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WELCOME TO THE 2016 QATAR PROCESS SAFETY SYMPOSIUM
Delegates It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Qatar Process Safety Symposium on behalf of Texas A&M University at Qatar. This is the seventh Safety Symposium we have hosted and the fifth with our longtime colleagues, ConocoPhillips. ConocoPhillips is a steadfast collaborator with the branch campus here in Doha, as well as with our main campus in College Station, Texas. We could not ask for a better partner, not only in the development of process safety here in Qatar, but in the development of the State of Qatar and its industries. The Qatar Process Safety Symposium grows each year, and we believe it has become an influential gathering of experts and practitioners because it addresses and directly affects real-world challenges and has a positive impact on a vibrant and evolving field. This year’s theme, Building Competency in Process Safety, could not be more timely, as process safety champions a constant watch on the critical importance of risk management, safety culture and leadership commitment to a safe working environment. As Qatar has grown, so have it industries and so has its responsibility. A culture
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Delegates of safety is a fundamental tool that has significant impact on operations and is essential at all levels of an institution. With the launch of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar extension in 2013, we have worked to educate a new generation of engineers and practitioners with a commitment to safety. This center now includes 10 companies and they add diverse, experienced and invaluable contributions to the voice of process safety in Qatar. Thank you to our Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar partners. Your commitment is essential to making safety a second nature. I also wish to thank ConocoPhillips for its unwavering support in helping Texas A&M at Qatar develop sustainable and pragmatic models and solutions surrounding this exceedingly important subject — not just locally and regionally, but in the global industry, as well. And to those who have traveled near and far to join us, thank you for sharing your expertise and experience. Best wishes, Dr. Ann L. Kenimer Interim Dean, Texas A&M University at Qatar
We are proud to co-host the seventh Qatar Process Safety Symposium with our valued partner, Texas A&M University at Qatar. We at ConocoPhillips always strive to leverage our global expertise and standard of excellence in everything we do to support the Qatar National Vision 2030. Part of this responsibility is toward supporting symposiums like this, which provide a forum to share best practices, debate collective approaches and engage in a learning experience focused on continuous improvement. Process safety is a vital part of our business. Process safety helps ensure that every person working in any kind of potentially hazardous environment has all the tools, resources, information, training and safety culture to make sure they get home safe to their families every single day. Safety is our core company culture and we are passionate and committed to ensuring that it remains a guiding principles across all
levels and areas of our business. Events such as this provide a crucial platform for our industry to share lessons learned in conjunction with best practices and in doing so ensure that maximize our opportunity for shared learning. We are happy that our commitment to safety is echoed across our industry with our valued partners and stakeholders across Qatar, and this has meant that the Qatar Process Safety Symposium has grown significantly in both stature and depth since its inaugural edition. I would like to wish all those attending this year’s symposium a fruitful discussion and we look forward to welcoming delegates to this highly important event for years to come. Stay safe. Gary Sykes President, ConocoPhillips Qatar
AGENDA Monday, 18 April 2016 Registration and refreshments
8 – 8:30 a.m.
Registration and refreshments
8:30 – 8:35 a.m.
Introduction
8:35 – 8:40 a.m.
Welcome and opening of the symposium Dr. Ann Kenimer, Interim Dean & CEO, Texas A&M University at Qatar
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Introduction and presentation of the Qatargas safety video Khalifa Ahmed Al-Sulaiti, Qatargas
8:40 – 8:45 a.m.
Welcome and opening of the symposium Gary R. Sykes, President, ConocoPhillips Qatar
8:45 – 9:30 a.m.
Plenary keynote speaker “Safety management: A multifaceted diamond” Dr. Simon Waldram, Waldram Consultant Ltd.
8:45 – 9 a.m.
Keynote address Ahmad Al-Mohannadi, Chief Operating Officer, Qatargas
9:30 – 10 a.m.
9 – 9:45 a.m.
Plenary Keynote Speaker “Managing process safety competency” Michael Hatfield, Vice President, Health, Safety & Environment, ConocoPhillips
Plenary keynote speaker “Building competency in process safety” Trish Kerin, IChemE Safety Center
10 – 10:45 a.m.
Panel discussion “Building competency in process safety”
10:45 – 11 a.m.
Coffee break
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
Plenary keynote speaker “Process safety concepts for the prevention of major accidents” Dr. Paul Amyotte, Dalhousie University, Editor of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
QPSS Awards Ceremony
10:45 – 11 a.m.
Coffee break / Poster session
Track III: Process safety management
Track IV: Risk assessment
11 – 11:30 a.m.
Process safety: From theory to practice
Toward a framework for developing a real-time risk assessment and decisionmaking tool Rym Kanes and Hazem Abdel Moati, ExxonMobil Research Qatar Dr. Clementina Ramirez Marengo and Dr. Luc Véchot, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
11:30 a.m.– noon
Integration of process safety in projects Melissa Velasquez, Qatar Shell
Toward safer process designs — a perspective on safety metrics Dr. Fadwa T. Eljack , Qatar University
Noon – 12:30 p.m.
Efficient and effective management of pressure relief and flare systems data Dr. Abdulrehman Aldeeb, Siemens LLC
FLACS-risk to support cost-effective and safe design of assets Dr. Pascal Le Gal, Gexcon Middle East
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch and networking
1:30 – 1:45 p.m.
News from the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Dr. Luc Vechot Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center - Qatar
1:45 – 2:15 p.m.
Developing competency to push the boundary of science and technology for the benefits of process safety Dr. Nicholas C. Markatos Texas A&M University at Qatar
Track I: Process safety management I
Track II: Hazardous phenomena and consequence analysis
Process safety information: The cornerstone of PSM Hervé Vaudrey, Dekra Insight
Tackling pulsation problems at their source: A case study Dr. Anton Leemhuis, TNO
11:30 a.m. – noon
Human factors in process safety management M. A. Qureshi and M. Z. Kazmi, QAFAC
Optimal selection of materials of construction for gas processing facilities: Lessons learned from a design case study Paul Frey, Process Systems Enterprise
Noon – 12:30 p.m.
Bridging the safety gap: The key role of a sound process safety culture in minimizing audit findings Dr. Gemma Dunjó, IoMosaic Corporation
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch and networking / poster session
1:30 – 2:15 p.m.
Is zero a real number? Jack Cranefield, Rasgas
2:15 – 2:45 p.m.
Overview of major process incidents in the world since the 2015 QPSS Nepu Saha and Nisa Ulumuddin Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center - Qatar
2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Explosion in the port of Tianjin on 12 August 2015: Analysis and lessons learned Dr. Sam Mannan Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
2:45 – 3 p.m.
Wrap up — end of the first day
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
And the winner is …
11 – 11:30 a.m.
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Tuesday, 19 April 2016
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
Study of toxic gas ingress in non-process areas Atif Ashraf and Dr. Christos Argyropoulos Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
SPEAKERS
PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKER AHMAD HELAL AL-MOHANNADI COO-Operations | Qatargas Ahmad Helal Al-Mohannadi has been the acting COO of operations for Qatargas since December 2014. He previously was deputy COO of operations for Qatargas from September to December 2014. Al-Mohannadi has more than 14 years of experience with RasGas Company Limited in operations, engineering and business support services fulfilling the following roles: • • • • • •
August 2011 to 2014 — Operation Technical Engineering Manager August 2009 to 2011 — Operation Business Manager November 2007 to August 2009 — Process Surveillance Engineering Manager March 2006 to November 2007 — Head of Operations Train 1/2/He April 2004 to March 2006 — Field/Start-up Engineer for AGR/SRU/AGI Train 3/4 May 2000 to April 2004 — Process Engineer
Al-Mohannadi earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Qatar University in 1999.
PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKER MICHAEL D. HATFIELD Vice President, Health, Safety and Environment ConocoPhillips Michael D. Hatfield is vice president of health, safety and environment for ConocoPhillips. He joined the company in 1989 as an engineer in Oklahoma City. He has progressed through various technical, operations and management roles in the U.S., Norway, Indonesia and Australia. In 2003, he was assigned as manager of offshore operations in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2007 he was transferred to Darwin, Australia, as the Darwin-area manager. Hatfield was named manager of strategy and portfolio management in Houston, Texas, USA, in 2010 and assumed additional responsibilities in 2011 as upstream transition team lead for the ConocoPhillips–Phillips 66 spin transition. In 2013, he was named vice president of the Rockies business unit. In March 2015 he was named vice president for the ConocoPhillips Optimization for Sustainable Transformation (COST) Project Team. He assumed his current role in late 2015. Hatfield earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “MANAGING PROCESS SAFETY COMPETENCY” ABSTRACT: A competent workforce is fundamental to creating a safe working environment. The complexity of engineering and operations in the oil and gas industry requires that people have the knowledge, skill and behaviors to understand the risks and safely perform their jobs. Competency should be viewed as a larger demonstration that risks are understood and controlled, and the barriers that we have in place are maintained. Building competency in the organization invests in people — the most valuable asset. This presentation will explore why process safety competency is important, why it is critical in the current economic environment, and what ConocoPhillips is doing to drive process safety awareness and to build global competency.
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PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKER DR. PAUL AMYOTTE Professor of Chemical Engineering and C.D. Howe Chair in Process Safety | Dalhousie University, Canada
PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKER KHALIFA AHMED AL-SULAITI Safety & Risk Manager, Qatargas
Dr. Paul Amyotte has an extensive record of authorship in the field of process safety, with three books, three book chapters and more than 300 papers published in peer-reviewed journals or presented at national and international conferences. His practice in the areas of dust explosion risk reduction and inherently safer design has included the provision of expert reviews and testimony on behalf of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the U.S. Chemical Safety Board. He is a recipient of the Cybulski Medal from the Polish Academy of Sciences for significant and sustained contributions to the field of dust explosion research, and the Trevor Kletz Merit Award from the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University for significant contributions to the advancement of process safety concepts and technologies. Amyotte is a past-president of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and the current editor of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries.
Khalifa Al-Sulaiti is the safety and risk manager at Qatargas Operating Company Limited. In his current role, he is responsible for process and behavioral safety across all Qatargas’ assets. Qatargas operates the world’s largest LNG-producing facility, Laffan Refinery and RasLaffan Terminal Operations. He has more than 15 years of environmental and safety management experience, particularly in environmental management, LNG operations and facility expansion projects.
“PROCESS SAFETY CONCEPTS FOR THE PREVENTION OF MAJOR ACCIDENTS”
“INTRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF THE QATARGAS SAFETY VIDEO”
ABSTRACT: Major accidents can be defined as adverse events that involve significant releases, fires, explosions or loss of structural integrity, leading to multiple fatalities and/or serious damage to the environment or property. The continued occurrence of major accidents in the process industries should be a matter of concern for all associated with the production, handling, storage and transportation of hazardous materials. The scope of the presentation is the application of core process safety concepts to help prevent these disasters that grab newspaper headlines, kill with no regard for age or occupation, and threaten the existence and growth of the process industries. Seven such concepts are described from both fundamental and practical perspectives: (1) the creation of paradigm-enhancing organizations (e.g., the Center for Chemical Process Safety), (2) process safety culture, (3) consideration of the broader social and cultural aspects of major accidents, (4) awareness of the total cost of major accidents, (5) process safety competency, (6) dynamic operational risk management, and (7) inherently safer design. These basic tenets of process safety have been identified as being central to the prevention of major accidents by the presenter and his colleagues in their recent personal reflections on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
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Mr. Al-Sulaiti was an integral part of Qatar’s COP18/CMP8 Presidency Technical Team for Climate Change and represented the State of Qatar at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat based in Bonn, Germany. He holds an MBA from Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Egypt, and a Bachelor of Science from Qatar University.
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DR. SIMON WALDRAM Director, Waldram Consultants Ltd., London. Visiting Research Fellow, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
TRISH KERIN CEng FIChemE Professional Process Safety Engineer Director, IChemE Safety Centre
Simon Waldram joined ICI Agricultural Division as a student apprentice in 1964 and trained as a chemical engineer at Loughborough University, where he obtained a first-class honor’s degree. He then earned a master’s degree at the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. at University College London. He was a faculty member in the chemical engineering department at University College London for 21 years before being appointed technical director and then also director for business development at the Hazard Evaluation Laboratory, where he remained for 15 years. He then moved to Texas A&M University at Qatar in Education City, where he was professor of chemical engineering. He retired in 2010 and is now a part-time consultant and a visiting research fellow at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Trish Kerin is a chartered engineer, a registered professional process safety engineer and fellow of IChemE. She holds a diploma of OHS and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and a fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust).
“SAFETY MANAGEMENT: A MULTIFACETED DIAMOND”
She currently sits on the board of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA), and is a member of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Centersteering committee.
ABSTRACT: A diamond with only one facet is of little value. Each facet is crucial and needs to interact with all the others so that light is reflected and refracted to give the diamond its characteristic brilliance, sparkle and color. Thus the value of the integrated whole becomes greater than the mere sum of its parts. So it is with safety management systems. There are many different facets which make up the whole but if they are present individually, and alone, then they are of very limited value. So, as with the diamond, the ideal is that all facets of safety management systems must be present and that they will interact in harmony and complement each other. This presentation will concentrate on a number of specific facets of safety management, starting with a proposal that the traditional concepts for promoting inherent safety may now need to be enhanced with two additional system properties, namely resilience and the ability to recognize and act on weak signals. Through a number of collective examples, we will touch briefly on our current poor performance, or even inability, to “learn lessons” and we will also consider distinctive aspects of the safety culture of successful organizations. We will introduce the four-quadrant model and will demonstrate how misalignment between the quadrants can often aid understanding of why a company culture is not as good as we desire. This then leads into the field of human factors (HFs): We will list some areas where we are making acceptable progress but also share views on topics where we still struggle to improve.
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After graduating with honors in mechanical engineering, Kerin spent several years working in project management, operational and safety roles for the oil, gas and chemical industries. Her passion for process safety saw her take on advisory committee roles with the Plastics and Chemical Industries Association (PACIA), WorkSafeVictoria Major Hazards Advisory Committee and represented the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) to Safe Work Australia.
Recent awards include the Engineers Australia – John A Brodie Medal – for best paper at the Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress 2015 (incorporating Chemeca). The award recognises Trish’s peer reviewed paper on Process Safety Competency. “BUILDING COMPETENCY IN PROCESS SAFETY” ABSTRACT: Building competency in process safety is a major challenge in today’s world. Organisations are under cost pressure which is resulting in reduced resources. This in turn can impact on process safety competency. In 2015, the IChemEsafety centre published a guidance document on Process Safety Competency. This document defined process safety competency requirements across an entire organisation, from operator to director. This presentation will discuss the different levels of competency and why the focus was across the entire organisation rather than the traditional engineering areas only. The presentation will also cover different ways to achieve competence in process safety, as well as a new technique for learning from case studies.
