Towards a Sustainable and More Environmentally Friendly Oil and Gas Industries

Dear Colleagues,

Since the use of oil and gas as commercial energy sources, the oil and gas industries have become crucial in not only the producing countries but also the consuming countries as oil and gas are the main sources of energy around the world. These industries not only produce the fuels necessary for air, space, land, and maritime transportation but also are used in other very complex but related industries such as the petrochemical industry. This industrial complexity is accompanied by many technological challenges in the quality assurance operations and processes. Alongside the production of high-commercial-interest products, large quantities of waste of all kinds—solid, liquid, and gaseous—at different concentrations are also generated, which must be managed and treated appropriately in order to reduce the environmental impact they could cause by as much as possible. Moreover, in recent years, with climate change, the greenhouse effect, and the need to operate within a circular economy, the generated waste has been used and transformed into by-products to produce other products with high added value, thus closing the economic cycle of this industrial process. In response to these urgent needs, Koya University in Iraq is holding its "3rd International Conference on Petroleum: Waste Management in Oil and Gas Industry, April 28-30, 2024".

This Special Issue intends to disseminate the research presented at this conference, which will address the latest developments in the state of the art in this field. Although the target audience of this Special Issue will primarily be the conference participants, some of whom the authors will invite to publish their manuscripts in this Special Issue, this Special Issue is open to all authors in this field

Prof. Dr. Gassan Hodaifa
Prof. Dr. Joseph D. Smith
Prof. Dr. Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan
Dr. Hayder A. Abbood
Guest Editors

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