Investigating New Risk Reduction and Mitigation in the Oil and Gas Industry
Abstract
The complexity of the processes and the nature of volatile petroleum products urged the oil and gas industry to utilize various risk assessment techniques to identify potential failure modes that can interrupt operation processes. Consequently, government agencies and nonprofit professional societies guide the industry with regulatory guidelines, standards, and best recommended practices to oversee the operations management, assure safe working environment, and contain failures within tolerable limits. Yet, accidents due to electro-mechanical failures still occur and result in various consequences. Accordingly, critics have raised concerns about the petroleum industry's safety and risk mitigation credentials and question its ability to prevent future major accidents. Therefore, new risk assessment tools need to be introduced to provide decision makers and novice engineers with a diverse perception of potential risks. The aim of this paper is verify the application of Risk in Early Design (RED), a product risk assessment tool, in identifying potential failures in the oil and gas industry. Approximately thirty major accident underwent the RED analysis to verify the software's application to identify and rank potential failure modes.
Recommended Citation
M. A. AlKazimi and K. Grantham, "Investigating New Risk Reduction and Mitigation in the Oil and Gas Industry," Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, vol. 34, pp. 196 - 208, Elsevier Ltd, Mar 2015.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2015.02.003
Department(s)
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Failure mode; Oil and gas; RED; Risk assessment
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0950-4230
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Mar 2015
