Identification of Global Indicators for Regulatory Risk Management in Production Platforms - Case Study of Brazilian Industry

Almeida, Alex Garcia de; Figueiredo, Marco Antônio Gaya de

doi:10.2991/jrarc.2014.4.3.3

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“…In BSR, ANP audits are the primary enforcement tool, designed to cover all new platforms before start production and at least half of all in operation by year, which leads to more than sixty audits in production platforms every year (ANP, 2016a). The platform selection and the audit scope are supported by safety performance indicators based on activities performance data, but the audit frequently covers an overall safety management assessment (Almeida and Figueiredo, 2014).…”

Section: Regulatory Field Auditsmentioning

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Major accident prevention illustrated by hydrocarbon leak case studies: A comparison between Brazilian and Norwegian offshore functional petroleum safety regulatory approaches

Almeida

Vinnem

2020

Safety Science

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The offshore oil and gas industry still shows difficulties to develop a further improvement in hydrocarbon leak (HCL) prevention. As an initiating event of major accident 1 scenario, an HCL shows potential failures that under slightly circumstances could lead to severe consequences. Once an HCL occurs, there are learning opportunities that can lead to overall safety improvement, but recurrence or similarities between different events challenge the confidence about the completeness of improvement mechanisms and their ability to develop learning. Created after major accidents and broadly used in main offshore provinces, the functional regulatory regime (FRR) assign to companies the risk ownership, a clear mandate to develop all necessary actions on risk control. The main challenges for FRRs make the goals clear among risk owners, to lead conditions to a proper selection of risk constraints, and to support risk control by sustaining a high-risk awareness among all stakeholders. However, an accident shows failures in risk control, despite laws, regulations or other tools designed to avoid it. This article compares the Brazilian and Norwegian oil and gas offshore functional safety regulatory approaches considering the circumstances from selected HCL case studies. Accidental causation models are also considered in the discussion to support the assessment of the case studies' background, the socio-technical interactions, and the regulatory strategies, identifying improvement opportunities for HCL prevention and recurrence avoidance.

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Section: Regulatory Field Auditsmentioning

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“…It gives opportunities to decision-makers to check the direction of planned actions and to correct the course of initiatives. Regarding safety, it is important to develop the right framework, including tools and routines to safety performance review, both from a leading and lagging point of view (Almeida and Figueiredo, 2014).…”

Section: Safety Performance Reviewmentioning

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Major accident prevention illustrated by hydrocarbon leak case studies: A comparison between Brazilian and Norwegian offshore functional petroleum safety regulatory approaches

Almeida

Vinnem

2020

Safety Science

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Major Accident Indicators in High Risk Industries - A Literature Review

Kilskar

Øien

Tinmannsvik

et al. 2016

Day 2 Tue, April 12, 2016

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Major accidents, such as the Texas City refinery explosion in 2005 and the Macondo well blowout in 2010, confirm the need for process safety indicators. However, despite increased attention on process safety indicators, there is no proof and agreement about valid, effective and reliable indicators. The principle objective of the research initiated by the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has been to improve the knowledge of safety relevant indicators in the petroleum industry, in particular related to validity, effectiveness and reliability. A focused literature review was carried out to provide information on the three stated subjects or research questions (RQs): RQ1. What does the literature state about relationships between indicators and major accident risk? RQ2. What does the literature state about the effect of use of indicators? RQ3. What does the literature state about the conditions in the surroundings or the context having an impact on the reliability of the indicator? The literature review covered recent literature (from 2009) on the use of indicators in high risk industries, and a total of 174 documents were reviewed. In addition, implications and possible challenges to the petroleum industry and authorities were discussed and results outlined. Altogether 15 specific challenges are addressed, pointing at both the industry/companies and the authorities, but also the research institutions. A main conclusion is that there is lack of documented relationships between indicators and major accident risk, proven effects of the use of indicators and proof of conditions affecting the reliability of the indicators. More empirical research is needed to document the validity, effectiveness and reliability of process safety indicators.

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Embedding Learnings from Serious Incidents into Drilling Operations

Tayab¹

2018

Day 3 Wed, April 18, 2018

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Oil & Gas industry, by nature of its operations, creates a hazardous working environment therefore over the years the industry has developed safe systems (procedural & design) to eliminate or minimise risks. Despite these initiatives often incidents occur resulting in serious injuries, release of gases, equipment damage and other losses. ADCO has established a comprehensive system to reduce both the number and severity of incidents as a part of its HSE Management System which was based on root causes of incidents and embedding learning into work planning. Since 2010, ADCO Drilling has increased its operations and activities significantly in terms of number of rigs, drilled wells and associated services. During the period approximately 500 incident events, including no work related, were recorded, resulting in injuries (300) of varying natures, vehicle (81), property damage (77) and releases of gas (12) & spillages (13) events. It resulted in 104 recordable injuries, 30 vehicle crashes and 10 well control events. Repetitive gap in the implementation of HSEMS required out of the box approach to embed the learning into drilling programme to reduce incidents. Over 200 Drilling incident investigation root causes and findings were analysed and effectiveness of HSEMS implementation and identification of HSE performance risks were assessed. Gaps in identification of worksite/ job hazards, work planning, leadership, monitoring & inspection and communication accounted for 60% of root causes of incidents. In 2015, barrier analysis for incident event sub type basis was done considering root causes and associated findings and learning from the incident was mapped with barriers in conjunction with risk assessment. The scheme was implanted in 2016 and incident trends, root causes and findings are discussed in this paper. The strengthening of barriers was implemented and there reduction in number of incidents was noted despite increase in rig fleet and exposure to risks. Despite the scheme being in initial stages, it has showed significant potential in incident reduction.

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Identification of Global Indicators for Regulatory Risk Management in Production Platforms - Case Study of Brazilian Industry

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Major accident prevention illustrated by hydrocarbon leak case studies: A comparison between Brazilian and Norwegian offshore functional petroleum safety regulatory approaches

Major accident prevention illustrated by hydrocarbon leak case studies: A comparison between Brazilian and Norwegian offshore functional petroleum safety regulatory approaches

Major Accident Indicators in High Risk Industries - A Literature Review

Embedding Learnings from Serious Incidents into Drilling Operations

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