COMMITMENT 10 - 11 April Hilton Doha Hotel
The Path to Process Safety Excellence qpss.qatar.tamu.edu
WELCOME TO THE
2017 QATAR PROCESS SAFETY SYMPOSIUM
DR. CÉSAR MALAVÉ
Dean, Texas A&M University at Qatar
TODD CREEGER
President, ConocoPhillips Qatar the high level of dialogue at this Symposium will contribute in a meaningful way to these lofty objectives.
This year’s theme acts as a roadmap for the development and support of process safety across and within industries and institutions. Not only does QPSS seek to support industry professionals and students and create new knowledge in the field of study, it works to support a deep and comprehensive commitment to process safety throughout all employee sectors and levels and to all practitioners.
Delegates: It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2017 Qatar Process Safety Symposium on behalf of Texas A&M University at Qatar. The branch campus is proud to host the 8th annual Safety Symposium and the sixth symposium with partner ConocoPhillips. We could not produce this event without ConocoPhillips’ generous support, and I appreciate their loyal partnership with Texas A&M at Qatar. The continued success of this symposium is proof that process safety is a recognized fundamental value in Qatar. It also illustrates the important and unique collaboration between industry and academia in assessing risk and developing tailored solutions and best practices for process safety challenges.
Most importantly, the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar and the training and knowledge sharing it provides would not exist without the support of His Excellency Dr. Al-Sada and His Excellency Dr. Ali Al-Mulla. When the launch of the center was being discussed, they believed that process safety was a fundamental element of the continued growth and development of Qatar’s industries and this has proven to be true. We owe a debt of gratitude to His Excellency Dr. Al-Sada, His Excellency Dr. Al-Mulla and the many industry and education collaborators who believe that process safety is not achieved by accident and who support the development of process safety in Qatar and the region. Over the next two days as we examine the challenges of process safety in Qatar and worldwide, know that in all that it does, Texas A&M at Qatar strives for excellence in enriching Qatar’s greatest natural resource – its people. Thank you for joining us. Dr. César O. Malavé Dean, Texas A&M University at Qatar
Over the last seven years, the Qatar Process Safety Symposium has made valuable contributions to the field by affording experts a platform by which to share best practices, analyze incident case studies, and examine management methodologies. Now in its eighth year, the Symposium continues to advance our understanding of the subject.
ConocoPhillips, together with our trusted partner, Texas A&M University at Qatar, are pleased to co-host the 2017 Qatar Process Safety Symposium. The most valuable resource in any company, organization, or society is its human capital. Every day in Qatar, thousands of individuals work together to extract, process, market, and deliver natural gas. Keeping them safe, and ensuring the safety of the community at large, is a responsibility our industry should never take for granted. Deepening our knowledge of process safety is critical to preventing incidents and potentially saving lives. It is also important in supporting the development of human capital in line with Qatar National Vision 2030. I am confident
Safety will always be ConocoPhillips’ top priority, and this commitment to safety is mirrored by our partners and stakeholders in Qatar. Coming together to share all our valuable knowledge and experience will have positive repercussions across the industry, not only in Qatar, but across the globe. We look forward to many productive and enlightening discussions in the coming days. Stay safe. J. Todd Creeger President, ConocoPhillips Qatar
AGENDA
Monday, 10 April 2017 11 – 11:30 a.m. 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
Registration/Refreshments
8:30 – 8:40 a.m.
Introduction of QPSS by MKOPSC-Q Students
8:40 – 8:45 a.m.
Welcome and Opening of the Symposium Dr. César Malavé, Dean, Texas A&M University at Qatar
8:45 – 8:50 a.m.
Welcome and Opening of the Symposium Todd Creeger, President, ConocoPhillips Qatar
8:50 – 8:55 a.m.
MOU Signing
8:55 – 9:05 a.m.
Keynote Address His Excellency Dr. Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman of the Board of Qatar Petroleum, State of Qatar
9:05 – 9:45 a.m.
Keynote Presentation Steinar Vaage, Senior Vice President Global Operations, Wells and Projects, ConocoPhillips Qatar
9:45 – 10:35 a.m.
Panel Discussion: “Commitment — The Path to Process Safety Excellence” Facilitator: William R. Denney Jr., Technical Manager, ConocoPhillips Qatar
10:35 – 10:45 a.m.
QPSS Awards Ceremony
10:45 – 11 a.m.
Coffee Break/Poster Session
11.30 a.m. – noon
Track I: Process Safety Management
Track II: Research and Technologies in Process Safety
“PSM: Practical Aspects of Implementation and Lessons Learned”
“The Future of Geographical and Scenario Based Fire and Gas Mapping”
Nadeem Bashir, QAFAC
Dr. Oliver Heynes, Insight Numerics
“Five Simple Steps for Assessing the Robustness of Your PSM Program”
“Overview for Design, Analysis and Justification to Implement High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems”
Michael J. Snakard, Snakard Consulting Group
Dr. Abdulrehman Aldeeb, Siemens
Noon – 12:30 p.m.
“A Case Study in Improving Process Safety by Integrating People, Processes and Technology” Mark Chambers, Acutech Consulting
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
1:30 – 2:15 p.m.
“Risk-based Design and Evaluation of Pressure Relief and Flare Systems” Michael McDowell, ioMosaic
Lunch and Networking/Poster Session “Committed to Push the Boundaries of Science for the Benefit of Process Safety: Ensuring Inherently Safer Designs by Understanding the Devastating Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) at Large Scales” Dr. Scott Davis, GexCon US
2:15 – 3 p.m.
“Are We There Yet?” Wahyu Hidayat and Vincent Hoe Bok Kai, Qatargas
3 – 3:15 p.m.
Wrap Up/End of the First Day
Tuesday, 11 April 2017 8 – 8:30 a.m.
Registration/Refreshments
8:30 – 8:35 a.m.
Keynote Address His Excellency Dr. Ali Al-Mulla, Assistant Secretary General for Industrial Projects Sector, Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting
8:35 – 9:15 a.m.
Keynote Presentation Ahmed Al-Shaikh, Executive Vice President of Manufacturing, SABIC, Saudi Arabia
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
Interactive Discussion with the Audience: “What are Your Key Challenges in Process Safety?” Trish Kerin, Director, IChemE Safety Center
10:15 – 10:40 a.m.
10:40 – 11 a.m.
11 – 11:30 a.m.
