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13 For many decades, the U.S. federal government has leased portions of the U.S.
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14 Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry of U.S. natural gas production.1At the same time, however, offshore oil and gas operations in the OCS (and elsewhere in the world)
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Introduction 15 STUDY CONTEXT Offshore Work Environment The industry's advance from shallow water into deep water (500 to 1,499 meters) and ultradeep water (1,500 meters or more)
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16 Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Workplaces in the offshore environment vary as different types of structures are employed in oil and gas drilling and production in shallow water, deep water, and ultradeep water. The types of offshore structures include conventional fixed platform, compliant tower, vertically moored tension leg and mini-tension leg platform, spar, semisubmersible, floating production, storage and offloading facility, and subsea completion and tie-back to host facility.
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Introduction 17 Some production platforms have full operations around the clock, while others operate in a "run and maintain" mode, which means they are visited daily or a few times a week for monitoring. Small platforms may have as few as two people aboard, while large platforms and floating production facilities may have between 75 and 150 people aboard depending on the complexity of the equipment and operations.
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18 Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries The nature of the work and the conditions under which work is performed in the OCS result in a substantial number of accidents that are sometimes accompanied by injuries and/or deaths. According to the BSEE annual report of 2014, a total of 43 deaths occurred in the OCS (Gulf of Mexico and Pacific OCS combined)
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Introduction 19 ing environments, system complexity, and non-fault-tolerant systems) , and 32 percent were caused by problems in work direction (related to planning, site preparation, selection of workers, and supervision for a specific job or task)
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20 Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry (continued) TABLE 1-1 Four Major Offshore Accidents and Their Impacts Accident (date, name, and location)
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Introduction 21 Sea; 69 workers were evacuated from the rig.3 The formal inquiry conducted by the Australian government found that the immediate cause of the Montara blowout was failure of the cementing job done by Halliburton. The inquiry also found, however, that the company's systems and processes were deficient, many of the workers were not capable of performing their jobs, and the regulatory regime was inadequate.
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22 Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry call into question the safety culture of the offshore oil and gas industry (National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling 2011)
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Introduction 23 try's safety culture is needed to reduce the risk of offshore accidents. Yet while the importance of establishing a safe working environment is widely acknowledged, strengthening offshore safety culture and reducing incidents across the industry needs to be a continuous improvement effort.
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24 Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry REFERENCES Abbreviations BOEMRE Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement BSEE Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement GAO U.S. Government Accountability Office NAE National Academy of Engineering NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NRC National Research Council USCG U.S.
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Introduction 25 28-1969-an-ecological-disaster-and-an-impetus-for-a-new-ethos. Accessed Aug.
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