Course objective:

To educate and to train students to identify the risks arising during oil and gas exploration and production (in further text: O&G E&P) activities, to conduct risk assessment, its valorisation and management

Course content:

• Basic concepts in the field of risk assessment in O&G E&P
• Occurrence of fire and explosions
• Causes of accidents
• Risk identification and assessment methods
• Main methods of risk analysis and assessment
• Analysis and data collection for risk assessment
• Risk analysis in well construction
• An integrated approach to blowout risk analysis
• Risk analysis in well completion and maintenance
•  Quantitative analysis of environmental impact risks
• Offshore activities and associated risks
• Simultaneous operations
• Causes and consequences of the blowout at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico
• The impact of the Gulf of Mexico disaster on new legislation
• Examples and analysis of accidents at drilling rigs
• Examples and analysis of accidents during workover activities, and in transportation and collection systems
• Calculation of occurrence probability for individual adverse events and other analytical variables
• Event tree in risk assessment
• Alert system for near miss cases, injuries, process incidents, environmental pollution
• Safety management system
• Major accident prevention and related legislation.

Learning outcomes at the level of the course:

• Define important terms in the field of risk analysis;
• Identify O&G E&P risk sources;
• Analyse environmental and socio-economic risks and risk management;
• Evaluate projects with regard to the risk level;
• Apply qualitative and quantitative methods of risk analysis on real examples.