OVERVIEW OF OIL AND GAS FACILITIES

Petroleum and gas deposits occur naturally throughout the world in every continent and ocean. Most of the deposits are several thousand meters deep. The petroleum industry s mission is to find, develop, refine, and market these resources in a fashion that achieves the highest economic return to the owners or investors while adequately protecting the fixed investment in the operation. 

Oil and gas operations today are almost universally constitute a continuous run operation versus a batch process. Once fluids and gases are found and developed they are transported from one process to another without delay or interruption. This provides improved economics, but also increases the fuel inventories and thereby inherent risk in the operation. 

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