DR. ABDULREHMAN ALDEEB Chief Engineer, Process Safety Consulting Siemens LLC Dr. Abdulrehman Aldeeb is chief engineer and process safety consulting manager at Siemens Energy Inc. in Houston, Texas. Currently he is managing the Siemens process safety consulting business in the Middle East. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering, an M.S. in environmental engineering and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Aldeeb has 15 years of extensive experience in process safety management with focus on PSM program implementation, safety relief and disposal systems design and analysis, hazard identification and management, dispersion and consequence modeling, and runaway reactions analysis. Aldeeb has published more than 25 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. He represents Siemens on several technical committees, including the API Subcommittee on Pressure-relieving Systems, CCPS Technical Steering Committee, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Steering Committee, and AIChE DIERS technical committee. He is a member of the AIChE, IChemE and ACS. “EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF PRESSURE RELIEF AND FLARE SYSTEMS DATA” ABSTRACT: It is critical for industry process operators to ensure that all processes are adequately protected against potential overpressure contingencies. The design basis of pressure relief system components such as pressure-relief devices, piping network, knockout drums, flare seals and flare tip should be available to reflect the adequacy of such critical systems under current process operating conditions. In recent years, refining and petrochemical facilities have experienced tremendous growth in response to increasing demand for fuels and chemical precursors. At the same time higher expectations were established to be incompliance with corporate, local and state regulations. Under these circumstances it has become more challenging to maintain up-to-date pressure relief systems data during fast-paced engineering design and debottlenecking projects. The challenge stems from the time, resources competency and cost requirements to sustain the integrity and availability of such critical process safety information. In this presentation, best practices to manage pressure relief and flare systems design data will be discussed. The presentation demonstrates the importance of integrating process, people and technology to achieve efficient and effective management system to improve overall process safety performance.
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NOEL BRENNAN Chartered fellow and Chair Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, Qatar Noel Brennan is a health, safety, environment and quality director/manager with more than 30 years of industry experience. He is currently employed with CH2MHill on the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Brennan is a chartered fellow of IOSH, having joined them in 1992 as an affiliate. He is currently the chair of the Qatar Branch of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), a branch with more than 100 active members. His career started in building and construction management, moving into HSEQ in 1992. His HSEQ experience was rooted in the practical application of He health, safety, environment and quality in practice, gained in multiple sectors from infrastructure to events, media to operations. He worked on several iconic projects, including the Millennium Dome in London, the London Underground – Jubilee Line Extension, the Network Rail – Waterloo International Rail Terminal, the Heathrow and Dublin Airports, and the Cardiff Millennium Stadium, as well as global sporting events such as the Olympics and the World Cup in Qatar. His process industry clients have included Shell & BP, as well as gas production and distribution with the gas authority Bord Gais in Ireland. His pharmaceutical clients have included Astra Zenica and Glaxosmithkline. “PROCESS SAFETY: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE” ABSTRACT: “Process safety is a blend of engineering and management skills focused on preventing catastrophic accidents and near misses, particularly structural collapse, explosions, fires and toxic releases associated with loss of containment of energy or dangerous substances such as chemical and petroleum products.” (Adapted from Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers). This presentation will allow us to establish the importance of properly implemented, proactive process safety systems, using real-world examples to highlight how major disasters could be prevented; discuss a variety of methods to identity hazards, including failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA), and hazard and operability process (HAZOP); examine some of the controls needed to prevent hazards from becoming major incidents; and finally, explore the wider links between safety culture deficits and disasters, and the importance of promoting competence and continual professional development amongst all OSH professionals.
DR. CHRISTOS ARGYROPOULOS Postdoctoral Research Associate Mary Kay O’ Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Chemical Engineering Program Texas A&M University at Qatar Christos Argyropoulosis currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University and Mary Kay O’ Connor Process Safety Center at Qatar. He earned a 5-year Diploma (Dipl. Eng.) in chemical engineering from National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A) in 2006. He also received two master’s degrees (MSc.) in “computational mechanics and “mathematical modeling in modern technologies and finance from the same university in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He earned his D.I.C. and Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London in 2015. Argyropoulos’ research interests, in general, deal with the development of numerical methods and models for the investigation of complex phenomena in the field of fluid mechanics, indoor air quality, risk assessment, and pollutants dispersion. He is a member and chartered engineer of Technical Chamber of Greece, starting in 2008. He has also published a number of original scientific papers in international journals and conferences. Atif Mohammed Ashraf is currently a Master of Science student at Texas A&M at Qatar. His areas of research interest and study include process safety, chemical reaction hazards, carbon sequestration and risk assessment. He graduated from UniversitiTeknologiPetronas, Malaysia, in January 2012 with a bachelor’s degree (honors) in chemical engineering. He also holds a minor in environmental engineering from the same university. After graduation he worked as a research assistant for a brief period with Petronas in the area of cryogenic separation of CO2from natural gas. He is co-author of a paper, “Study of simultaneous mass transfer and nucleation in cryogenic packed bed for the removal of CO2 from natural gas,” published in the Applied Mechanics and Materials journal (http://www.scientific.net/ AMM.625.229). Ashraf has been a member of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Qatar since enrolling in Texas A&M at Qatar. His main area of research is the modeling of toxic gas ingress. He utilizes computational fluid dynamics and multizone modeling software to predict the infiltration of toxic gas, hydrogen sulfide in particular, from the outdoor environment to the indoor environment. This project is in collaboration with Qatar’s leading gas companies. He is also attached to the chemical reaction hazards research group of the center where he was responsible for the experimental study of runaway reaction of peroxides.
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ATIF MOHAMMED ASHRAF Graduate Student – Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Texas A&M University at Qatar “STUDY OF TOXIC GAS INGRESS IN NON-PROCESS AREAS” ABSTRACT: Although the majority of incidents involving toxic gas release in process industries occur outdoors, nearby buildings and indoor environments are also at high risk. Particularly, non-process areas such as administration buildings are often the least protected, even though they are in the vicinity of potential sources. Toxic gas infiltration in such areas take place through cracks, openings and ventilation networks (Sirén1993). Ingress of contaminants depend on various factors like meteorology, building ventilation, building envelope, etc. In literature, indoor exposure modelling techniques range from simple statistical regression and mass balance approaches to more complex models like multizoneand computational fluid dynamics (CFD) (Milner et al. 2011). Therefore to study toxic gas infiltration, a proper selection of models is required. However, despite the significant risk posed by such events in process facilities, there is a lack of data and comparative studies concerning the appropriate models and mitigation methods. For example, an extensive preliminary data analysis by Danielssonet al (2009) on the hydrogen sulfide (H2S) incidents in the natural gas industry revealed that there is a lack of adequate knowledge on the risk, frequency and consequences of H2S exposure. Moreover, 40 percent of the world’s natural gas reserves are considered to be sour (rich in H2S) of which Middle East and Central Asia happens to hold the highest reserve of sour gas fields (Total E&P 2007). This paper considers a realistic pipeline leak in a natural gas facility and the subsequent H2S exposure of the nearby administration building. A comparative study is carried out utilizing a dispersion model (SLAB), a multizonemodel (CONTAM) and a CFD model (Quick Urban and Industrial Complex –QUIC). The influence of ventilation network, nature of openings, wind speed, direction and pressure on toxic gas ingress is observed. Furthermore, we examine the sensitivity of wind pressure calculation on the toxic gas infiltration rate by using American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) handbook and CFD model. Indoor toxic levels are attained using multiple combinations of the above mentioned models. Results on indoor toxic levels showed high sensitivity to wind characteristics which led to varying risks and conclusions. A detailed description of studied scenarios and findings is also presented.
