Offshore blowouts, data for risk assessment

Book · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:194668

Holand, P ^[1]

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1. Norwegian Inst. of Tech., Trondheim (Norway). Dept. of Production and Quality Engineering

Blowouts are, besides gas leakages, the major contributor to the total risk for offshore installations. Therefore, the blowout risk is always included in Quantitative Risk Analyses (QRAs) of offshore installations in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. SINTEF Offshore Blowout Database has existed since 1984 (until 1990 it was called Marintek`s blowout database). In 1990 the responsibility of the database was transferred to SINTEF Safety and Reliability. Throughout these years the database has been used for assessing blowout risk associated to development and operation of fields offshore Norway. Six oil companies and two consultants are presently sponsoring the database. These companies are using the database when performing risk analyses. During the past three years the database has been subjected to a thorough quality improvement, both with respect to the user interface, and most important, regarding the blowout data included in the database. What is unique with this database, besides the high quality of blowout descriptions, is first that the blowout causes are categorized related to loss of primary and secondary barriers. Secondly that the user interface makes it possible to establish searches to withdraw information regarding any blowout type subjected for specific searches.

• OSTI ID: 194668
• Report Number(s): CONF-950695--; ISBN 0-7918-1308-8
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
03 NATURAL GAS
BLOWOUTS
COMPILED DATA
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
NATURAL GAS WELLS
NORTH SEA
OFFSHORE OPERATIONS
OIL WELLS
RISK ASSESSMENT