Alert 30 Nov 2020 Small bore tubing connection failure When bringing a new well online a section of instrument tubing parted from an instrument block and bleed valve on a pressure transmitter allowing an uncontrolled release of >200kg of hydrocarbon gas at 200barg. The release did not ignite. The platform’s fixed fire and gas detection system initi… View Alert
Alert 17 Nov 2020 IP struck by water from fire monitor A power outage and low instrument air pressure set off an oscillating fire monitor, filling the deck drains. Technicians attempted to redirect the monitor – successful for a period of time. The monitor started oscillating in a non-standard arc, resulting in water impinging on a control cabinet. The … View Alert
Alert 17 Nov 2020 Collapsed winch drum The crane winch drum barrel boss was being replaced. The winch drum had been removed from the boom hoist winch and positioned on the deck. There was a discrepancy between the drawings and what the team found at site. Approximately 15mins after the barrel boss was removed, the drum collapsed. An ind… View Alert
Alert 17 Nov 2020 BSEE Alert – 399 Grating failures cause a fatality and a serious near miss During a planned maintenance and construction outage on a production platform on May 16, 2020, a contractor working on the casing deck inside of a hard-barricaded area (Figure 1) fell 30-40 feet to the deck below (Figure 2), resulting in death. On May 4, 2020, in a separate incident on another facil… View Alert
Alert 6 Nov 2020 BSEE Alert – 400: Trapped Pressure Ejects Rod From Chamber and Strikes Subsea Technician in the Face During blow-out preventer equipment pressure testing operations, a subsea technician sustained an injury while removing the Hands-Free Goose Neck (HFGN) locking cylinder assembly bolts. The technician was performing a work-around procedure when a sheared indicator rod ejected from the back side of t… View Alert
Alert 20 Oct 2020 Uncontrolled decent of crane boom The operation involved offloading 9 5/8” casing from a supply vessel to the rig’s cantilever deck. The crew was utilising a main deck crane, operating on a single line (“whip line”). Two bundles with three casing joints each were in the process of being lowered on top of the casing already stacked o… View Alert
Alert 20 Oct 2020 Crewman caught in the line of fire while using riser torque wrench During pulling of the Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) assembly, crewmen were working on the spider platform removing the eight riser flange bolts from the telescopic joint (“TJ”) when the incident occurred. The process involved the use of a hydraulically operated riser torque wrench (“wrench”) to … View Alert
Alert 19 Oct 2020 Health and Safety Executive Safety Alert - Failure to detect dangerous gas/vapour due to incorrect specification of sample tube This safety alert highlights the risk of misleading gas detection readings associated with the use of sampling tubes with pumped gas detectors. Sampling tubes are sometimes used to extend the reach of the detection device and/or to allow detection at an increased distance from the user. In a recent … View Alert
Alert 8 Oct 2020 Potential for electric shock from live LED casing on Victor Excalibur Emergency luminaire Whilst carrying out maintenance on a Victor Excalibur (VL24E) c/w battery management feature, an electrical technician received a minor electrical shock from a battery indication LED fitted on the gear housing cover. The electrician had been re-lamping the fitting, he was re-attaching the removable … View Alert
Learning Moment 14 Sept 2020 Texas City - Could this happen again? This Safety Moment is based on the US Chemical Safety Board (USCSB) animated film of the BP Texas City Refinery explosion which occurred 23rd of March 2005.We have identified some of the key short comings that lead to this incident occurring using the Step Change in Safety 7 C’s. When watching the v… View Learning Moment
Alert 29 Jul 2020 Loss of load during transit (Sheet metal) A section of metal sheeting measuring approx. 2m x 1m, 2mm thick, weighing approximately 40kgs dropped from a Heavy Vehicle trailer moving at 60kph on the outskirts of a regional town. The metal sheet was secured to a small framed structure with several pop rivets. The structure was lashed to the tr… View Alert
Alert 20 Jul 2020 Dropped scaffolding fitting A scaffolding team were preparing to erect a small platform on the top of the pipe deck gantry crane and had carried a bag of fittings up to the uppermost platform of the crane. As the scaffolder laid the bag of fittings on the top platform next to the handrail, a fitting (weight 832g) fell from the… View Alert