Risk Assessment and Management for Ships and Offshore Structures

Offshore engineers lack practical oil and gas examples to understand today’s risk management tasks, and often their background on subsea and offshore systems is not fully developed in training to apply the engineering principles for risk assessment and asset management prior to getting on the rig. Risk and Integrity Management for Ships and Offshore Structures delivers the confidence to engineers in the industry to analyze results and apply their engineering principles to a vast range of oil and gas structures. Bridging between theoretical depth and practical application, this reference gives specific applications for the risk assessment and integrity management for different ships and offshore structures utilized for the oil and gas industry covering aspects of offshore production and drilling systems from the sea floor to the surface. Divided into useful part elements, starting with risk management background, the reference moves into risk assessment for specific installations such as BOPs, marine production systems, subsea systems, deepwater production risers, and pipelines. Oil spill risk assessment is covered as well as risk management for fires and explosions, such as design against explosion accidents. Rounding out with risk management for collision and grounding and asset integrity management, this reference covers risk-based inspection, asset integrity management, and safety integrity levels. Risk and Integrity Management for Ships and Offshore Structures provides offshore petroleum engineers with both the theoretical principles and practical application skills needed to face today’s offshore challenges and structures. Delivers wide coverage on risk assessment and asset management for today’s oil and gas offshore structures Provides engineers with real statistical data collections and analysis from historical data to calculate failure frequency, a key task in risk management Constructed to bridge from theoretical principles to practical applications including upcoming challenges and technological advances