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1. Arena-International
1st Annual
Fire Protection in
Oil and Gas Facilities
Minimizing fire risk by optimizing your facility design, functionality of your
protection systems and emergency response
Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 December 2009, Houston, Texas, uSA
KEy InDuSTRy ExPERTS SPEAKInG InCLuDE: JOIn OuR CASE STuDy PRESEnTATIOnS AnD:
Doyle Galloway, Steve Lehrer, • Outline the benefits of your safety
EP Wells Operational Manager of Safety
HSE Manager, and Environmental processes and discover strategies to
SHELL InTERnATIOnAL
ExPLORATIOn AnD
Engineering,
CB&I
institute them throughout all levels of
PRODuCTIOn your plant
Paul Ceeney,
Tonya Zepeda, Principle HSE & Risk • Ensure operational safety by tackling
Corporate HSE Consultant,
Coordinator, COnSOLIDATED RISK o shore well blow-outs through
AuDuBOn EnGInEERInG contingency planning whilst complying
David Coble, with OSHA regulations and API standards
Robert Fischer, MS CSP, President,
CSP, Process Safety COBLE, TAyLOR AnD JOnES
Advisor, SAFETy ASSOCIATES • Optimize functionality of a new or
TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS existing firewater system to maintain
Dr. Alberto Gomez-
Tom Lancaster, Rivas,
firewater availability to a maximum level
CFPS, Chief/Emergency PhDs, PE, EQ, Department in case of fire
Response Coordinator, Chair, Professor and
FLInT HILLS RESOuRCES Program Coordinator • Learn how to conduct emergency
Structural Analysis
Dr. Chitram and Design Program, response training courses e ectively to
Lutchman, Engineering Technology
Department,
mitigate the risks with personnel and
Team Leader Loss
Management and
unIVERSITy OF HOuSTOn equipment loss
DOWnTOWn
Emergency Response,
SunCOR EnERGy
James Shelton,
Caroline Deetjen,
Compliance Assistance Receive checklists detailing OSHA
Specialist,
Safety and Risk Engineer,
BHP BILLITOn
OSHA
standards applicable to your facility
Lucas Paugh, Accredited by: Silver sponsor:
Health and Safety
Engineer,
AERA EnERGy
TOP COMPAnIES REPRESEnTED:
OSHA • SHELL International Exploration and Production • Audubon Engineering •
Total Petrochemicals • BHP Billiton • Suncor Energy • Flint Hills Resources • CB&I
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2. Program Day One Tuesday 8 December 2009
08:30 Registration and coffee 11:40 Ensuring operational safety by tackling offshore
well blow-outs through contingency planning whilst
09:00 Opening remarks from the Chair complying with OSHA regulations and API standards
● Specifying primary and secondary control considerations to
uncovering changes to health and safety standards avoid blowouts
for designing and operating petrochemical facilities ● Tailoring drilling fluid pressure monitoring activities to your
offshore facility according to OSHA regulations and API
09:10 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
standards
vs. Coast Guard: who has jurisdiction over safety and ● Implementing a blowout prevention program for various
health for offshore drilling platforms? operational scenarios and preparing each scenario with a
● Giving an OSHA update: what's new? clear emergency response plan
● Outlining OSHA outreach initiatives for the land based ● Installing and testing blowout preventers (BOPs),
E&P industry accumulators and choke manifold
● Clarifying who regulates safety and health on offshore ● Collecting relevant data to reduce emergency response time
platforms Doyle Galloway, EP Wells Operational HSE Manager,
● Explaining when an injury should be recorded for OSHA SHELL InTERnATIOnAL ExPLORATIOn AnD PRODuCTIOn
James Shelton, Compliance Assistance Specialist, OSHA
09:50 Developing and implementing OSHA required training, Applying and maintaining active and passive
inspections and policies to ensure full compliance with fire protection systems effectively to optimize
design, construction and operational standards efficiency
● Outlining the extent of OSHA guidelines: nearly 740
construction and general industry training and inspection 12:20 Recognizing a linear heat detection solution for
requirements, plus those in the standards (incorporated by successful fire prevention and presenting an advanced
reference) fiber optic-based Distributed Temperature Sensing
● Assessing the possibility that there may be as many as 50 (DTS) system
OSHA required written polices and programs needed at your ● Introducing fiber optic-distributed sensing technology: find
location and how to identify them out how it works and where it can be applied and integrated
● Developing a fire safety program for your petrochemical ● Comparing technologies by highlighting differences in
facilities, based on national requirements installation, application and capabilities: point detection (via
● Clarifying actions to be taken, using pictures and discussion, smoke aspiration systems and cameras) vs. fiber-optic linear
on how to implement and manage a program that would comply heat detection
with OSHA standards ● Understanding fire protection optimization in special
David Coble, MS CSP, President, COBLE, TAyLOR AnD JOnES hazardous facilities using DTS technology
SAFETy ASSOCIATES ● Assessing fire monitoring in disastrous scenarios and
