Date: 11:15, 26 September 2016
Venue: F.17. Colin Maclaurin Building, Heriot-Watt University
Title: Data Integration Support for Offshore Decommissioning Waste Management
Speaker: Abiodun Akinyemi, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS), Heriot-Watt University
Abstract: Offshore decommissioning activities represent a significant business opportunity for UK contracting and consulting companies, albeit they constitute liability to the owners of the assets – because of the cost – and UK government – because of tax relief. The silver lining is that waste reuse can bring some reprieve as savings from the sales of decommissioned facility items can reduce the overall removal cost to an asset owner. However, characterizing an asset inventory to determine which decommissioned facility items can be reused is prone to errors because of the difficulty involved in integrating asset data from different sources in a meaningful way. This research investigates a data integration framework, which enables rapid assessment of items to be decommissioned, to inform circular economy principles. It evaluates existing practices in the domain and devises a mechanisms for higher productivity using the semantic web and ISO 15926.
Bio: Abiodun Akinyemi is a PhD student at the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt University. He has an MPhil in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has worked on Asset Information Management in the oil and gas industry for over 8 years.