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Road Risk Analysis and VTS Geo-Fencing: A New Concept Implemented During the Urban Seismic Acquisition Operations to Eliminate/Minimize the Motor Vehicle Accidents
Minhaj, Rifad Ali (Kuwait Oil Company) | Al-Awadi, Mashari (Kuwait Oil Company) | Al-Ajmi, Bader (Kuwait Oil Company) | Al-Enezi, Mohammad (Kuwait Oil Company)
Abstract Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) recently completed, one of the most challenging seismic acquisition survey covering three different terrain conditions (Land, Transition Zone and Marine), where the survey crew has to encounter lots of obstacles during the project execution phase. During the land acquisition activities, the survey covered most of the State of Kuwait urban areas including Kuwait city and the adjoining highly crowded/traffic congested areas. Fleets of more than 100 vehicles including heavy vehicles such as vibrator trucks were operating 24/7 in the State of Kuwait urban areas as part of survey programs. The project faced many challenges and one of the major challenge was to drive through the highly crowded/traffic congested areas and to cross all the major express highways & ring roads as part of project objective. By considering the State of Kuwait Road Accident frequency rate, it was evident that, a robust control measures is required in order to mitigate this high risk and to eliminate any motor vehicle accidents during the survey acquisition phase. Hence, Land Transportation had been ranked as no.1 Hazard during the initial planning stage of the seismic acquisition project. In order to mitigate the driving risk and to manage a fleet of more than 100 vehicles, a new initiative has been introduced. This Abstract outlines one of the industry best HSE tool used to control and monitor a fleet of more than 100 vehicles through the Road Risk Analysis and GEO-Fencing on the vehicle VTS System. The project was well planned & properly executed. The crew has successfully completed the urban operations (all the highly congested urban areas including the Kuwait city). The overall project performance in terms of motor vehicle accidents after its implementation remains @ Zero recordable Motor Vehicle Accidents after driving more than Four Million KMs inside urban areas. In addition, the project had been successfully completed with more than Six Million Man-hours of Operations without any Lost Time Injury (LTI).
ABSTRACT Acquiring seismic data acquisition in urban areas are very challenging interms of operation and HSE. Wireless recording system make such surveys more efficient and easier to conduct in a safe and cost effective manner. The introduction of Vibrator Autonomous Shooting which has been develop recently has contributed to improving the efficiency as well as the production in highly congested urbanized area in Kuwait. In 2015 KOC has contracted BGP to acquire very complex 3D seismic survey which includes the Bay area, City of Kuwait and SABKHA area to the north of the Bay. This survey involves different type of sources and including Vibroseis, Dynamite and Air guns. KOC pointed out this worry and then both of KOC and BGP worked together to find out a better operation mode to realize efficient acquisition. Inorder to ensure efficiency of data acquisition the Digital-Seis System (DSS) which was recently developed has been utilized. This system can directly trigger energy sources for high-productivity operation, make intelligent guidance, real-time quality control, real-time operation management. The overall vibrator autonomous shooting can be divided as five (5) stages. The base of this shooting technology is a series of configurations in both of DSS and Sercel recording system. However, it is a better choice to combine autonomous shooting with code shooting technique when both of cable system and wireless system are allocated for integrated acquisition. All this has contributed to achieve the objective of the survey and enhanced the productivity. Presentation Date: Monday, October 17, 2016 Start Time: 1:50:00 PM Location: 148 Presentation Type: ORAL
- Information Technology > Architecture > Real Time Systems (0.75)
- Information Technology > Communications (0.68)
Abstract There is a spectrum of safety issues for the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) transport environment and an increasing number of potential solutions - addressing provider safety, patient safety and the safety of the public in a systems approach. This paper outlines risks and hazards involved in EMS transport, highlighting the automotive safety, workplace safety including ergonomic and engineering perspectives, as well as existing and developing standards and guidelines. Despite the large strides that the automotive industry, occupational health and safety as well as public safety have made in the last 30 years, this expertise has not yet been translated to the safety of ambulance transport. This is a unique transportation and health care delivery environment for a number of reasons. In the USA there are no specific EMS transportation safety databases, so that ascertaining the overall safety of the system is very challenging, also there are few applicable system safety standards, no comprehensive personal protective equipment standards and no vehicle crash safety testing standards that pertain to ambulance vehicles. Unfortunately, because no reporting system or database exists specifically for identifying ambulance crash related outcomes, injuries and their nature, specific details as to which injuries occurred and to whom and what specifically caused them are extremely scarce. There have been extensive studies that have identified that the rear patient compartment is the most dangerous part of the ambulance for its occupants, yet this part of the vehicle is currently not regulated by the Federal Motor Vehicle Standards. Furthermore it has also been demonstrated that for each ambulance occupant fatality in an adverse event involving an ambulance vehicle, that there are 3 non-ambulance occupants fatalities, largely related to intersection crashes, and secondarily pedestrians struck. This paper demonstrates that utilizing a systems safety based multidisciplinary approach-addressing patient, provider and public safety with comprehensive data capture, strategic highway safety planning integration, ergonomic and automotive safety perspectives in conjunction with vehicle and fleet safety standards development-is necessary to ensure improved outcomes in EMS transport safety. Introduction Emergency Medical Service is a unique transportation and health care delivery environment for anumber of reasons. Even though there is comprehensive medical and clinical oversight, training and standards in EMS - this is not the case with the transportation safety aspect of this system. In the USA there are few applicable transportation system safety standards for EMS, essentially no vehicle crash safety testing standards that pertain to ambulance vehicles patient compartments and no comprehensive personal protective equipment standards. There is only very limited national data captured on the safety of this EMS transportation system, primarily by the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), which captures fatalities only and has no denominator data. Thus ascertaining the safety of EMS transport system, its vehicles and products remains limited to expert and peer evaluation in a piecemeal fashion.
