Trends in HSE remuneration and attraction of talent

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 500
Author(s):  
Julie Honore ◽  
Jane Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Industry Sectors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Geographical Locations

This extended abstract presents the latest findings and trends in remuneration based on the safesearch annual HSE Remuneration Survey, due to be released in early 2013. The survey, now in its seventh year, includes data from more than 100 Australian companies, primarily from the ASX 200, and covers a diverse range of industries, including oil and gas. Author Julie Honoré uses her knowledge and experience from a specialist search firm and connections and knowledge of both the education sector and regulatory environment to provide a snapshot of trends in educational qualifications, salaries of health and safety professionals, variations across industry sectors related to oil and gas, and the impact of geographical locations. The author also discusses how organisations can compete and respond to the skills demand to attract and retain HSE talent in a dynamic and ever-changing environment.

scholarly journals A successful 3-D seismic survey over Bahrain Island

GeoArabia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-672
Author(s):  
Jean-Jacques Postel ◽  
Abdul Nabi Mukhtar ◽  
Philippe Feugère
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Oil Refinery ◽  
Seismic Survey ◽  
Recording Equipment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Petroleum Company ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT Environmental constraints are critical issues for land seismic operations and require the development of appropriate equipment and methods. In 1998, Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) acquired and processed seamless seismic data on behalf of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) from a complex field on the Island of Bahrain. The operation ran smoothly in spite of the difficulty of working amongst pipelines, wells, and other oil and gas installations; scarps and sabkhas; urban areas; a zoo, golf course, and racecourse; an oil refinery and aluminum smelter; and other industrial and commercial facilities. The survey deployed a wide range of recording equipment including two sets of vibrators and a combination of radio and cable telemetry recording systems, and a fleet-management system. The successful completion of the survey was achieved through dedicated teamwork. The key elements were as follows: (1) collecting the correct baseline information; (2) detailed planning of the timeframe, human and material resources, adaptation of acquisition techniques to varying circumstances, and health and safety requirements; (3) continuous monitoring of external conditions and the impact of the operation on the environment, in full consultation with the appropriate authorities; (4) maximum flexibility in the field operations so as to allow for changing conditions and unforeseen events; and (5) close partnership between CGG and Bapco at all stages of the project. A joint CGG/Bapco team designed sophisticated processing methods, with top priority being given to the numerous surface heterogeneities. In particular, the recording of an intensive up-hole survey allowed a dedicated team at CGG in France to compute a robust subsurface model and a precise set of primary statics. Seven velocity layers from the Quaternary sandstone to the base of the calcareous and dolomitic Eocene were mapped. These showed significant lateral and vertical velocity variations within identified geological units. Surface-consistent signal processing with calibration to well data was used to compensate for the variations. Other critical processing steps included detailed velocity control, the application of dip moveout routines with acquisition-irregularity-compensation schemes, Radon demultiples and 3-D algorithms, designed for optimal de-noising and imaging. These combined efforts led to the delivery of a final 3-D migrated block. As a result, a complete reinterpretation of the area was possible that significantly increased the estimated recoverable oil reserves (particularly by-passed oil) in the Awali field.

Greenstick Well Engineering: Sustainability Index for Asset Value Chain Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robello Samuel ◽  
Rishi Adari ◽  
Nagaraj Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Bat Algorithm ◽  
Sustainability Index ◽  
Value Chain Management ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
Well Design ◽  
Complex Indicators ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Environmental impacts due to exploration to the abandonment of oil and gas wells are a major focus when the wells are planned and drilled. However, there is no industry standard to quantify the impact due to complex indicators and associated variables. So, it is necessary to have an assessment framework and a methodology with the help of the digital transformation that provides an integrative index. This index allows a baseline to estimate the benchmarking for the well engineering not only during planning but also in real-time as the well is drilled and produced. This paper presents and validates a new model for the sustainability index for well design and engineering in the life cycle of the well. This proposed method avoids some of the vagueness of well’s sustainability and can be used and applied practically. It is based on various metrics and weightage assigned when a well is planned, designed, and engineered. Evaluating the index for well engineering is based on the following elements: environmental impact, well design and engineering, functionality and optimization impact, impact of well and maintenance costs, health and safety impact, societal impact. Each element contains sub-elements. This process involves individual indexing through backpropagation of neural networks combined with bat algorithm to obtain the final overall index.

