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Summary
Summary
An Insightful Guide to Avoiding Offshore Oil- and Gas-Industry Disaster
Designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining offshore oil and gas industry equipment and systems can sometimes result in accidents, injuries, and other serious problems. Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Practical Approach focuses on oil and gas industry equipment reliability, offers useful and up-to-date information on the subject, and covers in a single volume the most common safety and reliability engineering issues in the oil and gas industry. The book introduces the latest developments in the area, and provides relevant methods and approaches. It also presents important aspects of various case studies on major accidents in the oil and gas industry, and considers human factors that contribute to accidents and fatalities in the area of oil and gas.
Additionally, this book describes:
Mathematical concepts Oil and gas industry equipment reliability characteristics Accident data and analysis Mathematical models used for performing safety and reliability-related analyses in the industrySafety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Practical Approach covers important aspects of safety in the offshore oil and gas industry. A reference designed with engineering professionals in mind, this book can also be used in oil- and gas-industry-related courses, and serves as a guide for anyone concerned with safety and reliability in the area of oil and gas.
Author Notes
B.S. Dhillon received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Windsor. He received his M.S. in mechanical engineering and B.S. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Wales.
Dr. Dhillon is a professor of engineering management in mechanical engineering at the University of Ottawa.
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Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| Background |
| Oil and Gas Industry Safety and Reliability-Related Facts, Figures, and Examples |
| Terms and Definitions |
| Useful Sources for Obtaining Information on Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry |
| Scope of This Book |
| Problems |
| References |
| Basic Mathematical Concepts |
| Introduction |
| Boolean Algebra Laws |
| Probability Definition and Properties |
| Useful Mathematical Definitions |
| Probability Distributions |
| Solving First-Order Linear Differential Equations Using |
| Laplace Transforms |
| Problems |
| References |
| Safety and Reliability Basics |
| Introduction |
| Need for Safety and Safety and Engineers |
| Safety Management Principles |
| Product Hazard Classifications and Product Safety Organization Tasks |
| Common Causes of Work Injuries and Mechanical Injuries |
| Accident Causation Theories |
| Occupational Stressors and Human Error Occurrence Reasons |
| Consequences of Human Error and Human Error Classifications |
| Bathtub Hazard Rate Curve |
| General Reliability-Related Formulas |
| Reliability Networks |
| Problems |
| References |
| Methods for Performing Safety and Reliability Analyses in the Oil and Gas Industry |
| Introduction |
| Root Cause Analysis |
| Hazards and Operability Analysis |
| Technique of Operations Review |
| Interface Safety Analysis |
| Job Safety Analysis |
| Preliminary Hazard Analysis |
| Failure Modes and Effect Analysis |
| Fault Tree Analysis |
| Markov Method |
| Problems |
| References |
| Safety in Offshore Oil and Gas Industry |
| Introduction |
| Offshore Industrial Sector Risk Picture |
| Offshore Worker Situation Awareness Concept, Studies, and Their Results |
| Offshore Industry Accident Reporting Approach and Offshore Accident-Related Causes |
| Offshore Industry Accidents' Case Studies |
| Problems |
| References |
| Case Studies of Oil Tanker Spill-Related Accidents and Oil Tanker Spill Analysis |
| Introduction |
| Case Studies of Oil Tanker Spill-Related Accidents |
| Tanker Oil Spills Number Analysis |
| Quantities of Oil Spilt |
| Oil Spill Causes |
| Problems |
| References |
| Human Factors Contribution to Accidents in the Oil and Gas Industry and Fatalities in the Industry |
| Introduction |
| Human Factors That Affect Safety in General |
| Categorization of Accident-Related Human Factors in the Industrial Sector |
| Categories of Human Factors Accident Causation in the Oil Industry |
| Oilfield Fatality Analysis |
| Recommendations to Reduce Fatal Oil and Gas Industry |
| Incidents |
| Problems |
| References |
| Case Studies of Maintenance Influence on Major Accidents in Oil and Gas Industry and Safety Instrumented Systems and Their Spurious Activation in Oil and Gas Industry |
| Introduction |
| Maintenance Influence on Major Accidents in the Oil and Gas Industry: Case Studies |
| Safety Instrumented Systems |
| Spurious Activation of Safety Instrumented Systems |
| International Electrotechnical Commission and Its Standards: IEC 61511 and IEC 61508 |
| Problems |
| References |
| Oil and Gas Industry Accident Data and Accident Data Analysis |
| Introduction |
| Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Accident Databases and Accident Data Collection Sources |
| Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Accident Data and Analysis |
| Offshore Oil and Gas Rigs Accident Analysis |
| Failures and Lessons Learned from Landmark Offshore Oil and Gas Accidents and Corrective Measures |
| Problems |
| References |
| Oil and Gas Industry Equipment Reliability |
| Introduction |
| Mechanical Seals' Failures |
| Optical Connector Failures |
| Corrosion-Related Failures |
| Oil and Gas Pipeline Fault Tree Analysis |
| Common Cause Failures Defense Approach for Oil and Gas Industry Safety Instrumented Systems |
| Fatigue Damage Initiation in Oil and Gas Steel Pipes Assessment |
| Problems |
| References |
| Mathematical Models for Performing Safety and Reliability Analyses in Oil and Gas Industry |
| Introduction |
| Model I |
| Model II |
| Model III |
| Model IV |
| Model V |
| Model VI |
| Model VII Problems |
| References |
| Appendix: Bibliography-Literature on Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry |
