Thursday, April 18, 2019

Oilfield Lightning Protection Importance And Purposes

By Lisa Murray


Some people are still not aware about the happenings that have been occurring every day. The electricity that they were using today is part of the outputs of skillful engineers who did their best to look for ways on how to protect oil fields from being affected and damaged by lightning discharges. These discharges are harmful to their operations and thus, we have to learn about oilfield lightning protection.

Sometimes, people tend to underestimate the effects of natural occurrences in our daily productivity. We surely are aware that disastrous events would really freeze human productivity because almost all our equipments will be destroyed. These natural occurrences like tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods are very harmful to our resources.

However, we should there are still other things affecting our resources. If you have seen a lighting travelling across the sky, it would be pretty much normal for us because when the weather is bad, thunders naturally occur. If we were not affected, then meaning to say, it probably hit some place that we do not care about.

But most probably, it hit somewhere and most probably, those areas which were highly charged and are filled with metallic products. Lightning is attracted to metallic surfaces especially those sharp ones. We would not be surprised when one day it will hit our rooftop antennas when we live in rural areas. This is the danger for living in remote areas because you are prone to this phenomenon.

Every time a lightning strikes geothermal pants, there will be certain malfunctions and damages and these are not repaired immediately. It will take time to develop a certain strategy to prevent these occurrences from happening again and again. It would be very effortful if the engineers and laborers keep on repeating the same procedures.

The reason for doing this is that a lightning will always be attracted to high sharp points most especially when it is metallic. There may be lots of high points in the city that is why thunders only have lesser possibility to happen in cities. It usually strikes in empty fields. For example, in an empty field, the tallest part is a tree.

They built flexible building foundations so that when earthquakes occur, the building will just go with the movements of the crust. Meaning to say, instead of being destructed, it will just sway with its movement. Engineer also found a solution to stop the lightning from destructing oil fields.

Therefore, they should also spend time to prevent tits destruction. They cannot just waste their efforts by allowing natural occurrences to completely destroy what they worked for. In every problem, there will always be a solution. Thus, they decide to put up some protection. These protections are high metal posts.

These were placed in the middle of each portion so that the lightning will not target the oilfields. Since these are the tallest point of the area, then the charges will direct its way into its tips. This will reduce the damage in oil fields, however, not completely. At least, they minimized the effects and people will continue to be productive as they used to be despite these natural happenings.




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