qpss.qatar.tamu.edu
HUMAN ERROR HAPPENS
How do we overcome the inevitable?
WELCOME J. Todd Creeger
President, ConocoPhillips Qatar
Texas A&M University at Qatar, ConocoPhillips, and Qatargas warmly welcome you to the Qatar Process Safety Symposium 2019. Continuous engagement is key to the development of operational standards that align with international best practices. The long-standing and collaborative relationship between Texas A&M University at Qatar and ConocoPhillips has been defined by a shared commitment to dialogue, transparency, and social responsibility.
Khalid Al-Hemaidi
Chief Operating Officer, Health Safety Environment & Quality, Qatargas
Dr. César O. Malavé
Dean, Texas A&M University at Qatar
Qatargas, a flagship national institution, reflects these same values and joins as industry partner of the symposium. Together, we want to emphasize our sincerest gratitude towards our collaborators as both friends and colleagues. We continue to support one another in our ability to carefully reflect on current procedures and implement proactive safety standards. Protecting people and environment is a foundational principle for each of our organizations. We aim to prevent all accidents, but we must limit their consequences when they do happen. This unequivocal commitment guides our local, regional, and international activities. Qatar’s rapid industry expansion follows the
country’s commitment to the aspirations outlined in Qatar National Vision 2030. This year, we acknowledge human error as an inevitable event. While recognizing this, we must work to reduce these occurrences, and more importantly, work towards the overall design of processes to minimize the effects of human error. We are collectively confident that we can make meaningful strides towards innovative methods of prevention and mitigation that include failsafe design in the process industry. Since 2010, this symposium has garnered support from the local community as it gradually advances knowledge and provides a platform to share our experiences for the improvement of process safety. Today, we proudly commemorate a decade of collaboration between industry and academia. Thank you for your contribution to the process safety dialogue. Over the course of the next two days, we look forward to engaging in informative discussions that can benefit both you and your organizations.
AGENDA
Sunday, 14 April 2019 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
11:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Track I: Process safety culture Chair: Dr. Stephanie Payne
Track II: Human factors engineering Chair: Dr. Tomasz Olewski
Dr. Zsuzsanna Gyenes IChemE “Presenting creeping changes via case studies”
Aleksander Pachole ATEST-GAS “The Sigma Gas ‘Green Light,’ a design philosophy for enhanced human interfaces in gas detection systems”
Registration, refreshments, poster session, exhibitions
11:45 – 12:15 p.m.
Mike Snakard S. Balasubramaniasamy Snakard Consulting Sankaraiah “PHA and process safety culture” iFluids Engineering “Human error elimination through customized configuration in distributed control systems”
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch and networking
Morning plenary session Chair: Dr. Tomasz Olewski 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Memorial for Dr. M. Sam Mannan Dr. Tomasz Olewski, Dr. Simon Waldram, Dr. Luc Véchot
8:45 – 8:50 a.m.
QPSS opening video
8:50 – 8:55 a.m.
Welcome Dr. César O. Malavé Dean, Texas A&M University at Qatar
8:55 – 9 a.m.
Welcome Todd Creeger President, ConocoPhillips Qatar
9 – 9:15 a.m.
Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony and Qatargas welcome Khalid Al-Hemaidi Chief Operating Officer, Health Safety Environment & Quality, Qatargas
9:15 – 9:25 a.m.
Awards ceremony Todd Creeger, Khalid Al-Hemaidi, Dr. César O. Malavé
9:25 – 9:30 a.m.
Keynote address Dr. Ali Al-Mulla Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting “10th Year Anniversary of QPSS”
9:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Coffee break, poster session, exhibitions
9:45 – 11 a.m.
Keynote presentation Dr. Todd Conklin Human & Organization Performance Consulting “The place where humans meet processes”
11 – 11:15 a.m.
Coffee break, poster session, exhibitions
Track III: Process safety culture Chair: Dr. Stephanie Payne
Track IV: Human factors engineering Chair: Dr. Tomasz Olewski
Nadeem Ahmad Bashir QAFAC “QAFAC process safety culture evaluation”
Dr. Fadwa Eljack Qatar University “Application of i-SDT for reducing risks associated with human factors”
1:45 – 2:15 p.m.
Michael Newman Coventry University, UK “How safe is your culture? Going beyond safety report data”
Rasim Qureshi QAPCO “Safety in design during engineering phases”
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Coffee break, poster session, exhibitions
1:15 – 1:45 p.m.
Afternoon plenary session Chair: William Denney 2:30 – 3 p.m.
Dr. Stephanie Payne Texas A&M University, USA “The relative influence of national culture compared to safety culture on workplace safety”
3 – 4 p.m.
Panel discussion 1 Dr. Todd Conklin, Khalid Al-Hemaidi, Dr. Stephanie Payne, Dr. Zsuzsanna Gyenes “Human error happens. How do we overcome the inevitable?” Chair: William Denney
4 p.m.
End of the first day
Monday, 15 April 2019 8 – 8:30 a.m.
Registration, refreshments, poster session, exhibitions Morning plenary session Chair: Dr. Tomasz Olewski
10:45 – 11:15 a.m.
Track V: Process safety competency Chair: Dr. Tomasz Olewski
Track VI: Human factors in safety management systems Chair: Atif Ashraf
Jack Altwal MKOPSC-Q “Influence of particle size on sulfur dust explosion properties”
Ryan Price Q-Chem “Utilizing three points of control to prevent worker fatalities”
Rajeev Kumar ioMosaic “Process safety competency”
Dr. Konstantinos E. Kakosimos Texas A&M University at Qatar “The human factor in emergency response and evacuation” Praveen Dhote Siemens “An approach to improve process safety management audits”
8:30 – 8:40 a.m.
Keynote address Jacques de Bruijn Process Safety and Risk Manager, Qatargas
8:40 – 9:25 a.m.
Keynote presentation Mohamed Basser and Amar Al Khuzaei Dolphin Energy Qatar “Journey through the safety culture at Dolphin Energy Qatar”
9:25 – 10:30 a.m.
Keynote presentation Dr. Steve Jarvis “From CEO to torque wrench: The perilous journey of the safety initiative, from boardroom to the everyday worker, and how to make it work”
11:45 – 12:15 p.m.
Dr. Luc Véchot Texas A&M University at Qatar “Building process safety competency: Challenges and opportunities”
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Coffee break, poster session, exhibitions
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch and networking
11:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Afternoon plenary session Chair: Dr. Luc Véchot 1:15 – 1:45 p.m.
