Safety Alert
Safety Alert 55 - Safety Equipment Failure
Safety Alert 55 - Safety Equipment Failure
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 55
- Inspection and MaintenanceMachinery and Equipment
- Functional safetyHydrocarbon releaseMechanical failure
- Fluid transfer
- PumpsStorage tanksValve
- Functional testing
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
An offshore production platform spilled approximately twelve barrels of oil following failures of pump controls and a tank high-level shut-in device. The alert describes the lead pump shutdown, lag pump failure to start and alternative shut-in failure explanations, alongside replacement devices, a timing reset and modifications enabling shutdown-circuit testing.
Classifications: Functional safety; safety instrumented systems; SIS.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Fluid transfer; fluid loading; fluid offloading.
Classifications: Pumps.
Classifications: Storage tanks; atmospheric tanks.
Classifications: Valve; valves.
Classifications: Functional testing; function test.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
BSEE Safety Alert 55. Themes: inspection and maintenance, machinery and equipment.