Integrating human factors and prevention systems to improve safe operations and performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Jane Austin ◽  
Kerry Houston
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Business Results ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Multiple Step

The high-risk nature of the oil and gas industry means the search for best practices to ensure employees suffer no harm is ongoing. Our industry has undergone multiple-step changes in safety, including the eras of death, engineering, regulations, and, more recently, behaviours. The unifying aspect to expand the results achieved from these step changes is the seamless merging of human factors and prevention systems, which are explored in further detail in this extended abstract. Human factors are how individuals behave physically and psychologically to their work environment. Prevention systems are the equipment, systems, and processes the organisation provides and implements to keep individuals safe in the work environment. The manner in which human factors and prevention systems collaborate delineates Intertek's processes in safety. To better understand both human factors and prevention systems, the authors analysed their sub-components, ultimately making their use more relevant for the needs of this industry. A consistent understanding of each subsequently allows better identification of where the gaps may exist and allows focus on processes for not only improved business results but also achievement of no harm to employees. Although this extended abstract primarily concentrates on human factors, a means of assessing employees' abilities to behave in their work environment alongside an organisation's prevention systems is also discussed.

Decommissioning: taking control of your committed investment

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Polson
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies

At the APPEA 2017 Conference in Perth, Bernadette Cullinane and Susan Gourvenec drew our attention to the looming challenge for Australia’s oil and gas industry in decommissioning its aging assets (Cullinane and Gourvenec 2017). While Cullinane and Gourvenec’s paper focussed on the experience challenge for the Australian industry, this paper will drill down to explore the funding and financial challenges and opportunities for decommissioning in the decades ahead. In approaching the decommissioning of their assets, oil and gas companies must consider a broad range of stakeholders, beyond their immediate shareholders and board members. As we have seen in the development of new projects, Australian Government, environmental organisations and community groups, all have increasingly significant impact. These stakeholders have been considered and managed with (at best) varying degrees of effectiveness in the recent past. This impact will continue to grow for decommissioning of existing assets. However, right now, with few decommissioning projects in play, the industry has a limited window of opportunity to set the agenda for how, when and under what kind of funding arrangements and financial structures decommissioning can take place. By getting ahead of the game and establishing best practices from the outset, the industry can demonstrate to Australian Government, environmental organisations and community groups a level of commitment and accountability that will allow us to move ahead on decommissioning, with reduced outside interference. The window of opportunity is closing. The time to act is now.

scholarly journals Human factors analysis and classification system for the oil and gas industry (HFACS-OGI)

2017 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 168-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Theophilus ◽  
Victor N. Esenowo ◽  
Andrew O. Arewa ◽  
Augustine O. Ifelebuegu ◽  
Ernest O. Nnadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Classification System ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Factors Analysis ◽  
Human Factors Analysis

scholarly journals Theoretical and practical aspects of assessment of innovative activity in oil and gas enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
M. V. Rybin ◽  
D. S. Lobov
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Innovative Management ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies ◽  
Oil And Gas Enterprises

Analysis of theoretical and practical aspects of assessment of innovative activity at national and foreign oil and gas enterprises revealed the necessity of improvement of the existing tools which include the lists of key indicators of efficiency and performance applied within the innovative development programs of the Russian companies. Thereby the authors analyzed national and foreign research paying the most serious attention to theoretical aspects of innovative activity assessment. Among them of greatest interest is the complex approach to application of metrics in scientific and technical development of a company. The authors have also studied the conceptual apparatus and the main terms for the problems under consideration. As a result, the research confirmed the idea that the practice of applying the lists of key indicators of innovative activity in oil and gas industry does not coincide with the results of academic works and the innovative management theory: the current methods are primarily aimed at assessment of the results of innovative activity, several stages of the life cycle of creation of innovation are not subject to monitoring. At the same time lists of key indicators of innovative activity make it possible for the company’s management to estimate economic and resource effects of innovations which corresponds to strategic interests of oil and gas companies.Lists of indicators of efficiency and performance of innovative activity can be improved by means of national and foreign research. It is important to involve more metrics which make it possible to monitor all the life cycle of creation and implementation of innovative solutions.The results of the study can be used as the basis for further research on improvement and development of the lists of key indicators of innovative activity of oil and gas companies.

scholarly journals Decision Diagram Algorithms to Extract Minimal Cutsets of Finite Degradation Models

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Rauzy ◽  
Yang
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Decomposition Theorem ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Fault Trees ◽  
Attack Trees ◽  
Degradation Models ◽  
Reliability Block Diagrams ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One

In this article, we propose decision diagram algorithms to extract minimal cutsets of finite degradation models. Finite degradation models generalize and unify combinatorial models used to support probabilistic risk, reliability and safety analyses (fault trees, attack trees, reliability block diagrams…). They formalize a key idea underlying all risk assessment methods: states of the models represent levels of degradation of the system under study. Although these states cannot be totally ordered, they have a rich algebraic structure that can be exploited to extract minimal cutsets of models, which represent the most relevant scenarios of failure. The notion of minimal cutsets we introduce here generalizes the one defined for fault trees. We show how algorithms used to calculate minimal cutsets can be lifted up to finite degradation models, thanks to a generic decomposition theorem and an extension of the binary decision diagrams technology. We discuss the implementation and performance issues. Finally, we illustrate the interest of the proposed technology by means of the use case stemmed from the oil and gas industry.

New Technology Allows for Hands-Off Intervention During Cementing Operations Increasing Safety and Operational Efficiency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ramon ◽  
Tony Wooley ◽  
Kyle Martens ◽  
Amy Farrar ◽  
Seth Fadaol
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Cement Line ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Hands On

Abstract The culture of safety within the oil and gas industry has undergone an evolution since the advent of significant E&P operations in the late 1800s. The initial focus on safety was to protect property, not people. This mentality has shifted over time to include a greater focus on the safety of personnel, in parallel with technology developments that have pushed the limits of operators’ and service providers’ abilities to drill and complete more complicated wells. The safety efforts introduced to date have yielded results in every major HS&E category; however, falls and dropped objects continue to be areas in need of improvement. During cementing rig up and operations there are still many manual activities that require working at heights in the derrick. New technological advances have allowed the industry to reduce the number of hands-on activities on the rig and operators have moved to eliminate these activities by automating operations. Man lifting operations are recognized as a high-risk activity and, as such, many rigs require special permitting. During cementing operations, not only are personnel lifted into hazardous positions, but they are usually equipped with potential dropped objects. Some of these objects, if dropped, reach an impact force that could seriously injure or, in worst cases, result in a fatality. During these operations, personnel are also hoisted along with a heavy cement line in very close proximity. This introduces other dangers such as tangling, pinch points, and blunt force trauma. These risks are heavily increased when working in adverse conditions, such as high winds or rough seas. By utilizing a wireless cement line make up device, along with wireless features on a cement head to release the darts/plugs/balls and operate the isolation valves, an operator can eliminate the need for hands-on intervention. This paper will discuss current cement head technologies available to the operator that allow them to improve safety and efficiencies in operational rig time. Three field studies will be presented that detail running cement jobs with all functions related to the wireless attributes of the cement head. The field studies will present the operational efficiencies achieved by utilizing the wireless features compared to the standard manual method. Before the recent introduction of a wireless cementing line make-up device, a wireless cement head still required hands-on intervention to rig up the tools, putting people in high-risk situations.

scholarly journals Incidents and Disaster Avoidance: The Role of Communication Management and the Organizational Communication Climate in High-Risk Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10138
Author(s):  
Shahrina Md Nordin ◽  
Ammar Redza Ahmad Rizal ◽  
Rafidah Abd Rashid ◽  
Rohayu Che Omar ◽  
Unggul Priyadi
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Communication Climate ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Risk Environments ◽  
High Risk Environments