Review and analysis of incidents in the world since QPSS 2018 by MKOPSC-Q students Wafa Imran, Ola Srour, Neil Adia
1:45 – 2:15 p.m.
Dr. Simon Waldram Waldram Consultants Limited “Discovering the nuggets of gold—and being a wise custodian”
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Coffee break, poster session, exhibitions
2:30 – 3 p.m.
Dr. Todd Conklin Podcast Podcast
3 – 3:50 p.m.
3:50 – 4 p.m.
Panel discussion 2 “10 years of journey through Qatar process safety culture and human performance development” Dr. Steve Jarvis, Dr. Luc Véchot, William Denney, Mohamed Basser Chair: Dr. Simon Waldram And the winner is …
SPEAKERS
Keynote Address Speaker
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His Excellency Dr. Ali Hamed Al Mulla
Khalid Al-Hemaidi
Assistant Secretary General for Industrial Projects Sector Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting
His Excellency Dr. Ali Hamed Al-Mulla is Assistant Secretary General for Industrial Projects Sector at the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) representing the State of Qatar. Before joining GOIC, H.E. Dr. Al-Mulla was the Director of the Central Administration of Health, Safety and Environment at Qatar Petroleum (QP) for 12 years. H.E. has more than 25 years of experience in various prominent positions, notably Vice Chairman of the General Authority of Civil Aviation from 2001 to 2004 and the Director of the Qatar Meteorology Department (QMD). H.E. Dr. Al-Mulla has a
B.Sc. in professional meteorology, climatology and atmospheric sciences from St. Louis University in Missouri, U.S. He was the first Qatari to major and graduate in this field in 1986. He also has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Boston University, U.S. He has taken part in several international conferences and has many peer-reviewed (refereed) scientific researches. H.E. Dr. Al-Mulla has played a key role in establishing the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University at Qatar, serving as the chair of the MKOPSC steering committee.
Chief Operating Officer, Health Safety Environment & Quality Qatargas
Khalid Al-Hemaidi is currently the Chief Operating Officer Health Safety Environment and Quality at Qatargas.
Manager, Barzan Asset Manager, LNG Train 1, 2 & Helium Asset Manager, and Offshore Asset Manager.
He has more than 20 years of experience in oil and gas operations and project activities with both Qatar Petroleum and RasGas in the fields of maintenance, engineering, offshore and onshore operations, and expansion projects.
Appointed as Manufacturing Manager in 2011, Al-Hemaidi was responsible for all operations associated with 7 LNG trains, sales gas trains, offshore production facilities and Helium plants.
He joined QP in 1989 and later transferred to RasGas in 2001 as an Integrity Engineer and has subsequently successfully handled various assignments, including Offshore Installation
Al-Hemaidi holds a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the University of Hull, UK, and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Keynote Speaker, Panelist Dr. Todd Conklin
Human & Organization Performance Consulting
Dr. Todd Conklin spent 25 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a senior advisor for organizational and safety culture. Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the world’s foremost research and development laboratories; Conklin spent most of this time working with human performance and reliability programs. It is in this fortunate position where he enjoys the best of both the academic world and the world of safety in practice. Conklin holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of New Mexico. He has authored several best-selling books, including Pre-Accident Investigations and The 5 Principles of Human Performance. He speaks all over the world to executives, groups and work teams who
are interested in better understanding the relationship between the workers in the field and the organization’s systems, processes, and programs. Conklin hosts the award-winning Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast. He has brought these systems to major corporations around the world. Conklin practices these ideas not only in his own workplace, but also in the event investigations at other workplaces around the world. He defines safety at his workplace like this: “Safety is the ability for workers to be able to do work in a varying and unpredictable world.” Conklin lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and thinks that human performance is the most meaningful work he has ever had the opportunity to live and teach.
“The place where humans meet processes” Abstract: “Engineering is easy, people make this job hard.” For decades, we have thought that a good safety program was reflected by how many days an organization went without having an accident. Wrong! This is a myth and an antiquated concept—this failing paradigm is not helpful in managing performance reliability. Accidents, incidents, and potential disasters may lurk around every corner or may be staring you right in the face. Thinking differently about safety—and how we define safety success— changes the way our organization’s create
reliability every day, day-in-and-day-out. We are challenged almost every day to see safety as an outcome to be managed, when in reality we desperately desire to see safety as a capacity to use in order be reliable. This presentation is a challenge to the way we have done our work for what seems like a lifetime. You will be charged to re-define safety success. Safety is not the absence of accidents; safety is the presence of capacity. Conklin has many books and a leading podcast in a new view of safety for organizations.
Keynote Speaker, Panelist Dr. Steve Jarvis Jarvis Bagshaw Ltd
Dr. Steve Jarvis is a leading independent consultant in human performance and safety within the aviation industry. He performs cutting-edge safety research for the aviation industry internationally, and has designed and implemented processes for large organizations that have resulted directly in vast error reductions. He is often called to investigate serious accidents where
human errors have not been understood. He has supported accident investigation bodies, airlines, helicopter operators and civil aviation authorities as far and wide as the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand. He authored the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s flight crew human-factors handbook (popular all across the globe), as is a visiting academic at a number of universities.
“From CEO to torque wrench: The perilous journey of the safety initiative, from boardroom to the everyday worker, and how to make it work” Abstract: Improving safety performance is a huge challenge. Terms such as resilience, root-causeanalysis, error-management and safety culture can become “silver bullets,” seductively appearing to offer a general safety improvement across all areas in just one single initiative. However “silver bullets” are almost always an illusion because they are not equipped to complete the journey from the boardroom to the worker. It is tempting to think that behavior and performance can be changed for the better; until it is realized that behavior and performance are not the main cause of the organization’s safety problem, they are just the most visible bits. Making a single
safety-critical task (such as maintaining a critical pump) permanently resilient to dangerous human errors is something few people talk about; because it is seldom achieved. This presentation uses a case study from Dr. Jarvis’s work for one of the world’s largest short-haul airlines, on a matter that is easy to understand, safety-critical and deceptively simple — opening and closing aircraft doors. It will be shown how, with the right approach, dangerous and expensive human errors that stubbornly refuse to disappear despite decades of trying, can be stopped instantly and permanently with no side effects.
