Digital Technologies in the Development of Offshore Fields

A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".

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Dear Colleagues,

Special care is required in the design and development of technologies for use in offshore fields. Otherwise, undesirable consequences may occur with the potential to lead to loss of life, economic loss, or environmental pollution. To minimize such risks, it will be important to constantly monitor the status of offshore structures and field development technologies through the use of digital technologies, such as the "digital twin", or the use of machine learning methods, so that necessary actions can be taken before catastrophic consequences occur.

We invite scholars to submit articles and research on the various approaches are available for assessing these this purpose, which we would like to discuss and see in our special issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the development of advanced methods and technologies for the exploration of offshore fields; modern methods of studying rocks, reservoir fluids and their interaction; and modeling the processes of hydrocarbon movement in reservoir conditions and with the help of a surface pipeline system. We assign a special role to methods, approaches and algorithms for creating "digital twins" of offshore fields. Our ultimate aim is to host articles discussing completely new approaches that will allow us to attain qualitative and significant breakthroughs in the digital oil industry.

Dr. Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Martyushev
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Keywords

  • carbonates
  • offshore fields
  • research technologies
  • artificial intelligence
  • big data

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Paleoenvironmental Evaluation Using an Integrated Microfacies Evidence and Triangle Model Diagram: A Case Study from Khurmala Formation, Northeastern Iraq
by Ali Ashoor Abid, Namam Muhammed Salih and Dmitriy A. Martyushev
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(11), 2162; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11112162 - 13 Nov 2023
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The sequence of the Khurmala Formation located in northeastern Iraq was measured and sampled to evaluate its paleoenvironmental features, including sedimentological and microfacies analyses. The studied formation was analyzed under an optical microscope and was dominated by three main types of microfacies: coralligenous–algal [...] Read more.
The sequence of the Khurmala Formation located in northeastern Iraq was measured and sampled to evaluate its paleoenvironmental features, including sedimentological and microfacies analyses. The studied formation was analyzed under an optical microscope and was dominated by three main types of microfacies: coralligenous–algal wackestone, foraminiferal–peloidal packstone, and foraminiferal–peloidal grainstone. These hosted microfacies in the Khurmala Formation rarely contain a non-geniculate algae that insufficient for complete reef-building as a crest, but among the common algae, there are calcareous geniculate and green algae associated with benthic foraminifera and a minor component of planktonic foraminifera in the basin due to high-energetic open shallow-water environmental conditions during the deposition of the Khurmala Formation. The relative percentages of foraminifera, including both benthic and planktonic, plotted on triangular diagrams revealed a graphic indicator of paleoenvironment analyses. Detailed examination and analyses for microfacies, new findings of calcareous green algae (Acicularia and Clypeina), and microfacies analyses based on the triangle method and standard facies zones, denote that the upper part of the Khurmala Formation was richer in fined grain and Acicularia green algae, reflecting lower energy conditions than during deposition in the lower part of the formation, which was represented by algal wackestone microfacies and dominated by Clypeina green algae. In summary, these fluctuations in facies/microfacies changes, the appearance of new green algae, and different percentages of foraminiferal content are linked to the global sea level fluctuation that occurred during the Paleocene–Eocene interval. Full article
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