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CMPT publishes new guide to offshore risk

assessment
The Centre for Marine and Petroleum Technology (CMPT) has recently published a
major new guide to offshore risk assessment. CMPT hopes that the 'Guide to
quantitative risk assessment for offshore installations' will make an important
contribution to rationalising risk assessme...

The Centre for Marine and Petroleum Technology (CMPT) has recently published a
major new guide to offshore risk assessment. CMPT hopes that the 'Guide to
quantitative risk assessment for offshore installations' will make an important
contribution to rationalising risk assessments.
Its scope ranges from relatively simple techniques based on manual calculations to
specialised software, and it can be used as a reference work or training manual as
well as an aid to commissioning, carrying out, or evaluating quantitative risk
assessment (QRA) procedures.
The guide provides frequency and consequence data on most of the major hazards
that could occur offshore, including:
- Hydrocarbon releases and fires from blow-outs, riser and pipeline leaks, and
process equipment;
- Collisions with all kinds of vessels from passing fishing boats to floating platforms
and tankers;
- Structural failure of fixed or floating platforms and tankers;
- Accidents during construction, crane operation, offshore loading and storage;
- Non-process fires, caused by electrical equipment or diesel, for example;
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- Accidents during transport by helicopter and crew boat;
- Personal accidents to offshore workers.
Most of the data comes from the public domain and relates to the North Sea, where
QRA is used most often.
Quantitative risk assessment begins with identifying systems to be included and the
hazards associated with operating them. The analysis then estimates the chances of
such accidents actually happening and the potential consequences. The frequency
and consequence information is combined in a technical risk analysis, and different
criteria are introduced to attain a risk assessment to judge the acceptability of
various risks.
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