- Transportation > Infrastructure & Services (1.00)
- Transportation > Ground > Road (1.00)
- Health & Medicine > Public Health (1.00)
- Government > Regional Government > North America Government > United States Government (1.00)
Introduction Demands on the Oil & Gas industry are driving continual improvement in Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) performance, which in turn the business performance of an organization. The use of vehicles for people/ material transportation is a fundamental business requirement in today's industry operations. The combination of moving people and material on roads also introduces significant risks, hazards, and safety challenges to our industry and the communities in which we operate. Like Industrial incidents, Motor Vehicle Accidents also severely affect the company's HSE Performances. Road traffic fatalities, injuries and trauma constitute serious social problems, bringing adverse effects on the quality of life, which is not only an organizational concern but also an important national issue. This paper describes one successful approach of dealing road safety issues that has been implemented by one of the biggest on-shore Oil & Gas organizations in the Middle Eastern region. Much emphasis was placed on understanding the Middle Eastern Social Culture, understanding the organizational culture besides the State Regulations and then designing and implementing the program to suit the norms and requirements, which has brought significant positive results over the years. Necessity Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is a major subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and is giant Oil and Gas Organization with its activities spread across the State of Kuwait with thousands of employees (consisting of both company & contractor employees). Kuwait Oil Company is a. KOC's responsibilities include the exploration, drilling, and production of oil and gas within the State of Kuwait. The challenge for safe driving is affected with adverse weather conditions and behavioral aspects of other road users. KOC recognizes the importance of safe driving in the conduct of business activities and operations Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA) continue to be one of the major HSE challenges in KOC. The challenge of improved road safety multiplied with dynamic scenario of fast pace of growth, new projects, changing people in Company & Contractors, HSE culture, behavior and priorities along with increased number of vehicle movements within company premises, enhances the speed related issues. KOC strongly believes that road related incidents are preventable / avoidable, and each issue / problem pertaining to road can be addressed systematically and methodical manner for suitable remedy.
- Transportation > Ground > Road (1.00)
- Government > Regional Government > Asia Government > Middle East Government > Kuwait Government (1.00)
- Energy > Oil & Gas > Upstream (1.00)
Urban Planning in North Kuwait: Collaborating Across All Assets to Optimize Developments and Exploit Synergies
Warrlich, Georg M. (Shell Kuwait Exploration and Production) | Al-Dohaiem, Khalid (Kuwait Oil Company) | Al-Boloushi, Ahmed (Kuwait Oil Company) | Abdelrahman, Hesham (Shell Kuwait Exploration and Production) | Kumar, Vaidyula S. (Kuwait Oil Company) | Al-Rashdan, Saad (Kuwait Oil Company) | Schrameyer, Sandor (Shell Kuwait Exploration and Production) | Cheers, Mike (Shell Kuwait Exploration and Production) | Hulshof, Bart (Shell Kuwait Exploration and Production) | Al-Haqqan, Hamad (Kuwait Oil Company) | Reijnders, Gert Jan (Shell Kuwait Exploration and Production) | Al-Rabah, Abdullah (Kuwait Oil Company)
Abstract The Northern part of Kuwait is a highly active development area for deeper gas, intermediate-depth conventional oil and shallow heavy oil. All these developments have overlapping footprints in an already congested area, requiring different development concepts for gas, water flood and steam respectively. Additionally, different Assets manage the respective reservoirs. Integrated Urban Planning across all Assets therefore becomes a vital requirement for realizing all concurrent future developments regarding land use, and enabling close collaboration to leverage synergies among the Assets, utilizing both organizational and new technology-based solutions, in order to maximize value for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). In North Kuwait Urban Planning is a joint effort between KOC and Shell, with initial focus on establishing an agreement for work methods, effective communications, and protocols with all stakeholders. Next all "as-built" infrastructure and current plans were combined and reviewed. This formed the basis to identify and resolve conflicts, recognize opportunities for reduced land requirements and optimize the development synergies. The approach is underpinned with new technologies, tools, best practices, and concepts like multi-well pad developments, area discounting, exclusion zones, and shared infrastructure and road access corridors, based on global analogue developments. In this paper example field ‘A’ is discussed as it has stacked reservoirs of shallow heavy oil, intermediate conventional oil and deep, sour gas. It requires significant urban planning focus to avoid conflicts and enable synergies. In field A, the shallow heavy-oil development requires large number of wells in a dense well-spacing versus fewer wells targeting the intermediate-depth conventional oil and deeper gas reservoirs, which requires large "safety zones" around well sites. In both cases, common infrastructure like roads, power distribution, flow line and trunkline corridors also need to be considered jointly. Urban Planning collaboration between assets with distinct development challenges can help in creating safe co-development opportunities, thus maximizing value for KOC.
- Energy > Oil & Gas > Upstream (1.00)
- Government > Regional Government > Asia Government > Middle East Government > Kuwait Government (0.50)
- Asia > Middle East > Kuwait > Jahra Governorate > Arabian Basin > Widyan Basin > North Kuwait Jurassic (NKJ) Fields > Marrat Formation > Upper Marrat Formation (0.94)
- Asia > Middle East > Kuwait > Jahra Governorate > Arabian Basin > Widyan Basin > North Kuwait Jurassic (NKJ) Fields > Marrat Formation > Sargelu Formation (0.94)