Assessment of safety barriers for the prevention of cascading events in oil and gas offshore installations operating in harsh environment

Bucelli, Marta; Landucci, Gabriele; Haugen, Stein; Paltrinieri, Nicola; Cozzani, Valerio

doi:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.02.046

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“…Traditional methodologies apply a graphical approach, the most representative approaches applied to domino effect analysis are the fault tree (FTA), event tree (ETA), and bowtie; these tools originated in the chemical and offshore oil and gas industry, and have been successfully applied in the analysis of industrial parks [163,164]. Energy barrier model is widely applied to characterize the performance of the safety barriers [58,152], and it is applied successfully in the process industry, but not in industrial parks, so its applicability in this type of scenario must be considered. The human error is treated in THERP, STEP, and MTO methodologies, considering that human error represents 37% in the initial cause of the domino effect, it may be interesting to integrate these tools in the evaluation and analysis in these environments.…”

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“…The representatives for this group are the Process Hazard Prevention Accident Models (PHPAM) and the System Hazard Identification Prediction and Prevention (SHIPP). The PHPAM model is applied in the off-shore and oil-gas process industries, and it is founded on the assumption that accidents in these facilities are initiated by hydrocarbon release, which then propagates into accidents [152]. The System Hazard Identification Prediction and Prevention (SHIPP) is an upgrade of the previous prevention (PHPAM), adding to the quantitative evaluation of risk probability the possibility to actualize the probability values in concordance to with the real data collected from the scenario of analysis with the application of Bayesian inference [153].…”

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Analysis and Characterization of Risk Methodologies Applied to Industrial Parks

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It is important to evaluate the risks in industrial parks and their processes due to the consequences of major accidents and especially the domino effect. Scientific works present a wide possibility of models to deal with these situations. In this work, based on the information extracted from the scientific literature, six groups of risk methodologies are defined, analyzed, and characterized with methods that cover the standards, preventive, probabilistic, traditional, modern, and dynamic evaluation that are applied or could be used in industrial parks. It also tries to achieve the objective of determining which are more appropriate if the possible situations and causes that can produce an accident are taken into account, identifying and evaluating them with characteristics of simultaneity and immediacy, determining the probability of an accident occurring with sufficient advance in time to avoid it under the use of a working operational procedure. There is no definitive methodology, and it is necessary that they complement each other, but considering the proposed objective, the integrated application of traditional methodologies together with the management of safety barriers, the dynamic evaluation of risks, and the inclusion of machine learning systems could fulfill the proposed objective.

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Analysis and Characterization of Risk Methodologies Applied to Industrial Parks

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“…The platform is a circular floating production, storage, and offloading unit (FPSO), specifically designed by the offshore oil and gas sector to ensure safe and reliable production of hydrocarbons in extreme conditions in the Barents Sea. In fact, in such a sensitive area, monitoring technical and operational performance of safety barriers on Oil and Gas facilities acquires further importance [44][45][46][47][48]. For this reason, the Goliat platform was considered for the study.…”

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Safety Barrier Management: Risk-Based Approach for the Oil and Gas Sector

Davatgar

Paltrinieri

Bubbico

2021

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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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“…Ocean Barriers are generally manufactured from rugged, UV-resistant polyurethane, polyester, polyvinyl chloride or neoprene-lined fabric, they are large, robust barriers that require a unit of force for launching and retracting air blowers (BUCELLI et al, 2018). For padding and greater skill of the user.…”

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Oil spills: cases and consequences analysis

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Loebens

Farias

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RICA

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Oil spills are natural disasters that affect marine life, devastate ecosystems and different social series. They have a high risk of not only damaging the environment and human health, but also damaging the image of companies linked to these events. Thus, this article seeks to compile the main events in Brazil and the rest of the world to categorize their causes, impacts and social implications. And through a critical analysis to understand how such accidents could be avoided or better solved, bringing the most effective cleaning methods today. For this reason, it was clear that in many cases of spills, the actual damage generated is omitted to avoid public retaliation, but this only reinforces the need to disseminate the importance of environmental surveillance in the oil sector and to foster new technologies that seek alternative methods. decontamination of water bodies. In addition to making this subject increasingly present in society's daily lives, so that better working conditions and environmental care can be demanded.

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Assessment of safety barriers for the prevention of cascading events in oil and gas offshore installations operating in harsh environment

Cited by 49 publications

References 29 publications

Analysis and Characterization of Risk Methodologies Applied to Industrial Parks

Analysis and Characterization of Risk Methodologies Applied to Industrial Parks

Safety Barrier Management: Risk-Based Approach for the Oil and Gas Sector

Oil spills: cases and consequences analysis

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