Implementing Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas

Download or read book Implementing Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government needs to determine an acceptable level of risk for offshore operations that is consistent with national policy. For the purpose of its work, the panel assumed that the acceptable level of risk for offshore operations is zero accidents, zero deaths, and zero oil spills--though this goal may not be attainable. The panel realizes that neither the law nor any government regulation can prevent all possible accidents or malfunctions in complex systems such as offshore oil and gas production facilities. While it is an incontrovertible fact that offshore oil and gas production equipment has earned a remarkable record for safety in the past 25 years, human performance has often been attributed as a cause of failures and mishaps. The BAST requirement is limited to technologies on the OCS and is not designed to mitigate human errors. This leads to the second issue, which is the problem of calculating incremental benefits and costs related to obtaining a desired level of risk. These problems are discussed in detail in the report.