Speaker, Panelist Dr. Zsuzsanna Gyenes Deputy to the Director IChemE Safety Centre Institution of Chemical Engineers
After graduating with a Master of Science in biochemical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest, Dr. Zsuzsanna Gyenes worked in disaster management for the Hungarian Government. During this time she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in environmental public administration. She then moved into a role as a Seveso Site Inspector for Hungary and also obtained her Ph.D. (cum laude) on the development of procedures and tools for the improvement of industrial safety against external effects from the National Defence Ph.D. Institution in
Military Technology in Hungary. Following her time as a Seveso Inspector, she was the head of section for nuclear safety in the National Directorate General for Disaster Management in Budapest. Her most recent role was as a scientific technical officer for the European Commission Joint Research Centre, where she worked to assist member states on learning from incidents and Seveso implementation, including land use planning policy. She was promoted to the deputy to the director of the IChemE Safety Centre in September 2017.
“Creeping changes via case studies” Abstract: Creeping changes are the accumulation of minor changes that often are ignored or accepted as the new norm, but which over time can add up to a big change and ultimately lead to a major incident. Most incidents result from a migration toward states of higher risk (Leveson, N). The well-known phenomenon, “normalization of deviance” fits into with this category too, with
accepting deviations from the norm. The theory behind creeping changes is that no industrial sites are static, there are changes made to the original design or there are changes due to aging and degradation of equipment over time, together with organizational changes that can affect plant integrity.
Key elements of this work includes working with companies to improve process safety culture, process safety competency, training
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and the development of key performance indicators to monitor progress and make midcourse corrections.
Michal J. Snakard Managing Director Snakard Consulting Group
Michal Snakard is an experienced process safety and loss prevention professional with more than 30 years of experience in the design, start up, permitting and safe operation of petrochemical plants, onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities, LNG liquefaction and regasification plants, specialty chemical operations and other industrial facilities. He has conducted training courses in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia, Australia and the Philippines. He is currently working with Texas A&M University at Qatar to conduct continuing education courses for professionals in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. In addition to conducting training courses, Snakard is an expert health,
safety, security and environment (HSSE) consultant specializing in the fields of process safety and loss prevention. He has completed projects around the world with a focus in the Middle East. He lived in Qatar from 2004 to 2010 and currently spends about 50 percent of his time in the region. Given his extensive work in the Middle East, Snakard has a very good understanding of the environmental regulations, loss prevention requirements, fire protection practices and process safety standards employed across the region. Recently, Snakard has been certified as a Success Principles Trainer and utilizes elements of the success principles to help companies achieve PSM excellence and operation discipline to ensure safe production.
“PHA and process safety culture” Abstract: The most important beliefs we can have towards PSM excellence and operation discipline, thus ensuring safe production within our facilities, is whether we believe our process safety management programs add value to, or place a drain on the profitability of the organization. While this paper talks about this as a belief, it is in fact a decision we make to believe or not to believe. This decision impacts the culture of the organization and will shape the way your process safety management programs are managed and how well they are incorporated into the daily activities onsite. Some examples of this
include, but are not limited to, how employees are trained, incidents are investigated, requests for inspection deferments are reviewed and PHAs are run. It is in this last area that this paper will investigate the correlation between process safety culture and the effectiveness of process hazards analysis. It will also discuss the establishment of PHA key performance indicators that will provide valuable insights into the process safety culture of the organization so that gaps or weaknesses can be identified and coarse corrections can be implemented.
“The Sigma Gas ‘Green Light’ approach, a design philosophy for enhanced human interfaces in gas detection systems”
Speaker, Exhibitor Aleksander Pachole Atest-Gaz sp.j Gliwice, Poland
Aleksander Pachole is the founder and one of the co-owners of Atest-Gaz. He is the leading product architect and designer for gas detection systems at the company. He graduated in 1991 as an electronics engineer from the Silesian Technical University, Poland, and, in 2005, post-graduated in safety of industrial processes from the University of Lodz, Poland. Besides company management, manufacture and development issues, he is responsible for the provision of consultancy to numerous customers in
the field of gas detection systems. Pachole has particular competence and professional interest in explosion protection (European ATEX Directive) and in the construction and functional safety of gas detection systems. He also represents Poland in the CEN/Cenelec standardization bodies work groups active in these fields—in particular in the EN 50402 Gas Detection Systems standard, which is a sector standard of IEC 61508.
Abstract: Gas detection systems play a crucial role in the safety assurance of numerous industrial applications worldwide. Usually, these are autonomous safety systems, which transform chemical signals relating to the concentration of a target gas into the appropriate, measurable electric signal. The concentration is evaluated from the signal, and information about possible hazards is delivered to plant staff and/or to other automatic systems. People’s behavior under alarm conditions is crucial. In other words, it is important to effectively inform plant staff about the presence or absence of possible gas hazards. As a result of an alarm activation, protected people will respond naturally and optimally with regard to their own safety and that of others.
We have observed that, by removing some fundamental architectural limitations in the familiar classical solutions of gas detection systems, and enhancing them instead with wellknown techniques, it is possible to improve plant safety significantly. Well-designed gas detection systems can also promote proactive safety attitudes among plant staff. We achieve this by implementing the “Green Light” philosophy (“Gas OK” signal) in the Atest-Gaz Sigma Gas system, where any anomalous plant behavior (alarms, but also faults and service states) alerts the plant staff and prompts them to ask their supervisors to restore the full functionality and safety capability of the system.
Speaker S. Balasubramaniasamy Sankaraiah Principal Consultant iFluids Engineering
S. Balasubramaniasamy Sankaraiah has spent the 38 years of his career in hydrocarbon production, processing and handling, with a manifested passion of operations improvement and process safety management. For 20 years, he worked in downstream hydrocarbon processing and spent 18 years in upstream oil and gas production (both offshore and onshore production and processing facilities). He played a pioneering leadership role in converting large scale ammonia and urea
complex from pneumatic control to distributed digital control system (SPIC Tuticorin, India), customized distributed control system for a phosphoric acid plant in Jordan, and trained nationals for operator-friendly operations for the Indo Jordan Phosphate Company, Jordan. He also played a key role in control system configuration for large onshore oil and gas production and processing facility for Cairn Oil & Gas, India.
“Human error elimination through customized configuration in distributed control systems” Abstract: Distributed control systems have so much potential and flexibility due its presence in digital space. In general project management, “Guidance and Convenience” for operators takes least priority due to the effort and time required for the same, and it will not be part of the tangible deliverables for technical completion of the project. Implementation of customized control groups in the right sequence for secondary actions for the operator after primary automatic partial shut downs helped the operators for error free operations.
For various types of partial shutdowns, various emergency control groups shall be formed. These control groups will be in addition to the normal operating envelope control groups. The need for operator’s memory and speed for operating various control from various graphic page or control group shall be avoided thus eliminating the error potential or miss potential from secondary actions from an operator after automatic primary partial shut down by the safety shutdown system.
