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RISK-BASED TECHNOLOGY
FOR THE OFFSHORE INDUSTRY
Photo Gallery
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Nearly 200 offshore industry professionals attended
a one day workshop “Taking Advantage of Risk-Based Technology
Advances” hosted by ABS Consulting in June in Houston.
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| During a workshop break (from left) ABS Senior Staff Consultant
Phil Rynn talks with Jeff Lantz, USCG and Jim Gormanson, Noble
Drilling Services. Rynn recently worked on the ABS “approval
in principle” of the novel compressed natural gas or CNG
design from EnerSea Transport. |
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Risk forum workshop attendees (left) John Weon,
MODEC International and Frank Tiedemann, BP. |
| Dr. Charles E. Smith, Senior Technical Advisor, MMS, discusses
how risk assessment has played a role in MMS regulatory decisions.
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ABS Consulting Quantitative Risk Assessment expert
Bob Cross (left) participates in a forum with USCG’s Jeff
Lantz. Cross presented fault and event tree analyses as two
major QRA tools used today in evaluating risk. ABS
Consulting is the leading risk management firm
in the United States and an affiliate of ABS. |
| How risk assessment is used in project decision making was
explained by Dave Jones, ChevronTexaco. |
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Chris Serratella, ABS Consulting, offers a case
study review of EnerSea’s VOTRANS CNG design concept as
a project in which new technologies or approaches without much
precedent are addressed. The ABS Guidance Notes for Novel Concept
was the technical document used in guiding the “Approval
In Principle” decision. |
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