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Operational Risk and Incident Management for Oil and GasCASE STUDY OF BP OIL SPILL[Pick the date]INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION(S)STUDENT NAME
P a g e | 2Table of Contents1.INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................32.OVERVIEW OF THE INCIDENT............................................................................................43.PROTOCOLS RELATED TO OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY....................................................63.1.Industrial health and safety procedures..............................................................................73.2.Health and safety of community........................................................................................93.3.Environmental guidelines:.................................................................................................93.4.Global atmosphere protection..........................................................................................103.5.Industrial protocols:.........................................................................................................114.PROTOCOLS APPLIED BY BP............................................................................................125.RECOMENDATIONS............................................................................................................136.CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................................14REFERENCES................................................................................................................................15
P a g e | 31.INTRODUCTIONPresence of combustible hydrocarbons is one of the intrinsic dangers in oil and gas industry in the locations where oil and gas refineries are situated. Whether the product is stored or transported, health and safety related issues have always been doubtful for oil and gas industry. Activities involved in such industries include seismic and drilling, construction, facility operations, road and marine transport, etc. Although, in recent years many organisations have been able to understand the needs of implementing health and safety procedures in their work premises still, monitoring failures have been identified that results unexpected fatal incidents. Oil and gas industries as compared to other industries have been seen more prone to hazardous incidents which can be made out from figure 1 in this report. Every year millions of people die due to work related issue and occupational accidents[ CITATION KEL16 \l 1033 ]. Deaths relating to oil and gas industry has heavy toll in developing countries where larger number of people are involved in hazardous activities suchas construction, mining and oil and gas refineries. Therefore to identify health and safety protocols and procedures becomes significant so that preventing and managing such fatal accidents becomes uncomplicated for the management. Conveying company’s structure, practices and responsibilities for implementing health and safety include various processes after performance and work procedures are identified. Health and environmental managementcan be integrated in oil and gas industries management systems to ensure health and safety of people and environment or else future of this industry can see more undesirable effects. This report will investigate one of the most hazardous events recorded in history of oil and gas industry that took place in April 20, 2010 in Deepwater Horizon at Gulf of Mexico, US. By identifying health and safety protocols and principles this report will make recommendations
P a g e | 4to BP for procedures and legislative changes in its operations so that failure in safety and health or operational breakdown can be avoided in future course of business. Figure 1: Number of injuries and deaths in oil and gas industry[ CITATION Kry15 \l 1033 ]2.OVERVIEW OF THE INCIDENTThe Deepwater Horizon drilling unit exploded on 20th April, 2010 in which the unit caught fire and eventually sank in the ocean resulting in huge release of hazardous substances, gasses and oil from BP’s well in Gulf of Mexico region. All the initial efforts to minimise the risks after the explosion took place were unsuccessful. After 87 days from this incident, the well exploded natural gases and oil uncontrollably and continuously into the Northern Gulf in Mexican region. The U.S. district court reported that approximately 3.19 million barrel of oil were unconfined into the ocean. This incident has been reported as one ofthe most fatal accidents in the U.S. history where the combined volume of release oil were about 12 times larger than Exxon Valdez spill in 1989[ CITATION Rau17 \l 1033 ].
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