Theoretical and technological advances in petroleum storageand transportation engineering

Key words:  petroleum storage and transportation  pipeline transportation  gathering  safety engineering  construction

Abstract:

Since the founding of the discipline of petroleum storage and transportation (PST) in China University of Petroleum for 60years, distinctive and advantageous research areas have been well developed which mainly include long-distance pipeline transportation of oil and gas, multiphase pipeflow and gathering of oil and gas, safety and construction engineering of the PST facilities. In the past 10years, with the unprecedented high-speed development of China 's pipeline industry and the consequential technological challenges, intensive researches have been conducted and a series of important achievements have been made by the discipline of PST, which mainly fall in the subjects such as rheology and pipeline transportation of waxy and viscous crude oils, pipeline transportation of oil products and natural gas, multiphase pipeflow and separation of oil-gas-water, flow security assurance of the multiphase flow systems, mechanism of the flow resistance reduction, energy conservation in pipelines and gathering systems of oil and gas, strength design and safety evaluation of pipelines, integrity management of the PST facilities, and construction of pipelines and underground storage facilities. These achievements were summarized systematically. Based on the experience of the past 60years, it is pointed out that aiming at major engineering problems and making fundamental researches continuously and intensively will still be the strategy that should be hold in the future.