Ali Alsaygh
Loughborough University, UK
Title: Applyign lean and green tools to oil and gas production operations: A single case study
Biography
Biography: Ali Alsaygh
Abstract
Oil and gas production operations are one of the main contributors to the greenhouse gas (GHG). They consume a significate amount of fresh water, hazard chemicals and energy to process and emit pollutants such as gas, volatile organic compounds and polluted water combines with crude. This paper explores the application of lean and green principle to oil and gas production operations which has been shown to reduce pollutants. This paper explores the use of lean tools such as value stream mapping (VSM) and Kaizen event to achieve lean principles; just in time delivery (JIT), reduce resources consumption in the process, reduce time of machine processing and to further identify the proportion that adds value. Research was conducted to assess the resources consumption of the oil and gas operations to environmental impact and waste reduction in the oil and gas industry. The research method is comprised of case study of a fossil fuel production company in Middle East, which included interviews, direct observation and analysis of the company documents. Analysis of the data, combined with an extensive literature review, showed the potential of applying lean principles and tools to the oil and gas operations to improves each single process and holistic operations which deliver enhancement to the environmental impact.