ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT: A PROPOSED SCHEME

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 714
Author(s):  
H.B. Goff ◽  
R.K. Steedman
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Transport Processes ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Environmental Risk Management ◽  
The Impact

Environmental risk assessment is becoming an increasingly important factor in the assessment process for new projects. The oil and gas industry is familiar with assessing and managing risks from a wide range of sources. In particular, risk assessment and management is fundamental to the evaluation and implementation of Safety cases. Risk assessment is essential in valuing exploration acreage. Various industry and government risk management standards and criteria have been developed for public and occupational health and safety.This paper examines the extension of these approaches to environmental risk management for the offshore oil and gas industry and proposes a conceptual management scheme.We regard risk as the probability of an event occurring and the consequences of that event. The risk is classified into four categories, namely:primary risk, which relates to the mechanical oilfield equipment;secondary risk, which relates to the natural transport processes. For example dispersion of oil in the water column and surrounding sea;the tertiary risk, which relates to the impact on some defined part of the physical, biological or social environment; andthe quaternary risk, which relates to the recovery of the environment from any impact.Generally the methods of quantitatively analysing primary and secondary risks are well known, while there remains considerable uncertainty surrounding the tertiary and quaternary risk and they are at best qualitative only. An example of the method is applied to coral reef and other sensitive areas which may be at risk from oil spills.This risk management scheme should assist both operators and regulators in considering complex environmental problems which have an inherent uncertainty. It also proves a systematic approach on which sound environmental decisions can be taken and further research and analysis based. Perceived risk is recognised, but the management of this particular issue is not dealt with.

scholarly journals Safety & Environmental Risk Management: Borrowing from the Past to Enhance Knowledge for The Future

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p64
Author(s):  
Evangelia Fragouli ◽  
Faye Nzioka ◽  
Selma Manar
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Deep Uncertainty ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Environmental Risk Management ◽  
Technology Industry

The oil and gas industry is facing more and more challenges in the latest decades. Indeed, as oil and gas became more difficult to be found, new areas are targeted, as deep water offshore or more hostile environments like Alaska. These involve high technology industry and imply deep uncertainty. Thus, the application of classical approaches of risk management is limited, as shown by major safety and environmental oil disasters like the Deep Water Horizon Accident. This paper analyses the later as a case study, to discuss the complexity of safety and environmental risk management in deep-water drilling. Given this complexity, the paper will also analyse how feedback from previous accidents can improve knowledge, and change the perception and thus the way safety and environmental risks are managed in deep-water drilling. The findings of the paper contribute to development of risk management policy and risk decision making.

scholarly journals Manifestation of emergent properties in risk assessment of oil and gas companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 08001
Author(s):  
Inesa Khvostina ◽  
Nataliia Havadzyn ◽  
Nataliia Yurchenko
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Level Indicator ◽  
Original Algorithm

The article presents a study on risks in oil and gas industry and reveals their causes investigating enterprises activity as a result of emergent properties of systems. The original algorithm of risk assessment process based on emergent properties study is offered. A taxonomy approach and factor analysis are used for purposes of risk evaluation. The risk assessment consists of risks taxonomy, database structure development, identification of risks through impact factors evaluation; economic system emergent properties risks prediction, an integral risk level indicator calculation using taxonomy approach, correlation analysis of integral indicators of risk assessment, preventive measures for minimizing of negative impacts and reducing risks.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT-GORGON LNG PROJECT CASE STUDY

1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 606 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.T. Stoklosa
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Ecological Risk ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Environmental Risk Management

Stoklosa Engineering has been working with the petroleum industry to develop an environmental risk management methodology that can be generally applied to petroleum industry activities. In particular, the methodology is for assessing and managing ecological risk in sensitive marine environments.This paper introduces a management and technical methodology for the risk assessment process that has been applied to planning scenarios for the Gorgon LNG Project. The methodology has evolved from earlier efforts by petroleum operators and government in Western Australia to quantify ecological risk. The principles of Standards Australia risk management publications, State risk management initiatives and international approaches have been preserved in the methodology.The basis for a quantitative analysis of the likelihood of an incident is described, with a qualitative or semiquantitative analysis of the severity of the potential consequences. The technical approach adopts the principles of AS/NZS 4360 for risk management, and characterises risk for decision makers in an unambiguous manner. The methodology leads to a clear understanding of the benefits of risk management, and allows proponents the opportunity to reduce risk to acceptable levels. The risks of development should be interpreted in the context of naturally occurring hazards to environmental systems (e.g. cyclones and coral spawning slicks), human activities (e.g. recreation, fisheries and aquaculture), and the natural variability of ecosystems.The Gorgon LNG Project case study characterises risk in terms of credible incident scenarios and baseline operational activities from project planning scenarios. The inputs to the risk assessment are release scenarios, fate and transport modelling, response mechanisms in sensitive species, and recovery mechanisms following exposure. The methodology can be broadly applied to offshore and onshore development projects and environmental management programs, as it is presented as a repeatable process that can incorporate various types of risk analysis methods.

scholarly journals CONCEPT OF SECURITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY OF UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-57
Author(s):  
Z.M. MATSUK
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Resource Efficiency ◽  
The State ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Maintenance And Repair

