Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry : A Practical Approach

An Insightful Guide to Avoiding Offshore Oil- and Gas-Industry Disaster

Designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining offshore oil and gas industry equipment and systems can sometimes result in accidents, injuries, and other serious problems. Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Practical Approach focuses on oil and gas industry equipment reliability, offers useful and up-to-date information on the subject, and covers in a single volume the most common safety and reliability engineering issues in the oil and gas industry. The book introduces the latest developments in the area, and provides relevant methods and approaches. It also presents important aspects of various case studies on major accidents in the oil and gas industry, and considers human factors that contribute to accidents and fatalities in the area of oil and gas.

Additionally, this book describes:

• Mathematical concepts
• Oil and gas industry equipment reliability characteristics
• Accident data and analysis
• Mathematical models used for performing safety and reliability-related analyses in the industry

Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Practical Approach covers important aspects of safety in the offshore oil and gas industry. A reference designed with engineering professionals in mind, this book can also be used in oil- and gas-industry-related courses, and serves as a guide for anyone concerned with safety and reliability in the area of oil and gas.

• Integrates safety and reliability in the oil and gas industry into a single volume
• Meets the demands of engineering professionals, administrators, safety and reliability professionals, and students to improve safety and reliability in the oil and gas industry
• Assists in developing and designing better engineering systems in the oil and gas industry
• Provides case studies of oil tanker spill-related accidents and oil tanker spill analysis
• Includes end-of-chapter problems to test reader comprehension and examples with solutions

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Basic Mathematical Concepts
Chapter 3 : Safety and Reliability Basics
Chapter 4 : Methods for Performing Safety and Reliability Analyses in the Oil and Gas Industry
Chapter 5 : Safety in Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
Chapter 6 : Case Studies of Oil Tanker Spill-Related Accidents and Oil Tanker Spill Analysis
Chapter 7 : Human Factors Contribution to Accidents in the Oil and Gas Industry and Fatalities in the Industry
Chapter 8 : Case Studies of Maintenance Influence on Major Accidents in Oil and Gas Industry and Safety Instrumented Systems and Their Spurious Activation in Oil and Gas Industry
Chapter 9 : Oil and Gas Industry Accident Data and Accident Data Analysis
Chapter 10 : Oil and Gas Industry Equipment Reliability
Chapter 11 : Mathematical Models for Performing Safety and Reliability Analyses in Oil and Gas Industry

Appendix : Bibliography - Literature on Safety and Reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry
Index