JACK CRANEFIELD Manager, Loss Prevention and Risk Engineering RasGas Company Limited
DR. GEMMA DUNJÓ Chartered fellow and Chair Senior Environmental and Risk Management Consultant IoMosaic Corporation
Jack Cranefield is currently the manager of loss prevention and risk engineering at RasGas and has served in that capacity since January 2013. Cranefield has more than 30 years of experience in risk management and loss prevention in the process and oil/gas Industries. Before his current assignment, he had a number of technical and supervisory positions within ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco and Factory Mutual Engineering.
Dr. Gemma Dunjó is focused on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and quantitative risk analysis (QRA) for process facilities that handle hazardous materials. She is an expert on integrating the use of GIS as a spatial information, decision-making tool in EIAs and QRAs with the aim to ensure the identification and quantification of potential hazards that might impact human-health and environment.
He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. in fire protection engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass.
“BRIDGING THE SAFETY GAP: THE KEY ROLE OF A SOUND PROCESS SAFETY CULTURE IN MINIMIZING AUDIT FINDINGS”
He represents RasGas on the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Technical Advisory and Steering Committees.
ABSTRACT: Key auditing findings from the Chemical Process Industry (CPI) experience is a valued source of information for understanding current weaknesses and lessons learned. These findings can be classified according to three different categories: regulatory (non-compliant), recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEP), and local attention.
“IS ZERO A REAL NUMBER?” ABSTRACT: Leading oil and gas operators recognize the moral and business imperative of avoiding significant process safety incidents. Visionary statements, such as “zero process safety incidents” or “no one gets hurt,” communicate an ideal state, but the underlying question remains: Is this possible? If so, then why do incidents continue to occur? This paper examines the behavioral and technical competencies required for organizations to cultivate a culture that drives significant process safety incidents to zero. The paper focuses on the leadership qualities than influence organizational behaviors and the key behaviors that create a culture in which “zero process safety incidents” is a realistic and worthy objective. The paper reviews practical opportunities for leaders at all levels in the organization to demonstrate desired behaviors and transform the organizational culture in a sustainable fashion, and achieve progress toward the goal of zero process safety incidents.
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The main purpose of this study is to compile and statistically process auditing findings and related data that ioMosaic has been able to identify during its years of experience from several CPI facilities. The statistical analysis highlights trends and provides conclusions on how to potentially link actual industry weaknesses (audit findings) via maximizing the importance of implementing a sound process safety Culture, which is supported and followed by top management, through operations, maintenance and all facility workers.
DR. FADWA ELJACK Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering, Qatar University Dr. Fadwa Eljack is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Qatar University. She obtained her bachelor’s (1999) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees from Auburn University, USA. Her research focuses mainly in the area of process system engineering that includes optimization and management of gas-processing facilities, flare reduction, risk assessment and the inclusion of safety in design. Eljack has served as the director of the Gas Processing Center (GPC) at Qatar University. She has more than 30 paper publications and is currently leading a number of research projects in collaboration with academic institutions and Qatari industry, with $3 million in funding. “TOWARD SAFER PROCESS DESIGNS — A PERSPECTIVE ON SAFETY METRICS” ABSTRACT: In order to manage process safety, risk assessment is the most essential step to evaluate the hazard of the plant, which can lead to implementing additional safety measures, revising facility layout or choosing other alternate processes. Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis tools have been developed to evaluate risks; some of the qualitative tools (e.g., HAZOP, FTA and FMEA) have been widely applied in industry for hazard identification. The only limitation there is not being able to produce quantitative risk evaluation for the whole facility. There are quantitative tools available, but all of these methods can consume a large amount of expert manpower, and require large sets of detailed data input and monetary resources. Furthermore these methods are limited by set scenarios and can be quite sophisticated, limiting their application to later stages of process. Process life cycle can be divided into various phases, such as research, process development, detailed design and construction, operation, maintenance and modification, and decommissioning. During the life cycle of the process, there are many opportunities for process modifications until we reach the basic engineering design of the process, after which the key process features are fixed. The same concept is applied for the application of safety considerations at different stages of the life cycle. The most effective way to enhance process safety is to start considering safety during the early stages of design. Including safety issues during conceptual design is likely to be done by the process designer, not the safety expert. So there is a need for safety metrics that relate directly the design process and the level of information available at the conceptual design stage.
PAUL FREY CEng., MiChemE Lead of Centre of Expertise for pressure relief,flare and blowdown Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) UK Paul Frey is a chartered chemical engineer with more than 25 years of process contracting design experience — from AmecFW, Foster Wheeler and Aker Kvaerner — obtained from a variety of FEED projects, detailed engineering, commissioning roles and operations in oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and food industries. At PSE, he is the subject matter expert for flare and relief, and works with project teams to ensure quality. He also contributes to the work of the API 521/520 pressure relieving systems committees. In his previous role at AMEC, he qualified the design of relief and flare systems on projects, reviewing the flare and relief calculation methodologies, performing safety auditing and was responsible for updating pressure relief standards. “OPTIMAL SELECTION OF MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION FOR GAS PROCESSING FACILITIES: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A DESIGN CASE STUDY” ABSTRACT: The minimum metal temperatures (MMT) in process equipment and piping are usually observed during highly transient depressurization operations (“blowdown”). The MMT usually sets the material of construction and can have a huge impact on project costs and ultimately project viability. We use a recent case study that considers the design from pre-FEED through to final investment decision of a gas processing facility. The most widespread methodology for designing the depressurization systems is based on idealized equilibrium volumes. This showed that extremely low metal temperatures could be expected in nearly all parts of the processing facility. To avoid material embrittlement, would have required expensive stainless steel construction for ~80 percent of the facility. As a result, a more detailed methodology for accurate assessment of MMTs was applied. Detailed representation using accurate dynamic models was used to account for different system pipe and vessel dimensions and wall thickness; as well as system elevations, points where condensate liquid may accumulate, and the location of blowdown valves. The results predicted much more accurate MMTs at each location throughout the processing facility. By utilizing the detailed blowdown methodology throughout the design cycle, only 30 percent of the facility is being constructed from stainless steel. We conclude by reviewing the different methods for depressurization system design, their relative merits and discuss how designer engineers can identify systems that require more thorough attention.
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RYM KANES Research Engineer ExxonMobil Research Qatar Rym Kanes joined ExxonMobil Research Qatar (EMRQ) in 2015 as a research engineer with the safety research program. Her role at EMRQ involves progressing multiple research projects in the field of dynamic risk assessments and virtual reality head-mounted display technologies. Rym has a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University at Qatar. She was the recipient of the 2015 QPSS Process Safety Excellent Award for Students. Dr. Clementina Ramirez Marengo is a postdoctoral research associate in the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. She obtained her bachelor’s (2008), M.Sc. (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) degrees from Celaya Institute of Technology, Mexico. Her research focuses mainly in the area of process safety that includes optimization of safety barriers, probabilistic risk assessment, vapor cloud explosion stochastic risk analysis and dynamic risk assessment. She has led and participated in different research projects with industry and academy. Currently, she is a visiting scholar in the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar working on the research project, “Development of a Real-time Risk Assessment and Decision-making Tool,” a collaboration between ExxonMobil Research Qatar and the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar.
