NPTEL Syllabus

Health, Safety and Environmental

Management in Offshore and
Petroleum Engineering - Video
course

COURSE OUTLINE
NPTEL
http://nptel.ac.in
The course will give an overview of the safety and
environmental issues in the petroleum industry. It will provide
detailed understanding of the methods and techniques to
Ocean
resolve these key issues for making petroleum production and
processing, cleaner and safer.
Engineering
This course would educate the participants to identify and
assess hazards in any stage of operation, to quantify and
manage them as well. This course will also highlight lessons
learnt from the past accidents. Coordinators:
Dr. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran
Associate ProfessorDepartment of
COURSE DETAIL Ocean EngineeringIIT Madras

Week. Topics
No

1. Safety assurance and assessment: 4 weeks (4

days a week)

Introduction to HSE
Safety assurance
Safety in design and operations
Organizing for safety
Hazard classification and assessment, Hazard
evaluation and control
Hazop
Hazop case study
FMEA
Tutorial sheets

2. Accident modeling, risk assessment &

management: 4 weeks (4 days a week)

Dose assessment, safety regulations

Toxic releases- models and methods
 Chemical risk analysis, Chemical exposure
index (CEI)
Case studies in oil industries
Quantitative risk assessment
Fire and explosion models
Flammability diagrams
Exposure models
Fire and explosion: prevention methods
Event tree and fault tree analyses

3. Safety measures in design and operation: 1

weeks (4 days a week)

Safety measure in oil and gas industry

Safety methods in design and operation
Process safety management
Software used in HSE

4. Environmental issues and management: 3

weeks (4 days a week)

Environmental impact and management

Impact of oil and gas industry in marine
environment
Oil hydrocarbons in marine environment
Chemical disposal of offshore industry and
environmental management
Dispersion models and atmospheric pollution
Dispersion models continued..
Hazard assessment

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