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Topic 45: Managing the risks and issues associated with a depleting reservoir.

Submitted by Edwin Lawrance on

In this energy demanding world the need for fossil fuel never declines. Depletion is an unavoidable part of hydrocarbon production and all the reservoirs around the globe faces this. Depletion due to hydrocarbon production can also pose threats that can even make a scar on the earth's face. 

1) Land subscidence

2) Fault reactivation

3) Earthquakes

4) Casing damages

5) Formation damage

and further more...

Topic 44: INHERENT SAFETY IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT – A PRACTICAL APPROACH

Submitted by Adejugba Olusola on
This topic is a spin-off from my research into redundancy in the oil & gas industry. Thinking this would be a good forum to share from those with experience in the application of this concept.

Topic 43: Unsafe acts/conditions during routine tasks in platforms/offshore and how to avoid them.

Submitted by Rovshan on

Dear all. Most of us are working already or planning join to oil and gas industry as an engineer,so you will do routine jobs frequently. I would like to share incidents/accidents and near misses those happened in the rig where I work and explain reasons ,how to avoid them. I hope you will benefit from this information in you future career. 

TOPIC 1 

Uncontrolled

release of energy in the top drive

Target audience for this alert

 Drilling Supervisors

What happened

Topic 42: Potential and Safety Issues concerning Biogas

Submitted by JIEFU on

Biogas is a mixture of various gases from organic gas methane to inorganic gases carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen and so on, which can be produced from a wide range of material. Let's discuss it's potential of being a dependable energy source in the future, and the safety related issues.

Unsafe acts/conditions during routine tasks in platforms/offshore and how to avoid them.

Submitted by Rovshan on

Dear all. Most of us are working already or planning join to oil and gas industry as an engineer,so you will do routine jobs frequently. I would like to share incidents/accidents and near misses those happened in the rig where I work and explain reasons ,how to avoid them. I hope you will benefit from this information in you future career. 

TOPIC 1 

Uncontrolled
release of energy in the top drive

 

Target audience for this alert

 Drilling Supervisors

 

What happened

Topic 40: Does the value placed on human life have an effect on safety

Submitted by Elvis.E.Osung on

Discuss the relationship between safety and human life, with respect to the effect of the financial value placed on human life and how an increase or a reduction in  the value placed on human life will affect the general concept of safety management.

Topic 39: PROPOSED EU REGUATION ON OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS SAFETY

Submitted by Babawale Onagbola on

At
the last Safety Engineering and Risk Management lecture delivered by the Lawyer
from Maclay Murray and Spence,he touched on an interesting issue. The October
27, 2011 proposal of the EU to introduce binding offshore safety regulations
for the 27 member countries including Norway as a reaction to the Deepwater
Horizon accident the previous year. While I understand that the present regime
of offshore regulations in the UK is the bench mark worldwide, I cannot seem to
agree more with the EU’s proposal to develop uniform regulations guiding the
safety of offshore operations in this part of the world, especially with the EU