Health, safety and the working environment are of paramount importance, especially in the high-risk environments found at facilities in the oil and gas industry, where hazards are inevitable and accidents may lead to regrettable situations such as explosions, oil spills and other disasters. The high number of accidents and disasters at such facilities bring safety-related matters to the fore. The complexity of the communication process is very often underestimated, where failures in communication could lead to major disasters. This paper investigates the role of communication management and the organizational communication climate and their impact on incidents and disaster avoidance. This study embarks on a quantitative approach involving 260 personnel from high-risk workplaces at oil and gas facilities, based on purposive sampling. Hypotheses were tested using PLS-SEM to identify causal relationships and for mediation analysis. The findings of this study show that communication management and the organizational communication climate have a significant impact on disaster avoidance. The organizational communication climate is also found to be a significant mediator for the relationship between communication management and disaster avoidance. Communication management and the organizational communication climate need to be enhanced and to be integrated with other technology and innovation to improve safety regulation adherence in the oil and gas industry.

scholarly journals The data-driving management in oil and gas industry: examples and opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
Andrey S. Bochkov ◽  
Mariia G. Dymochkina
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Using Data

Background. Decision-making process in the oil and gas industry, traditionally extremely expensive, should be based on the point of maximizing the business value. Forecasting the effectiveness of investments of any business unit in oil and gas should be based on a data-driven management approach. The purpose of this article — to study methods and best practices of applying a data — driven approach to decision-making and analyze the possibility of scaling methods of best practices in the processes in oil and gas company. Materials and methods. Research a various case with data-driven management shows that using data-driven approach allows solving several tasks at once: to make a fast and quality decisions based on data that can always be checked, and the result can be analyzed; to reduce the costs by eliminating inefficient steps and increase the flexibility of the process; to form the correct attitude to data (data culture) and prepare for the implementation of the technologies of Industry 4.0. Analyze cases revealed two common and important things: engineering of business processes from the key performance indicators and the technological development. Results. In article discusses the topic of applying a data-driven decision-making approach in oil and gas companies using several examples of Gazprom Neft. These examples shows that better effect from the using of data-driven management is achieved by consistently modeling business processes for achieving maximum values; highlighting and fixing key business performance indicators and creating a digital monitoring of these indicators, which allows you to the achievement of goals. Conclusions. In the conclusion of the article there are recommendation about using data-driven management approach for various processes of an oil and gas company.

Top Tensioned Riser Interface With Dry-Tree Semisubmersible

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Xiang ◽  
Peimin Cao ◽  
Jeff Otten ◽  
Lei Jiang ◽  
Sean Bian
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Supporting Surface ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Assembly Design ◽  
High Reaction ◽  
Dynamic Analyses ◽  
And Performance

Dry Tree Semisubmersibles (DTS), with the capability of supporting surface wellheads and allowing drilling and completion through direct vertical access risers, have attracted intense interest from the oil and gas industry. A wet tree deep draft semisubmersible has been carefully reconfigured considering the balance between the overall floater configuration and the tensioner stroke for a harsh environment application. A large amount of simulation efforts have been performed for the optimization of the integrated hull/deck/mooring/riser system. Recently, a basin model test was also successfully completed and further demonstrated its technical feasibility. The paper presents the overall design of a Top-Tensioned Riser (TTR) system for a DTS application focusing on the complexity of the DTS-TTR interface including ram style tensioning system, riser conductor and riser top assembly design with keel joint, etc. Due to the heavy weight of the TTR system in the ultra-deep water application, the riser top sections are subject to high reaction loads with the DTS in severe environments. The riser system faces the challenge to have a feasible and economic top assembly design. In this paper, an engineered riser conductor pipe is introduced to interface the riser top assembly with hull. The riser conductor pipe, which spans from deck to keel, is integrated with riser top assembly and the tensioner system design. The riser conductor protects the riser in the splash zone and prevents the high reaction loads directly transferring from hull to riser, thus reducing the riser keel joint and tension joint size. The feasibility and performance of the TTR system are demonstrated through the static and dynamic analyses. Pipe-in-pipe (PIP) contact model is employed in the simulation to ensure the dynamic interaction loads between riser and riser conductor are captured. The TTR overall system design consideration for the DTS application is discussed.

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