Track IV: Research and Technologies in Process Safety
“Root Cause Failure Analysis: Effective Tool for Management of Process Safety and Asset Integrity — An SRU Furnace Incident Case Study”
“Progress in LNG Safety Research in Qatar” Nisa Ulumuddin and Nepu Saha, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Mahmoud Sami Diab, Qatargas
11:30 a.m.– noon
News from Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Dr. Luc Véchot, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Coffee Break
Track III: Incident Investigation
“Incident Investigations and Lessons Learned: Critical Elements of an Effective PSM Program” Tom Di Giacomo, Saudi Aramco “Major Risk Management in Total”
Noon – 12:30 p.m.
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
1:30 – 2:15 p.m.
Christophe Lion, Total E&P Qatar
“ExxonMobil Research Qatar Safety Research Overview” Dr. Emilio Alvarez, ExxonMobil Research Qatar
“Quantitative Safety Assessment of Hydrocarbon Transportation Pipelines” Dr. Sergey Martynov, University College London
Lunch and Networking Review and Analysis of Incidents in the World Since QPSS 2016 by MKOPSC-Q Students Moustafa Ali, Nawayd Shaikh and Ibrahim Daoudi, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
2:15 – 3 p.m.
“A Journey to Excellence in PSM” Dr. M. Sam Mannan, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center
3 – 3:15 p.m.
And the Winner is …
SPEAKERS
is also the Chairman of the Permanent Water Resources Committee (PWRC) at Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa).
Plenary Keynote Speaker His Excellency Dr. Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada
Minister of Energy and Industry, State of Qatar, and Chair of Board, Qatar Petroleum
His Excellency Dr. Mohammed Bin Saleh AlSada was appointed Minister of Energy and Industry, and Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum in 2011. In September 2014, he was again assigned overall responsibility for Qatar’s energy and industry sector, retaining both his Cabinet portfolio and QP position as Chairman of the Board. Earlier, from 2007 to 2011, H.E. Dr. Al-Sada was Minister of State for Energy and Industry Affairs and Member of the Cabinet. His Excellency is a member of the Supreme Council for Economic Affairs and Investment. In addition, he is the Chairman of RasGas Company Limited, Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd. (NAKILAT) and Qatar Electricity & Water Company (QEWC). H.E.
H.E. Dr. Al-Sada has more than 33 years of experience in the energy sector. In 1983, he joined Qatar Petroleum (QP) and started a lifetime career in the oil and gas business. He moved up the corporate ladder and assumed numerous managerial positions. In 1997, he was appointed QP Technical Director, where he successfully directed the execution of a number of major oil, gas and infrastructure projects. In 2006, he was appointed Managing Director of RasGas Company Limited (RasGas). In 2017 His Excellency Dr. Sada was conferred with “The International Oil Diplomacy Man of the Year” Award at the IP Week, London, organized under the aegis of Energy Institute, UK. An active member of the Qatari community, His Excellency is a member of the Qatar Foundation Board of Directors. In addition, he is the Chairman of the Joint Advisory Board (JAB) at Texas A & M University Qatar (TAMUQ) and of the Joint Oversight Board (JOB) of the College of North Atlantic Qatar (CNAQ). H.E. Dr. Al-Sada was a founding member of the Supreme Education Council; the Permanent Constitution Preparation Committee and the National Committee for Human Rights. His Excellency holds an MSc degree and a PhD from the University of Manchester in the UK and a BSc degree in Marine Science and Geology from Qatar University. His Excellency is married and has five children.
Plenary Keynote Speaker His Excellency Dr. Ali Al-Mulla
Assistant Secretary General for Industrial Projects Sector, Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting
Dr. Ali Hamed Al Mulla is the Assistant Secretary-General of the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) for the Industrial Projects Sector. Before joining GOIC, Dr. Al Mulla was the Group Manager for the Corporate Diroctrate of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) in Qatar Petroleum for 12 years. His management experience spans more than 25 years during which he served as Vice Chairman of the Board for the Civil Aviation General Authority from 2001 to 2004 in addition to his work as General Manager of the Department of Meteorology since 1999.
Dr. Al Mulla received his B.Sc. in professional meteorology from St. Louis University in 1986 and earned his M.A. and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees from Boston University in 1992 and 1996. He has participated in many international conferences and has several research papers, in addition to chairing various committees for industry, safety and environment. During his years in GOIC, Dr. Al Mulla has supervised various investment opportunities and joint projects.
Plenary Keynote Speaker
Plenary Keynote Speaker
Ahmad Al-Shaikh
Steinar Vaage
Executive Vice President, Manufacturing, Executive Management Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Al-Shaikh has been with SABIC since 1997 and has held various leadership positions in the company. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Before his present assignment, Mr. Al-Shaikh was the Vice President of Manufacturing Center of Excellence in March and April 2015. He has held the post of President of SABIC affiliates, Yanpet, from July 2011 to February 2015 and United, in 2009. Mr. Al-Shaikh has more than 25 years of experience in the global oil and petrochemical industries, beginning his career with Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery. At SABIC his role sees him working closely with key JV Partners, such as ExxonMobil, Sinopec and Shell, to name a few. In SABIC today Mr. Al-Shaikh oversees
all global manufacturing operations in the Americas, Europe, Asia and MEA, including major industrial sites in Saudi Arabia in Al-Jubail and Yanbu. His vision is to achieve total manufacturing cost leadership, maximize economic value creation though manufacturing excellence and uncompromising safety standards. To achieve this, his function focuses on key pillars of success starting with the development of ‘people’, promoting an inclusive culture, performance via world class SHE and the reliability of all manufacturing assets within the SABIC family. SABIC’s global presence continues to grow rapidly. Its ambitious plans for expansion are matched by the development of an infrastructure of manufacturing plants worldwide. This enables the company to respond efficiently.
Senior Vice President Global Operations, Wells and Projects, ConocoPhillips
Steinar Vaage is senior vice president, Global Operations, Wells and Projects for ConocoPhillips (includes functional oversight of Global Aviation, Global Marine, Global Production, Global Wells, Projects and Supply Chain). Vaage began his career in 1988 and held various engineering positions in Norway up to 1995. From 1995 to 2000, he held positions at Phillips headquarters in the U.S., and from 2000 to 2004 in the UK and Norway. From 2004 to 2007, he was general manager of Heavy Oil Joint Ventures in Venezuela. From 2007 to 2012 he served as managing director of ConocoPhillips Norway, and from 2012
to 2015 he was president of ConocoPhillips Europe. In 2016, Steinar was senior vice president, Operations and Projects Services. He assumed his current role in 2017. He has served on the board of the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association (2007–2013), as chairman of the board (2008–2013) and on the management committee of IOGP (International Association of Oil and Gas Producers) from 2012 to 2015. Vaage received a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering in 1987 and a Master of Science in reservoir engineering in 1991.
Plenary Keynote Speaker What are Your Key Challenges in Process Safety?
