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(Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD SPECIAL REPORT 322 Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Committee on the Application of Real-Time Monitoring of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Transportation Research Board Transportation Research Board Washington, D.C. 2016 www.TRB.org Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. 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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competencies and with regard for appropriate balance. This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to the pro- cedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine. This study was sponsored by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Cover photos (from top): Onshore remote real-time monitoring of drilling operations; offshore team using real-time data on rig floor. (Photographs used with permission. ©2016 BP America Inc. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2016021952 | ISBN 9780309369787 Subjects: LCSH: Offshore oil well drilling—United States—Safety measures. | Offshore oil industry—Risk management—United States. | Offshore gas well drilling—United States—Safety measures. | Offshore gas industry—Risk management—United States. | Environmental monitoring—United States. | Electronic surveillance—United States. | Automatic data collection systems—United States. Classification: LCC TN871.3 .A665 2016 | DDC 622/.338190284—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016021952 ISBN 978-0-309-36978-7 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations The National Academy of Sciences was established in 1863 by an Act of Congress, signed by President Lincoln, as a private, nongovernmental institution to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology. 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Sears, Stanford University, Stanford, California, Chair James S. Crompton, Reflections Data Consulting, LLC, Colorado Springs, Colorado James S. Dyer, University of Texas at Austin Paul S. Fischbeck, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania James H. Garrett, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania N. Wayne Hale, Jr., Special Aerospace Services, LLP, Boulder, Colorado Stig O. Johnsen, SINTEF and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Morrison R. Plaisance, Independent Consultant, Sugar Land, Texas Manuel Terranova, Peaxy, Inc., San Jose, California Peter K. Velez, Peter Velez Engineering, LLC, Houston, Texas Transportation Research Board Staff Mark S. Hutchins, Study Director Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Preface The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) of the U.S. Department of the Interior requested in July 2014 that the Marine Board of the National Research Council (NRC) conduct a study advising the agency on the use of real-time monitoring (RTM) to improve the safety and reduce the environmental risks of offshore oil and gas opera- tions. The charge from BSEE and related background material are given in Chapter 1. Specifically, the committee was asked to address five main tasks on the use of RTM (see the statement of task, Box 1-1 in Chapter 1): 1. The critical operations and specific parameters that should be moni- tored from drilling