Monday, June 10, 2019

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.

This is the reason why firms employed with engineers only hire qualifies ones and those who have years of experience regarding these kinds of tasks. The government keeps on working on some projects that may improve their nation and this will also require some budget for maintenance. Therefore, by putting up electrical power plants, their nation was able to experience the kind of comfort that they were longing for.

The electricity that we are using right now came from these resources and these were through the efforts of engineers. Electric companies are hiring the best engineers to work with them. These professionals have the adequate knowledge about installing these generators for the benefit and interest of the majority.

It is not easy to mandate professionals and to make these projects come true because maintenance is need to keep them fully functional. Sometimes, they have to wait for the solution to come but this is obviously impossible. Fortunately, experts have thought about some new innovations to solve our electricity problems. As an average home owner, and as a citizen in this society, we surely have experienced brown outs.

It detects the highest point standing on a plain area and which is composed of metal. Sometimes, regardless of a material composition, it just hit anywhere as long it is the highest point of its scope. The most prone areas are our oilfields because these were wide areas of metallic containers.

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.

That is why business establishments have already secured their own generators so that by the time the electricity shuts down, they will still continue their production. This temporary solution has helped our industry a lot. Electrical shortage is not a reason for being idle.

However, in order to avoid using generators, engineers are making sure that their oilfields are well protected by protectors. These protectors are composed of metallic materials like copper and aluminum so that the direction of the lightning will be redirected. Instead of damaging the oil fields, it will only strike on it. Even though there would be still minor damages, it is not the same as that of its absence.




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