A Scoping Review of Technologies and Their Applicability for Exposome-Based Risk Assessment in the Oil and Gas Industry

Introduction: Oil and gas workers have been shown to be at increased risk of chronic diseases including cancer, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hearing loss, among others. Technological advances may be used to assess the external (e.g. personal sensors, smartphone apps and online platforms, exposure models) and internal...

Developing and testing an internal audit tool of the psychosocial work environment in the oil and gas industry

The objective of this paper is to present and discuss a pilot study for conducting internal psychosocial risk auditing in the oil and gas industry, focusing on offshore units. Psychosocial risk auditing is a proactive method for monitoring the status of psychosocial factors influencing the risk of stress and ill-health in the oil and gas...

Psychosocial risks and hydrocarbon leaks: An exploration of their relationship in the Norwegian oil and gas industry

Hydrocarbon leaks have a major accident potential in the oil and gas industry. Over the years the oil and gas industry in Norway has worked hard to find means to prevent hydrocarbon leaks and is today able to report significant progress. In this context, the exploration of accidents in light of human error linked to underlying factors related to...

Analysis of acoustic fatigue in safety relief systems

To protect installations in the gas and oil industry and process industries against overpressure the installation of relief systems is common practice. However, there have been incidents where such systems fail as a result of high dynamic loads caused by: the generation of shock waves when the relief valve is opened very instantly; the...

Fast model based approximation of the closed-loop performance limits of gas/liquid inline separators for accelerated design

A current trend in the oil and gas industry is to use compact so called inline separators (ILS). Unlike their large conventional counterparts, the operation of these separators is very sensitive towards variations in the multiphase flow to be separated. This sensitivity easily results in operational problems and economic loss and may prohibit...