构致密，属易石墨化碳，因此用水蒸气法直接活化得到的炭质材料吸附性能差，其碘吸附值小于350mg/g。不同来源的石油焦由于组成不同，其活化性能也有差异。通过成型法，以金山石油焦为原料轻预炭化、预氧化和炭化，得到炭化料，再用水蒸气活化得到的活性炭的碘吸附值达800.40mg/g、亚甲蓝值达120.40mg/g。以独山子石油焦为主要原料制得的活性炭的碘吸附值与亚甲蓝值分别达871．58mg/g、100..67mg/g。     

Kinetic Studies on Cocracking of Petroleum Vacuum Residue with Thermoplastics and Biomass (Petrocrop)

Cracking of petroleum vacuum residue (XVR) and its cocracking with plastics (PP or PS), Calotropis procera (CL) as a binary, ternary, and quaternary mixture of these individual plastics, and CL with XVR was carried out in a Perkin-Elmer thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) for the purpose of comparing the process of the mixture with those of the individual components. Experiments were conducted at a heating rate of 40 K/min, in the temperature range of 30-900°C. Based on the results obtained, three temperature regimes were selected for studying the nonisothermal kinetics of TGA of individual XVR, plastics, and biomass as well as of the cocracking of these with XVR, i.e., below 400°C, between 400-500°C, and above 500°C. The kinetic studies were performed using the Coats and Redfern kinetic modeling equation. The overall activation energies obtained were 25 kJ/mole for petroleum vacuum residue, 99 kJ/mole for polypropylene, 21 kJ/mole for coal, and 35 kJ/mole for the mixture of all these materials. Thus, it has been found that there exists an overall synergy when three materials were coprocessed together. The overall orders and activation energies change during coprocessing of two or three different macromolecules, including mixed vacuum residue as presently observed. The detailed results that were obtained will be reported.     

Hydrocarbon exploration risk evaluation through uncertainty and sensitivity analyses techniques

The evaluation of the exploration risk in the oil industry is a fundamental component of the decision process related to the exploratory phase. In this paper the two basic components of the exploratory risk: trap geometry and trapped hydrocarbon quantities (fluid), are compounded in a single coherent uncertainty and sensitivity approach. The results clarify that the model geometry influences each Petroleum System Modeling step and that the geometric uncertainty is correlated with the fluid uncertainty. The geometric uncertainty evaluation makes use of geostatistical techniques that produce a number of possible realizations of the trap geometry, all compatible with available data. The evaluation of the fluid uncertainty, through a Monte Carlo methodology, allows us to compute the possible quantities of oil and gas, generated in a basin and migrated from the hydrocarbon source location to each single trap. The final result is the probability distribution of oil and gas for each trap in the basin, together with other useful indicators like: the hydrocarbon filling probability map, the closure probability map, the drainage area probability map, the spilling paths probabilities, the trap-filling scenarios.     

Estimation of the Substrate Concentration Profiles in Petroleum Pipelines Containing Biofilms

In industrial systems, the formation of biofilms can cause many problems, such as an increase in the flow resistance of pipelines, energy losses in fluid transport and heat exchangers, product contamination, materials deterioration, and biocorrosion. As a result, biofilms contribute substantially to economic losses in the industry. Corrosion is particularly an issue in the petroleum industry and its implications range from down-hole completion through petroleum processing units. Much of this corrosion is attributed to microbial activities. This paper proposes a mathematical model for predicting substrate concentration for such microbial growth. Substrate concentrations in the system and near the biofilm surface are one of the parameters that has a great effect in determining the extent of the problems associated with biofilms. In this study, a convective-diffusion model under various flow conditions (stagnant, laminar, and turbulent) has been solved using the finite difference technique, employing the alternating direction implicit (ADI) method. The model assumes that a liquid containing substrate and bacteria is flowing in a pipeline with known concentrations at the inlet and then predicts the variation of the transient (as a function of time) substrate concentration along the pipeline and as a function of the pipe radius. The model is then used to predict and estimate the substrate concentration profiles on the biofilm surface under different environmental conditions. A parametric study was also conducted to study the effect of the different parameters influencing the substrate concentration profiles in the system and on the biofilm surface.     

三维地震勘探中强声波干扰的压制

在三维地震资料采集中产生的声波为非线性干扰波,能量强,频谱宽,利用常规的分频去噪和线性压噪方法难以将其去除,使后续的资料处理效果受到影响。基于声波具有非常稳定的传播速度这一特点,提出了一种利用非线性变换手段压制强声波干扰的方法。方法原理是,首先对三维地震资料中含声波到达时间的某段记录(时窗)进行转换,将非线性声波时距关系转换为速度趋于无穷、波数趋于零的一组噪声;然后应用f-k滤波对这组噪声进行压制;最后,再通过逆转换得到声波压制后的结果。该方法易于实现,并只对声波到达时间处的小范围数据进行处理,数据量小,计算效率高。对实际三维地震资料的处理结果表明,该方法压制强声波干扰的效果非常明显。     

DT型粉状炸药专用蜡的研制

以多种含蜡馏分为基础原料，添加适量DT复合添加剂研制的DT型粉状炸药专用蜡具有优异的分散性和抗水性，可满足各种低梯粉状炸药要求，简化炸药配方，方便操作及其质量控制，以其生产的炸药爆速高，贮存期长，各项性能满足GB12437－2000标准要求。     

修井作业中的自动起下管柱系统探讨

目前在油田修井作业中起下管柱的人工作业量大、工作效率低、危险性大、工作条件差。提出了一种自动起下管柱作业系统,主要包括通井机、井架、液压钳、筒式吊卡、卡瓦支座、立式排管架和控制系统等,支座卡瓦为弹性体微条嵌入式结构,筒式吊卡能自动卡入和松开管柱接箍,排管架可实现管柱的立式排放,控制系统协调各部分的工作。该系统构思新颖,结构简单,技术可行,并能够与现有修井设备配合使用,实现油田修井作业的自动化。