Thesis
Dynamic safety analysis of decommissioning and abandonment of offshore oil and gas installations
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- Awarding institution
- University of Strathclyde
- Date of award
- 2022
- Thesis identifier
- T16188
- Person Identifier (Local)
- 201792950
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- Department, School or Faculty
- Abstract
- The global oil and gas industry have seen an increase in the number of installations moving towards decommissioning. Offshore decommissioning is a complex, challenging and costly activity, making safety one of the major concerns. The decommissioning operation is, therefore, riskier than capital projects, partly due to the uniqueness of every offshore installation, and mainly because these installations were not designed for removal during their development phases. The extent of associated risks is deep and wide due to limited data and incomplete knowledge of the equipment conditions. For this reason, it is important to capture every uncertainty that can be introduced at the operational level, or existing hazards due to the hostile environment, technical difficulties, and the timing of the decommissioning operations. Conventional accident modelling techniques cannot capture the complex interactions among contributing elements. To assess the safety risks, a dynamic safety analysis of the accident is, thus, necessary. In this thesis, a dynamic integrated safety analysis model is proposed and developed to capture both planned and evolving risks during the various stages of decommissioning. First, the failure data are obtained from source-to-source and are processed utilizing Hierarchical BayesianAnalysis. Then, the system failure and potential accident scenarios are built on bowtie model which is mapped into a Bayesian network with advanced relaxation techniques. The Dynamic Integrated Safety Analysis (DISA) allows for the combination of reliability tools to identify safetycritical causals and their evolution into single undesirable failure through the utilisation of source to-source variability, time-dependent prediction, diagnostic, and economic risk assessment to support effective recommendations and decisions-making. The DISA framework is applied to the Elgin platform well abandonment and Brent Alpha jacket structure decommissioning and the results are validated through sensitivity analysis. Through a dynamic-diagnostic and multi-factor regression analysis, the loss values of accident contributory factors are also presented. The study shows that integrating Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis (HBA) and dynamic Bayesian networks (DBN) application to modelling time-variant risks are essential to achieve a well-informed decommissioning decision through the identification of safety critical barriers that could be mitigated against to drive down the cost of remediation.
- Advisor / supervisor
- Kurt, Rafet Emek
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- Date Created
- 2021
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