Trish Kerin
Director, Institution of Chemical Engineers Safety Centre
Trish Kerin is the director of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Safety Centre. After graduating with honors in mechanical engineering, Trish 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 and WorkSafe Victoria Major Hazards Advisory Committee, and she represented the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry to Safe Work Australia. She currently sits on the board of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and
Environmental Management Authority, and is a member of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center steering committee. 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 and a Fellow of Engineers 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 her peer-reviewed paper on process safety competency.
Abstract: The field of process safety is constantly evolving to the point that process safety is now being a recognized field of study and a recognized profession, but what does this mean for the future? The IChemE Safety Centre and the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center are leading a global project to map the future
of process safety. The starting point is to understand what the current challenges are so we can develop strategies to address them. In this interactive session you will be able to contribute your challenges in process safety. Have your say in what the future could look like.
How to participate: Text: You will be able to text your answers to the questions. Text ICHEMESAFETY to +61 429 883 481 once to register and then you will be able to text just the answers to that number to that number when asked. Smartphone App: Download the free Poll Everywhere app from the Apple App Store or
the Google Play Android store and log into ICHEMESAFETY to be able to submit answers when asked. Online: During the workshop go to pollev.com/ ichemesafety to be able to submit your answers when asked.
Overview for Design, Analysis and Justification to Implement High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems
Dr. Abdulrehman Aldeeb Chief Engineer, Process Safety Consulting Siemens LLC
Abstract: Dr. Abdulrehman Aldeeb is chief engineer and process safety consulting manager at Siemens Energy Inc. in Houston, Texas, where he is responsible for the Middle East region. He has 15 years of extensive experience in process safety management with focus on programs implementation, safety relief and disposal systems design and analysis, hazard identification and risk management, dispersion and consequence modeling, and runaway
reactions analysis. Aldeeb holds a B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.S. in environmental engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University. He has more than 25 published technical papers and represents Siemens on API, CCPS, MKOPSC, and AIChE DIERS technical committees. He is a member of the AIChE, IChemE and ACS.
High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPS) are installed to provide protection to critical equipment ranging from high/low pressure interfaces to equipment overpressure scenarios in upstream and downstream processes. Any of these conditions could result in damage to the plant, the environment, loss of life and financial consequences. To avert such an event, HIPPS generally shut down, reduce or divert the pressure sources feeding the system that is experiencing the overpressure. In those cases in which overpressure in a system causes a huge liquid or vapor relief load being sent to a flare system, the right HIPPS system can help reduce excessive load on an existing flare system and eliminate the high costs associated with purchasing new relief devices, resizing existing flare headers,
re-rating flare knockout drums, redesigning the flare stack, etc., in addition to the opportunity costs due to loss of operations. Currently, the approach is to design HIPPS for flare load reduction as a Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) or a SIL 2 SIF (depending on the code or company standard being followed). This work discusses how instead of taking the customary “one size performance fits all approaches,” the design could be based on a IEC 61511 Safety Lifecycle viewpoint to determine the required risk reduction and thereby choose the actual required SIL. This presentation will discuss current practices; review benefits and drawbacks of SIL selection in these scenarios; and describe the impact on total cost of ownership.
Dr. Emilio Alvarez Safety Research Lead, ExxonMobil Research Qatar
Dr. Emilio Alvarez is the Safety Research Program lead at ExxonMobil Research Qatar (EMRQ) and has been with ExxonMobil since 2007. He holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical and nuclear engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Alvarez was hired into the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company where he
conducted research in the areas of oil sands mining, gas treating, gas processing and process safety. As Safety Research Program Lead, Alvarez is processing multiple research projects related to risk assessment, source term and dispersion modeling, gas detection and imaging, and training simulation in digital environments.
ExxonMobil Research Qatar Safety Research Overview Abstract: ExxonMobil Research Qatar (EMRQ) was established to conduct research in areas of common interest to the State of Qatar and ExxonMobil, and these efforts support the goal of advancing science and technology through a number of projects in the areas of environmental management, water reuse, coastal geology and safety. The EMRQ Safety Research Program is advancing multiple projects in the areas of risk
and consequence analysis and digital training environments. The goals of the safety program are to develop and deploy safety and risk tools and technologies to improve detection, quantification, mitigation, and prevention of oil and gas safety events, while advancing safety research and technology in the State of Qatar through collaboration, publication, tool delivery and local education.
PSM: Practical Aspects of Implementation and Lessons Learned
Nadeem Ahmad Bashir HSE Manager, Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC)
Abstract: Nadeem Ahmad Bashir has 29 years of experience of working in leading multinational petrochemical processing industries in Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan. His major areas of work have been in HSE management, process safety management, plant operations, emergency management, risk assessment, HAZOPs, environmental management systems, HSE audits, environmental impact assessment, sustainable development and CSR. He obtained his chemical engineering degree from Punjab University Lahore (Pakistan) in 1987 and an environmental risk management diploma from NEBOSH (UK) in 2009. He is IEMA UK certified for EMS lead auditing and a certified CSR practitioner.
He is an industrial expert of the EIA review panel of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment in Qatar and has reviewed many large-scale petrochemical upstream and downstream projects in Qatar. He is also a member of steering committee of Mary Kay O’Conner Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Since September 1999, he has worked with Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC). Currently he is working as HSE manager in the company. Before joining QAFAC he worked with EQUATE Petrochemical Kuwait, and the Engro fertilizer and DH fertilizer companies in Pakistan.
Process safety management is an area of immense importance in the complex and highly hazardous petrochemical industry. Its importance was highlighted after some catastrophic incidents that occurred in the recent past. At Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC) safety is a core value; the realization of the importance of process safety led to the initiation of a program known as AMAN project.
1) Timely and customized approach, 2) Engagement of entire organization, 3) Governance and communication, and 4) Building risk management capabilities— task team approach. Phase one of the AMAN program initiated in the beginning of 2016 and completed all its milestones in a record period of time. Phase two will begin soon and many key elements of this program will be achieved by the end year 2017.
In the beginning of 2015 a safety perception survey was conducted with the help of an expert third party to access the process safety maturity culture within the entire organization. On the basis of the results of the survey, a complete three-phase program was launched all over the organization. AMAN program is based on four key principles:
During the exciting journey of AMAN program we have achieved many tangible results that greatly help us in attaining a positive safety culture across the organization. During the presentation I will cover many of these practical aspects of AMAN program, how the various elements of process safety management were implemented and what were the lessons learned.
A Case Study in Improving Process Safety by Integrating People, Processes and Technology and criticality analysis (FMEA/FMCA), fault tree analysis (FTA), layers of protection analysis (LOPA), safety integrity levels (SIL), process safety management and root cause analysis (RCA).
