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Oil & Gas Industry Focus on Health, Safety and Environment Issues
Analysis of Operation Safety on FPSOs By J.E. Vinnem, Founder/ Manager of Preventor, Professor of the Marine Technology faculty, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim The article considers the use of risk assessment from an overall perspective and provides a brief overview of the main characteristics of the FPSO from the viewpoint of accident prevention and protection against major hazards.
Fire Risks of Floating Roof Tanks By Niall Ramsden, Resource Protection International The LASTFIRE project undertaken by 16 oil companies investigated risks associated with fires in large, open top floating roof storage tanks to investigate, in depth, the fire risk associated with such facilities and develop a methodology for a cost-effective, relevant and appropriate site-specific risk reduction policy.
Environmental, Health & Safety Progress in the U.S. Oil & Natural Gas Industry By Red Cavaney, President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute Oil and natural gas products have raised our standard of living and helped make us freer, safer and more comfortable than any people at any time in history. They-and the facilities that bring them to us-are also increasingly compatible with a clean, safe environment. Companies have steadily reduced emissions, minimized and recycled waters and upgraded workplace safety.
Appears in FS-World.com by permission of EPA Fugitive emissions can be reduced by up to 90 percent if leaks are detected and repaired in a timely manner. EPA is encouraged by efforts currently underway in the petroleum refining workgroup to find more cost-effective ways to identify significant leaks through new technology that allows for quick identification of the most significant losses.
The Six Most Common Responses to the Need for Crisis Management Readiness By Phillip C. Cogan, formerly Deputy Director, Office of Emergency Information and Public Affairs, FEMA, current Executive Vice-President, Bernstein Communication, Inc. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many organizations are still only partially responding to the need for crisis management preparedness…partially safe. Do you take crisis management seriously?
Internet Offshore Engineer is a free "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for petroleum and offshore engineers. This tutorial covers the key information skills for the Internet environment. Finding the best information through the Internet is not straightforward - if it were the tutorial would not be necessary.
Directory of Sites in Occupational & Environmental Health This Directory is an important part of the Health, Environment and Work website. It provides hundreds of selected World Wide links on human Health, the Environment & Work.
From the 2001 Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual
Technical Conference and Exhibition
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