Speaker Michael Newman Consultant Researcher Ph.D. Candidate Coventry University, UK
Michael Newman is a freelance research consultant specializing in maintenance safety. He holds a B.Sc. in applied psychology, an M.Sc. in human factors and is researching a part-time Ph.D. in maintenance threat and error management at Coventry University. He has provided expertise on maintenance research projects in the UK and New Zealand, and research assistance on fixed wing commercial monitoring projects and offshore rotary wing flight crew research projects in the UK and Holland. He presents human factors concepts to recreational pilots and
air transport management undergraduates. Newman started his maintenance career in the Royal Air Force, maintaining Hawk and Harrier aircraft in a wide range of operational environments. On leaving the air force, He has worked as a project manager and regional operations manager with safety management responsibilities, gaining invaluable insight of the journey between commercial pressure, organizational safety challenges and achieving a safety-driven culture at ground level.
“How safe is your culture? Going beyond safety report data” Abstract: Implementing an effective process safety culture is complex, requiring a multi-faceted approach which includes the reporting of accidents, incidents, occurrences and near misses. A potential risk of reporting is the loss of fidelity when analyzing a safety event, particularly when using an error taxonomy. While taxonomies enable analysts to categorize contributory factors and operator errors, their scope can prevent identification of ingrained cultural habits within a workforce. Often, these habits contain procedural “work-arounds” that help operators achieve successful outcomes. However,
these habits can also conceal organizational shortcomings. To demonstrate the limitations of taxonomy scope, this presentation uses examples from Newman’s own maintenance research which clearly demonstrate that a single set of safety event reports can produce different emergent themes when different analysis methods are used. Newman goes on to demonstrate that direct interaction with a maintenance workforce can reveal procedural workarounds and safety threats that truly indicate the status of an organization’s process safety culture.
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“Application of i-SDT for reducing risks associated with human factors”
Dr. Fadwa Eljack
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Dr. Fadwa Eljack is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Qatar University. She obtained her bachelor’s (1999) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees from Auburn University, U.S. She served as the director of the Gas Processing Center (GPC) at Qatar University from 2008 to 2010. Her research areas of expertise focuses in the area of process system engineering (PSE) that includes process design and multi-objective
The concept of inherently safer design is very valuable to reducing hazardous conditions through safer design principles instead of controlling them by add-on protective systems and procedures (Kletz, 1993; Kletz and Amyotte, 2010). It overcomes the shortcomings of conventional hazard identification methods by allowing modifications to be made at any stage of life-cycle of a process plant. However, most of the inherent safer design applications are focused to prevent fire, explosion and toxic hazards but less attention is given to the human factor. The prime reason for this is the lack of proper tool/methodology or metric to assess the safety performance continuously in various operating conditions to develop robust human machine interface.
Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Qatar University
optimization, sustainable management of gas processing facilities through the development of integrated designs, flare reduction and safety in process design. She has more than 60 refereed papers, two book chapters and co-edited three books. She has led a number of research projects in collaboration with academic institutions and Qatari industry, with more than $4 million in funding.
We recently proposed the Inherently Safer Design Tool (i-SDT) (Eljack et al., 2019). It is a semi-quantitative metric or platform that provides initial information regarding the safer
operational limits. It can characterize and track the risk associated with an industrial system. The metric is built on a property platform and employs characteristic equations to evaluate the safety parameters (i.e., flammability, explosiveness, toxicity, etc.) under various operating conditions. Hence, it is capable of continuously evaluating the safety performance of a system or process. The final output of this i-SDT tool is a cluster safety parameter score that facilitates the use of inherent safety principles at the early stages of process synthesis and design. The output information can be further utilized as process constraints or guidelines for developing important components of human factors engineering (HFE) such as in human machine interface design, control system interface design, environmental ergonomics, etc., to facilitate the reduction of human intervention in the process. Finally, some potential applications with relevant case studies is also illustrated.
Speaker Rasim Qureshi
HSE Support Manager Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO)
Rasim Qureshi has more than 21 years of industrial experience in chemicals/ petrochemicals and oil refineries as an HSE and process safety expert. He also has experience in process safety, technical safety, project HSE and commissioning/ decommissioning. He has worked in the oil and gas sector with multinationals, such as Exxon, SABIC, ADNOC, SNC-Lavalin and now QAPCO. He is conversant with safety in design for project (FEED/Detail Engineering Phase), process safety management (PSM), project HSE management, HAZID, HAZOP, FEMA, LOPA, SIL, consequence analysis, QRA, HSEIA, COMAH, fire engineering, FERA, fire and gas mapping, process safety KPIs, OSHA, API, IEC and NFPA Standards.
Qureshi has worked on operating facilities, such as ammonia, utilities, poly propylene, ethylene, ethylene oxide, PVC, chlorine, EDCVCM, refinery, hydrocracker, oil jetty and power plants. He also provides technical safety and process safety support to engineering teams during the Pre-FEED/FEED and detail engineering for SAGD and oil and fas projects, and LNG and LPG facilities. Professionally he has worked as a team leader for process hazard analysis (PHA) studies, HAZID sessions, layout safety review meetings, HAZOP studies and HSECES studies. Qureshi`s assignments have been in Qatar, Canada, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Pakistan in the oil and gas sector.
“Utilizing three points of control to prevent worker fatalities” Abstract: The presentation specifically covers the requirement of process safety—or some may call it technical safety/loss prevention—during the different phases of design in a project. Oil and gas projects normally initiate from conceptual study to FEED and then detail engineering. The regulations and standards in different parts of the world require designers to evaluate the risk in design. However it is done differently by different organizations around the world. There are no clear and precise regulations that must be followed in order to evaluate safety in design, although different guidelines are present.
This presentation is focused on all that could be done in the field of safety engineering during different project phases so that the safety in design is ensured and the concept of inherent safety is met. It starts from simple risk assessment to a detailed QRA (Quantitative Risk Assessment) and many other techniques that are required for proper risk evaluation and reduction during different phases. This can serve as a comprehensive guideline document for oil and gas operating companies, EPC companies and insurance companies that wish to achieve world-class safety.
