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Top Drive Systems Dropped Objects Prevention White Paper
Top Drive Systems Dropped Objects Prevention White Paper
E. DROPS Standard
The workshop confirmed what was earlier highlighted in many
global inspections by Lloyds Register Energy Drilling, that
there is a lack of recognised industry standards pertaining to
DROPS. This lack of standards has resulted in regional
differences in the approach of Dropped Object prevention and
also differences between operators and owners vision on what
sound practice is. Secondary retention methodologies are
often not supported by sound engineering standards, but
merely based on experience. This is sometimes driven by
vendors supplying to the industry, presenting their items as
DROPS Proof or with the notion secondary retention built
into the design. The engineering methodology supporting
the built in secondary retention is often not clear or impossible
to retrieve.
Risk assessments are often still not properly carried out when
applying Dropped Object potential mitigation actions, such
as when installing secondary securing. As a result, it is
possible that more Dropped Object potential hazards are
actually introduced, by not correctly incorporating this
securing in the initial design, not correctly installing the
secondary securing or applying unsuitable additional
secondary securing measures.
An industry wide accepted standard is to be created for
mitigation of Dropped Object potential.
Conclusion
The approach to step back from the bolts and nuts and use
the combined knowledge of the industry (owners, operators
and manufacturers alike) has resulted in several new ideas and
visions that are presented in this paper.
Lloyds Register is committed to keep working together with
the industry to further investigate and explore these new ideas
in order to work towards the ultimate goal of DROPS incident
free operations in the drilling industry.
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