HAZOPs in a Cash Constrained Enviornemnt
Abstract
Year 2015 has been another difficult year for the oil and gas (O&G) industry. For the upstream industry, low prices of oil have resulted in operating companies making drastic changes to their economic canvas due to shrinking budgets. Irrespective of the type of industry, changes in the economic environment dominate the operations. To add to this, there are challenges with budgetary cuts on practices and personnel. This results in a common tendency to overlook required process safety needs, which in turn cause more challenges to maintaining safe work environments. In order to meet these moral and obligatory requirements, with dwindling finances, existing traditional PHA techniques require trimming, but without compromising on the objectives of protecting human lives, environment and businesses. Based on recent experiences, and successful outcomes, the author provides modified approaches to PHAs including HAZOPs, HAZIDs and What-ifs. Weighing these necessities versus the economic challenges, the authors’ modified their approaches to existing typical practices of HAZOPs and other PHAs, and made trimmings and cuts, where deemed appropriate, without compromising on the original intent behind these studies. This paper is a compilation of their thoughts and successes while making these modifications, that were an outcome of “sharpening the pencil” making the studies smarter and shorter in duration, thereby bringing about a saving in time and effort.
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Citation
Israni, Kumar (Chris); Cooper, Joshtin (2016). HAZOPs in a Cash Constrained Enviornemnt. Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /193622.