“The relative influence of national culture compared to safety culture on workplace safety”
Keynote Speaker, Panelist Dr. Stephanie Payne Professor of Psychology Texas A&M University
Dr. Stephanie C. Payne is a professor of psychology and Faculty Fellow of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University, U.S. Her program of research on workplace and laboratory safety focuses on the measurement of safety climate, antecedents and consequences of climate, and moderators of these relationships. Payne’s safety research has been published in various safety and psychology journals, including
Abstract: Journal of Safety Research and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Her safety research has been funded by various agencies including the National Institute of the Occupational Safety and Health and the Abnormal Situation Management Consortium. She has collaborated with multiple chemical and oil and gas companies including INVISTA, Formosa, Sasol, TOTAL, QAFAC and SABIC.
National culture has been defined as “the collective programing of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another” (Hofstede, 2001, p. 9). It has been identified as a contributing factor to multiple workplace safety-related incidents. This is because culture directs employees’ attention to particular aspects of the work environment, influencing their interpretations of the organizational practices that they observe and the motivational impact of managerial practices (Erez, 1994, 1997). In this presentation, I will briefly review the five dimensions of national culture (collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, future orientation, and assertiveness; Hofstede, 2001) and their theoretical and empirical relationships to date
with workplace safety variables. I will describe two different ways to measure national culture and the merits and limitations associated with each. This will be followed by some recent research my colleagues and I have conducted in which we measure both national and safety culture (shared employee assumptions, values, and beliefs about safety; Schein, 2004) in order to determine the relative influence of each on various safety-related outcomes. This research provides an initial peek at the influence of organizational safety culture over and above national culture on safety knowledge, motivation, and behaviors, which has important theoretical and practical implications for workplace safety tool to check the effectiveness of the barriers within the domain of organizations PSM element.
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Nadeem Ahmad Bashir
Jacques de Bruijn
HSSE Manager Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC)
Bashir has 32 years of experience working in leading multinational petrochemical processing industries in Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan. HSSE management, process safety management, emergency management, risk assessment, PHAs, environmental impact assessment, sustainable development and CSR have been his major areas of work. He is a chemical engineer with a specialization in petroleum and gas technology. He earned his diploma in environmental risk management from NEBOSH. He is an IEMA certified lead auditor and a certified CSR practitioner. He
Process Safety and Risk Manager Qatargas
is a specialist member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management. He is also a member of the steering committee of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar. Since September 1999, Bashir has worked with Qatar Fuel Additives Company (QAFAC). Currently he is working as HSSE manager in the company. Before joining QAFAC, he worked with EQUATE Petrochemical Kuwait, Engro fertilizer and DH fertilizer companies in Pakistan.
De Bruijn has more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He has technical experience in gas treating processing, liquefied natural gas, gas to liquids and chemical and refinery processing, and operational experience in production and safety, health and environment, both offshore and onshore. De Bruijn has design experience in basic design, detailed design, detailed engineering, FEED, civil construction, start-up, operation and shutdown of an oil/gas processing plant. He has substantial international and crosscultural experience, having worked in Oman, Qatar, United States and The Netherlands, and provided on-site consultancy services in Australia, Brunei. Malaysia, Nigeria, UK, Germany, France and India.
De Bruijn has experience in creating an HSE excellence culture in large and complex organizations, enabling sites to achieve excellent safety, health and environmental performance. He delivers record performance through high levels of engagement and a pragmatic approach to safety. He is an established HSE Technical Authority and experienced sponsor in production and project organizations, masters HSE risk assessments such as HAZOP, HAZID, Process Hazard Analysis, QRA, Desktop Safety Reviews and Bowties. He can develop and implement the HSE Case for complex sites. De Bruijn holds an MBA and a master’s degree in chemical engineering
Keynote Speaker, Panelist
Keynote Speaker
Mohamed Basser
Amar Al Khuzaei
Senior Vice President Corporate HSE&S Advisor Corporate HSE&S, Dolphin Energy Qatar
HSES Engineer Compliance HSES Upstream, Dolphin Energy Qatar
“Journey through the safety culture at Dolphin Energy Qatar” Abstract:
Mohamed Basser has more than 35 years of experience in health, hygiene, safety, environment and security. Before joining Dolphin Energy as a secondee, he worked with TOTAL in several countries (UAE, Indonesia, UK, France, Thailand, Congo, Angola, Yemen and Qatar). He joined TOTAL in 1982 and started his career in the Middle East at TOTAL Abu Al Bukosh in occupational safety and health. He is a graduate in mechanical engineering and specialized in safety fire engineering/loss prevention (INSSI).
Amar Al Khuzaei is a Qatari national who was born and raised in the United States of America. He has been working in HSE for more than 10 years. Al Khuzaei has been working with Dolphin Energy since 2010. At Dolphin, his responsibilities range from site-based safety in construction projects and in DEL Gas Plant, HSE&S compliance auditor, and managing company’s incident investigation and corrective action programs
Substantial improvements in safety performance have been achieved through improvements in inherent safety in design and the implementation of effective HSE management systems. However, Dolphin Energy Limited (DEL) believes safety can go one step further and become integrated into the belief system of all personnel and contractors working for the organization, and initiated an Integrated Safety Culture (ISC) program. In 2018, DEL partnered with Texas A&M University at Qatar to develop the program. The ISC program is divided into four consecutive phases: Phase I, a quantitative assessment through a safety culture survey; Phase II, a qualitative assessment through
group interviews; Phase III, workshops; and Phase IV, an evolution plan. The entire program is scheduled to approximately take three years to complete. At present, Phase I has been initiated and concluded. The scope of this presentation is to highlight key moments in the programs development, starting with why DEL has initiated the program, the preparation for the safety culture survey, the launch of the safety culture survey, and concluding Phase I by presenting some rough findings. The presentation shall also address how safety culture fits into an organization’s corporate culture, as well as address some of the key indicators for a healthy safety culture.
Speaker Jack Altwal
Student, PhD Candidate Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center - Qatar Texas A&M University at Qatar
Jack Altwal joined Texas A&M University as a Ph.D. student in August 2016. He graduated from Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a minor in chemistry. He has been a member of and researcher in the Mary Kay
O’Connor Process Safety Extension in Qatar since September 2014. His area of research is on the influence of particle size and humidity on sulfur dust explosion properties. Altwal was one a recipient of the 2016-2017 Phillips 66 Fellowship Award.
“Influence of particle size on sulfur dust explosion properties” Abstract: Sulfur Production in Qatar has been growing steadily over the past 15 years with further growth anticipated in the coming years. An inherent risk associated with sulfur production and storage is the risk of sulfur dust explosion. Several dust explosion properties are used to assess and control this risk; one such property is the Minimum Explosible Concentration (MEC). A study of the influence of particle size on the MEC of sulfur dust using the 20 L Sphere
and Hartmann Tube is presented. A correlation between the particle size and MEC was found for the Hartmann Tube, but not the 20 L Sphere. This was determined to be due to the particle breakage of the dust caused by dispersion in the 20 L Sphere. A study of the particle breakage demonstrated that the particle size of sulfur dust varies significantly in the Sphere and this leads to questioning of the current testing methods and equipment.
