Environmental impacts of offshore wind installation, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning activities: A case study of Brazil

M Shadman, MM Amiri, C Silva, SF Estefen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of the paper is to perform a review of the environmental impacts of the
installation, operation and maintenance (O&M), and decommissioning of offshore wind …

Trenchless construction technologies for oil and gas pipelines: State-of-the-art review

H Lu, S Behbahani, M Azimi, JC Matthews… - Journal of …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
With the accelerated construction and aging of underground oil and gas pipelines,
trenchless technology (TT) has developed rapidly in recent years. This paper briefly …

Controlling subterranean forces enables a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot

ND Naclerio, A Karsai, M Murray-Cooper… - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Robotic navigation on land, through air, and in water is well researched; numerous robots
have successfully demonstrated motion in these environments. However, one frontier for …

Unfavorable geology recognition in front of shallow tunnel face using machine learning

C Zhao, E Mahmoudi, M Luo, M Jiang, P Lin - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
Subsoil profile mapping is typically based on spatially discrete borehole logs obtained from
site geotechnical investigations. During the mapping, soil information between two …

[HTML][HTML] Developments and research directions in pipe jacking and microtunneling

RL Sterling - Underground Space, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review of the history and development of pipe jacking and
microtunneling methods with extensive referencing to the published literature. The …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation of the effect of drill pipe rotation on improving hole cleaning using water-based mud enriched with polypropylene beads in vertical …

NS Heshamudin, A Katende, HA Rashid, I Ismail… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Field experience has shown that the inefficient transport of small cuttings is a main factor
contributing to excessive drag and torque during the drilling of a deviated hole; however …

The effect of drill–pipe rotation on improving hole cleaning using polypropylene beads in water-based mud at different hole angles

A Katende, B Segar, I Ismail, F Sagala… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Springer
Hole cleaning is always a problem, particularly during drilling operations, and drilling fluid
plays an important role in transporting drill cuttings through an annular section of wellbore to …

Investigation of cuttings transport in directional and horizontal drilling wellbores injected with pulsed drilling fluid using CFD approach

B Pang, S Wang, C Lu, W Cai, X Jiang, H Lu - Tunnelling and Underground …, 2019 - Elsevier
Efficient cuttings transportation is a significant issue in wellbore drilling. The pulsed jet
drilling technology is known to improve the rate of penetration (ROP), but lacks targeted …

Application of fiber optics in water distribution networks for leak detection and localization: a mixed methodology-based review

K Ibrahim, S Tariq, B Bakhtawar, T Zayed - H2Open Journal, 2021 - iwaponline.com
This study reviews the state-of-the-art application of fiber optics in water distribution
networks for leak detection and localization. The use of fiber optics in the oil and gas sector …

Drill string's axial force transfer law in slide directional drilling in underground coal mine

BL Xu, SY Liu, HS Li - Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
During the slide directional drilling with long directional near-horizontal drilling technology,
the weight on bit (WOB) at the bottom of the hole is exerted by pushing the drill pipe with the …