EVALUATING RESILIENCE OF OIL AND GAS CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS: A ROADMAP Yatin Wadhawan Dr. Clifford Neuman University of Southern California ISI, University of Southern California Los Angeles, USA Los Angeles, USA
[email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT midstream refers to the transportation and downstream refers to Cyber attacks affect not only online profiles, bank accounts, and refining and distribution of products of oil and gas. In this study medical health records but also physical infrastructure including we have narrowed our focus on oil production and distribution via oil and gas, the power grid, nuclear, and water treatment plants. A pipelines. Exploration and drilling are out of the scope of this stable energy supply is essential for economic prosperity. research. Production of oil and gas includes pumping, storage, According to US Department of Homeland Security [12], well maintenance, monitoring, pipeline distribution [9] and post approximately 22% of electricity is produced by natural gas production involves distributing it to the end customer, capping of combustion. A recent cyber attack on Norwegian Statoil [15] the sea well and water quality management if offshore. increased concerns regarding the safety of such critical According to US Environmental Protection Agency [11], “Natural infrastructure. In this research paper, we describe a function-based gas is formed when layers of buried animals, plants and gases are approach and framework for evaluating the resilience of oil and exposed to intense heat and pressure over thousands of years.” gas cyber-physical systems (O&GP) under cyber attack. We Steps of producing the natural gas [10] are: (1) take the gas from discuss use of the Measurement-Algorithm-Control system model the well heads, (2) condensate and remove water, (3) acid gas for simulating extreme and rare events in O&GP.