Trends in safety culture: An essay on organizational behaviors influencing safety, in the light of recent developments in oil & gas industry

This research identifies key factors, or safety culture categories, that can be used to help describe the safety culture for the offshore oil and gas industry and develop a comprehensive offshore safety culture assessment toolkit for use by the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) owners and operators. Detailed questionnaires from selected safety culture frameworks of different industries were collected and analyzed to identify important safety culture factors and key questions for assessment. Safety frameworks from different associations were investigated, including the Center for Offshore Safety (COS), Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The safety culture factors of each of these frameworks were generalized and analyzed. The frequency of the safety culture factors in each framework was analyzed to explore commonality. The literature review and analysis identified a list of common factors among safety culture frameworks.

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North sea oil: a tale of two countries [Oil & Gas Industry]

Engineering & Technology ◽

10.1049/et.2021.0104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 30-33

Author(s):

N. Smith

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Oil Gas

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Membrane applications and opportunities for water management in the oil & gas industry

Desalination ◽

10.1016/j.desal.2018.01.030 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 440 ◽

pp. 2-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Samer Adham ◽

Altaf Hussain ◽

Joel Minier-Matar ◽

Arnold Janson ◽

Ramesh Sharma

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Oil Gas

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Conflict Approaches of Effective Project Manager in the Upstream Sector of Indonesian Oil & Gas Industry

The South East Asian Journal of Management ◽

10.21002/seam.v6i2.1320 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Adhi Cahyono ◽

Yanki Hartijasti

Keyword(s):

Project Manager ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Oil Gas

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Dynamic Response Interaction of Vibrating Offshore Pipeline on Moving Seabed

Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering ◽

10.1115/1.2426994 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 129 (2) ◽

pp. 107-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Vincent O. S. Olunloyo ◽

Charles A. Osheku ◽

Ayo A. Oyediran

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Response ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Fluid Velocity ◽

Gas Industry ◽

Offshore Pipeline ◽

Internal Fluid ◽

Geomechanical Property ◽

Sediment Cover ◽

The Subject ◽

Oil Gas

The dynamic response interaction of a vibrating offshore pipeline on a moving seabed is herein investigated where the pipeline is idealized as a beam vibrating on an elastic foundation. This problem is of relevance in offshore exploration where pipelines are laid either on or buried in the seabed. When such pipes carry oil and gas, the undulating topography of the sea floor and the internal motion of the fluid subject the entire structure to vibration due to bending forces and form the subject of our study. Our analysis revealed that in general, the seabed acts either as a damper or as a spring and in particular when we have sedimentation, the seabed geology permits the geomechanical property of the sediment cover to act only as a damper. As expected, external excitation will increase the response of these pipes for which an amplification factor has been derived. For soft beds, high transverse vibrations were dampened by increasing the internal fluid velocity whereas they became amplified for hard beds. These results are of contemporary interest in the oil/gas industry where deep sea exploration is now receiving significant attention.

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