Safety Alert
Safety Alert 149 - Compressor Blowdown Leads to Fire
Safety Alert 149 - Compressor Blowdown Leads to Fire
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 149
- Hot Work and FirePressure SystemsProcess Safety
- FireHydrocarbon releasePressure systemsProcess safety
- Process pipework and pipelines
- Evacuation, escape and rescueFire protectionIgnition source control
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
A production-platform fire followed compressor blowdown expelling accumulated oil from a flare scrubber vent. Ignition was believed to involve an uninsulated generator exhaust. The alert describes bypassed level protection, unavailable fire water and escape-capsule evacuation, and records changes to blowdown routing and level-control bypass practices.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Process safety; major accident hazards.
Classifications: Process pipework and pipelines; process piping.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Fire protection; fire suppression; fire detection.
Classifications: Ignition source control; ignition prevention.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
BSEE Safety Alert 149. Themes: hot work and fire, pressure systems, process safety.