Problem statement. Taking into account the world experience, the most effective is risk managementbased on achieving a certain level of safety, a balance of benefits and costs within a separate facility, territory, industryand the state as a whole. Today, risk management mechanisms aimed at reducing their values have not received widepractical application in the oil and gas industry of Ukraine. Thus, a quantitative risk assessment is used only in relationto industry workers during the execution of work, and a qualitative risk assessment in relation to machines,mechanisms, equipment is not used at all, including the likelihood of a positive compensatory impact of measures toУкраїнський журнал будівництва та архітектури, № 4 (004), 2021, ISSN (Print) 2710-0367, ISSN (Online) 2710-0375 46 counter security threats is not predicted, as well as technical condition and safety of facilities, primarily those that areoperated with defects. At the same time, imperfection of regulatory legal acts and inconsistency at the state and industrylevel of risk management methods do not allow the industry to achieve risk levels corresponding to the levels ofeconomically developed countries. The need to introduce conceptual foundations for ensuring the safety of the industry(management of the risk of accidents) is integral to labor protection, industrial, public, man-made, environmental safetyand energy resource efficiency, caused by the presence in the industry of a large number of organizational and manmade hazards. The number and linear length of the industry facilities on the territory of the state, including the difficultconditions for laying main pipelines. A significant number of cross-border crossings of trunk pipelines. The need todiversify the flows of commodity products of the main transport. A significant amount of hazardous substances that arestored, transported, synthesized, and used in the technological processes of the industry. A high level of risk ofemergencies of a technogenic nature due to a significant degree of wear and tear of the main production assets of theindustry. The inconsistency of the number of employees (appropriate qualifications) in the industry with therequirements of labor protection, industrial safety and the scope of work on diagnostics, maintenance and repair offacilities. A relatively low level of material and technical support for diagnostics, maintenance and repair of industryfacilities. Failure to recognize the low level of energy resource efficiency of production (synthesis), transport, storage ofhydrocarbons (hydrogen) as a negative technogenic factor affecting the safety of the industry. Imperfection of theregulatory and legal framework on the determination of the residual resource of the equipment of the industry facilitiesand the extension of the period of its further safe operation, etc. The purpose of the article – increase the level ofnational security of Ukraine by developing and implementing the "Concept of safety and energy resource efficiency ofthe oil and gas industry of Ukraine. Conclusion. The implementation of the provisions of the developed Concept willsignificantly increase the level of national security of Ukraine, as well as the safety and energy resource efficiency ofenterprises in the oil and gas industry of Ukraine.

Risk Management and Regulatory Failure in the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria: Reflections on the Impact of Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Ejoor Agbonifo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Regulatory Failure ◽  
The Impact

Risk management practice and effective policy intervention are critical to achieve stable environment and sustainable development. They are mechanisms for environmental management, environmental sustainability and sustainable community development for the people of the Niger Delta region. Informed by intuitive insights on the large scale of degradation in the Niger Delta, theoretical analysis of extant literature and content analysis of field interview/observation, this paper identified poor environmental risk management and regulatory failure as the bane of environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region. Why has regulatory agencies failed to protect communities against the impacts of environmental degradation and other consequences of oil and gas exploration activities? While there are enough legal and regulatory frameworks, however, weak enforcement and poor implementation of the existing regulations provides fertile ground for environmental degradation to persist. Thus, this article analyses some of the salient environmental issues as well as the regulatory and risk management failures in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. It concludes that failure to carry out effective regulations and oversight in the oil and gas industry have resulted in environmental degradation (oil spills and gas flaring), contamination of water for fishing and farming activities, dispossession of rural farmers from their means of livelihood, poverty, migration and food shortages in the Niger Delta.

Consideration of Geopolitical Challenges within the Analysis of Geoenvironmental Risks for Oil and Gas Development of the Russian Arctic

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
O. P. Trubitsina ◽  
V. N. Bashkin
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Optimal Operation ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Geopolitical Risks

The article is devoted to the consideration of geopolitical challenges for the analysis of geoenvironmental risks (GERs) in the hydrocarbon development of the Arctic territory. Geopolitical risks (GPRs), like GERs, can be transformed into opposite external environment factors of oil and gas industry facilities in the form of additional opportunities or threats, which the authors identify in detail for each type of risk. This is necessary for further development of methodological base of expert methods for GER management in the context of the implementational proposed two-stage model of the GER analysis taking to account GPR for the improvement of effectiveness making decisions to ensure optimal operation of the facility oil and gas industry and minimize the impact on the environment in the geopolitical conditions of the Arctic.The authors declare no conflict of interest

Study the effect of casting temperature on details from thermo-plastic materials

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
J.A. Kerimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Mold Temperature ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Casting Temperature ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Field Equipment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

The implementation of plastic details in various constructions enables to reduce the prime cost and labor intensity of machine and device manufacturing, decrease the weight of design and improve their quality and reliability at the same time. The studies were carried out with the aim of labor productivity increase and substitution of colored and black metals with plastic masses. For this purpose, the details with certain characteristics were selected for further implementation of developed technological process in oil-gas industry. The paper investigates the impact of cylinder and compression mold temperature on the quality parameters (shrinkage and hardness) of plastic details in oil-field equipment. The accessible boundaries of quality indicators of the details operated in the equipment of exploration, drilling and exploitation of oil and gas industry are studied in a wide range of mode parameters. The mathematic dependences between quality parameters (shrinkage and hardness) of the details on casting temperature are specified.

On Approaches to Taking into Account the Risks of Changing Climatic Conditions when Planning and Implementing Oil and Gas Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
P. N. Mikheev
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
The Impact

The article discusses issues related to the impact of climate change on the objects of the oil and gas industry. The main trends in climate change on a global and regional (on the territory of Russian Federation) scale are outlined. Possible approaches to the identification and assessment of climate risks are discussed. The role of climatic risks as physical factors at various stages of development and implementation of oil and gas projects is shown. Based on the example of oil and gas facilities in the Tomsk region, a qualitative assessment of the level of potential risk from a weather and climatic perspective is given. Approaches to creating a risk management and adaptation system to climate change are presented.

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