Mark Chambers
Director Sales and Marketing, AcuTech Software LLC
Mark Chambers is the director for Canada, Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for the AcuTech Software division, managing the global business opportunities for Enterprise Risk Management Solutions and Services. Chambers brings more than 25 years of software sales and consulting experience in the areas of risk management. He has supported some of the largest oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical and general manufacturing companies in the world. During his tenure he has consulted, advised and mentored clients on a broad range of risk management methodologies both at the operations level and Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) level on such topics as organizational and operational risk management, process hazards analysis, management of change, hazard and operability (HAZOP) study, failure modes effects analysis
As a consultant, Chambers has advised, trained and mentored many risk professionals throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East. He has spoken at regional workshops, conferences and webinars on topics specific to the challenges organizations continue to face with managing risk as it relates not only change within their certifications, but to their operations, projects, quality and employees. Recently Chambers became a Certified Change Management Professional (CMP) and combines this knowledge of behavioral and cultural change with his risk management background to help companies identify, adapt and manage change as it relates to implementing risk processes, procedures and new technology throught their business. He has working experience with various industry regulations—including ISO31000, ISO9001, AS9100, ISO13485 and TS16949—where he consulted, advised and audited various risk management and quality management systems as part of regulation compliance audits and to identify gaps within existing systems, processes and procedures that had room for improvement.
Abstract:
With the decline in oil prices, economic influences and global competition, companies are under immense pressure to do more with less, to maintain production with reduced operating budgets and personnel, ensure risk to the employee, operations and the environment is minimized as much as possible, and all while ensuring their systems, processes and procedures meet strict regulatory requirements and compliance. To achieve operational excellence, especially in PSM, organizations need to consider not only the skills of their auditors, but the processes, procedures and systems used by the workforce as part of a continuous process of assessment, validation, mitigation and alignment of safety risk to defined goals, delivering a clear mission with attainable objectives. The challenge however, is to manage risk proactively, while capturing vital knowledge from across the business, from the employees, managers, supervisors and to turn that knowledge into standardized repeatable results, ensuring todays organizations achieve and maintain operational excellence. As we can imagine, due to the size of today’s organizations and the volume of PSM audits they perform across their business, simple audits or disparate methods resulting in
siloed analyses and inaccurate data isn’t effective. The large amounts of “risk data” being generated by each audit team, must be compiled, normalized and reported against, providing resulting key information to the various stakeholders and executive team, site managers and owners, so they can make better informed decisions with respect to the safety and operations of their facilities. This operational excellence journey is best accomplished, not by managing disparaged systems, disconnected processes, outdated systems and manual data entry, but though the real-time capture of assessment and audit data as its happening in the field, delivering results to the team, presenting leading and lagging key performance indicators with metrics, intelligence and live detailed reports. Today’s organizations are required to access the information (including riskbased information and scoring/heat maps) inform, inspire and evaluate performance on a continual basis to achieve the culture of a high-performance organization. Having a PSM or OE culture depends on three core elements: the people, the processes and the IT systems used.
Committed to Push the Boundaries of Science for the Benefit of Process Safety: Ensuring Inherently Safer Designs by Understanding the Devastating Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) at Large Scales
Dr. Scott Davis
President and Principal Engineer, GexCon US
Abstract: Dr. Scott Davis is president of GexCon US and specializes in the engineering analysis and testing of combustion, thermal and fluid processes. Davis received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University. Davis is responsible for fire- and explosionrelated activities, which include post-incident investigative work, worldwide training and experimentation, as well as performing risk assessments and safety studies for oil and gas installations, petrochemical facilities, and various other industries. These studies include explosion risk assessment, blast and venting analyses, assessment of combustible
dust explosions, toxic/flammable gas releases and dispersion, hydrogen safety, ventilation, detector placement, and carbon monoxide dispersion. He has investigated hundreds of fire and explosions, and previously served on the technical committee for NFPA 921. Davis is a member of GexCon’s docents group, which develops and delivers worldwide industrial seminars to owners, operators, safety engineers and regulatory agencies on the hazards associated with gas explosions, dust explosions and LNG.
A large vapor cloud explosion is one of the most dangerous and high-consequence events that can occur at petrochemical facilities. As the size and complexity of facilities increase designs must consider the potential adverse effects associated with vapor cloud explosions in large congested areas and understand the potential for more devastating deflagrationto-detonation transitions (DDTs) on these facilities. While the likelihood of DDTs is lower than deflagrations, the consequences can be orders of magnitude larger and DDTs have been identified in some of the most recent large-scale explosion incidents including: 2005 Buncefield explosion and 2009 Jaipur event. Hence, it is critical to understand how a facility’s equipment layout can affect explosion consequences and assist in their mitigation
or prevention. However, most tools cannot accurately predict DDTs at the large scale, so owners cannot evaluate installations for risk of DDTs and provide “inherently safer” layouts. This talk will present the results of large-scale testing that has been conducted in a newly developed test rig of over 1,500 m3 to validate the necessary design tools used to predict the risk of DDT. This research was only possible through close collaboration between industry, government agencies, academia and research institutes. The results were novel and showed a key finding: that DDTs are more likely to occur than originally anticipated at the large scale. Understanding DDTs at these scales will assists owners in designing safer facilities.
Incident Investigations and Lessons Learned: Critical Elements of an Effective PSM Program
T.R. (Tom) Di Giacomo Refining and EHS Consultant, Saudi Aramco
Tom Di Giacomo (BSChE and MS Eng. Mgmt., Drexel University, USA) began his 38-year career in the oil industry in 1978. He worked as a process engineer for the Mobil Oil Corp.’s Paulsboro, N.J., refinery during the 1980s, followed by three years with Sun Oil Co. in Philadelphia as a reforming specialist, and then nine years as assistant operations manager at a neighboring Texaco New Jersey refinery. While in this latter role, his responsibilities expanded in 1993 to include mandatory plant-wide implementation of OSHA’s PSM regulations.
In 2000, he transitioned to Saudi Aramco’s 400 MBPD Ras Tanura Refinery as its Operations Engineering Division head, overseeing activities for approximately 80 staff personnel. Three years later, he became Refinery and EHS consultant in the company’s administrative area that supports the Kingdom’s five wholly owned refineries, three NGL and fractionation plants, and five domestic joint ventures. His major focus since 2008 has been on Aramco’s Refining Process Safety Management Program.