DR. CLEMENTINA RAMIREZ MARENGO Postdoctoral Research Associate Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University
“TOWARD A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING A REAL-TIME RISK ASSESSMENT AND DECISION-MAKING TOOL” ABSTRACT: Process safety in the industry is managed through a solid process safety management system that involves the assessment of the risks associated to a facility in all steps of its life cycle. Risk levels tend to fluctuate throughout the life cycle of the process due to several time-varying risk factors (performances of the safety barriers, equipment conditions, staff competence, incidents history, etc.). While current practices for quantitative risk assessment (e.g., Bow-tie analysis, LOPA, etc) have brought significant improvement in the management of major hazard facilities, they are static in nature and fail to take into account the dynamic nature of risk to improve risk-based decision-making. In an attempt to improve risk management in process facilities, the process industry put in significant efforts during the past decade in the development of process safety key performance indicators (KPI or parameters to be observed) to continuously measure or gauge the efficiency of safety management systems and reduce the risks of major incidents, such as increasing the source of information that could potentially be used to assess risks in real time. The use of such KPIs has proved to be a major step forward in the improvement of process safety in major hazards facilities. However there still seem to be no clear links between the multiple KPIs measured at a process plant and the quantitative measure of risk levels at the facility. EMRQ has partnered with the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar to develop a methodology that establishes a framework for a tool that monitors in real time the potential increases in risk levels as a result of pre-identified risk factors that would include the use of KPIs (leading or lagging) as observations or evidences using Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN). In this context, this paper presents a case study of quantitative risk assessment of a process unit using BBN. The different steps of the development of the BBN are detailed, including: translation of a Bowtie into a skeletal BBN; modification of the skeletal BBN to incorporate KPIs (loss of primary containment (LOPC), equipment, management and human-related); and testing of the BBN with forward and backward inferences. The outcomes of the dynamic modeling of the BBN with real-time insertion of evidences are discussed and recommendations for the framework for a dynamic risk-assessment tool are made.
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DR. ANTON LEEMHUIS Managing Director TNO Middle East Branch Anton Leemhuis is managing director Middle East at TNO. TNO is an independent organization from the Netherlands with more than 80 years of experience in new technology development and advisory work. During his years at TNO Leemhuis has worked in various technical and management roles in the oil and gas industry. He has been working closely together with national oil and gas companies, international oil and gas companies, service providers and venture capital funds to develop and implement new technologies, with a specific focus on Europe and the Middle East. In 2011 Anton established TNO’s Middle East branch. “TACKLING PULSATION PROBLEMS AT THEIR SOURCE: A CASE STUDY” ABSTRACT: This presentation is about a root cause analysis and the solution of fatigue failures of the pump valves of three membrane pump systems installed on a chemical plant of Momentive in Pernis, The Netherlands. The membrane pumps were installed 30 years ago and each system has encountered multiple fatigue failures of the membranes, valve plates and springs on the discharge side. After years of trying different measures to mitigate the problems, it was decided to perform a thorough analysis to find the root cause of this issue. In 2012, TNO performed a field survey and a pulsation analysis to investigate the valve failure. Pulsation measurements were done for one pump system. A detailed acoustic model was made in TNO’s acoustical simulation program, PULSIM, of the as-built system. After this analysis, the acoustic behavior that was observed in measurements was clearly reproduced in the simulations. The root cause was found to be a combination of an acoustical resonance between the currently applied offline discharge damper and the pump valves, and the excitation of a mechanical natural frequency of the valves by the pulsations. With the simulation model, four potential solutions were analyzed that will mitigate the pulsation levels at the discharge valves. The final recommendation has been implemented and has solved the issue.
DR. PASCAL LE GAL Managing Director Gexcon Middle East Dr. Pascal Le Gal is the managing director for GexconMiddle East, a fully owned subsidiary of GexconAS, established in Dubai since 2014. As a divisional vice president, he is responsible for the software sales and operations at Gexconcovering the Middle East, India, Africa, the Caspian region and Australia. Prior to joining Gexcon, Le Gal was the regional manager of Middle East and India for DNV GL. During his 10-year tenure at DNV and DNV GL, he held a number of senior technical and commercial positions. Le Galjoined DNV GL (formerly DNV) September 2004 in London as a reliability consultant specializing in asset optimization and risk management. He then transferred to the software business unit at DNV, taking product management responsibility for the risk assessment and performance forecasting software tools. Since May 2010, Le Gal has been based in the Middle East and has worked with a number of local clients on oil and gas projects related to asset integrity, risk and reliability assessment, structural assessment and safety management. Before his time at DNV GL, Le Gal was a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) expert at Atkins and at the Ford Motor Company involved in process, safety and performance engineering projects and climate control systems design respectively. Le Gal brings more than 16 years of experience in the industry, spanning product development, product design, risk assessment, system performance optimization analysis, software sales and business development. Le Gal holds a Ph.D. and an MS.c. from CranfieldUniversity, UK, as well as an engineering degree in thermodynamics from the elite INSA School in Rouen, France. “FLACS-RISK TO SUPPORT COST-EFFECTIVE AND SAFE DESIGN OF ASSETS” ABSTRACT: Gexconhas developed a unique software solution for 3-D risk modeling and visualization based on the industry standard FLACS for dispersion, fire and explosion modeling . The new FLACS-Risk application allows risk owners to design facilities that are significantly lower cost while maintaining the required high safety levels. Traditionally, predicting the extent of risks in hazardous environments using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been reserved to a few higher end safety consultancies. One of the challenges is that such studies, although developed based on FLACS results, make use of various company internal tools thus no standard approach. The analysis is very much dependent on the consultant doing the analysis. FLACS-Risk provides an integrated and consistent environment to improve quality assurance and a structured approach for deriving the probabilistic results removing user dependencies. The systematic approach in FLACS-Risk is supported by an intuitive workflow to populate the model with all relevant data from geometry, leak scenario definition including leak frequencies, specifications of the targets of interest (e.g., buildings that could include personnel and population), ignition models, wind rose data. Predicting exceedance overpressure at specific locations and the accurate distribution of the likelihood of a given effects in space is key to optimize a design. For example, the local aggregated overpressure level on a building, weighted by probabilities, will vary in 3-D and it is most unlikely that the overpressure will be the same on all the building walls. It is then possible to make decisions about the suitable level of protection to such buildings, for instance.
