A tank farm or oil depot is a facility where petroleum products are stored prior to distribution to consumers or retail facilities. One such place in Trinidad is at Pointe-a-Pierre. In the photograph are four large oil ...

In this vintage photograph an oil worker is manually operating an oil pipeline, which may be directly linked to an oil derrick. He seems to be controlling the flow of oil in the pipeline via the lever in his right hand and ...

A methodology for pipeline leakage detection using a combination of clustering and classification tools for fault detection is presented here. A fuzzy system is used to classify the running mode and identify the operational ...

Desarrolla una visión del petróleo en el mundo, el caso de la Brea y Pariñas, la responsabilidad de la empresa pública estatal, la perforación de pozos petroleros, así como su producción, refinación y logística. Por último, ...

Pipeline networks represent the major mode of transportation for crude oil and refined fuels. Recent data suggest that this trend will persist in coming years. A multiproduct pipeline network can be described as a set of ...

This work addresses the problem of developing optimization structurres to aid the operational decision-making of planning and scheduling activities in real-world pipelines. Two problems are studed: (i) The first one ...

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling a transmission pipeline carrying several petroleum products from a single oil refinery to a unique distribution center over a monthly horizon. The proposed approach is based ...