Risk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
Offshore and Onshore Concepts and Case Studies
- 1st Edition - June 9, 2021
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Author: Gerardo Portela Da Ponte Jr
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 5 3 3 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 6 2 7 - 7
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Request a sales quoteRisk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry: Offshore and Onshore Concepts and Case Studies delivers the concepts, strategies and good practices of offshore and onshore safety engineering that are applicable to petroleum engineering and immediately surrounding industries. Guided by the strategic risk management line, this reference organizes steps in order of importance and priority that should be given to the themes in the practical exercise of risk management activities, from the conceptual and design phase to operational and crisis management situations. Each chapter is packed with practical case studies, lessons learned, exercises, and review questions.
The reference also touches on the newest techniques, including liquefied natural gas (cryogenics) operations and computer simulations that contemplate the influence of human behavior. Critical for both the new and experienced engineer, this book gives the best didactic tool to perform operations safely and effectively.
- Helps readers by presenting practical case studies and exercises that are included in every chapter
- Presents an understanding on how to approach and apply best practices specific to the oil and gas industry, both offshore and onshore
- Provides the knowledge needed to gain new techniques in computer simulation and human factors to apply to various sectors of the industry, including subsea and refineries
Safety engineers; offshore engineers; subsea engineers; safety consultants; safety managers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Special acknowledgment
- Editorial acknowledgment
- Complementary sources
- Declaration
- About the author
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction and reading guide
- Abstract
- Chapter 2. Fundamentals of risk management
- Abstract
- 2.1 Nonquantifiable risk
- 2.2 Safety culture and risk acceptance
- 2.3 Human factors and the error-inducing environment
- 2.4 Efficiency and strategic risk management line
- 2.5 Lessons learned
- 2.6 Exercise
- 2.7 Review questions
- Chapter 3. Technical and operational knowledge
- Abstract
- 3.1 Oil industry
- 3.2 Getting to know upstream facilities
- 3.3 Getting to know downstream facilities
- 3.4 Knowing process safety
- 3.5 Knowing operational practice (field experience)
- 3.6 Knowing the project routine
- 3.7 Lessons learned
- 3.8 Exercises
- 3.9 Answers
- 3.10 Review questions
- Chapter 4. Hazards reduction
- Abstract
- 4.1 Segmentation of the hydrocarbon inventory
- 4.2 Disposal of the hydrocarbon inventory during an emergency
- 4.3 Automatic emergency shutdown
- 4.4 Lessons learned
- 4.5 Exercises
- 4.6 Answers
- 4.7 Review questions
- Chapter 5. Agents (people) evacuation
- Abstract
- 5.1 Importance of the systems of escape and abandonment
- 5.2 Accidents in facilities with hydrocarbon inventories and survival
- 5.3 Human–system interaction during escape and abandonment
- 5.4 Escape and abandonment operation
- 5.5 Technical recommendations for escape and abandonment system
- 5.6 Sea survival equipment
- 5.7 Lessons learned
- 5.8 Exercise
- 5.9 Answer
- 5.10 Review questions
- Chapter 6. Emergency control
- Abstract
- 6.1 Power generation systems
- 6.2 Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems
- 6.3 Flushing, purging, and inerting systems
- 6.4 Gas detection system
- 6.5 Fire detection systems
- 6.6 Automatic fire-fighting systems
- 6.7 Additional fire protection systems
- 6.8 Passive fire protection
- 6.9 Protection systems for confined equipment
- 6.10 Accidents with cryogenic products (LNG)
- 6.11 Subsea safety equipment
- 6.12 Fire brigade and rescue crew performance
- 6.13 Crisis management and decision making
- 6.14 Selecting and identifying accidental scenarios
- 6.15 Special safety strategies applied to automation
- 6.16 Conception of redundancies and ways to start up safety systems
- 6.17 Understanding explosion phenomena
- 6.18 Lessons learned
- 6.19 Conclusions
- 6.20 Exercises
- 6.21 Answers
- 6.22 Review questions
- Chapter 7. Reducing unpredictability
- Abstract
- 7.1 Risk analysis techniques
- 7.2 Studies and consequence analyses
- 7.3 Full safety analysis
- 7.4 Lessons learned
- 7.5 Exercises
- 7.6 Answers
- 7.7 Review questions
- Chapter 8. Human–system interaction
- Abstract
- 8.1 Human error
- 8.2 Human factors
- 8.3 Limitations of quantification techniques related to human reliability
- 8.4 Rapid Entire Body Assessment
- 8.5 Lessons learned
- 8.7 Exercises
- 8.8 Answers
- 8.9 Review questions
- Chapter 9. Risk management systems
- Abstract
- 9.1 Risk management in the corporate environment
- 9.2 Centralization and decentralization of risk management
- 9.3 Association of different technical fields
- 9.4 Historical data records and management by indicators
- 9.5 Risk management, occupational safety and safety engineering
- 9.6 Risk-based design
- 9.7 Safety peer review
- 9.8 Accident investigations
- 9.9 Surveillance system
- 9.10 Capillarity of concepts and principles of risk management
- 9.11 Risk and safety management in the energy industry postpandemic COVID-19
- 9.12 Risk and safety management and the potential of the new digital tools
- 9.13 Applicable technical standards
- 9.14 Lessons learned
- 9.15 Exercises
- 9.16 Answers
- 9.17 Review questions
- Chapter 10. Synthesis
- Abstract
- Bibliography
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 9, 2021
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- No. of pages: 528
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128235331
- eBook ISBN: 9780128236277
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Gerardo Portela Da Ponte Jr
Gerardo Portela da Ponte, Jr, PhD in Risk and Safety Management from the Department of Naval Engineering at COPPE - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a specialization in HUMAN FACTORS at Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering "The California State University", in San Jose CA - USA. Ponte, Jr also served as a researcher in the area of Maritime and Offshore Safety at the Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory, at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland UK. He holds a Master's Degree in Technological Management and a Mechanical and Industrial Engineer from the Federal Center for Technological Education in Rio de Janeiro, CEFET RJ. He has over 40 years of professional experience and is the author of two more books ("Risk Management Based on Human Factors and Safety Culture" and "Crisis Overcoming Machine, We All Have One") in addition to several other works in the area of Risk and Safety Management. Portela worked for some of the largest private and state-owned engineering companies such as Shell, Ishikawagima, Furnas, Eletronuclear, Infraero, Odebrecht and Petrobras. Gerardo Portela da Ponte, Jr is recognized as a reference on the topic of Risk Management, acting as a guest commentator for several press agencies in Brazil such as Globo, Globo News, Record, SBT, Rede TV, Veja, Época, UOL, R7, EXTRA, G1. He is also invited and cited by press organizations such as LOS ANGELES TIMES and VOZ DA AMÉRICA in the USA, ABC Madrid in Europe, TV ASAHI in JAPAN, among others in Brazil and abroad.
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Doctor in Technological Management, Mechanical Engineer, and Industrial Engineer, Federal Center of Technological Education, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilRead Risk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry on ScienceDirect