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DR. SAM MANNAN Regents Professor, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University Executive Director, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Dr. M. Sam Mannan is Regents Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University and director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center in the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Before joining Texas A&M University, Mannan was vice president at RMT Inc., a nationwide engineering services company. Mannan’s experience is wide ranging, covering process design of chemical plants and refineries, computer simulation of engineering problems, mathematical modeling, process safety, risk assessment, inherently safer design, critical infrastructure vulnerability assessment, aerosol modeling, and reactive and energetic materials assessments. He was co-author of Guidelines for Safe Process Operations and Maintenance, published by the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is the editor of the third and fourth editions of the three-volume authoritative reference for process safety and loss prevention, Lees’ Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. Mannan has published 205 peer-reviewed journal publications, four books, seven book chapters, 200 proceedings papers, 14 major reports and 216 technical meeting presentations. Mannan is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. In September 2011, the Technical University of Łódž in Poland conferred the Doctoris Honoris Causa on Mannan. In 2012, he was awarded the Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in Public Service. Mannan received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1978, and his M.S. in 1983 and Ph.D. in 1986 in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. “EXPLOSION IN THE PORT OF TIANJIN ON 12 AUGUST 2015: ANALYSIS AND LESSONS LEARNED” ABSTRACT: On Wednesday, 12 Aug. 2015, two explosions occurred following a fire at a hazardous chemical warehouse owned by Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Ltd. in Tianjin, China. After the blast, more than 40 hazardous chemicals were detected in the vicinity of the blast, predicting a total around 3,000 tonnes of hazardous chemicals existing at the time of the explosion. The blast shattered windows and walls for at least 2 kilometres away from the blast, causing damage to surrounding residential areas and public facilities. Within a 1-km radius, hundreds of cars in nearby car parks were incinerated, shipping containers were destroyed by the blast, and windows were broken in all surrounding apartments. The incident caused a confirmed death toll of 173 by September 2015, 103 of which were firefighters. This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of the event and the aftermath as well as its investigation. The lessons learned from this tragic incident will be discussed.
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DR. NICOLAS CHRIS MARKATOS Professor Emeritus School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Visiting Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar Dr. Nicolas Chris Markatos is a chemical engineering educator, researcher and administrator (department head, university rector). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineering. He is currently a visiting professor in the Chemical Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He holds a diploma in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, am M.A. in business administration from the Athens School of Economics, a diploma and Ph.D. in engineering from Imperial College, University of London. In 1996, he was awarded a Doctoris Honoris Causa from the Institute of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Markatos has implemented major engineering projects with emphasis on the energy, safety and environmental engineering fields. In 1980, he received the Certificate of Recognition from the NASA Inventions Council for “the development of novel technology with serious impact on aerospace and society.” Markatos has been author of four books and more than 400 scientific papers. He has participated with his team in more than 12 European projects, and he was coordinator of the JOULE Project on Energy Efficiency in the Process Industry, and of the ARTEMIS project (Application Research and Testing for Emergency Management Intelligent Systems). He is currently coordinating a European LIFE project on industrial e-symbiosis. “DEVELOPING COMPETENCY TO PUSH THE BOUNDARY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE BENEFITS OF PROCESS SAFETY” ABSTRACT: In the process industry, many key issues in designing performing environmental and technological risk assessment and control, are related to the complex behavior of fluids in turbulent flow, often involving more than one phase, with chemical reaction or heat transfer. During the past decades, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) techniques have shown great potential for analyzing these complex processes. Examples of process-safety-related studies using multidimensional multiphase CFD model simulations are presented for some cases of atmospheric and marine pollution, as well as for the environmental risks of fires and of petrol-tank explosions. The results of these studies show that the use of such advanced tools are very valuable to the risk engineer and scientist and can help in making relevant risk based decisions. This presentation focuses on the need to develop competency in academia with the support of industry to push the boundary of science and technology for the benefits of process safety.
MOHAMMAD ZEESHAN KAZMI HSE Graduate Trainee Engineer QAFAC Mohammad Zeeshan Kazmi is currently working at QAFAC as a health, safety and environment graduate trainee engineer and his key duties include the implementation of the responsible care standard at QAFAC. Kazmi is also a graduate student at Texas A&M University at Qatar, having joined the safety engineering program in November 2013 as the first student to register in this Master’s program administrated by the Texas-based Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center. He is currently preparing a thesis, “Dust explosion research: Application to sulfur and polyethylene.” He is a member of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar and works closely with the local industry on his research topic. Kazmi holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering with a minor in political science from Texas A&M at Qatar. He also holds lead auditor certificates for OHSAS 18001 and has gained qualifications in many CIEH level 2 courses. Muhammad Ali Qureshi is a dedicated occupational health and safety and process safety professional with more than 13 years of industrial experience, currently working in QAFAC as a senior process safety engineer. He received his chemical engineering degree from the University of Punjab, Lahore, in 2004. He has also completed NEBOSH IGC, NEBOSH IOGC and IOSH certificates. His work experience includes working for seven years in Fatima Fertilizers & Petrochemicals Company in Pakistan, and for two years in Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) in Saudi Arabia as senior process safety engineer. During seven years of employment in Fatima Fertilizers & Petrochemicals Company in Pakistan, he was engaged in plant operations, developing HSE management systems and process safety management systems in alignment with OSHA 1910.119 process safety standards. His key contributions at SABIC were developing a unified behavioral based safety system and supporting in the implementation of this program at many SABIC affiliates.
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MUHAMMAD ALI QURESHI Senior Process Safety Engineer QAFAC “HUMAN FACTORS IN PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT” ABSTRACT: Human factors are cited as one of the main causes of incidents in the industry at large. If the accident rate is to be decreased, human factors need to be better understood and this knowledge analyzed and implemented in the various process safety management systems. This presentation will touch on some of these human factors that are related to process safety management. As awareness of human factors increases, many companies are increasing their efforts to comply with regulations which directly or indirectly deal with monitoring and controlling human factors. However, more work needs to be done and a number of issues must be addressed for the consideration of human factors to become standard. A brief overview of some of the regulatory requirements regarding human factors in process safety management will be given. Further suggestions regarding more focus on human factors that go beyond the regulatory requirements will also be talked about. An incident will be discussed in which the root cause of the accident was a lack of control on human factors. Lastly, how these human factors can be controlled to attain a better process safety management system will also be discussed.
NEPU SAHA Graduate Student – Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Texas A&M University at Qatar Nepu Saha graduate student at Texas A&M University at Qatar and a research assistant of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Qatar. His research focuses on chemical reaction hazards. He is doing research on the assessment of maximum gas production rate of an chemical system under runaway conditions unisgadiabatic calorimetry techniques. Nepu obtained his B.Sc. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2011. Before joining Texas A&M at Qatar in August 2014, he worked for three years as a process engineer at KarnaphuliFertilizer Company Ltd. (KAFCO) in Bangladesh. He is a member of Chemical Engineering Honor Society (OXE) and Engineering Honor Society (TBP). Ulumuddin is a graduate student at Texas A&M University at Qatar and a research assistant of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Qatar. She has a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M at Qatar. Her research focuses on the area of liquefied natural gas (LNG) process safety and the modeling of LNG spills. Her involvement with process safety has started since her undergraduate years, where she did an undergraduate research experience program (UREP) with MKOPSC on the risk assessment of the TP-5 facility at RasLaffan and Emergency Safety College.touch on some of these human factors that are related to process safety management. As awareness of human factors increases, many companies are increasing their efforts to comply with regulations which directly or indirectly deal with monitoring and controlling human factors. However, more work needs to be done and a number of issues must be addressed for the consideration of human factors to become standard. A brief overview of some of the regulatory requirements regarding human factors in process safety management will be given. Further suggestions regarding more focus on human factors that go beyond the regulatory requirements will also be talked about. An incident will be discussed in which the root cause of the accident was a lack of control on human factors. Lastly, how these human factors can be controlled to attain a better process safety management system will also be discussed.
