Developing safety indicators for preventing offshore oil and gas deepwater drilling blowouts

Safety Science

Volumn 49, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 1187-1199

  Skogdalen, Jon Espen ^a   Utne, Ingrid B ^b   Vinnem, Jan Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deepwater drilling; Macondo blowout; Risk management; Safety indicators

Indexed keywords

DRILLING INDUSTRY; MACONDO BLOWOUT; MAJOR HAZARDS; OFFSHORE OIL; OIL AND GAS; OPERATIONAL ASPECTS; RISK LEVELS; SAFETY CLIMATE; SAFETY INDICATOR; SAFETY INDICATORS; SAFETY PROBLEMS; SAFETY-CRITICAL; WELL PLANNING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BLOWOUTS; INDUSTRY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNDERWATER DRILLING; WELL DRILLING;

DEEPWATER DRILLING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH HAZARD; INFORMATION; MONITORING; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY;

EID: 79958180631     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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