Piper Alpha Case Study
Abstract:
The accident that happened aboard the offshore platform Piper Alpha in This summer 1988 wiped out 167 people and price vast amounts of dollars in damage to property. It had been triggered with a massive fire that was not caused by an unpredictable “act of God” but of an amount of errors and questionable choices. Many of them were rooted within the organization, its structure, methods, and culture. These business factors are generalizable with other industries and engineering systems. They include defects within the design recommendations and design practices (e.g., tight physical couplings or inadequate redundancies), misguided focal points within the control over the tradeoff between productivity and safety, mistakes within the control over the personnel aboard, and errors of judgment along the way through which financial demands are put on the development sector (i.e., the oil companies’ meaning of profit centers) leading to inadequacies in inspection and maintenance procedures. This analytical approach enables identification of risk management measures which go past the purely technical (e.g., add redundancies to some safety system) as well as include enhancements of management practices. This study is done to retrieve all the information on management, operation function, cause of accident, consequences, improvements and prevention.
Introduction:
Piper Alpha would be a North Ocean oil production rig platform operated through the Occidental Oil (Caledonia) Ltd. The platform started its production in year 1976 where it paid for around 10 % from the gas and oil production in the North Ocean at that time. It had been begun being an oil platform later it transformed into gas production.[10] The Piper Alpha drilling platform can be found 120 miles (193km) from the north-new England of Scotland.[13]
Around the evening of sixth on summer 1988, the platform was destroyed as there is full of explosion happened. The reason for the explosion was because
The accident that happened aboard the offshore platform Piper Alpha in This summer 1988 wiped out 167 people and price vast amounts of dollars in damage to property. It had been triggered with a massive fire that was not caused by an unpredictable “act of God” but of an amount of errors and questionable choices. Many of them were rooted within the organization, its structure, methods, and culture. These business factors are generalizable with other industries and engineering systems. They include defects within the design recommendations and design practices (e.g., tight physical couplings or inadequate redundancies), misguided focal points within the control over the tradeoff between productivity and safety, mistakes within the control over the personnel aboard, and errors of judgment along the way through which financial demands are put on the development sector (i.e., the oil companies’ meaning of profit centers) leading to inadequacies in inspection and maintenance procedures. This analytical approach enables identification of risk management measures which go past the purely technical (e.g., add redundancies to some safety system) as well as include enhancements of management practices. This study is done to retrieve all the information on management, operation function, cause of accident, consequences, improvements and prevention.
Introduction:
Piper Alpha would be a North Ocean oil production rig platform operated through the Occidental Oil (Caledonia) Ltd. The platform started its production in year 1976 where it paid for around 10 % from the gas and oil production in the North Ocean at that time. It had been begun being an oil platform later it transformed into gas production.[10] The Piper Alpha drilling platform can be found 120 miles (193km) from the north-new England of Scotland.[13]
Around the evening of sixth on summer 1988, the platform was destroyed as there is full of explosion happened. The reason for the explosion was because