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Rules and Regulations enforced by Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) at the Norwegian Continental Shelf
Sverre Haver, Statoil, January 2008 Presentation is to a large extent based on presentations held by Geir Lland, Statoil, at several occasions.
A sufficient knowledge of rules and regulations are necesssary to ensure that the designed structure fulfils overall requirements regarding health, environment and safety
REGULATIONS RELATING TO HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND SAFETY IN THE PETROLEUM ACTIVITIES (THE FRAMEWORK REGULATIONS)
Management reg.
Facility reg.
Operation reg.
REGULATIONS RELATING TO HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND SAFETY IN THE PETROLEUM ACTIVITIES THE FRAMEWORK REGULATIONS
The purpose of these regulations are to a) further a high level as regards health, environment and safety in the
petroleum activities,
a) this section only comprises provisions on matters of a maritime nature which are not directly connected with the petroleum related function which the facility is intended to carry
out. The section does not comprise provisions on
drilling and process equipment, universal sound and light alarms, equipment used for transportation of personnel and requirements to transportation of personnel
on the drill floor,
other provisions on the working environment, the activities to be carried out in the petroleum activities, b) the facility must be used in a way that makes it possible to use a flag and or classification practice
implying a calendar based recertification, including five-yearly main survey,
c) the operational assumptions on which design, fabrication and operation are based shall be clarified,
Mobile units: Drilling rigs, well intervention vessels etc operating at a location for a limited time May follow a recognized maritime regulation
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Improving of safety
In Section 8 it is stated: A high level of health, environment and safety shall be established, maintained and improved.
This is an important message to the operators when it comes to adequate maintenance of their structures and not the least in connection with major modification work done on the installations. Over the operational life of a structure a number of modifications of various scales will typically be done. It is important to ensure that such modifications are in conflict with the text of section 8 of the Framework Regulation.
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In effectuating risk reduction the party responsible shall select the technical,
operational or organisational solutions which according to an individual as well as an overall evaluation of the potential harm and present and future Facility reg. 8 use offer the best results, provided the associated costs are not significantly Qualification and disproportionate to the risk reduction achieved.
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use of new technology If there is insufficient knowledge about the effects that use of the technical, and new methods
operational or organisational solutions may have on health, environment and safety, solutions that will reduce this uncertainty shall be chosen. environment or to financial assets in the petroleum activities shall be replaced by factors which in an overall evaluation have less potential for injury, damage or nuisance.
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Facility regulation: 8 Qualification and use of new technology and new methods
Where the petroleum activities entail use of new technology or new
methods, criteria shall be defined with regard to development, testing and use in order to accommodate the requirements to health, environment and safety.
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In addition barriers shall be established which a) reduce the probability that any such failures and situations of hazard
and accident will develop further,
b) limit possible harm and nuisance. Where more than one barrier is required, there shall be sufficient
independence between the barriers.
The solutions and the barriers that have the greatest risk reducing effect shall
be chosen based on an individual as well as an overall evaluation. Collective protective measures shall be preferred over protective measures aimed at individuals
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Barriers
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Design of facilities
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REGULATIONS RELATING TO DESIGN AND OUTFITTING OF FACILITIES ETC. IN THE PETROLEUM ACTIVITIES THE FACILITIES REGULATIONS page 1 of 2
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS 1 Definitions 2 Systems and other equipment for manned underwater operations from vessels CHAPTER II GENERAL PROVISIONS 3 Choice of development concept 4 Design of facilities 5 Design of simpler facilities without overnight stay possibility 6 Main safety functions 7 Safety functions CHAPTER III MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROVISIONS III-I MULTIDISCIPLINARY COMMON REQUIREMENTS 8 Qualification and use of new technology and new methods 9 Plants, systems and equipment 10 Loads, load effects and resistance 11 Materials 12 Handling of materials and transport routes, access and evacuation routes 13 Ventilation and indoor climate 14 Chemicals and chemical exposure 15 Flammable and explosive goods 16 Instrumentation for monitoring and recording 17 Systems for internal and external communication 18 Communication equipment III-II DESIGN OF WORK AREAS AND ACCOMMODATION SPACES 19 Ergonomic design 20 Man-machine interface and information presentation 21 Outdoor work areas 22 Noise and acoustics 23 Vibrations 24 Lighting 25 Radiation 26 Equipment for transportation of personnel 27 Safety signs III-III PHYSICAL BARRIERS 28 Passive fire protection 29 Fire divisions 30 Fire divisions in living quarters 31 Fire and gas detection systems 32 Emergency shutdown systems 33 Process safety systems 34 Gas release systems 35 Fire water supply 36 Fixed fire-fighting systems 37 Emergency power and emergency lighting 38 Ballasting systems 39 Open drainage systems
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a) withstand loads . b) ALARP c)single component failure d) maintain main safety functions e) safe material handling f) working environment g) operational limitations h) health and hygiene i) lowest possible risk of pollution, j) satisfactory maintenance.
Fire and explosion strategy. Area classification Green water (places where people can stay shall not be hit with annual
probability of 10-2)
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Robust design shall contribute such that the facilities can withstand unknown dangers.
Known dangers
Unknown danger
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With regard to permanently manned facilities the following main safety a) preventing escalation of accident situations so that personnel outside
the immediate vicinity of the scene of accident, are not injured, until the facility has been evacuated,
b) maintaining the main load carrying capacity in load bearing structures c) protecting rooms of significance to combating accidental events, so that
they are operative until the facility has been evacuated, cf. Section 29 on fire divisions, facility has been evacuated,
d) protecting the facilitys safe areas so that they remain intact until the e) maintaining at least one evacuation route from every area where
. personnel may be staying until evacuation to the facilitys safe areas and rescue of personnel has been completed.
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Section 10 is rather general and functional, in guidelines one will find references to other standards.
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Capacity: 5% value of elastic component capacity Material factor for steel: 1.15
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