Permafrost Hazard of MoHe-DaQing Crude Oil Pipeline

Abstract:

The crude oil pipeline from MoHe to DaQing (hereafter called Mo-Da pipeline) is part of China-Russia oil pipeline. Mo-Da pipeline is the first pipeline that through high latitude cold regions of China. The pipeline is in so complicated geography environment that many kinds of permafrost hazard are easily to happen including frost heave, thaw settlement, slope instabilities, and collapse and so on. The pipeline and the permafrost act and react upon one another. On one hand, soil frost heave and thaw settlement can produce extra stresses on pipe walls, which may result in centralized stresses and plastic deformations under certain conditions, even causes pipeline faults. On the other hand, buried pipeline will disturb ambient environment and then degrade the permafrost soil and finally impact safety of the pipeline. This paper mainly introduces the permafrost hazards of Mo-Da pipeline and demonstrates some methods for monitoring the influence of permafrost.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 734-737)
• Pages: 2659-2663
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.734-737.2659
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Yun Bin Ma*, Dong Jie Tan, Hong Yuan Jing, Quan Xue, Cheng Zhi Zhang
• Keywords: Frost Heave, MoHe-DaQing Pipeline, Permafrost Hazard, Thaw Settlement

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