A safety barrier-based accident model for offshore drilling blowouts

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 164-171

  Xue, Luning ^a   Fan, Jianchun ^a   Rausand, Marvin ^b   Zhang, Laibin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accident model; Active failures; Blowout; Offshore drilling; Safety barrier

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT MODELS; EVENT TREE ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL MODEL; LITERATURE REVIEWS; OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY; SAFETY BARRIER SYSTEMS; SAFETY BARRIERS; STATISTICAL DATAS; THREE-LEVEL; WELL CONTROL; WELL MONITORING;

DRILLING PLATFORMS; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

BLOWOUTS;

EID: 84872497769     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2012.10.008     Document Type: Article

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