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Names: Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan, author.
Title: Health, safety, and environmental management in offshore and petroleum engineering / Srinivasan Chandrasekaran.
Description: First edition. | Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015047419 (print) | LCCN 2015049980 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119221845 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119221425 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119221432 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Offshore structures–Safety measures. | Offshore structures–Risk assessment. | Petroleum engineering–Safety measures. | Petroleum engineering–Risk assessment. | Petroleum in submerged lands–Environmental aspects. | Natural gas in submerged lands–Environmental aspects.
Classification: LCC TC1665 .C457 2016 (print) | LCC TC1665 (ebook) | DDC 622/.8–dc23LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047419
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The regulations of risks to health, safety, and environmental management that arise from the exploration and production works in the oil and gas industries are gaining more attention in the recent past. There is a growing necessity to maintain good and healthy work-space for people on board and also to protect the fragile ecosystem. The unregulated use of chemicals or other hazardous substances in oil and gas industries can challenge the technical workforce by putting their health at risk, causing various levels of discomfort in addition to causing catastrophic damage to the offshore assets. Accidents reported in the recent past in oil and gas sector also demonstrate the seriousness of Health, Safety, and Environmental Management in this domain of workspace. The objective of the book is to share the technical know-how in the field of health, safety, and environmental management, applicable to oil and gas industries. Contents of the book are spread across four chapters, addressing the vital areas of interest in HSE, as applicable to offshore and petroleum engineering. The first chapter highlights safety assurance and assessment, emphasizing the need for safety. The second chapter focuses on the environmental issues and management that arise from oil and gas exploration. The third chapter deals with the accident modeling, risk assessment, and management, while the fourth chapter is focused on safety measures in design and operations. The book explains the concepts in HSE through a simple and straightforward approach, which makes it comfortable for practicing engineers as well. The focus however is capacity building in safety and risk assessment, which is achieved through a variety of example problems and case studies. The author’s experiences in both the academia and leading oil and gas industries are shared through the illustrated case studies. The book is an important milestone in the capacity building of young engineers and preparing them for a safe exploration process. Sincere thanks are due to Centre for Continuing Education, IIT Madras for assisting in writing this book.
Professor Srinivasan Chandrasekaran is a Professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He has teaching, research, and industrial experience of about 24 years during which he has supervised many sponsored research projects and offshore consultancy assignments both in India and abroad. His active areas of research include dynamic analysis and design of offshore platforms, development of geometric forms of compliant offshore structures for ultra-deep water oil exploration and production, structural health monitoring of ocean structures, seismic analysis, and design of structures and risk analyses and reliability studies of offshore and petroleum engineering plants. He was a visiting fellow under the invitation of Ministry of Italian University Research to University of Naples Federico II, Italy, for a period of 2 years during which he conducted research on advanced nonlinear modeling and analysis of structures under different environmental loads with experimental verifications. He has published about 140 research papers in international journals and refereed conferences organized by professional societies around the world. He has authored five textbooks, which are quite popular among the graduate students of civil and ocean engineering: Seismic Design Aids for Nonlinear Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures (ISBN: 978-1-4398-0914-3); Analysis and Design of Offshore Structures with Illustrated Examples (ISBN: 978-89-963915-5-5); Advanced Theory on Offshore Plant FEED Engineering (ISBN: 978-89-969792-8-9); Dynamic Analysis and Design of Offshore Structures (ISBN: 978-81-322-2276-7); Advanced Marine Structures (ISBN: 978-14-987-3968-9). His books are also recommended as reference material in many universities in India and abroad.He also conducted two online courses under Mass Open Online Courses (MOOC) under NPTEL, GoI titled Dynamic analysis of offshore structures and HSE in oil offshore and petroleum industries. He is a member of many national and international professional bodies and has delivered many invited lectures and keynote addresses in the international conferences, workshops, and seminars organized in India and abroad.
He has also delivered four web-based courses:
under the auspices of National Program on Technology Enhancement Learning (NPTEL), Government of India.