Changes in labour and safety regulation offshore: the productivity implications

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 539
Author(s):  
Eleanor Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Safety Regulation ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Offshore Industry ◽  
Offshore Oil And Gas ◽  
The Impact

In recent years there have been ongoing tussles regarding the regulation of employment in the offshore oil and gas industry. Much of this conflict relates to the extent of union involvement in the industry, and the impact increased union activity may have on cost and productivity. This conflict has played out in the courts, legislature and the media. It is evidenced in the debate over the application of Australian migration laws to foreign workers offshore. This has involved lobbying by a number of organisations and Federal and High Court challenges to parliamentary intervention. Whether these laws apply has important implications for industry, as they include the practicalities and cost of engaging adequately skilled contractors for specialist tasks on major projects. Another recent example is the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) advocating for the application of the harmonised workplace health and safety regulations to the offshore industry. The application of these regulations would likely affect the extent of union involvement in the workplace, and have consequent cost and efficiency implications. In this extended abstract the author examines the impacts on industry of: recent and upcoming changes in employment regulation; uncertainties around the application of employment laws offshore; proposed changes to safety regulation; and, areas where industry is seeing advocacy for change.

SEAR JIP: the value of sharing of lessons learned on subsea integrity and reliability

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 767
Author(s):  
Adriana Botto
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Equipment Reliability ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Oil And Gas Sector ◽  
Geographical Locations

The award-winning Subsea Equipment Australian Reliability (SEAR) Joint Industry Project (JIP) is a partnership led by Wood and has participation of a group of OGAS Operators namely Chevron Australia, ConocoPhillips, Inpex, Quadrant, Shell Australia and Woodside. Now delivering Phase 6, the JIP is focused on collaboration and knowledge sharing, so as to improve the competitiveness of Australia’s oil and gas sector by addressing critical challenges associated with equipment that is failing prematurely subsea. The SEAR JIP was initiated in 2014 and has since developed a reliability database to collect failure information from SEAR members with Australian offshore operations. The SEAR database provides a low cost–high value method of capturing and sharing failures and lessons learnt for Australia. Over the years, the JIP has focused on different but common industry challenges, such as the impact of marine fouling affecting operability during interventions. To address this challenge, the JIP is deploying ‘living laboratories’ at different geographical locations and water depths across various Australian waters, in collaboration with suppliers and local universities to identify game-changing technology. The ability to better understand failures and intervention requirements has the potential to offer operators significant cost savings, by optimising equipment reliability and availability. This paper will provide an overview of SEAR JIP and outlines lessons learned and value created, and discusses how a similar collaborative approach can create value in other parts of the Australian LNG value chain.

scholarly journals Impact of Covid-19 HRM Challenges on HRM Practices for Routing the Post Pandemic: A Study with Special Reference to Oil & Gas Companies in Oman

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 239-246
Author(s):  
S PORKODI ◽  
Azhaar Masoud Al-Zawaidi ◽  
Anood Mohammed Al-Muharbi ◽  
Lamees Mohammed Al-Sarmi ◽  
Hafeedha Mohammed Al-Shibli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Central Value ◽  
Safety Work ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies ◽  
The Impact

Human Resources Management is an important element to the success and progress of any organization, the uniqueness of HRM practices is considered as a possible competitive tool and the central value of the company. In this research, an attempt was made to study the impact of HRM challenges on post-COVID-19 HRM practices. The practices include health and safety, work schedule, cooperation communication, training, and recruitment and selection. The respondents of the study were different levels of managers working in oil and gas companies in Oman. An online questionnaire was used to collect data from 130 respondents. This research concludes that the level of HRM challenges has highly significant with the age group of the respondents. In addition, multiple linear regression was applied and the study revealed that three variables are highly significant with the post-COVID HRM practices. Those variables represent health issues in the Pandemic situation, difficulty in balancing between work and life, and difficulty in strategic focus during this pandemic. These variables underwent most of the post-COVID HRM practices in the Oil and gas companies in Oman.

