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SAFETY OFFSHORE Roles, Responsibilities, Regrets and Recriminations SPE WA Perth 3 February 2010 National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority NOPSA JANE CUTLER Todays presentation . Why we are concerned about safety

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SAFETY OFFSHORE – Roles, Responsibilities, Regrets and Recriminations

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SPE WA Perth 3 February 2010

National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority

NOPSA

JANE CUTLER

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Today’s presentation ….

  • Why we are concerned about safety
  • Offshore safety in Australia – roles &

responsibilities

  • Challenges in 2009, 2010 and beyond
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Shallow gas blowouts

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NOPSA

  • Single regulator – Commonwealth Statutory

Authority

  • Regulates in Commonwealth waters and State/NT

designated coastal waters (where mirror legislation is in place)

  • Administers

– Offshore Petroleum & Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 & regulations – Offshore Petroleum (Safety Levies) Act 2003 & regulations

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NOPSA’s legislative functions

Focus on the OHS of people working in offshore petroleum operations ……

  • promote

promote

  • develop and implement effective monitoring

monitoring and enforcement enforcement strategies to secure compliance

  • investigate

investigate accidents, occurrences and circumstances

  • advise

advise

  • cooperate

cooperate with other Commonwealth agencies, State or Northern Territory agencies

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Regulatory Regime

  • ‘Duty of Care’ based
  • Permissioning regime with safety case

acceptance as a permissioning tool

  • Safety cases accepted following assessment
  • Safety cases tested through inspection/audit by

NOPSA

  • Regulatory actions to maintain safety case focus
  • Enforcement if required
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Duty of Care

In practice duty of care is shared among parties offshore:

Primary Group; Operator, persons in control of parts of facility or particular work, titleholders. Subsidiary Group; employers, manufacturers, suppliers, installers and all persons regarding occupational health and safety.

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Role of the Operator

“The operator of a facility must take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that:

a) the facility is safe and without risk facility is safe and without risk to health

  • f any person at or near the facility; and

b) all work and other activities work and other activities are carried out in a safe safe manner and without risk without risk to the health

  • f any person at or near the facility.”
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Role of the Workforce

  • Reasonably practicable steps
  • Must not create or increase OHS risk
  • Cooperates with the operator
  • Uses equipment in accordance with

instructions

  • Must not interfere with safety equipment
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NOSA’s Role - Verification

  • Is the Operator doing enough?

– Assessment & acceptance of safety cases

  • Are they doing what they said they would

do?

– Inspection and audit of facilities

  • If something goes wrong … what happened?

Did anyone break the law? Are sanctions required?

– Investigation and enforcement

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Ocean Odyssey, UK 1988, 1 fatality

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Safety Case

What Does a Safety Case Do?

Prevent Accidents Procedural Controls Hardware Controls Hazards & Risks The Work Place Safety Management System Formal Safety Assessment Facility Description The Work to be Done

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Mumbai High, India 2005, 22 fatalities

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New Commonwealth Legislation

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States Legislation

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NOPSA’S Core Skills and Experience

Inspectors

Professional Engineers; Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, Marine, Process, Electrical, Environmental and Occupational health

Australian Public Service Investigator

Business Management Law and legal Practitioners Government Regulator Enforcement Agency

OHS Practitioners

OIM, Drilling Supervisor, Wells Engineer, Vessel Master, Design Engineer, Auditor, Warranty Surveyor.

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Montara 2009, Timor Sea

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“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently” Warren Buffet

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P36 - Campos Basin 2001, 11 fatalities

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Offshore Blowouts

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What’s new in 2010

  • Carbon Capture and Greenhouse Gas

Storage

  • Floating LNG
  • Consolidated Offshore Regulations
  • Pipeline integrity
  • Output from Montara Comission of Inquiry
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Gas Well Blowouts in Gaoqiao, Chongqing, China 23 December 2003 243 people died, 9,000 were injured, and 64,000 were evacuated

Many of the confirm ed dead are children or elderly people w ho w ere unable to flee after the explosion. Those w ho did not escape in tim e suffered burns to their eyes, skin and lungs from the gas.

H2 S from wells

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Next 5 Years

  • Well integrity?
  • Design safety case?
  • Inherent safety?
  • New technology?
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“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” Barack Obama