PHAil-Safe! PHA What-If/Checklists and software for oilfield production facilities and plants

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:148016

Ande, T J; Guidry, K J ^[1]

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1. Amoco Production Co., Houston, TX (United States)

With the advent of the 1910.119 Process Safety Management regulation from OSHA in May, 1992, E and P companies were faced with the significant task of completing Process Hazards Analyses (PHAs) on all covered production facilities and plants. The two Amoco Production Company domestic business units for which the authors of this paper worked were particularly challenged: they had over thirty covered production facilities, along with several covered gas plants. The problem was to perform adequate, quality, PHAs on these facilities to comply with OSHA 1910.119, in today`s manpower and budget restricted environment. The solution was found in developing a set of structured, comprehensive What-If/Checklists that addressed the range of equipment items found in typical production facilities, along with general facility issues as well. In addition to the development of the What-If/Checklists, the method of using the What-If/Checklists was refined in pilot PHAs, and software was developed that incorporated the What-If/Checklists and integrated What-If/Checklist, Pure What-if, and HAZOP methodologies into one comprehensive package. The result has been a very significant time savings in accomplishing PHAs in Amoco`s domestic production facilities, with benefits seen in gas plant PHAs as well. The name used to collectively refer to these What-If/Checklists and software is PHAil-Safe!

• OSTI ID: 148016
• Report Number(s): CONF-950152--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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