Orchestrating and Automating Security for the Internet of Things: Delivering Advanced Security Capabilities from Edge to Cloud for IoT

Chapter 15. Industrial Environments: Oil and Gas

Topics covered in this chapter include

■   Industry Overview

■   The IoT and Secure Automation Opportunity in Oil and Gas

■   The Upstream Environment

■   The Midstream Environment

■   The Downstream and Processing Environments

■   Security in Oil and Gas

■   Oil and Gas Security and Automation Use Cases: Equipment Health Monitoring and Engineering Access

■   Evolving Architectures to Meet New Use Case Requirements

The oil and gas (or petroleum) industry is not a modern phenomenon. Historical records thousands of years old describe the early use of oil derivatives. The earliest recorded oil wells were drilled in China around 350 A.D.; the first basic refinery was built in Russia in 1745, with ...