Speaker, Exhibitor Rajeev Kumar
Safety & Risk Management Consultant ioMosaic
Rajeev Kumar is a safety and risk management consultant currently working in ioMosaic’s Bahrain facility. Kumar 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 design, process safety research, program development, and project management with focused expertise on emergency relief systems design, construction and facility
“Process safety competency” siting, QRA, PHA and 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. Kumar has worked for projects from conceptual study to commissioning stage. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Nirma University, India.
Abstract: Process safety competency involves continuously improving knowledge, ensuring that relevant
currently more important as we try to create and maintain a solid process safety culture.
information is readily available when needed, and using/sharing competencies that have been
Competency mapping is key when assessing competency. For instance, process safety competencies for a senior management executive are different from that of an operator working in plant. One of the most challenging part is to identify and map the competency levels for various staff levels. Once identified it becomes easier to build, improve and maintain with appropriate training and certification. Access to a dedicated platform with the right mix of conventional and current methodologies will be an advantage to meeting KPIs and exceeding the competency goals.
learned. Process safety competency is vital because losses (life, environment or physical equipment) can be devastating from all perspectives involving personal and business. Catastrophic incidents may only occur occasionally; however, it is important to learn from every incident so as not to repeat better yet reduce any future incidents. Challenges in process safety are wide spread from a Simple PRD calculation to complex dynamic modeling for explosions. Competencies are
Speaker, Panelist Dr. Luc N. Véchot
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Head of Dekra Process Safety Consultancy France
Dr. Luc Véchot is an associate professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University at 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 12 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 was chairman of the Qatar Process Safety Symposium organizing committee from 2011 to 2018.
“Building process safety competency: Challenges and opportunities” Abstract: Building competency in process safety is critical to the success of process safety management programs in the process industry. This involves teaching the fundamentals of process safety to engineers which can be challenging given the importance and the complexity of the topic. Academia, Industry, Consultancy Companies and Public Institutions have a central role to play in this area and should collaborate to provide the best education to the current and
future engineers through well designed and effective continuing education programs. This presentation will summarize the experiences gained from teaching process safety using different vectors including webinars, e-learning and full competency development programs. A summary of the challenges and opportunities associated with building knowledge and competency through these different vectors will be given.
Speaker Ryan L. Price, CSP
Safety Manager Qatar Chemical Company Ltd (Q-Chem)
Ryan Price, CSP, has more than 20 years of experience working in the various engineering, production, operations and project management functions within the chemical industry, with the bulk of the experience being in Texas, U.S. Price is a Chevron Phillips employee seconded to Qatar Chemical Company as the Q-Chem safety manager. Just prior to his assignment in Qatar, he was the EHS Manager for Chevron
Phillips’s most ambitious capital expansion project in history, the $6 billion United States Gulf Coast Petrochemical Project. Before coming to Chevron Phillips, Price worked for Union Carbide and The Dow Chemical Company. He is a degreed chemical engineer with a Bachelor of Science from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., U.S.
“Utilizing three points of control to prevent worker fatalities” Abstract: Work at height represents the number-one killer in general industry, and the oil and gas sector is not exempt. Although fall protection is utilized when working at height, one often overlooked aspect of these activities is the hazard associated with climbing ladders to get to the work location where, typically, fall protection is not utilized. This talk will discuss and then demonstrate
Qatar Chemical Company’s innovative approach to maintaining three points of control (also known as three points of contact) while utilizing ladders, as well as the cultural aspects of implementation that are required to create a sustainable program. This approach significantly reduces the fall from height risk in our facilities.
Speaker Dr. Konstantinos E. Kakosimos Associate Professor Texas A&M University at Qatar
Dr. Konstantinos E. Kakosimos is an associate professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He received his chemical engineering Diploma in 2002 and his Ph.D. in 2009, both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and four books/ chapters in English and Greek. His main research activities focus on the development and application of tools needed to improve and sustain the quality of the environment. In brief, he conducts research on environmental fluid mechanics and monitoring for air quality, risk analysis and effects estimation of fires, explosions and toxic gases dispersion, and solar photo- and thermochemical processes, reactors and materials. So far, he has received more than $5.5 million of cumulative awards
from external and internal sources. Moreover, he is conducting educational research on new methods and techniques, for which he received the 2015 IChemE Hutchison medal. In addition to teaching and research, Kakosimos serves the local and international communities variously, such as secretary of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Arabian Gulf Branch (20142015), chair of the Principle Investigators Council at Texas A&M Qatar (2017-2018), chair of the Qatar National Air Quality Standards subcommittee of the Ministry of Municipalities and Environment (2018), and taskforce member for the Ministry of Public Health (2018-today).
“The human factor in emergency response and evacuation” Abstract: The human factor plays an indispensable role when planning for emergencies and evaluating the consequences related to toxic gas releases. For example, in an H2S release incident, evacuees will be subjected to varying doses of toxic gas which result in various toxic effects and symptoms that may affect their physical or psychological capacity to escape or take actions. In this context, the past few years, we have studied methods to improve building ingress
modeling, expand evacuation models, and build new ones for source information reconstruction. To achieve these, we elaborated on doseresponse approaches, estimation of toxic load, dispersion tools combined with appropriate numerical techniques (e.g., Monte-Carlo) and force-based human behavior models. Herein, we present the selected approaches and the main findings concerning risk assessment planning and the impact of human factor.
“An approach to improve process safety management audits” Abstract:
Speaker, Exhibitor Praveen Dhote
Process Safety Team Leader Siemens LLC
Praveen Dhote is a process safety team leader at Siemens LLC in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is a chemical engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in process safety management (PSM) studies and has extensive experience across Asia, central Africa, Middle East and the U.S. For more than 10 years, Dhote has been leading various process safety studies such as quantitative risk assessment
(QRA), process hazard analysis (PHA), pressure relief analysis, flare header analysis, dispersion modeling, hazard and operability study (HAZOP), hazard identification study (HAZID), and functional safety studies for oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical projects at various locations. He is a Certified Functional Safety Professional.
