A framework for developing leading indicators for offshore drillwell blowout incidents

Tamim, Nafiz; Laboureur, Delphine; Mentzer, Ray A.; Hasan, A.R.; Mannan, M. Sam

doi:10.1016/j.psep.2017.01.005

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“…Use of data regarding MOC, PSSR, planned work on critical component, challenges to safety system/barriers, bypasses of safety systems, etc. can also be used to develop a leading indicator dashboard ( Tamim et al, 2017 , 2019 ) of the overall health of the barriers in play. Such dashboard will enable management to take proactive measures to monitor the performance of preventative barriers before they degrade and lead to an incident.…”

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Guidance to improve the effectiveness of process safety management systems in operating facilities

Behie

Halim

Efaw

et al. 2020

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

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The Process Safety Management (PSM) systems at the operating facilities in the Oil & Gas and in Chemical manufacturing industries have matured over the years and have become, at most facilities, very robust and sophisticated. These programs are administrated by Process Safety (PS) teams at both the corporate business units and plant levels and have been effective in reducing the number and severity of PS events across the industries over the past 25 years or so. Incidents however are occurring at a regular interval and in recent times several noteworthy PS events have occurred in the United States which have brought into question the effectiveness of the PSM programs at play. These facilities have been applying their PSM programs with the expectation that the number and severity of PS events would decrease over time. The expected result has not been realized, especially in context to those facilities that have undergone the recent incidents. Current paper reviews a few publicly available PS performance reports of Oil & Gas and Chemical manufacturing industries. The authors identified a few factors at play that have led to these PS events based on their experience, literature review, and incident investigation reports. Most of the factors are intertwined with multiple PSM elements and it requires a holistic approach to address them. Each of the factors is described and the path forward is proposed to improve the effectiveness of PSM programs.

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Guidance to improve the effectiveness of process safety management systems in operating facilities

Behie

Halim

Efaw

et al. 2020

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

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“…For the purposes of this paper, an operational performance indicator (OPI) is defined as an indicator used during operational time, capable of quantifying the condition or the status of the entire drilling operation, measuring the effect or influence of these changes in the risk of a major event. An "event" (E) in this paper is identified as any deviation from the normal operation status or safety condition (Resvold Tranverg, 2013;Tamim, Laboureur, Mentzer, Hasan, & Mannan, 2017). The safety condition h is a function of the variable (operational parameters) and the constraints (a,b) that the operation needs to satisfy.…”

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“…These constraints are mainly identified as minimum and maximum values for operational parameters (Tamim et al, 2017).…”

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Offshore drilling blowout risk model – an integration of basic causes, safety barriers, risk influencing factors and operational performance indicators

Perez

Dalu

Gómez

et al. 2018

Safety and Reliability

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Offshore drilling is an activity inherent to the oil and gas industry as it is essential for confirming the economic feasibility of hydrocarbon reservoirs. However, operational uncertainties and risks inherent to typical major accident hazards are associated with the performance of this activity, where blowouts are assumed to be one of the major contributors to risk in offshore drilling. This paper presents an accident precursor risk model for offshore drilling blowouts that integrates the blowout basic causes, safety critical barriers & elements, Risk Influencing Factors (RIF) including Human and Organizational Factors (HOF), and Operational Performance Indicators (OPI). The method, which was adopted to design the model and allow its customization for reflecting the characteristics of any drilling rig, well and operation is also described and demonstrated using a theoretical example. The model is hybrid, as it combines bow-tie diagram (fault tree and event tree) with directed acyclic graphs (DAG), to account for the effect of the RIF on the performance of safety barriers through the direct observation of pre-defined OPI.

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“…Uncertainty about the conditions that prevail below ground, heterogeneities in sedimentary rock formations, and particularly the difficulties in predicting pore pressure behavior with depth. All act to increase the risk exposure of drilling operations [1][2][3]. Although seismic assessment techniques shed light on the distribution of subsurface horizons much uncertainty remains regarding the pore pressure and fluid conditions in prospective reservoir formations [4][5].…”

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Petroleum Well Blowouts as a Threat to Drilling Operation and Wellbore Sustainability: Causes, Prevention, Safety and Emergency Response

Ghorbani¹,

Researchers²,

Abdali³

et al. 2021

JCM

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Sustainability in petroleum wells drilling operation systems strongly depends on the use of sustainable materials and a set of technical and safety measures that lead to the survival and proper operation of drilling rig equipment's and personnel. Adherence to the highest levels of standards of tools, materials and methods, although always recommended as the most important option for advancing a safe drilling operation and completing the well efficiently, low risk and stable, but drilling operation is inherently a battle with underground challenges and unexpected dangers. Learning from past such well blowout events and the problems they pose to rapidly control is essential to reduce future impacts including injuries, damage and emissions. Such analysis offers guidance for adapting working practices to improve both prevention and emergency response to such incidents. The causes of blowout during drilling and the necessary technical and safety measures to adopt are reviewed, highlighting how best practices can prevent blowout incidents by improving responses to early warning signals. The particular risks associated with potential shallow gas blowouts are identified and described with the aid of a case study associated with a catastrophic blowout of an onshore well in Iran and the methods used to ultimately control it. The multiple causes of the incident relating to defects in safety systems, equipment and operating procedures are addressed. Lessons learned from the incident reveal the complexity of well control once a blowout incident has occurred and developed into a surface fire. from the stage of the incident to fire control. There is a need for further research into top-hole well kill techniques for wells in a blowout state, as drilling bottom-hole relief wells takes substantial time, during which much surface damage, resource loss and emission typically occurs.

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A framework for developing leading indicators for offshore drillwell blowout incidents

Cited by 43 publications

References 4 publications

Guidance to improve the effectiveness of process safety management systems in operating facilities

Guidance to improve the effectiveness of process safety management systems in operating facilities

Offshore drilling blowout risk model – an integration of basic causes, safety barriers, risk influencing factors and operational performance indicators

Petroleum Well Blowouts as a Threat to Drilling Operation and Wellbore Sustainability: Causes, Prevention, Safety and Emergency Response

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