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Keywords
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Persian Gulf, Green Production, Resiliency, Natural Gas Supply Chain, Fuzzy MCDM
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Abstract
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Growing global demand for energy, result in depletion of easily access source of fossil fuels.
To fulfillment of this huge demand, oil and gas industry expanded to develop offshore oil and
gas reservoirs in recent years, which made environmental management challenging. IRAN
owns one of the biggest offshore gas reservoir in PERSIAN GULF with high geopolitical and
financial importance. Along the exploration and production of oil and gas, different
environmental impacts may occur including indirect & direct physical disturbances, which
highlight the importance of green supply chain management. Beside the environmental issues,
due to heavy investment on south pars gas field, risk assessment is an inherent part of supply
chain management. To mitigate the risk and overcome successfully with disturbances the term
of “resiliency“ has recently attracted much attention among supply chain managers. In the field
of supply chain management, resiliency may be explicated as the ability of supply chains to
return to normal conditions after a disruption.
The focus of this study is to enhance the level of greenness and resiliency of natural gas supply
chain in IRAN. For this purpose, a local natural gas supply chain, which encompasses 3 gas
well platforms, 5 refineries and 6 compressor stations is considered. A fuzzy MCDM method is
then used to indicate the level of resiliency and greenness of each entity in natural gas supply
chain. finally the facilities with higher GRI (Green-Resilient Index) is proposed to remain in
chain. The results show that the proposed technique can be used as a tool for organizations to
evaluate a supply chain network structure regarding the greenness & resilience aspects.
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