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Oil & Gas Safety
Contents
Comparison of Fire Protection Deepwater and Shore-Based Oil and Gas Drilling Rigs By Dr. David O. Anderson, Texas A&M University, Angelo Pinheiro, Marathon Oil Corporation A comparison of typical fire protection arrangements between a semi-submersible drilling rig located in the Gulf of Mexico and land-based drilling rigs.
By Health & Safety Executive Guidance for duty holders of offshore installations on identifying fire and explosion hazards in offshore gas turbines.
By Jonathan Gilbert, Business Development Manager, Tyco Fire Protection Products Increased demand for improved performance, more reliability, and the increased need for situational awareness of flame related events has led to the evolution of existing technologies and the introduction of a number of new technologies.
By Tobias Popp, Sales Manager Systems Solutions, R. Stabl This paper explores the production of oil and gas from underwater deposits and its need for a wide spectrum of explosion-protected components, systems and solutions at sea and onshore.
By Health & Safety Executive HSE advice for duty holders regarding the detection of flammable gases in HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) duct inlets.
By William Comtois and Craig Shelly, Varicom, Inc. The definition and strive for “high performance” in a team is evaluated in regards to the efforts of safety and hazard prevention in the oil and gas industry.
By Graham Boaler, Technical Manager, Leighs Paints Oil & Gas This article is concerned with the passive fire protection (PFP) of structural elements; the discussion here is with regard to an escalation that may result from the failure of process piping and vessels. By Zygimantas Blazevicius, Audronis Kazimieras Kvedaras, and Gintas Sauciuvenas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University This research is a deep investigation of post-fire behavior of the hollow concrete-filled steel tubular columns.
By Ian Crosby, Product Marketing, Bosch Security Systems Video Solutions An overview of security applications in potentially explosive environments, highlighting the history, terminology, and industry standards for explosion protected surveillance equipment.
By Ian Buchanan, European Manager, Spectrex, Inc. Various facilities and operations zones in the oil and gas industry that are considered highly hazardous in terms of explosion and fire susceptibility, are described and respective solutions to mitigate these hazards are presented.
By Rick Jeffress, Sales Manager - Americas, Fike Video Image Detection This paper looks into the increased flexibility and reliability of VID (Video Image Detection) systems, engineers are finding new applications in petrochemical, manufacturing, marine and offshore as well as commercial applications.
By Henry Persson and Margaret McNamee, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden This article shows how foam glass can provide very effective fire protection in bund tanks or similar areas in which there is a risk for a spill fire in flammable liquids.
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