Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Using CCTV Surveillance Cameras for Pipelines of Oil and Gas Fields

The oil and gas industry represents the beating heart of life in the world. These industries suffer from risks of unsustainability, whether they exist in infrastructure such as pipeline oil and gas leaks, vandalism, or information security for example the hacking of surveillance structures resulting in major physical losses amounting to billions of dollars. Various researchers have presented substantial work in this regard. Some of them focus on centralised systems, which struggle with a variety of issues, for instance a single point of failure, lack of privacy, and dependence on intermediaries, and others focus on decentralised systems, which have some limitations, such as delay in data retrieval; high costs; untrustworthy third-party storage; and 51 0/0, Sybil and Sniffing attacks. This paper proposes a decentralised Hyperledger Fabric blockchain based on thermal closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras. It provides blockchain-based re-authentication, offering secure external storage by adopting an InterPlanetary File System which provides scalability and offers hash-based integrity of the data stored by utilising ECDSA, which provides low-complexity authentication, balancing between high security and complexity and resisting well-known malicious factors. Our work has been proven by security analysis. Additionally, compared with previous related works, the performance analysis achieves fewer cost results (1.624) ms for the computation cost, (1.056 bits for each administrator and user, 896 bits for CCTV) for the communication cost.