The status of a process industry facility’s risk-based process safety management program implementation and performance depends on many interconnected factors. Among the many factors that influence the status of implementation and performance are: maturity of adopted process safety management system, facility size and age, severity of process hazards, organization’s safety culture, incidents history, risk tolerance, competency, and the regulatory requirements. The success of an organization’s safety program in achieving the organization’s own safety targets is typically measured utilizing a structured audit program. The used audit techniques may vary depending on the life cycle stage of the facility. Therefore, it is important to select the right audit technique that helps identify risk-based process safety gaps and establish basis for corrective actions. Classical audit techniques have been focused on reviewing organization’s written process safety management policies and procedures for completeness, interviewing stakeholders for awareness and understanding, and checking process safety records for degree of
implementation. However, to improve the effectiveness of an audit exercise, the process safety management program is further evaluated via assessing the strength of the process preventive and mitigative barriers, which is provides a view of the process safety management system performance in action. In this presentation, an approach to conduct hazard identification and risk assessment in conjunction with process safety audit is described using the bow-tie technique. This approach emphasizes on hazard identification and determining the preventive and mitigative barriers. The strength of these barriers helps to evaluate the process safety performance at the site. Ultimately this approach will allow identifying the high-risk hazard and determine the performance of barriers and to showcase the ultimate consequences. It’s pictorial representation of hazard, barriers, and consequences. PSM auditors use this tool to check the effectiveness of the barriers within the domain of organizations PSM element.
Speakers
Ola Srour, Wafa Imran and Neil Adia Graduate Students Mary Kay O’ Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Wafa Imran is a member of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) in Qatar and a master’s student at Texas A&M University at Qatar. For her master’s thesis, her research area is modeling subsea gas release in shallow waters. She completed her bachelor’s in chemical engineering at Texas A&M at Qatar in May 2018 with a minor in chemistry. During her undergraduate career, she worked on chemistry research involving metal organic frameworks. She is a member of three honor societies, Omega Chi Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi. Ola Srour is a chemical engineering graduate student at Texas A&M at Qatar. She joined the master’s program in September 2018, working as a research assistant at the MKOPSC, on the topic, “Modeling of underground fas release from buried pipelines.” She received her B.E. from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. During her bachelor’s study, she took on various research projects in more than one institution, tackling different topics spanning waste water treatment at AUB, pharmaceuticals’ stability testing at
the University of Limerick, Ireland, and sustainable design at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S. Neil Adia joined the MKOPSC-Q in September 2018 as a graduate student and is currently studying for a Master of Science in chemical engineering at Texas A&M at Qatar. His research is focused on the consequence modeling of crowd evacuations under toxic release scenarios. Before joining MKOPSC-Q, he earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M at Qatar in May 2018, as well as his Engineer In Training certification from the Texas Board of Professional Engineers in August 2018. As an undergraduate, he worked on research involving the development of organic-soluble iron nanoparticles for the magnetic separation of crude oil from seawater. He is a member of three engineering honor societies: Omega Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi. He also served as an officer on the board of the Delta Q chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
“Review and analysis of incidents in the world since QPSS 2018” Abstract: The aim of this presentation is to present an overview of the major incidents that took place around the world from April 2018 to April 2019. The presentation will showcase the description, leading causes, consequences (human, environmental and otherwise), response, reactions (political, social and otherwise) and images and videos where available for some
of these incidents. The students—Neil, Wafa and Ola—will also present a statistical analysis conducted on a wider set of incidents to identify the trends that were the leading causes for incidents in the past year. Statistical analysis was also conducted in order to compare the causes of incidents over the past three years.
Keynote Speaker, Panel Discussion Chair Dr. Simon Waldram Director Waldram Consultants Limited
Simon Waldram studied chemical engineering in the UK and the U.S., and was awarded his Ph.D. from University College London, the oldest and largest college of the University of London. He was a student apprentice for four years with ICI Agricultural Division working on fertilizer production. For 22 years, he then followed an academic career at University College London, specializing in system dynamics and chemical reaction engineering. Afterward he joined Hazard Evaluation Laboratory (later to become HEL Ltd.) where for 15 years he worked as technical director
and later as director for business development. He was responsible for all HEL’s consulting and laboratory testing facilities in the area of process safety as well as overseeing projects associated with equipment manufacture, delivery and installation. He joined Texas A&M University at Qatar as a senior professor in 2007 and later became interim chair of the Chemical Engineering Program. He returned to the UK in 2011 where he was director of his own consultancy company until 2018.
“Discovering the nuggets of gold— and being a wise custodian” Abstract: In this presentation, I will highlight some of the simple concepts, approaches and practices that I have found most useful in my career when teaching process safety to chemical engineering
students in universities or as technical director in a laboratory-based process safety consultancy company. Some of these will be familiar, at least at a superficial level, but others will be less so.
Panel Discussion Chair, Panelist Program Committee
Organizing Committee Chair Program Committee Chair
William R. Denney Jr.
Dr. Tomasz Olewski
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
Interim Managing Director, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar Research Scientist, Texas A&M University at Qatar
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.
Dr. Tomasz Olewski is the interim managing director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center extension Qatar and a research scientist at Texas A&M at Qatar. He started his career as a researcher in reaction engineering and catalysis in 2000 in the Department of Environmental Engineering of Lodz University of Technology, Poland. In 2007, he moved his interest towards process safety, and he became an assistant professor in the Department of Safety Engineering at the same university. He was a risk assessment consultant for numerous large oil/gas and chemical plants in Poland involved in the preparation of safety reports and emergency response plans. He is the developer of hazard identification and risk management system that was implemented in the biggest Polish petrochemical company. He
joined Texas A&M at Qatar in 2009 to support a $3 million project on LNG safety funded by BP and supported by Qatar Petroleum. From 2015 to 2017, he served as interim director of process safety at the same university, where he improved process safety procedures, training programs, and the Project Safety Analysis process. He assisted audits of 50 laboratories and trained more than 350 employees. In 2018, Olewski delivered more than 70 days (1,750 person-days) of continuing education training to the industry. Olewski holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, a Master of Science and bachelor’s in environmental engineering, and diplomas in electrical and automatic engineering in industrial processes, and process safety engineering.