Abstract: Effective incident investigations are, without a doubt, critical in ensuring that proactive plans are in place, causal factors are properly identified, and the root and general causes for each identified. Just as important is that the lessons learned are shared throughout one’s own organization—and industry, if appropriate—in an effort to minimize the potential of any similar incidents from reoccurring. Do we really learn from our mistakes? Is it better to learn from others’ mistakes? Why do similar incidents seem to reoccur about every 10 years? This presentation highlights the methodology used by the world’s largest energy company
in addressing these issues. While a few key incidents that have shaped the art of incident investigation are cursorily examined, the major focus is on recent, real incidents that have occurred in the downstream industry. How and why did they occur, and what needs to be done to reduce their reoccurrence? Should confidentiality issues supersede the moral responsibility to share lessons learned in an effort to save lives? These and other important questions will be raised, and answered based upon the presenter’s almost 40 years of industry experience.
changes related to all Qatargas OPCO assets (process, facilities and mechanical).
Mahmoud Sami Diab
Reliability and Maintenance Support Engineering Division Manager, Qatargas
Mahmoud Sami Diab received the Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering (majoring in gas treatment) from Qatar University in 2000. In 2001, he joined Qatargas Company’s Onshore Operations Department in the Inlet Receiving Area and LNG Loading Facility as shift supervisor where he was responsible for production activities and ensuring safe operation practices. In 2006 (April until December), he joined Chiyoda Technip Joint Venture (CTJV) Engineering in Yokohama, Japan, for QG 3&4 development project and process operations support. In 2007, he moved to the Projects and Facilities Support Engineering Division under the Engineering Department as a lead facilities engineer leading a group of engineers for providing studies/support for all management of
In 2014, he moved to the Reliability and Maintenance Support Engineering Division as lead maintenance support engineer and in January 2016, he was promoted to Reliability and Maintenance Support Engineering Division manager. His recent activities include managing the Reliability and Maintenance Engineering Support Division, and implementing sustainable and structured maintenance improvement processes based on reliability-centered techniques in order to insure the integrity and optimized reliability and availability of all Qatargas OPCO assets. He currently manages a division consisting of 40 engineers/lead engineers and is responsible for providing engineering support to construction, commissioning and startup activities, including reliability engineering and spares management ensuring seamless transition from project team to Operations. The team includes dedicated resources to cover Obsolescence Management Processrelated activities.
Root Cause Failure Analysis: Effective Tool for Management of Process Safety and Asset Integrity – An SRU Furnace Incident Case study Abstract: Root Cause Failure Analysis is a key element of Process Safety Management (PSM) to ensure structural improvement and preventing reoccurrence of incidents, and encourages a safety culture that allows risk reduction to be managed.
O2 of air. A failure of the internal refractory resulted in the loss of primary containment and triggered an RCFA, which subsequently face-lifted the identification of the failed barriers and mitigations required to ensure process safety and asset integrity.
A recent incident with a furnace failure at one of the sulphur recovery units (SRU) in Qatargas raised the process safety concern of firing equipment. It was address through integration of RCFA process, integrity management process, process surveillance and HAZOP revalidation.
The subject case study provides an insight in to the criticality of process safety equipment, related integrity treats, potential failure mechanism and its mitigations. Considering the mix of potential participant of event, this presentation will stimulate more in-depth technical discussion among the participants and bring valuable knowledge and experience for the industries.
At Qatar Gas, the QG-1 is the oldest in operation for more than 20 years. F901 is a rurnace with main combustion chamber in SRU-1, which converts about one-third of incoming H2S to SO2 by oxidizing it with
Are We There Yet?
Wahyu Hidayat
Head of Loss Prevention Engineering, Qatargas Operating Company Ltd.
Abstract: Wahyu Hidayat is currently the head of Loss Prevention Engineering in Qatargas. He has more than 18 years of work experience in multinational oil and gas companies. Prior to joining Qatargas in 2008, Hidayat worked for Unocal, DuPont and Chevron in various positions in production, facility engineering, drilling, project development and loss prevention. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical
engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia) and a master’s degree in SHE technology from National University of Singapore. He is also NEBOSH-certified for oil and gas operational safety and fire and risk management and holds a certified functional safety professional certification. Co-author: Vincent Hoe Bok Kai, Head of Operations Excellence, Qatargas Operating Company Ltd.
Throughout more than two decades of its operation, Qatargas continuously evolved and embraced various aspects of process safety, its implementation and outcomes. This presentation highlights the journey that Qatargas embarked on to ensure process safety. It also reviews the lessons we learned, our current and ongoing focuses on how we manage and accomplish our process safety expectations, and discusses the distinctive challenges and opportunities we face as we evolve. While we have achieved a commendable record in safety, we believe that there is no reason to be complacent and that we should always maintain a sense of vulnerability. Sustaining and improving our processes remain our key focus.
We will highlight a management system approach to process safety that comprehensively tackles process safety-related elements in all parts of the organization. Our next steps for sustaining and improving the process safety performance include more emphasis on process safety leadership and culture, robust risk management process and barrier management. Are we there yet? Instead, our leadership team asks the question: “How can we be better?” and “How can we reach a little higher?” This process safety journey never ends; it is just our way of operating our assets.
Dr. Oliver Heynes
Co-founder & CEO, Insight Numerics
Dr. Oliver Heynes is the co-founder of Insight Numerics and lead developer of industryleading fire and gas mapping software, Detect3D. Prior to Insight Numerics, Dr. Heynes worked as a CFD consultant for technical safety applications following on from
his Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics from The University of Manchester, UK. He now spends his time developing a new suite of CFD software products from the head office of Insight Numerics in Boston, Mass., USA.
The Future of Geographical and Scenario-based Fire and Gas Mapping Abstract: The technology underlying the assessment of flame and gas detector coverage has undergone significant advances in recent years, yet the most dramatic changes are still to come. For several years, the standard method for Fire and Gas Mapping, known as the “geographical” method, has been the only one in practical use. With advances in CAD integration, accurate ray casting and optimization, further developments of the geographic method will likely be small and incremental. The competing method of coverage assessment, that uses computational models of gas leaks and fires to predict
detector response, is known as “scenariobased” coverage, and is where almost all future technological advancements in Fire and Gas Mapping will lie. Major technical hurdles still need to be overcome for scenariobased assessment to be of practical use, and there is currently no regulatory framework or accepted methodologies for its use. The presentation will review the current state of the art for geographical coverage assessment, and present recent advances in CFD technology that will soon be available for scenario-based coverage assessments.
Christophe Lion
Technical Integrity and Major Risk Manager, Total E&P Qatar
A graduate in process engineering, Christophe Lion started his career on the contractor side, first in engineering team, then in construction and finally in the commissioning department. After this first part, he switched to company side within Total Group. He took several positions within the field operation team: mass balance and production performance team, Operation Coordination department, and
finally production manager in Gabon. Since 2016, Lion has taken a new position within HSE branch: major risk and asset integrity manager. Lion has worked in several countries mainly in Africa but also in Asia, and has experience in the construction yard, production site and support team onshore.