Emotional Intelligence: A Modern Approach to Health and Safety in the Oil and Gas Industry, Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic in Work Environments, and Solutions to Enhance Work Deliverability - A Case Study of Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justice Osuala ◽  
Matilda Obuh
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Analytical Result ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Assurance of reliable public health and safety of/in work environments patently depends on the Emotional Intelligence (EI) of workers. EI, which is the ability to understand and regulate emotions of one-self and others, is one of the uncommonly utilized strategies to optimizing deliverability in workplaces. Work pressure can never be overemphasized, as when not managed effectively, can retard compliance to industry set rules, integrity, and values, as well as distort deliverability of workers. The oil and gas sector were not left out in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which did not only affect the economy of the global oil market, but also, jeopardized the health and safety of its workers and the environment at large. This paper highlights Emotional Intelligence (EI) as a method to curb the negative effects which the pandemic has caused. It further positions Affability as a must-have skill for oil and gas workers for the purpose of assuring health and safety in work environments. Conceptual and critical thinking processes were utilized to introduce and prioritize Affability as an aspect of EI to proffering solutions to threats regarding safe and workable environment in the industry. Using SPSS, a comprehensive analytical result was generated for 102 oil and gas workers in Nigeria, who took an Emotional Intelligence test compiled by Global Leadership Foundation. A mean of 45.35% was calculated with 57% of 102 scoring below %50. A critical observation indicates that, EI among oil and gas workers was unreliable. This is due to unawareness to effectiveness of developing affable skills to combat safety and health threats in work environments. In an informative way, this paper introduces Affability as a core aspect of Emotional Intelligence and its effectual contribution to promoting a healthy and safe oil and gas work environment.

Consideration of Geopolitical Challenges within the Analysis of Geoenvironmental Risks for Oil and Gas Development of the Russian Arctic

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
O. P. Trubitsina ◽  
V. N. Bashkin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Optimal Operation ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Geopolitical Risks

The article is devoted to the consideration of geopolitical challenges for the analysis of geoenvironmental risks (GERs) in the hydrocarbon development of the Arctic territory. Geopolitical risks (GPRs), like GERs, can be transformed into opposite external environment factors of oil and gas industry facilities in the form of additional opportunities or threats, which the authors identify in detail for each type of risk. This is necessary for further development of methodological base of expert methods for GER management in the context of the implementational proposed two-stage model of the GER analysis taking to account GPR for the improvement of effectiveness making decisions to ensure optimal operation of the facility oil and gas industry and minimize the impact on the environment in the geopolitical conditions of the Arctic.The authors declare no conflict of interest

Regulatory and sustainability initiatives lead to improved polyaminopolyamide epichlorohydrin (PAE) wet-strength resins and paper products

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (09) ◽  
pp. 519-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Crisp ◽  
Richard Riehle
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Wet Strength ◽  
The Past ◽  
Consumer Safety ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
The Impact

Polyaminopolyamide-epichlorohydrin (PAE) resins are the predominant commercial products used to manufacture wet-strengthened paper products for grades requiring wet-strength permanence. Since their development in the late 1950s, the first generation (G1) resins have proven to be one of the most cost-effective technologies available to provide wet strength to paper. Throughout the past three decades, regulatory directives and sustainability initiatives from various organizations have driven the development of cleaner and safer PAE resins and paper products. Early efforts in this area focused on improving worker safety and reducing the impact of PAE resins on the environment. These efforts led to the development of resins containing significantly reduced levels of 1,3-dichloro-2-propanol (1,3-DCP) and 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD), potentially carcinogenic byproducts formed during the manufacturing process of PAE resins. As the levels of these byproducts decreased, the environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) profile of PAE resins and paper products improved. Recent initiatives from major retailers are focusing on product ingredient transparency and quality, thus encouraging the development of safer product formulations while maintaining performance. PAE resin research over the past 20 years has been directed toward regulatory requirements to improve consumer safety and minimize exposure to potentially carcinogenic materials found in various paper products. One of the best known regulatory requirements is the recommendations of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), which defines the levels of 1,3-DCP and 3-MCPD that can be extracted by water from various food contact grades of paper. These criteria led to the development of third generation (G3) products that contain very low levels of 1,3-DCP (typically <10 parts per million in the as-received/delivered resin). This paper outlines the PAE resin chemical contributors to adsorbable organic halogens and 3-MCPD in paper and provides recommendations for the use of each PAE resin product generation (G1, G1.5, G2, G2.5, and G3).

ASSESSING THE HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-572
Author(s):  
Mirela Panainte-Lehadus ◽  
Florin Nedeff ◽  
Alina Petrovici ◽  
Gabriela Telibasa ◽  
Daniel-Catalin Felegeanu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Health And Safety Risks
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