POSTERS Experimental evidence of liquid nitrogen spill on sea (Qatari) water Jasir Jawad, Jack Altwal, and Tomasz Olewski Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University at Qatar Influence of particle size on sulfur dust explosion properties Jack Altwal, Tomasz Olewski, Luc N Véchot Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University at Qatar Modeling of a gas release from underground pipeline Ola Srour, Ibrahim L. Daoudi, Konstantinos E. Kakosimos, Luc N. Véchot Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University at Qatar
A dosage-based methodology for simulating crowd evacuations in toxic environment Neil Alvin B. Adia, Shaikh M. Nawayd, Konstantinos E. Kakosimos, Luc N. Véchot Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University at Qatar Investigating the gas dispersion from a subsea gas release in shallow waters Wafa Imran, Moustafa Ali, Konstantinos E. Kakosimos, Luc N. Véchot Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M University at Qatar The Bhopal tragedy: Lessons learned Arshad Mohamed Ali, Mohammad Hassan, Safeer Hafeez, Suhaim Al-Qurani Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar
EXHIBITORS Atest Gaz
iOMosaic
Reliable and innovative gas detection & safety systems
Protecting your people, plant, stakeholder value, and our planet
Atest Gaz is the leading Polish producer of innovative and reliable gas safety systems and a renowned reference center in the aforementioned scope, which, through provided services, wide knowledge, long-term experience, and advanced technology, works to ensure full safety for people, property, and environment.
ioMosaic focuses on helping you manage and reduce episodic risk, maintain compliance and prevent catastrophic incidents, because when safety, efficiency and compliance are improved, you can sleep better at night.
In our daily activity we concentrate on measuring the composition of gases, monitoring and detection of hazardous concentrations. Our specialty are innovative gas safety systems providing reliable information on gas hazards or their absence. In other words, systems which ensure the sense of safety when everything is okay and effectively warn in case of hazard. The mission of Atest Gaz is to ensure our customers and users all the comfort resulting from the sense of human life and health safety as well as protection of property and environment from hazards associated with dangerous gases. The strength of our brand results from everyday work of a qualified and experienced team of specialists—enthusiasts, but also from a multidirectional experience, an access to international know-how, and perfectly developed research and design facilities. As a result, Atest Gaz may offer unique, technologically advanced, innovative, and reliable products, solutions and systems that comprehensively and completely satisfy the individual needs of clients of both the industrial and civil engineering sectors (HVAC).
Through innovation and a dedication to continual improvement, ioMosaic has become a leading international provider of integrated process safety and risk management solutions to oil, gas and petrochemical companies worldwide. We have over 40 years of combined industry expertise in a wide variety of areas, including pressure relief systems design, process safety management, expert litigation support, laboratory services, training and software development. This breadth of experience allows us the flexibility to work with you to meet your specific requirements. Your company is unique and so are your process safety and risk management needs. So we'll partner with you and get to know your business before we determine which pieces of the big picture you need to improve safety and efficiency and maintain compliance. Then we'll do whatever it takes to provide a solution that will not only get your business be more productive, but also provide you assurance that your bases are covered.
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.
ExxonMobil Research Qatar ExxonMobil Research Qatar (EMRQ) became one of the first anchor tenants to open its doors at Qatar Science and Technology Park in 2009 with a research and development center that includes offices, laboratories and training facilities. EMRQ conducts research in areas of common interest to the State of Qatar and ExxonMobil, including environmental management, water reuse, LNG safety and coastal geology. Along with its local and international partners, EMRQ continues to work to provide the scientific research needed to develop key technologies that will benefit the oil and gas industry in Qatar and around the world, so that it functions in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
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 and Professional Education 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.
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.
IN REMEMBRANCE
Dr. M. Sam Mannan, 1954-2018 He was a true visionary and pioneer, and his impact on the field will never be forgotten. His legacy lives on through his students and his partners from academia and industry. For the first time in years, an important figure will be absent from the Qatar Process Safety Symposium, someone who was instrumental in establishing the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center in Qatar, and who was no stranger to process safety conferences and seminars across the world. This will be the first QPSS without Dr. Mahboobul Sam Mannan. Born in Comilla, Bangladesh, in 1954, he went to Dhaka College before earning a B.S. in chemical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka (BUET). He was a practicing engineer for a few years before he was inspired to continue his education, earning his M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1986) from the University of Oklahoma. After observing a lack of safety training, he started working in process safety at a national engineering services
company, RMT Inc. In 1997, and with the encouragement of process safety pioneer Dr. Trevor Kletz, Mannan left RMT and joined Texas A&M University as a professor and the director of the newly created Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC). His impact on Texas A&M was something nobody could have predicted. MKOPSC became a world-renowned center for process safety leadership, research, innovation, and excellence, and a significant part of that could be attributed to Mannan’s leadership. Despite a vast physical presence, you couldn’t find anybody more kind and encouraging to both students and faculty. He was always ready to take students under his wing and guide them through graduate education and life. By the end of his career, he had mentored 61 Ph.D. and 79 M.S. students, an impressive record
by any standard. His classes became a favorite as he taught Process Safety with an unrivaled passion and regaled the students with stories of his experience; who else would tell you to eat dessert after lunch to avoid boiler explosions! Texas A&M acknowledged his years of service with the TEES Engineering Genesis Award (2014), Charles W. Crawford Service Award (2014), Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in Public Service (2012), and the Association of Former Students’ Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching (2003). His influence did not stop with The Texas A&M University System. He established key satellite safety centers, and partnerships in nations such as Qatar, China, and Bangladesh, often sending his students there to gain international experience and bringing students from
those countries to Texas to experience life at MKOPSC. His influence could be seen at the Technical University of Lodz in Poland, which awarded him both the Medal of Honor (2008) and Doctoris Honoris Causa (2011). The Rajiv Gandhi University of Petroleum Technology in India has recognized him with the title of Distinguished Honorary Professor and his alma mater, BUET, made him the first holder of the M.A. Naser Chair. He was a Fellow of both IChemE and AIChE. Mannan is survived by his wife and their two daughters. He was a true visionary and pioneer, and his impact on the field will never be forgotten. His legacy lives on through his students and his partners from academia and industry.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Texas A&M at Qatar
ConocoPhillips Qatar
William R. Denney Jr. Dr. Tomasz Olewski Interim Managing Director Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Technical Manager
Lesley Kriewald
Assistant Director Marketing, Communications and Events
Sarah Mroueh
Communications and Public Affairs Manager
Dr. Clementina Ramirez Postdoctoral Research Associate Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Atif Mohammed Ashraf Research Associate Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar
Hamda Al Kuwari
Carol Nader
Events and Design Coordinator
Events Director Marketing, Communications and Events
The organizing committee would like to thank the student and staff members of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center – Qatar for their invaluable help and support for the symposium: —Jack Altwal —Ola Srour —Wafa Imran —Neil Adia
Qatargas
Jacques de Bruijn
Process Safety and Risk Manager
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