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Comparison between Kick Occurrences in the Gulf of Mexico and Offshore Norway
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
In this article, we discuss kick occurrences during offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and in the Norwegian sector of North Sea. The comparison between these two geographic areas is feasible because of ...
Study on the Influence Mechanism of Inner Oil to the Impact Resistance of the Fixed-roof Storage Tank against the Explosion Blast Wave
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The explosion blast wave in the chemical park will cause the domino effect and serious damage to the surrounding tanks. In order to study the influence mechanism of the inner oil on the impact resistance of the large-scale ...
Instrumentation Adequacy Check for the Debottlenecking Projects and the Impact on Process Safety
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The debottlenecking projects are always challenging since there is a tradeoff between the costs of the project and achieving the new production rate of the plant i.e. achieving the new production rate with optimized cost ...
Time Dependent Effects of External Fire on Chemical Reactive Hazards
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
An external fire can often be the defining case when sizing a relief device for chemical reactive hazards. Batch reaction systems can have multiple reactions or have reactions with multiple steps. Analyzing every possibility ...
State of Procedures in High Risk, Highly Regulated Processing Industries
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
The general state of procedures in the highly regulated, high risk industries is poor. Most companies continue to use “Typewriter Technology,” such as MS Word to create procedures and manage them through standard document ...
Does your Asset Integrity Program Neglect your most Important Asset?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Industry has a strong focus on maintaining the integrity of mechanical assets to “Keep it in the pipes.” However, the key assets any company has with respect to process safety are the human assets, especially operations ...
Data Driven Risk Based Process Safety – Why Care, How to Get It and How to Keep It
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
JOURNEYS OF PSM IMPLEMENTATION AT TAIWAN FPG
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) was found in 1955 as a small private company. Over time, through acquisitions and advanced growth, the company has now grown to its current size with total sales of 79 billion US dollars in ...
Modelling large LNG pool fires on water
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
There has been a rising demand for natural gas across the World. In many countries, this demand is being satisfied through an increasing number of marine LNG Carrier (LNGC) deliveries and hence there is a safety requirement ...
PSM Lite?
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2017)
We all agree on the common stance that no one in any industry desires the occurrence of an accident. This belief is a common premise no matter what respective industry one may work in or for. A serious fire, a permanent ...