Risktec Assessed Oil and Gas QRA Training Programme (e-learning/open)

Physical Effects Modelling

Purpose

To enable an understanding of the range of hazardous physical effects that can occur, an overview of human and equipment vulnerability to physical effects, and the uses and limitations of physical effect modelling. This includes an introduction to physical effects modelling and the opportunity for some hands-on practice of physical effects calculations.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

1. Analyse an industrial plant/installation to determine expected physical effects in the event of an incident

2. Evaluate, by applying physical effects modelling techniques, how these physical effects affect people and plant

3. Justify which of the available modelling techniques/software is appropriate to analyse physical effects in different circumstances, whilst understanding the limitations of these techniques

Outline content

· What are physical effects and why model them?

· Source term release and discharge calculation

· Dispersion analysis

· Fire modelling

· Explosion modelling

· Subsea releases/dispersion

· Human and plant vulnerability to physical effects

· Commercial and public domain software tools

Oil and Gas and Process Industry Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)

Purpose

The purpose of this module is to enable students to understand and apply QRA techniques with particular relevance to the oil and gas and process industries. Students will be given an opportunity to conduct QRA for example oil and gas and process facilities. The module also covers risk criteria, application of the ALARP principle, sensitivity analysis and cost benefit analysis.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

1. Design QRA models incorporating appropriate input data and assumptions

2. Use QRA to analyse the risk to personnel

3. Compare QRA results with criteria and use to devise and evaluate potential risk reduction measures

Outline content

· Introduction to QRA

· Identify release scenarios

· Frequency assessment

· Event trees

· Consequence modelling (including immediate and time-dependent effects)

· Risk analysis

· Non-process hazards

· Risk criteria

· Sensitivity studies

· QRA software

Oil and Gas and Process Industry Risk Studies

Purpose

The course provides an introduction to and understanding of the various types of specialist risk study which may be carried out for an oil and gas or process industry facility or operation. It includes QRA (which is covered in more detail in a separate course), Escape, Evacuation and Rescue Analysis (EERA), TR Impairment Assessment (TRIA), Emergency Systems Survivability Analysis (ESSA), dropped object analysis, etc.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

1. Critically review the use of specialist risk studies in the oil, gas and process industries

2. Apply specialist risk studies to simple oil, gas and process industry operations to analyse the risks to personnel

3. Compare study results with criteria and use to devise and evaluate potential risk reduction measures

Outline content

· Introduction to risk studies

· Fire and Explosion Risk Assessment (FERA)

· Smoke and gas dispersion

· Escape, Evacuation and Rescue Analysis (EERA)

· TR Impairment Assessment (TRIA)

· Occupied Building Risk Assessment (OBRA)

· Dropped object analysis

· Emergency Systems Survivability Analysis (ESSA)

· Ship collision analysis

· Transportation risk study