Major Risk Management in Total Abstract: Many industrial sites operated by Total Group present technological risks due either to the toxic, explosive, or flammable characteristics of the products used or to the processes involved. Being aware of and managing these risks is necessary to continually improve
safety. This presentation aims at showing the way Total evaluates and manages these risks (Identification of hazards, preliminary evaluation of risks, detailed analysis of risks, results-based actions) in order to reach ALARP in its operations.
Risk-based Design and Evaluation of Pressure Relief and Flare Systems
Michael McDowell
Safety & Risk Management Consultant, ioMosaic, Bahrain
Abstract: Michael McDowell is a safety and risk management consultant currently working in ioMosaic’s Bahrain facility. McDowell is focused on pressure relief and flare relief system design, and analysis for large chemical and petrochemical companies both in the United States and Middle East. His experience includes process safety research, program development and project management, with
focused expertise on emergency relief systems design, construction and facility siting, LNG safety research. He engages every project using his knowledge of PRFS codes and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEP) to help develop project guideline for PRFS projects. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University at Qatar.
Recent updates to pressure relief system design Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practice (RAGAGEP) include provision for risk based overpressure protection. Although risk-based approaches are not new, the recent RAGAGEP provides additional guidance and criteria. This study presents a practical risk-based approach to pressure relief and effluent handling system design and a supporting case study that results in safe and cost effective design. Risk-based pressure relief and effluent handling system design begins with identification of overpressure scenarios. The foundation of the risk based approach leverages existing Process Hazard Analysis techniques (PHAs) and risk tolerability criteria already implemented at
Process Safety Management (PSM) covered facilities. Integrating the pressure relief system design into existing PSM practices reduces the effort and cost of developing and maintaining relief system design basis documentation, and focuses the designers’ intent on improving plant safety. Additionally using a risk-based approach to relief system design will allow for more time to be spent on categories that have typically required more attention and are often overlooked when evaluating these systems, but are now becoming essential to evaluate to ensure compliance with RAGEGEP. This risk-based approach to pressure relief system design ensures adequate overpressure protection systems and sound investment in human and capital resources focused on risk reduction.
Dr. M. 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, 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 Łódź 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.
A Journey to Excellence in PSM
William R. Denney Jr. Technical Manager, ConocoPhillips Qatar
William R. Denney Jr. is the technical manager for ConocoPhillips Qatar. Denney has 29 years of engineering, operational, projects, management and supervision experience. He has held numerous engineering, operations and management positions in the Permian Basin, Middle East, North Sea and Houston. Denney joined the company in 1988 as an engineer in Midland, Texas. He moved to Dubai in 2000 to became lead engineer for operating unit support and became projects supervisor for the Dubai business unit in 2005. In 2006, he was engineering manager
for Britannia JV in Aberdeen, Scotland, working to integrate a major capital project into Britannia and support operations. In 2010, Denney accepted the role of production manager for the central north sea in Aberdeen, Scotland, and became general manager central North Sea in 2013. In 2014, Denney was named director of operations excellence position in Houston with responsibility for global operations excellence. Raised in Texas, Denney earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1987.
Quantitative Safety Assessment of Hydrocarbon Transportation Pipelines
Dr. Sergey Martynov
Senior Research Associate, Chemical Engineering Department, University College London
Abstract: Dr. Sergey Martynov received his M.Sc. in technical physics from Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University) in 1998 and his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Brighton (UK) for computational modeling of hydrodynamic cavitation. He has worked at various times as an engineer, researcher and teaching fellow at the Heat Transfer Laboratory at the Institute of High Temperatures in Moscow; Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Brighton; and departments of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering at University College
London. His current research interests are in the fields of mathematical modeling and simulation of the heat transfer and fluid flow during normal operation, and accidental failure of pressurised pipelines transporting compressible fluids. He is a post-doctoral researcher on the National Priority Research Program (NPRP) project, “Quantitative Safety Assessment of Hydrocarbon Transportation Pipelines” funded by the Qatar National Research fund and in collaboration with the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar.
Pipelines represent the most cost-effective means of long-distance transportation of large quantities of natural gas and petroleum products. In Qatar an extensive network of transmission and distribution pipelines provides hydrocarbons to its power plants, heavy industry and offshore export. Since many hydrocarbons are highly flammable and toxic, the safe design and operation of hydrocarbon pipelines becomes vital for the well-being of people, protection of the environment and the country economic prosperity. The present work — involving international collaboration of researchers and supported by stakeholders and safety legislators — is focused on development and validation of rigorous and reliable mathematical tools urgently needed
to accurately assess and improve the safety of high-pressure hydrocarbon transportation pipelines. In particular, the computational models are developed to predict the transient discharge rate and assess the major consequences of accidental rupture of a pipeline, and, in the turn, to provide the data for evaluation of the minimum safe distances to populated areas/ surrounding equipment to enable strategic positioning of inline emergency shutdown valves and emergency response planning. To validate the pipeline discharge model a number of blowdown tests characterising the transient evolution of the fluid pressure, temperature and phase composition, will be performed using a fully instrumented, purpose-built test pipeline.
Nepu Saha
Research Assistant, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Nisa Ulumuddin
Graduate Student, Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar Graduate Research Assistant, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Nepu Saha is a research assistant at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Qatar. His research focuses on chemical reaction hazards and consequence analysis of LNG spills on water. Nepu obtained his M.S. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M at Qatar in 2016 and a B.Sc. in chemical engineering 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).
Nisa Ulumuddin is a graduate student at Texas A&M at Qatar and a graduate a research assistant at the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar. She has a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M at Qatar. Her research focuses on the modeling of LNG spills on land. 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 Ras Laffan and Emergency Safety College. She is the recipient of the 2016 QPSS Process Safety Excellence Award for Students.
Progress in LNG Safety research in Qatar Abstract: One of the challenges in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry is the assessment of the risks associated with its accidental spill. To assess the consequence of an accidental spill of LNG, its source-term must be correctly modeled. Significant work is still required in the area of LNG pool spreading and vaporization to validate existing source-term models. The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center in collaboration with Qatar Petroleum has designed a state-of-the-art large-scale experiment facility at Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College (RLESC). Training prop-
05 (TP-05) at RLESC is equipped with the means to conduct experiments of cryogenic spills on concrete and water. This presentation will provide the current results of a series of liquid nitrogen (LN2) spill experiments in TP-05. LN2 was spilled onto a concrete pit to measure vaporization and pool spreading. An experiment was also done on seawater as a spill substrate to measure its vaporization rate. Pictures and videos of the experiment will be shown in the presentation.
