Safety Barrier Management: Risk-Based Approach for the Oil and Gas Sector
In the Oil and Gas sector, risk assessment and management have always been critical due to the possibility of significant accidents associated with the presence of large amounts of flammable hydrocarbons. Methods to provide accurate and reliable risk analysis for an oil platform usually focus on cri...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:f9d254750d244352a057558768f504ea 2023-05-15T16:22:48+02:00 Safety Barrier Management: Risk-Based Approach for the Oil and Gas Sector Behnaz Hosseinnia Davatgar Nicola Paltrinieri Roberto Bubbico 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9070722 https://doaj.org/article/f9d254750d244352a057558768f504ea EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/9/7/722 https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1312 doi:10.3390/jmse9070722 2077-1312 https://doaj.org/article/f9d254750d244352a057558768f504ea Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol 9, Iss 722, p 722 (2021) oil and gas offshore platforms risk assessment dynamic risk analysis risk-based inspection safety barrier performance assessment Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering VM1-989 Oceanography GC1-1581 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9070722 2022-12-31T10:22:37Z In the Oil and Gas sector, risk assessment and management have always been critical due to the possibility of significant accidents associated with the presence of large amounts of flammable hydrocarbons. Methods to provide accurate and reliable risk analysis for an oil platform usually focus on critical equipment and identify causes and consequences of loss of containment. Safety barriers are important elements of such accident scenarios, aiming to reduce the frequency of unwanted events. Estimating the performance of safety barriers is essential for the prevention of major accidents. This work first focuses on the application of risk-based analysis on the process area equipment of the floating platform Goliat. Such an approach is secondly extended to the most relevant safety systems to prevent fires and explosions and consequent catastrophic domino effects. An additional challenge resides in the fact that safety barriers cannot always be classified as equipment, as they are often composed of operational and organizational elements. Through the application of the ARAMIS Project (Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for Industries in the Context of the Seveso II Directive) results, the frequency modification methodology based on TEC2O (TEChnical Operational and Organizational factors) and the REWI (Resilience-based Early Warning Indicators) method, it is possible to quantify the safety barrier performance, to reduce the frequency of unwanted events. While conducting this study, the importance of the management factor in combination with technical and technological aspects of safety barrier performance was analyzed. Starting from the initial project conditions, applying worsening technical factors, and simulating n organizational management for the safety systems, it is possible to quantify the performance of the safety barriers, highlighting the importance of management factors in terms of prevention of major accidents, and to assess the dynamic risk for the overall plant. Article in Journal/Newspaper Goliat Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9 7 722 |
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In the Oil and Gas sector, risk assessment and management have always been critical due to the possibility of significant accidents associated with the presence of large amounts of flammable hydrocarbons. Methods to provide accurate and reliable risk analysis for an oil platform usually focus on critical equipment and identify causes and consequences of loss of containment. Safety barriers are important elements of such accident scenarios, aiming to reduce the frequency of unwanted events. Estimating the performance of safety barriers is essential for the prevention of major accidents. This work first focuses on the application of risk-based analysis on the process area equipment of the floating platform Goliat. Such an approach is secondly extended to the most relevant safety systems to prevent fires and explosions and consequent catastrophic domino effects. An additional challenge resides in the fact that safety barriers cannot always be classified as equipment, as they are often composed of operational and organizational elements. Through the application of the ARAMIS Project (Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for Industries in the Context of the Seveso II Directive) results, the frequency modification methodology based on TEC2O (TEChnical Operational and Organizational factors) and the REWI (Resilience-based Early Warning Indicators) method, it is possible to quantify the safety barrier performance, to reduce the frequency of unwanted events. While conducting this study, the importance of the management factor in combination with technical and technological aspects of safety barrier performance was analyzed. Starting from the initial project conditions, applying worsening technical factors, and simulating n organizational management for the safety systems, it is possible to quantify the performance of the safety barriers, highlighting the importance of management factors in terms of prevention of major accidents, and to assess the dynamic risk for the overall plant. |
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Safety Barrier Management: Risk-Based Approach for the Oil and Gas Sector |
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Safety Barrier Management: Risk-Based Approach for the Oil and Gas Sector |
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Safety Barrier Management: Risk-Based Approach for the Oil and Gas Sector |
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