Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780309294249
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Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
Author: National Academy Of Engineering
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Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9780309294270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nation turns to the National Academies-National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council-for independent, objective advice on issues that affect people's lives worldwide. Book jacket.
Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKImplementing Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe government needs to determine an acceptable level of risk for offshore operations that is consistent with national policy. For the purpose of its work, the panel assumed that the acceptable level of risk for offshore operations is zero accidents, zero deaths, and zero oil spills--though this goal may not be attainable. The panel realizes that neither the law nor any government regulation can prevent all possible accidents or malfunctions in complex systems such as offshore oil and gas production facilities. While it is an incontrovertible fact that offshore oil and gas production equipment has earned a remarkable record for safety in the past 25 years, human performance has often been attributed as a cause of failures and mishaps. The BAST requirement is limited to technologies on the OCS and is not designed to mitigate human errors. This leads to the second issue, which is the problem of calculating incremental benefits and costs related to obtaining a desired level of risk. These problems are discussed in detail in the report.
Implementing Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Best Available and Safest Technologies
Publisher: National Academies
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh-Performance Bolting Technology for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0309472458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommercially significant amounts of crude oil and natural gas lie under the continental shelf of the United States. Advances in locating deposits, and improvements in drilling and recovery technology, have made it technically and economically feasible to extract these resources under harsh conditions. But extracting these offshore petroleum resources involves the possibility, however remote, of oil spills, with resulting damage to the ocean and the coastline ecosystems and risks to life and limb of those performing the extraction. The environmental consequences of an oil spill can be more severe underwater than on land because sea currents can quickly disperse the oil over a large area and, thus, cleanup can be problematic. Bolted connections are an integral feature of deep-water well operations. High-Performance Bolting Technology for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations summarizes strategies for improving the reliability of fasteners used in offshore oil exploration equipment, as well as best practices from other industrial sectors. It focuses on critical boltingâ€"bolts, studs, nuts, and fasteners used on critical connections.
High-Performance Bolting Technology for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2018-07-12
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0309472423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommercially significant amounts of crude oil and natural gas lie under the continental shelf of the United States. Advances in locating deposits, and improvements in drilling and recovery technology, have made it technically and economically feasible to extract these resources under harsh conditions. But extracting these offshore petroleum resources involves the possibility, however remote, of oil spills, with resulting damage to the ocean and the coastline ecosystems and risks to life and limb of those performing the extraction. The environmental consequences of an oil spill can be more severe underwater than on land because sea currents can quickly disperse the oil over a large area and, thus, cleanup can be problematic. Bolted connections are an integral feature of deep-water well operations. High-Performance Bolting Technology for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations summarizes strategies for improving the reliability of fasteners used in offshore oil exploration equipment, as well as best practices from other industrial sectors. It focuses on critical boltingâ€"bolts, studs, nuts, and fasteners used on critical connections.
The Use of Best Available and Safest Technologies (BAST) During Oil and Gas Drilling and Producing Operations of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluating the Effectiveness of Offshore Safety and Environmental Management Systems
Author: United States. Committee on the Effectiveness of Safety and Environmental Management Systems for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Operations
Publisher: Transportation Research Board National Research
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report recommends that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) take a holistic approach to evaluating the effectiveness offshore oil and the Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) programs of gas industry operators. According to the report, this approach should, at a minimum, include inspections, audits by the operator and BSEE, key performance indicators, and a whistleblower program. SEMS is a safety management system (SMS) aimed at shifting from a completely prescriptive regulatory approach to one that is proactive, risk based, and goal oriented in an attempt to improve safety and reduce the likelihood that events similar to the April 2010 Macondo incident will reoccur. According to the committee that produced the report, it is not possible for a regulator to create a culture of safety in an organization by inspection or audit; that culture needs to come from within the organization. To be successful, the tenets of SEMS must be fully acknowledged and accepted by workers, motivated from the top, and supported throughout the organization and must drive worker actions. The report also notes that BSEE can encourage and aid industry in development of a culture of safety by the way it measures and enforces SEMS. The committee believes BSEE should seize this opportunity to make a step change in safety culture by adopting a goal based holistic approach to evaluating the effectiveness of SEMS programs. In recommending a holistic approach to evaluating the effectiveness of SEMS programs, the report explores in detail the role of SEMS in helping to develop a culture of safety, highlights the pros and cons of various methods of assessing the effectiveness of a SEMS program, and investigates existing approaches for assessing the SMS programs of various U.S. and international regulatory agencies whose safety mandates are similar to that of BSEE.
Safety and Offshore Oil
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Assessment of Safety of OCS Activities
Publisher: National Academies
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 360
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