A basic introduction to Offshore O&G

Risk and Safety Pierre SENGPRASEUTH

June 07, 2012

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A basic introduction to Offshore Oil & Gas

Risks

and

Safety

Pierre SENGPRASEUTH

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Contents What is an offshore installation? What are the main hazards/major accidents? What are the key safeguards?

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La terre est bleue comme une orange.

Paul Eluard

The earth is blue like an orange.

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When oil was so easy

Edwin Drake NW Pennsylvania 1859

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When oil started not to be so easy

Drilling and Production piers Pacific ocean 1896

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What is an offshore installation?

Typical O&G reservoir

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What is an offshore installation?

Surface facilities

Subsea facilities

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What is an offshore installation?

Oil and Gas process overview

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What is an offshore installation?

Typical surface facilities vs depth

Subsea Production System

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What is an offshore installation?

Wellhead drilling barge

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What is an offshore installation?

Subsea tree

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What is an offshore installation?

Manifold and its foundations

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What is an offshore installation?

Pipeline

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What is an offshore installation?

Umbilical

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What is an offshore installation?

Example of Offshore development

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Video - What is an offshore installation?

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What are the main hazards?

External Hazards

Internal Hazards
High Temperature High Pressure

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Some Major Accident

Explosion

Piper alpha 6 july 1988 167 fatalities

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Video Piper Alpha

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Some Major Accident

Explosion Sinking

P-36 15 march 2001 11 fatalities

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Video P36

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Some Major Accident

Blow out / Explosion

Deepwater horizon 20 April 2010 11 fatalities

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Video Deepwater Horizon

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Some Major Accident

Well release

Elgin Platform 25 March 2012

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Video Elgin

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What are the key safeguards?

RRM
Emergency Response Plan

Emergency response layer Passive protection layer Active protection layer

MITIGATION

Fireproofing Wall Fire protection system Safety Instrumented System

Safety layer

PREVENTION
Alarms & Operator Intervention

Process control layer

Basic process control system

Process control layer

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What are the key safeguards?

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HAZID (system) FEHA CVA

QRA
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EERA

DOS HAZOP (unit)

TRIA

SIL

FIREPRAN

FMECA (equipment)

ESSA HFA

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What are the key safeguards?

Blow Out Preventer

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What are the key safeguards?

Subsea mattress and protection structure

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What are the key safeguards?

Fire and Blast walls Protected area

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What are the key safeguards?

Remote Operated Vehicle

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What are the key safeguards?

Ignition prevention

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What are the key safeguards?

Shutdown system

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What are the key safeguards?

F&G detection / Fire protection

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What are the key safeguards?

Blowdown Vent and Flare

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What are the key safeguards?

Escape Evacuation and Rescue

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Notes