Nuclear Radioactive Materials in the Oil and Gas Industry: MATERIALS IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY: Safety, Risk Assessment and Management - Softcover

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Dr. Khalid Alnabhani is a visiting Professor at the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University, Canada. He holds a PhD in Engineering from Memorial University in ‘Safety engineering and risk management of radioactive materials.’ Alnabhani has rich and long experience in the field of Nuclear Industry and the Oil and Gas industry. Alnabhani has been recently listed as a scientist and expert in the scientists and experts' database of IAEA & AAEA. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society under the category of experts and professionals. He has a number of academic collaborations with prestigious Universities in the USA and the UK. His areas of research interest include safety engineering and risk management of technically enhanced nuclear radiological materials, the artificial intelligence role in promoting nuclear safety and security, and peaceful applications of atomic energy.

Faisal I. Khan is a Chemical Engineering Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center and the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI), Texas A&M University. He is the founder of the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety Engineering (C-RISE), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. Dr. Khan is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries in addressing safety and asset integrity issues. He also served as the Safety and Risk Advisor to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He continues to serve as a subject matter expert to many organizations, including Lloyd's Register EMEA, SBM Modco, Intecsea, Technip, and Qatar Gas. He served as a Visiting Professor of Offshore and Marine Engineering at the Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Australia, where he led the development of the offshore safety and risk engineering group and initiated global engagements with numerous international institutions.

Dr. Khan is the recipient of the President's Outstanding Research Award of 2012–13 at Memorial University, the President's Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013–14 at Memorial University, the CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers award for his contribution to Health, Safety, and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 500 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk, and reliability engineering. He has authored five books on the subject area. He is the Editor of the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Safety in Extreme Environment, and ASME Part A (Risk and Uncertainty Analysis). He regularly offers training programs/workshops on safety and risk engineering in various locations, including St. John's, Chennai, Dubai, Beijing, Aberdeen, Cape Town, Doha, and Kuala Lumpur.

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Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Nuclear Radioactive Materials (TENORM) in the Oil and Gas Industry comprehensively introduces TENORMs generated from various types of oil and gas processes and their associated adverse human health effects, discusses effective TENORM waste management strategies, and develops a quantitative risk analysis framework for TENORM exposure assessment. It thoroughly investigates and identifies current knowledge and technical gaps associated with the presence of TENORM in the oil and gas industry and addresses the three main gaps identified from the available studies: 1) workers in the industry face a great risk of being exposed to radioactivity; 2) high volumes of TENORM waste are generated daily and have become a serious concern as another source of radiation exposure; 3) the lack of a uniform international safety regulations designed to manage risks and their inability to provide enough protection for public health and the environment.

Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Nuclear Radioactive Materials (TENORM) in the Oil and Gas Operation offers researchers, scientists, and graduate and undergraduate students a comprehensive and well-researched reference starting with fundamental concepts, problem identification, and solutions development. This book is an ideal comprehensive guideline for professionals involved to the oil and gas industry and nuclear industry who are concerned about radiological issues.