providing vital information for exstinguishing a fire
Making process safety automated to optimize fire Dr. Henrik Hoff, Director Sales, AP SEnSInG
prevention and manage risk effectively
1:00 Lunch
10:30 Highlighting process safety management as one of the
2:00 Optimizing functionality of a new or existing firewater
prominent areas of forecast: explore the weak points in
system to maintain firewater availability to a maximum
your safety process and optimize them throughout all
level in case of fire
levels of your plant
● Assessing the correct location of the firewater main to ensure
● Describe the basic requirements for process safety systems
maximum firewater flows
established in API (American Petroleum Institute) and OSHA
● Analyzing the existing firewater system simulating available
standards
firewater flows within the refinery to determine piping
● Manage your safety processes and cost optimization to avoid
upgrades and pumps additions
unplanned shutdowns
● Determining friction loss characteristics of firewater piping to
● Assess innovative approaches to management of change
prevent pressure loss
throughout operational processes and including all staff
● Testing fire pumps for performance verification to ensure
involved
availability in case of fire
● Combining different process safety systems and ensuring
● Complying with API 610 and NFPA 20 standards to benefit
smooth performance
from good practice throughout the process
● Forecasting high risk hazard areas and applying fire prevention
Tom Lancaster, Chief Fire Protection Manager
activities accurately
Superintendent, FLInT HILLS RESOuRCES
Robert Fischer, CSP, Process Safety Advisor, TOTAL
PETROCHEMICALS
11:10 Morning refreshments
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3. Program Day Two
2:40 Debating the properties of natural gas and LPG jet 08:30 Registration and coffee
fires to predict the impact on your operations process
and prepare the timing of your response 9:00 Opening remarks from the Chair
● Understanding the various causes for an accidental release
of pressurized gas or liquid and resulting fire hazard at Minimizing the effects of a fire incident by
natural gas and LPG facilities ensuring emergency response is implemented
● Determine BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor successfully and various fire hazard situations are
Explosion) and its effects if not captured early
● Executing fire prevention and monitoring activities
taken into account
● Clarifying impact of flame extents, the effect of buoyancy 09:10 Clarifying risk management and safety case
and wind approaches that can be applied to various regions
● Assessing the heat transfer from large jet fires to engulfed worldwide and identifying BHP Billiton best practices
objects, resulting heat fluxes and internal radiation, flame in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM)
impingement ● Examining the evolution of oil and gas regulations in the
● Implementing an emergency response plan to reduce US GOM
natural gas and LPG jet fire hazard consequences activating ● Discussing the benefits of using a risk based approach
relevant shut-off valves ● Comparing approaches in the UK, Australia and the US GOM
Lucas Paugh, Health and Safety Engineer, AERA EnERGy ● Highlighting the discussion of the safety case evolution and
approach
3:20 Afternoon refreshments ● Presenting the current BHP Billiton safety case approach in
the US GOM and outlining comparisons with the Safety and
3:50 Exploring LnG fire protection techniques that will Environmental Management System (SEMS) approach being
comply with upcoming regulations for offshore introduced by the Minerals Management Service (MMS)
facilities in order to be appropriately equipped in the ● Demonstrating the risk based methodology as utilized
by BHP Billiton as the preferred methodology for the
future
management of risks for operations in the US GOM
● Understanding fire protection of different tank types
Caroline Deetjen, Safety and Risk Engineer, BHP BILLITOn
and instrumentation, spill control-impoundment and
containment
● Debating emergency shutdown and fire-fighting systems 09:50 Highlighting the fire protection program by the
such as dry chemical systems and fire suppression agents university of Houston-Downtown: fire safety and
● Also touching on: wind effects in petrochemical plants
● Establishing prevention and mitigation strategies to ● Reviewing separation of facilities in petrochemical plants
reduce the risk of a fire and consequences of a fire based on combustion models without considering wind
incident effect
● LNG hazards ● Assessing the situation in the presence of wind: distortion of
Jaffee Suardin, HSE Engineer, SHELL InTERnATIOnAL the fire plume affecting the fire dynamics
ExPLORATIOn AnD PRODuCTIOn ● Using the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to analyze the
situation and provide better criteria for separation of plant
4:30 Safeguarding and monitoring the applications of an facilities
Emergency Shut Down (ESD) system to ensure its ● Running several simulations of propagation of fire between
facilities under varying wind conditions
properly installed and functioning for a fire incident
Dr. Alberto Gomez-Rivas, PhDs, PE, EQ, Department Chair,
