Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry
Xylene sited in the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's), is considered as one of the toxic chemicals released to environment during oil and gas operations in order to remove the organic deposits such as asphaltene. Normally, wellbore soaking by xylene is performed to remove the organic plugs in...
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| author | Zoveidavianpoor, M. Samsuri, A. Shadizadeh, S. |
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| description | Xylene sited in the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's), is considered as one of the toxic chemicals released to environment during oil and gas operations in order to remove the organic deposits such as asphaltene. Normally, wellbore soaking by xylene is performed to remove the organic plugs in the petroleum production system. However, xylene imposed detrimental impacts and continuous threat to field personnel and environment via storage and its flow backs into the waste pit. This paper illustrates oil well stimulation process and equipment and reviews the environmental challenges of xylene and gives indication of credible alternatives in stimulation oil and gas wells. This way, awareness is provided for upstream petroleum industry and environmental engineers for its risk evaluation, development of remediation and/or replacement techniques, and finally identification of future research directions. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-470442018-10-14T08:19:44Z http://eprints.utm.my/47044/ Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry Zoveidavianpoor, M. Samsuri, A. Shadizadeh, S. QC Physics Xylene sited in the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's), is considered as one of the toxic chemicals released to environment during oil and gas operations in order to remove the organic deposits such as asphaltene. Normally, wellbore soaking by xylene is performed to remove the organic plugs in the petroleum production system. However, xylene imposed detrimental impacts and continuous threat to field personnel and environment via storage and its flow backs into the waste pit. This paper illustrates oil well stimulation process and equipment and reviews the environmental challenges of xylene and gives indication of credible alternatives in stimulation oil and gas wells. This way, awareness is provided for upstream petroleum industry and environmental engineers for its risk evaluation, development of remediation and/or replacement techniques, and finally identification of future research directions. SAGE Publications Inc. 2012 Article PeerReviewed Zoveidavianpoor, M. and Samsuri, A. and Shadizadeh, S. (2012) Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry. Energy and Environment, 23 (8). pp. 1339-1352. ISSN 0958-305X http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1260/0958-305X.23.8.1339 DOI:10.1260/0958-305X.23.8.1339 |
| spellingShingle | QC Physics Zoveidavianpoor, M. Samsuri, A. Shadizadeh, S. Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry |
| title | Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry |
| title_full | Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry |
| title_fullStr | Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry |
| title_short | Health, safety, and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry |
| title_sort | health safety and environmental challenges of xylene in upstream petroleum industry |
| topic | QC Physics |
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