Doctoral Dissertations
Keywords and Phrases
Accident Causation; Crisis Management; Hazard Analysis; Risk Assessment; Risk Mitigation; Safety Engineering
Abstract
"The inherent complexity of the processes and the volatile nature of petroleum products compel the petroleum industry to continually seek and develop tools and techniques to identify, evaluate, and mitigate potential risks that can negatively impact their process operations. Additionally, government agencies and nonprofit professional societies guide the petroleum industry with regulatory guidelines, standards, and recommended best practices. The industry and these agencies and societies work to improve operational management, to ensure safe working conditions, and to minimize risk of all kinds, so that if failures occur, damage is contained within tolerable limits (Health and Safety Executives, 2013).
The currently used of both qualitative and quantitative risk assessment tools "fall short in identifying and ranking potential risks" in the petroleum industry and they "fail to demonstrate that risks have been reduced as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP)" (Fitzgerald, 2004, p. 3). Moreover, the tools are "limited to large, complex, and expensive studies" (Fitzgerald, 2004, p. 3). Because accidents due to both human errors and electromechanical failures still occur and result in various consequences, critics have raised concerns about the petroleum industry's safety and risk mitigation credentials and question its ability to prevent major accidents.
The purpose of this research is to introduce new methods that provide more detailed and structure information to decision makers. They are more robust and easier-to-use so that novice engineers can successfully apply them without experts' need. This dissertation employs the publication option, where the research results are reported by presenting the text of five journal-conference publications."--Abstract, page iv.
Advisor(s)
Flori, Ralph E.
Murray, Susan L.
Committee Member(s)
Nygaard, Runar
Oboh-Ikuenobe, Francisca
Al-Dahhan, Muthanna H.
Department(s)
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
Degree Name
Ph. D. in Petroleum Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Publication Date
Summer 2015
Journal article titles appearing in thesis/dissertation
- STAMP -- Holistic system safety approach or just another risk model?
- Investigating new risk reduction and mitigation in the oil and gas industry
- Exploring risk reduction and strategy selection methodologies in the petroleum industry
- Safety awareness in undergraduate engineering students
- Bridging the health, safety, and environment risk management proficiency gap for future petroleum engineers
Pagination
x, 117 pages
Note about bibliography
Includes bibliographic references.
Rights
© 2015 Mohammad AbdulHameed AlKazimi, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
Petroleum industry and trade -- Risk assessmentPetroleum industry and trade -- Risk managementPetroleum industry and trade -- Accidents -- Prevention
Thesis Number
T 10750
Electronic OCLC #
921175703
Recommended Citation
AlKazimi, Mohammad A., "Investigating new accident causation, risk assessment, and mitigation strategy selection tools in the petroleum industry" (2015). Doctoral Dissertations. 2402.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/2402