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NISA ULUMUDDIN Graduate Student – Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Texas A&M University at Qatar “OVERVIEW OF MAJOR PROCESS INCIDENTS IN THE WORLD SINCE THE 2015 QPSS” ABSTRACT: Since 2013, the students of the Mary Kay O’Connor ProvcessSafety Center have used the QPSS as an opportunity to present to the attendees of the symposium an overview of the major incidents that occurred in the world over the past years. For QPSS 2016, this exercise was reconductedand two students, Nepu Saha and Nisa Ulumuddin, will provide a comprehensive overview of the major incident that occurred in the world since the 31 March 2015. A brief description of the circumstances, the causes and the consequences of the incident will be provided. The cases reviewed will be supported with pictures and videos of the events, when available.
HERVÉ VAUDREY Managing Director EMEA – DEKRA Insight Hervé Vaudrey graduated as an engineer from ESPCI (Physics & Chemistry Paris) in 1993. Before joining Chilworth in 2004, Vaudrey worked for 10 years in the chemical industry (Rhone-Poulenc and Rhodia), undertaking process safety audits, risk analysis (HAZOP, dust explosion assessments), incident investigation, process safety education and process safety laboratory management. In 2004, he joined Chilworth France as technical director, growing this start-up quickly. At the end 2008, he became the European director for Chilworth Global, supervising all the European subsidiaries of Chilworth Global in England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands, and the activities in Turkey, Middle East and Africa. Since the acquisition of Chilworth Global by DEKRA in August 2011, he is the regional director EMEA of the process safety business line of DEKRA Industrial, a fast-growing group of more than 100 people dedicated to process safety services. His main areas of expertise are process safety management, gas and dust explosions, electrostatics hazards, thermal hazards and risk analysis. Vaudrey has led numerous industrial incident investigations, especially pressure events, dust and gas explosions of electrostatic origin, self-ignitions and thermal runaways. He is an experienced lecturer in a wide range of process safety subjects in the past 15 years. He has given more than 100 process safety trainings and lectures worldwide (France, UK, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, India, China, UAE, Saudi Arabia) in French, English and Spanish, many under the Chilworth Process Safety Academy. He is also an active member of CCPS Europe. “PROCESS SAFETY INFORMATION: THE CORNERSTONE OF PSM” ABSTRACT: Process safety information (PSI) is a critical element of any robust process safety management (PSM) system. In many situations, process hazard and risk analysis efforts are being progressed on the grounds of invalid, flawed, partial or even absent process safety data ruining the efficiency and goal of the good intention. Lacking essential valid process safety data can have severe consequences as the process can be in an intrinsically hazardous state without nobody realizing it. Or conversely large Capex can be spent and often spoiled for safeguarding situations wrongly judged as very hazardous or easy to design as intrinsically safe. Through several real examples of poor and best practices in PSI gained during various process safety studies in small to very large organizations from various sectors of the process industry (petrochemicals, chemicals, oil and gas), this talk will exemplify the critical role of process safety information in ensuring that PSM implementation is effective in reducing process safety events. Process safety information is critical enable sound judgement . It is also essential that the whole organization can develop competency on that particular chapter.
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DR. LUC N VÉCHOT Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar Managing Director, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center-Qatar Chairman, Qatar Process Safety Symposium Organizing Committee Dr. Luc Véchot is an asistant professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar and the managing director of Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar. He obtained a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (France) in 2006. In 2007, He joined the Fire and Process Safety Unit of the Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL) in Buxton (UK) as a process safety engineer. Véchot joined the faculty at Texas A&M at Qatar in 2010 where he took over the lead of the process safety research and teaching activities at the branch campus. Véchot has worked on process safety-related research topics for the past eight years in collaboration with universities, public laboratories and industries. He focused his researches on exothermic reaction hazards and calorimetric hazard screening techniques, runaway reactions and adiabatic calorimetry, pressure relief design applications for untempered peroxide systems and accidental releases of water reactive chemicals. Véchot has been the chairman of the Qatar Process Safety Symposium organizing committee since 2011. “NEWS FROM THE MARY KAY O’CONNOR PROCESS SAFETY CENTER – QATAR” ABSTRACT: The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) was established in 1995 in memory of Mary Kay O’Connor, an operations superintendent who died in an explosion on 23 Oct. 1989 at a petrochemical complex in Pasadena, Texas. The center’s mission is to promote safety as second nature in industry around the world with goals to prevent future accidents. In July 2013, an extension of MKOPSC was established in Doha with the objective to develop research teaching and education programs in the area of process safety in Qatar. This presentation will provide an overview of the activities of the MKOPSC – Qatar and its achievements since its official launching. The presentation will highlight how the Qatar process industry achieved a very successful collaboration with academia to develop and improve process safety in Qatar.
MELISSA VELASQUEZ Senior Technical Safety Engineer Qatar Shell GTL Melissa Velasquez obtained her degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She has 15 years of experience in risk management, process and technical safety, incident investigation, and overpressure relief and flare analysis in projects and operating assets. She started her career in process safety as a consultant with Berwanger Inc. doing overpressure relief and flare analysis for different big oil companies. In 2006, she joined Shell as a process safety engineer, primarily supporting Shell’s worldwide downstream manufacturing facilities in the implementation of risk management processes and in providing technical process safety support. A few years later, she moved to the upstream organization to support the unconventional assets as a technical authority in technical safety. She currently is a technical safety technical authority and the HSSE-authorized person for the Shell Qatar Projects Hub. She supports a wide portfolio of brownfield improvement projects for the Shell Pearl GTL plant, ranging from $2 million to up to $70 million. In her current role, she manages the integration of the HSSE team in projects to ensure a safe design and correct implementation of Shell’s HSSE requirements in projects. “INTEGRATION OF PROCESS SAFETY IN PROJECTS” ABSTRACT: The Hazards and Effects Management Process (HEMP) is currently a well-known process implemented through the oil and gas industry used to identify and manage hazards. Yet none of the array of studies part of the HEMP process (HAZOPs, Bowties, HAZIDs and HSSE Cases) specifically specifies and tracks key design, procurement or construction requirements for the identified safeguards to work as intended. In Shell, during the define stage in a project, the implementation of the technical integrity verification (TIV) process is initiated. TIV requires that safety critical elements (SCEs) are identified and their performance assured and verified to meet design and procurement specifications, correctly installed, and tested prior to introduction of hydrocarbons to prevent initiation or escalation of major incidents. It focuses on those key elements that play a role in the mitigation of process safety incidents. Technical integrity verification involves the interaction of operations readiness, quality, HSSE and the different engineering disciplines throughout the different phases in a project. The current challenges with the implementation of TIV involve clarity of the functionality and application of the process by all involved. If properly applied, however, the TIV process will assure the safety critical aspects of asset integrity for the new design and constitutes an important element of delivering process safety in projects
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2016 QPSS EXHIBITORS: Process Systems Enterprise Limited The Advanced Process Modelling company GEXCON (Global EXplosion CONsultants) is a Norwegian software and consulting company fully owned by the private research institute Christian Michelsen Research (CMR). GEXCON is a wholly owned subsidiary of CMR. CMR is owned by the University of Bergen (50 percent), Uni Research (35 percent), Sparebanken Vest (5 percent), Statoil New Energy AS (5 percent) and Seabed Geo-Solutions R&D AS (5 percent). GEXCON is a world leader in the field of safety and risk management, advanced dispersion, explosion and fire modeling. GEXCON’s experience arises from detailed knowledge of explosion phenomena, built up throughout years of extensive research projects, carrying out safety assessments, performing accident investigations and performing physical testing at the company’s own dedicated facilities on the Norwegian island of Sotra outside Bergen. GEXCON has, over several decades, developed unique expertise in safety and risk management and today the company enjoys a leading and reputable position in its field. Over the past 40 years, GEXCON has been involved in the investigation of many high-profile accidents such as Buncefield, Piper Alpha, TWA 800, and the P-36 platform offshore in Brazil. Leaders in the oil and gas industry and safety engineers at major hazard facilities have consistently sought the services of GEXCON to provide them with the expertise to manage the risks of fire and gas explosions from flammable substances.