Shaikh M. Nawayd
Graduate Student, Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar Graduate Research Assistant, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Ibrahim Lokmane Daoudi
Graduate Student, Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar Graduate Research Assistant, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Moustafa Ali
Graduate Student, Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar Graduate Research Assistant, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Nawayd Shaikh, Ibrahim Lokmane Daoudi and Moustafa Ali joined Texas A&M at Qatar in August 2016 as graduate students in the Master of Science program in chemical engineering. They are currently also working as graduate research assistants for the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar. Nawayd Shaikh holds a Bachelor of Science in Petrochemical Engineering from University of Pune.
Ibrahim Daoudi got his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Qatar University in 2015. Moustafa Ali got his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering with Honors from Qatar University in 2016. He was the recipient of ORYX GTL Best Thesis Award for Students in 2016.
Review and Analysis of Incidents in the World Since QPSS 2016 by MKOPSC-Q Students Abstract: Since 2013, the students of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar have used QPSS as an opportunity to present to symposium attendees an overview of the major incidents that occurred in the world over the past year. For QPSS 2017, this exercise was reconducted, and three students—Nawayd Shaikh, Ibrahim Lokmane Daoudi and Moustafa Ali—will
provide a comprehensive overview of the major incidents that occurred in the world since the April 2016. A brief description of the circumstances, the causes and the consequences of the incidents will be provided. The cases reviewed will be supported with pictures and videos where available for some these incidents.
Five Simple Steps for Assessing the Robustness of your PSM Program Michael J. Snakard
Abstract:
Managing Director, Snakard Consulting Group
Michael J. Snakard has more than 25 years of experience in design, permitting, startup and/ or safe operation of industrial facilities. He has extensive process engineering experience and his expertise is in the assessment and management of process safety risks. Snakard is very knowledgeable in process safety management, NFPA standards related to life safety, loss prevention engineering, and ASME, ANSI Standards and API recommended practices related to overpressure protection. Snakard lived in Qatar from 2004 to 2010 and continues to undertake projects and
lead continuing education courses in Qatar through Snakard Consulting Group. He has lead of HAZID, HAZOP, SIMOPs, LOPA reviews, SIL assessments, qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, design reviews, PSM audits and other process safety and loss prevention related projects. He has worked in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and Australia. He has a B.S. in chemical engineering from Villanova University and an MBA from the University of Houston.
Companies currently have two tools for assessing their process safety management (PSM) programs. The first is the use of compliance audits to assess each individual element of their program. The second is the use of key performance indicators (KPIs) that allow companies to quickly measure their performance against past performance and preset goals. When done thoroughly, compliance audits are very effective at providing a critical assessment of each PSM element. However, compliance audits are time consuming and require auditors to review process safety management procedures that have been in place for years and audited several times in the past. The use of KPIs is very effective in helping companies assess and improve specific aspects of their PSM programs, but only provide information on those aspects the company has decided to monitor.
This paper provides companies with five simple steps for assessing the robustness of their PSM programs. This five-step process works for 14-element PSM programs, such as the U.S. OSHA PSM regulation, or 20-element risk-based PSM programs, as is discussed in the CCPS Guidelines for Risk based Process Safety. The tool is based on the premise that the PSM elements are interrelated and build off one another in a single management system and combines the thoroughness of a compliance audit with the focus and efficiency of the KPI data collection process. This five-step process will provide companies with a quick assessment of the robustness of their PSM program but is not intended to replace compliance audits or KPIs. Rather it is intended to provide companies with another tool in developing a robust program, improving process safety culture and reducing process safety risks.
Dr. Luc N. Véchot
Associate 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 associate professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar and the managing director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar. He obtained a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de SaintÉtienne (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 university.
Véchot has worked on process safetyrelated research topics for the past 10 years in collaborations 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 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. 23 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 of
developing 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 and the Middle East.
POSTERS
Study of the Effect of Salinity and Temperature of Sea Water on the Vaporization Rate of Cryogenic Liquid Nepu Saha, Nisa Ulumuddin and Tomasz Olewski Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar Approaches to Calculate the Maximum Gas Generation Rate of Gas-generating Systems Under Runaway Conditions Nepu Saha, Marcelo Castier and Luc Véchot Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar Source Term Modeling of Cryogenic Liquid Spill on Concrete Nepu Saha, Nisa Ulumuddin and Tomasz Olewski Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar Risk Assessment of H2S Release by Coupling CFD and Evacuation Models Atif M. Ashraf, Christos D. Argyropoulos and Konstantinos E. Kakosimos Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar
Piper Alpha: The Wakeup Call for the Offshore Industry Ibrahim Daoudi, Nawayd Shaikh and Moustafa Ali Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar Port of Tianjin Explosion, China, 2015 Noof Abdalla, Abd Elrahman Elshorbagy, Manar Oqbi Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering Buncefield Explosion, UK, 2005 Shameel Abdulla, Osama Desouky Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering Deepwater Horizon Disaster, US, 2010 Yossra Osman, Sara Al-Khal, Kaltam Alkaabi, Radwa Attia Abdou Attia Soelem Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering Investigating Explosion Characteristics of Sulfur Dust from Qatar Industries Husnain Manzoor, Jasir Jawad, Muhammad Hamza, Wajdi Ahmed, Atif M. Ashraf Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering
EXHIBITORS
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 3500 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 (Global EXplosion CONsultants) is a world-leading company in the field of safety and risk management specializing in advanced dispersion, explosion, and fire modeling. Gexcon’s engineers have detailed knowledge of explosion phenomena from years of extensive research projects and performing safety assessments, accident investigations, and physical testing. Gexcon has its own dedicated lab and large-scale testing facilities in Norway and the USA, through their partnership with SRI in California. Gexcon’s combination of consulting, experimental testing, and R&D capabilities make it a unique firm offering safety and risk services. As a leader in explosion phenomena, Gexcon has been involved in the investigation of many high-profile
At Insight Numerics, we are passionate about finding simple, elegant solutions to complex problems in the oil and gas safety industry. Our software products are used by companies all over the world helping them reduce costs and save time through sleekly designed user interfaces around original and groundbreaking numerical algorithms. Our flagship product, Detect3D, has revolutionized the practice of positioning of fire and gas detectors. Detect3D is the first fully three-dimensional fire and gas mapping software product for you to use on projects in-house. You can make use of our automatic optimization using Genetic Algorithms or manually position detectors and receive instant feedback of coverage values for your layout. All major CAD types can be imported into Detect3D allowing for seamless integration with project work.
