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Barrier and operational risk analysis of hydrocarbon releases (BORA-Release). Part II: Results from a case study
Snorre Sklet1, Jan Erik Vinnem, Terje Aven
1Department of Production and Quality Engineering, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway. snorre.sklet@sintef.no
Abstract:
This paper presents results from a case study carried out on an offshore oil and gas production platform with the purpose to apply and test BORA-Release, a method for barrier and operational risk analysis of hydrocarbon releases. A description of the BORA-Release method is given in Part I of the paper. BORA-Release is applied to express the platform specific hydrocarbon release frequencies for three release scenarios for selected systems and activities on the platform. The case study demonstrated that the BORA-Release method is a useful tool for analysing the effect on the release frequency of safety barriers introduced to prevent hydrocarbon releases, and to study the effect on the barrier performance of platform specific conditions of technical, human, operational, and organisational risk influencing factors (RIFs). BORA-Release may also be used to analyse the effect on the release frequency of risk reducing measures.
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