Fire and explosion assessment on oil and gas floating production storage offloading (FPSO): An effective screening and comparison tool

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 147-160

  Suardin, Jaffee A ^a   Jeff McPhate Jr , A ^b   Sipkema, Anthony ^b   Childs, Matt ^c   Mannan, M Sam ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c Riskbytes Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowtie analysis; Consequence analysis; Control and recovery measures; Expert system; Fire and explosion assessment; FPSO; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

BOWTIE ANALYSIS; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENTS; CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CONTOUR MAPPINGS; CRUDE OIL; DATA INPUTS; DESIGN OPTIONS; DESIGN QUALITIES; DESIGN STAGES; ENGINEERING PRACTICES; FAILURE RATE DATUM; FIRE AND EXPLOSION ASSESSMENT; FIRE PUMPS; FLOATING PRODUCTION STORAGE OFFLOADING; FPSO; MODELING SOFTWARES; OIL AND GAS; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; POOL FIRES; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; PROCESS CONDITIONS; PROCESS DATUM; QUANTITATIVE RISK ANALYSIS; SAFETY ENGINEERS; UNIQUE FEATURES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); CRUDE PETROLEUM; DISASTERS; ENGINEERS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; EXPLOSIONS; EXPLOSIVES; FIRE PROTECTION; FIRES; GAS HAZARDS; GAS INDUSTRY; METHANOL; MODELS; OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; PROCESS CONTROL; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY FACTOR; STANDARDS; TOOLS; USER INTERFACES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 65949088148     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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