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PROJECT PROPOSAL

FOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY OSOGBO

NAME: SIKIRU, HAMMED OLAYINKA

MATRIC NO: FUO/NAS/10079

COURSE: COMPUTER SCIENCE

PROJECT TOPIC: WEB BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTELLIGENT

PIPELINE THEFT DETECTION AND REPORTING SYSTEM

PROJECT SUPERVISOR: MR R.A AZEEZ

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INTRODUCTION

Nigeria’s Oil companies are battling against rising theft costing an estimated 150,000

barrels of crude a day; the stolen oil fuels a lucrative black market in Nigeria, Africa’s

top oil exporter, as well as in neighboring countries (World oil, 2012). Nigeria has

faced unprecedented challenges with regard to losses in production occasioned by

incessant vandalism of crude oil export pipelines and domestic crude oil and

petroleum product pipelines. The country is losing about 300,000 barrels of crude

daily to oil theft. In 2013, Nigeria – Africa’s largest oil producer, suffered severe

attacks on its critical export pipeline system leading to the loss and/or deferment of

about 300,000 barrels/day. 2

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The most common technology to protect pipelines from occasional leaks is

COMPUTATIONAL PIPELINE MONITORING or CPM.

CPM takes information from the field related to pressures, flows, and

temperatures to estimate the hydraulic behavior of the product being

transported. Once the estimation is completed, the results are compared to

other field references to detect the presence of an anomaly or unexpected

situation, which may be related to a leak.

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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMWithout adequate provision for the prompt reporting of pipe line damage

due to vandalism by unscrupulous individuals, the following problems listed

below may occur:

Explosions: Gas explosions are very dangerous and can lead to several deadly

casualties

Environmental Pollution: The exposure of the leaking fuel line can lead to

the contamination of the environment which may affect living condition of

inhabitants of that area as well as crop and live stock

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Equipment Damages: Destruction of the pipeline can lead to damages of the

equipment for the pipeline supply chain which will incur cost on the gas

company

Fuel Scarcity: As more pipe lines are vandalized, the supply of gas to the end

distributors will be hinder leading the scarcity of the fuel

Loss of Investors: Frequent stealing of the gas from the area will drive away

foreign investor interested in gas fuel production.

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM

The aim of this research work is to :

To design a web-based system to intelligently monitor oil theft and pipeline

vandalism.

The objectives of this research is to:

To provide a system that can trigger an alarm system that alert stakeholders

to take necessary action to prevent oil theft.

To generate appropriate report for decision making with respect to oil theft

and pipeline vandalism.6

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JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY

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This research, an Intelligent Oil Theft Reporting System will give immediate

report on changes in pressure and hydraulic mechanism of the system if

applied in pipelines used by Oil and Gas producing companies.

The reporting systems will provide timely data that can be used to detect

pipeline vandalisation before disaster strikes.

The information on this research could minimize loss by gas production and

distribution companies.

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SCOPE AND LIMITATION

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The scope of this research project will cover the design and the implementation

of an Intelligent Oil Theft Detection and Reporting System which will provide

online data and updates on the processes going on in the pipelines.

This research project will be limited to the simulation of the data supplied by the

sensors installed on the pipelines to detect changes in parameters and damages.

No real life gas sensor detection device or gas pipes will be used for this research

as there is limited access and finances available for such heavy duty tools.

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METHODOLOGY

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Source for the Data necessary for this project will be collected through

extensive research from journals, materials from the library and the

World Wide Web.

The database for the system will be designed using the SQL Database

Management System. The programming language that will control the

automation of the system as well as provide the user interface for the

user will be built using the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET High Level

Programming Language.

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SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

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HARDWARE REQUIREMENT

For proper installation of the system,

the following minimum hardware

requirements are:

Monitor: 15” Color monitor

Processor capacity: 2GHZ

microprocessor

Minimum of 512MB RAM

Hard Disk: 120GB

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT

The software requirements for

the installation of the system are

listed below:

Microsoft Access

.NET Framework

Visual Studio 2008 or higher

Windows Operating System

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REFERENCES

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Mohitpour, Mo (2003). Pipeline Design and Construction: A Practical Approach.

ASME Press. ISBN 978-0791802021

http://www.worldoil.com/Oil-bunkering-in-Nigeria-7-of-Nigerias-crude-oil-stolen-dai

ly.html 2012

"Fuel theft in the USA reaches $8 Billion in 2008 : RFID Switchboard". Rfidsb.com.

Retrieved 2011-12-17.

Obas Esiedesa (2014): Finding solution to Nigeria’s $11b annual crude theft

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/03/finding-solution-to-nigerias-11b-annual-cr

ude-theft/

http://www.dbnetsolutions.co.uk/Articles/BenefitsOfWebBasedApplications.aspx20

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http://indepthresearch.org/index.php/consultancy-services/systems-analysis/webba

sedsystems.html November 09,2014

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