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High Value Learning - Facility emergency response capability unexpectedly impacted by power outage

A power outage occurred after maintenance activities on a safety instrumented system on an offshore oil & gas production facility that inadvertently initiated the highest-level emergency shutdown on the installation. The outage unexpectedly impacted a number of the facilities emergency response systems.

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