accidents such as the Buncefield Explosion, Piper Alpha Explosion, TWA 800 Explosion, Upper Big Branch Coal Mine Explosion, CAPECO Explosion, and the Cidade de São Mateus and P-36 platform offshore Explosions in Brazil. Leaders in the oil and gas industry and safety engineers at major hazard facilities consistently request Gexcon’s services to provide them with the expertise to manage their fire and explosion hazards. Gexcon develops the industry-leading FLACS® (Flame Acceleration Simulator) software for modelling consequences from loss of containment scenarios (flammable & toxic gas, liquid, or two-phase mix) and dust explosions. FLACS is the leading explosion safety CFD software and is used extensively in the oil and gas industry (approximately 150 companies) as well as nuclear safety, LNG, onshore petrochemical plants, and other industries in which facilities store or process hazardous materials. Gexcon’s strong R&D capabilities allow it to implement and validate new models in FLACS in conjunction with industry and academic partners. With offices in Europe, USA, Middle East, India, Australia, Indonesia and China, Gexcon can assist you with training, simulation software, or advisory services that include hazard identification, consequence analyses, and risk analyses. Together with our clients, we find the optimal solution to meet your needs and your company’s safety performance goals.
At QPSS we will be announcing the addition of a dispersion model to Detect3D as well as our second product, InFlux, a CFD software product that analyses fluid dispersion within complex geometries. It is aimed at engineers who have previously reviewed CFD results, but have not carried out the CFD analysis themselves. InFlux seamlessly adds a CFD capability to organizations that have previously out-sourced prior dispersion modeling projects Please contact info@insightnumerics.com or stop by our booth with any questions.
Whether your company is looking for help correcting known deficiencies or striving to improve an already robust HSSE program, Snakard Consulting Group has the expertise you need to get you where you want to be. AcuTech Consulting Group (AcuTech) is a specialty-consulting firm with a unique background in process safety, facility security, risk assessment, and emergency and contingency planning; providing our clients with practical, cost effective solutions to successfully meet the challenges of contemporary risk management. Since 1994, AcuTech has supported clients ranging from the world’s largest chemical and petrochemical companies to smaller, more specialized, private and national industries. AcuTech also provides subject matter expertise and ongoing support to national and local government programs, and international organizations. In addition, AcuTech offers their expertise in the form of specialized training and tailored software products to assist companies with continuous improvement to their safety, security, environmental, and production practices. Our extensive project experience includes ‘all-hazards’ events, emergency management planning, homeland security strategic planning, risk management services, security services both on- and off- shore, threat assessment, security risk assessments (SRA), executive protection, security plan development, critical infrastructure protection (CIP), business continuity planning (BCP), crisis management, and chemical process safety. We provide practical, cost effective solutions to manage operational risks. We provide training and consulting services covering the spectrum of these planning and response areas. AcuTech has an in-depth knowledge that spans numerous industries and we work closely with trade organizations and government agencies involved with critical risk issues.
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 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 the goal of preventing 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, 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.
Consulting Services: Process Safety Management Program development, Auditing, Process Hazards Analysis Facilitation (HAZID / HAZOP / LOPA / SIL / SIMOPs, etc.), Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) Environmental Management and Compliance Training Courses offered: Process Safety Management for Managers, Process Safety Management for Practitioner’s, HAZOP Facilitation, HAZOP LOPA Facilitation, Loss Prevention Engineering, Auditing and Process Engineering Fundamentals, and others Engineering: Loss Prevention Engineering, Relief System Design, Inherent Safer Design Review and BAT/BATNEEC and BOEO Assessments Resource: US and Middle East based staff, Onsite Support and back office support through our partner company in India
AcumenMobile is a state of the art In-field Safety, Quality Assurance and Compliance Management Solution for the Oil & Gas Industries. Utilizing the latest Smartphone technologies and enterprise class hosted software, AcumenMobile will deliver a comprehensive and secure solution to any infield safety and compliance requirement. Focusing on worker safety and wellbeing, project compliance and quality assurance, Acumen will support your organization in delivering a safer and compliant working site for all concerned. With over 45,000 users globally — and developed specifically for the Oil and Gas Industries — we have an established track record of delivering solutions that exceed business expectations and deliver value and safety. Acumen solutions are at the center of operations for organizations such as National Grid Gas Distribution, National Grid Operations & Maintenance and Northern Gas Networks, along with major construction companies such as Amey, Skanska and Balfour Beatty. Utilizing smartphones, tablets and intrinsically safe devices, Acumen solutions ensures engineers, management and HSE experts can gather requirements, record issues, assign actions and resolve problems in real time. Whilst, the integrated management enterprise portals, deliver complete transparency of onsite activity in real time.
Snakard Consulting Group (SCG) is a Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) consulting company assisting industrial facilities protect workers, manage environmental impacts and minimize the likelihood and consequence of catastrophic accidents. SCG is a well-known industry leader in the areas of Process Safety Management, Loss Prevention, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Risk Assessment/Risk Management. Snakard Consulting Group has been working in Qatar since 2013 and has completed projects and provided specialty training courses for Fortune 500 and multinational clients in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
At the heart of Acumen Safety and Quality Assurance software capabilities is the real-time management of worker safety, wellbeing and process compliance. Acumen software will ensure your team can record Safety, Quality and Compliance issues on site in real-time. Issues and non compliances can be raised with photographic evidence - and assigned to responsible people for resolution. Through real time data capture, scheduling and site management; Acumen solutions will enable your business to improve safety, control compliance and deliver greater worker wellbeing.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Texas A&M Qatar members:
ConocoPhillips Qatar members:
William R. Denney Jr. Technical Manager
Dr. Luc N Véchot Associate Professor and Managing Director Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center - Qatar
Lesley Kriewald
Communications Manager
Sarah Mroueh
Communications and Public Affairs Manager
Dr. Clementina Ramirez Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center - Qatar
Carol Nader Events Manager
Hamda Al Kuwari
Events and Design Coordinator
Hamad Farooqi
Administrative Coordinator, Chemical Engineering Program
Dr. Marcelo Castier Professor Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center - Qatar
The organizing committee would like to thank the student and staff members of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar for their precious help and support for the symposium: Dr. Tomasz Olewski, Atif Ashraf, Nisa Ulumuddin, Nepu Saha, Ibrahim Daoudi, Nawayd Shaikh, Moustafa Hussein, Mohamed Al AlMahroos, Rashid Al-Muhannadi, Abdulla Al-Mohannadi, Ali Mansoor and Mohammad Raza.
THE KEY TO SAFETY The presentations are available on the QPSS website
qpss.qatar.tamu.edu Use the password below
IWAS@QPSS2017