Piper Alpha: Lessons Learnt‚ 2008 Piper Alpha was a large North Sea oil platform that started production in 1976. It produced oil from 24 wells and in its early life it had also produced gas from two wells. It was connected by an oil pipeline to Flotta and by gas pipelines to two other installations. In 1988‚ Piper Alpha was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd ("OpCal")‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. On 6 July 1988‚ there was a massive leakage of gas
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Abstract Piper Alpha was operated by Occidental Petroleum. The platform began its production in 1976‚ first as an oil production and then later converted to oil and gas production. In the night of July 6th 1988‚ the platform was engulfed in a catastrophic fire‚ which caused the death of 167 men and cost billions of dollars in property damage. There are only 61 survivors who saved their lives by jump off the platform in to the sea. At the time of the disaster‚ the Piper Alpha disaster was the worst
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practised in the platform. Introduction This is a case study about the Piper Alpha disaster‚ on the management operations and structures‚ the objective of the management‚ the industrial process of the platform‚ the causes of the accident together with the consequences of the accident and case study on the improvement and the prevention of such disaster again. Piper alpha was a sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. [1] The platform began production
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after the Macondo well blowout and explosion that killed 11 workers. The Deepwater Horizon accident‚ also known as the BP Oil Spill‚ was a project failure of immense proportions. It went from an oil exploration “project” to a massive program with portfolios of projects related to dealing with the families of those killed on the oil rig‚ stopping the oil leak‚ capturing the oil (from the well and from the ocean)‚ cleaning the environment (seashores‚ wetlands‚ Gulf of Mexico)‚ saving and cleaning wildlife
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The accident‚ which occurred on board of the seaward platform Piper Alpha in July 1988‚ took lives of 167 people and cost billions of dollars damage of property. The Piper Alpha is placed in the North Sea‚ around 193 km northeast of Aberdeen. The field was discovered in January 1973 and the same year construction of platform took place. The depth of it was up to 140 m‚ and at the time the development and installation of the Piper Alpha platform give tongue to a major step in both the development of
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The Brent Spar was an oil storage buoy located on the Brent oilfield in the North Atlantic Ocean‚ which was operated by Shell UK. It was used to store oil that was extracted from the under sea oilfield until an oil tanker transported the oil to land. The Brent Spar became obsolete around 1991 because of the building of an underwater oil pipeline that took the extracted oil directly to land. Shell UK then did a scientific‚ economic‚ and environmental study pertaining to the eventual disposal of
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July 2013 The maturity of onshore oil reserves shifts the focus of operator companies towards deep water offshore areas. The increasing demand for energy together with increasing investment in deep and ultra deep offshore exploration activities will drive the global offshore drilling market to $121.1 billion by 2018‚ growing at a CAGR of 10.6% from 2013 to 2018. The factors driving the growth in the offshore drilling services market are the sustaining high oil prices‚ technological advancements
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VSL Heavy Lifting Other VSL Systems Services offered by VSL 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 3. Examples from Practice 7 3.1. Introduction 7 3.2. 3.2.1. 3.2.2. 3.2.3. 3.2.4. 3.2.5. Temporarily floating structures ’Condeep ’ offshore oil production platforms Offshore oil production platform for the Dunlin Field Field Control Station‚ North-East Frigg Field Concrete Island Drilling System (CIDS) Immersed shore approach concrete tunnel‚ Karmey‚ Norway 3.2.6. Swedish lighthouses in the Baltic Sea 3.2.7. Caissons
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Syed Azman Ibrahim’s privately held Weststar Aviation is Southeast Asia’s largest helicopter service for offshore oil rigs. Private equity firm KKR invested $200 million last October. Company also imports commercial vehicles and luxury cars‚ and customizes vehicles for the police and armed forces. FED up with traversing the country’s roads to grow his luxury car business‚ Tan Sri Syed Azman Syed Ibrahim acted on a bit of advice that made him one of the richest people in Malaysia. He was told to buy
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