Safety Alert
Safety Alert 49 - Oil Spill, Safety Equipment Failure
Safety Alert 49 - Oil Spill, Safety Equipment Failure
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 49
- Hydrocarbon ReleaseMachinery and Equipment
- Barrier managementHydrocarbon releaseMechanical failure
- Fluid transferInspection and maintenance
- PumpsStorage tanks
- Functional testing
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
An offshore production platform spilled oil after transfer pumps gas locked and several high-level shutdown safeguards failed. The alert describes flow through scrubbers and a skim pile into the Gulf, and records operator actions addressing device operation, standpipe positioning, simulated-level testing and pump gas locking.
Classifications: Barrier management; safety barrier management.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Fluid transfer; fluid loading; fluid offloading.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Pumps.
Classifications: Storage tanks; atmospheric tanks.
Classifications: Functional testing; function test.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
An alert concerning an oil spill associated with failure of safety equipment.
BSEE Safety Alert 49. Themes: hydrocarbon release, machinery and equipment.