PSE is the recognized industry-leading provider of high-fidelity dynamic analysis for blowdown, pressure relief and flare system design. Our best-practice engineering services are based on our gFLARE Advanced Process Modeling environment, enabling us to provide fully integrated process and flare system analysis. PSE’s experienced consultants provide analytical expertise for our clients’ FEED, detailed design and asset integrity projects to ensure safe operation with minimal capital investment while complying with latest industry guidelines.
Siemens Process Safety Consulting The right partner when it comes to real technical challenges Siemens Process Safety Consulting delivers more than 20 years of process safety expertise in the oil. Gas and petrochemical industries and we are the global leading provider of pressure relief systems services, knows as the developer of the industry’s patented equipment-based relief analysis (EBPRA) methodology. Siemens Process Safety Consulting is the front runner, completing more than 3,500 pressure relief analysis projects from the super-majors to the regional independents. Additional portfolio offerings include inspection data management system (IDMS) services and safety lifestyle system services coupled with specialized software solutions — PS PPM, UltraPIPE, PS AIM, OGM and PS Change Manager — used worldwide.
GEXCON’s business units consists of software sales, consultancy services and laboratories. GEXCON develops, maintains and commercialize the industry standard FLACS® software for modeling consequences from loss of containment scenarios (flammable and toxic gas, liquid or two-phase mix) and dust explosions. FLACS, which stands for flame acceleration simulator, was one of the main outcome of the R&D effort. FLACS is today the leading CFD software within explosion safety and is used by approximately 150 companies within the oil and gas industry, but also in the nuclear safety industry, LNG, onshore petrochemical plants and in other facilities where highly hazardous materials is being stored or processed. Thanks to its strong R&D group within the software unit, GEXCON can implement, verify and validate new models in FLACS and collaborates actively with both industrial and academic partners around the world. Recently GEXCON has also acquired a company called Stormfjord, which specializes in 3-D visualization products and services. GEXCON can assist with your modelling needs (software license and training) with regards to consequence and risk analysis. GEXCON can also provide advisory services and a complete tailor-made solution — i.e., identifying your hazards, understanding your risks and contribute to improving our clients’ safety performance. Together with our clients we find the most optimal process to identify your needs and the best way to improve your company’s safety performance. GEXCON possesses testing facilities such as a well-equipped test laboratory at Fantoft in Bergen and a large-scale test site in Sotra. GEXCON can provide certification for equipment used in explosive atmospheres (ATEX), determine gas and dust explosion properties and test mitigation systems for those effects. Headquartered in Bergen, Norway, GEXCON also has offices in London (UK), Dubai (UAE), Pune (India), Washington, D.C. and Houston (USA), Milan (Italy), Perth (Australia), Jakarta (Indonesia), and Shanghai (China).
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The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center was established in 1995 at Texas A&M University in memory of Mary Kay O’Connor, an operations superintendent who died in an explosion 23 Oct. 1989 at a petrochemical complex in Pasadena, Texas. The center’s mission is to promote safety as second nature in industry around the world with goals to prevent future accidents. In addition, the center develops safer processes, equipment, procedures and management strategies to minimize losses within the processing industry. on 1 July 2013, Qatar Petroleum and Texas A&M University at Qatar officially launched the MKOPSC extension in Qatar. The MKOPSC extension in Qatar is currently supported by a consortium of industries that forms the Steering Committee — supported by a Technical Advisory Committee — that meets to define the direction of the center to ensure that the research endeavors are of high importance and relevance for the local industry in Qatar.
Texas A&M University at Qatar, Continuing Education Services Texas A&M University at Qatar connects professionals to cutting-edge knowledge through first-class continuing education. Our faculty and researchers support industry with specialized expertise, and our worldwide network of collaborators provides access to the latest advancements to ensure your team has the skills to sustain a competitive edge. Continuing Education Services at Texas A&M at Qatar offers remarkable value in professional development for industry professionals working in Qatar and the Arabian Gulf. In addition to regularly scheduled courses, bespoke offerings can be created upon request.
Assessment of maximum gas production rate of a chemical mixture under runaway conditions Nepu Saha, Siba Moussa, Luc Véchot Texas A&M University at Qatar, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Comparative study on toxic gas infiltration in a non-process area using CFD and multi-zone models Atif M. Ashraf, Christos D. Argyropoulos, Luc Véchot, Konstantinos E. Kakosimos Texas A&M University at Qatar, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
STUDENT POSTERS
Study the protection mechanism (s) of multifunctional coating systems against internal corrosion in pipelines in Qatari oil and gas industry Nasser Al Jassem1,2, Elizabeth Sikora3, Barbara Shaw3, Brajendra Mishra2, Bruce Palmer1and Luc Véchot1 1 Texas A&M University at Qatar, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center 2 Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA 3 Pennsylvania state university, State College, PA, USA Source term modeling of liquefied natural gas spills on concrete Nisa Ulumuddin, Tomasz Olewski, Luc Véchot Texas A&M University at Qatar, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center Study of the explosion properties of sulfur and polyethylene dusts from the Qatar industry Jack Altwal, Mohammad Kazmi, Walid Khalfaoui, Luc Véchot Texas A&M University at Qatar, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center The Chernobyl nuclear accident and related aspects of nuclear power safety Varun Chauhan, Abdulhaqq Ameen Ibrahim Texas A&M University at Qatar, Chemical Engineering Port of Tianjin: What went wrong? Duaa Muttar, Karim Youssef, ArifulAzam Texas A&M University at Qatar, Chemical Engineering Macondo blowout: impact of insufficient safety indicators Mahrukh Kapoorwala, Mike Bowman Texas A&M University at Qatar, Petroleum Engineering
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QATAR PROCESS SAFETY SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: TEXAS A&M QATAR Dr. Luc N. Vechot (Chairman)
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Managing Director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Deena Fernandes
Administrative Assistant Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Amanda Field
Senior Administrative Coordinator Chemical Engineering Program
Carol Nader
Events Manager
Lesley Kriewald
Communications Manager
The QPSS organizing committee would like to thank the students and staff members of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar for their precious help and support for the symposium: Jack Atwal, Atif Ashraf, Nisa Ulumuddin, SibaMoussa, Nepu Saha, Rand Abdul-Razzak, Nasser AljassemAbdulla Al-Mohannadi, Rashid Al-Mhannadiand Dr. Clementina Ramirez Marengo.
CONOCOPHILLIPS QATAR MEMBERS: Dr. Walid Khalfaoui
Assistant Research Scientist Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Dr. Tomasz Olewski
Research Scientist Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Sahar Mari
Branding and Production Coordinator
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Richard A. D’Ardenne P.E., PMP (Co-chair) Technical Manager
Sarah Mroueh
Communications and Public Affairs Manager
Hamda Al Kuwari
Events and Design Coordinator
The Key to Safety The presentations are available on the QPSS website qpss.qatar.tamu.edu Use the password below
IWAS@QPSS2016
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