● What is included in an ESD system: outlining API
Professor and Program Coordinator Structural Analysis
requirements
and Design Program, Engineering Technology Department,
● Understanding ESD system as a protection layer for the
unIVERSITy OF HOuSTOn DOWnTOWn
process safety management of your oil and gas facilities
● Integrating an ESD systems into your fire and gas system
● Coordinating the ESD system design with other safety 10:30 Morning refreshments
studies including hazard ID, process hazards analysis,
quantitative risk analysis and safety
11:00 Implementing effective emergency response:
● Conducting a Safety Integrity Level (SIL) analysis conducting emergency response trainings for
● Locating ESD valves managing major events situations effectively to
● Protecting ESD systems to survive offshore fire and gas mitigate risk in terms of personnel and equipment
explosion events loss and complying with national regulations
● Performance requirements of ESD systems as a safety ● Communicating the prevailing fire protection philosophy/
critical element culture
Steve Lehrer, Manager of Safety and Environmental ● Defining emergency response groups and activities for
Engineering, CB&I emergency situations
● Understanding the right level, extent and frequency for
training courses
5:10 Closing remarks from the Chair and close of Day One ● Establishing response strategies and tactics based on
various emergency scenarios
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4. Wednesday 9 December 2009
● Conducting drills: how to simulate an emergency situation 2:50 Highlighting inherent safety application in offshore
effectively oil and gas facilities: innovative approaches in terms
● Outlining the most crucial decisions to be made in the event of segregation, separation and arrangement of
of an emergency equipmen
● Lessons learnt from previous major events and how to ● Segregating high risk units, e.g. process and storage, from
adapt these to your emergency response approach low risk areas to provide maximum protection where needed
Dr. Chitram Lutchman, Team Leader Loss Management and and optimize loss prevention
Emergency Response, SunCOR EnERGy ● Explaining economic benefits related to segregation
approaches
11:40 Panel discussion: Planning and implementing an ● Maximizing possibilities of remotely locating every single
emergency response plan and operating emergency high hazard risk process
response facilities accurately ● Considering process facility layout and separation of
● Predicting emergency response scenarios assessing harm processes
to plant staff, equipment and the environment ● Outlining physical separation by distance by having a fire
● Ensuring protection of equipment at the emergency control and blast barrier contiguous between the decks
centre and safely controlling the situation from there until ● Examining fire suppression effectiveness of passive fire
point of evacuation protection facilities and need for active fire protection
● Assessing the emergency situation accurately and realizing Tonya Zepeda, Corporate HSE Coordinator, AuDuBOn
a fatal attempt situation as early as possible EnGInEERInG
● Preparing for safe evacuation
● Communicating with public and media 3:30 Closing remarks from the Chair, champagne prize draw
● Assessing emergency response costs including fire and and end of conference
rescue services
Panellists: Dr. Chitram Lutchman, Team Leader Loss
Management and Emergency Response, SunCOR EnERGy
12:20 Lunch
understanding design and construction
challenges and establishing solutions to
overcome these issues successfully
1:30 Combining active and passive fire protection systems
correctly to optimize their co-functioning and coverage
● Identifying fire protection requirements according to
equipment, plant structure and operations processes:
differentiating between the challenges and problems posed
by differing facilities
● Predicting various fire hazard scenarios by specifying fire
type, duration and exposure in order to choose active
and passive fire protection systems that have the most
significant benefit to personnel and process plant
● Balancing the combination of both systems while
complying with national and internal standards
● Ensuring correct installation to ensure performance even in case
of jet fire or explosion: describing contemporary best practice
● Understanding operational requirements of both systems to
optimize prevention and control of fires
Paul Ceeney, Principle HSE & Risk Consultant,
COnSOLIDATED RISK
2:10 Ensuring protection of process equipment against
accidental fire load: a design based approach to
increase safety and reduce cost
● Using simulation to ensure fire integrity as an integral part
of process systems design
● Outlining some new trends in the forthcoming issue of
API 521
● Understanding fire scenario and its key parameters
influence on the design results
● Identifying weak points in present common design practice
and outlining an alternative approach
● Presenting experiences from the use of advanced
simulation tools in development and modification
of projects
Dr. Geir Berge, COB and Founder, PETRELL and
Dr. Geir Langli, Managing Director, PETRELL

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