Operational, Safety and Reliability Factors

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
14 Dec 2025 Riyadh, KSA $ 3,900 Register

Operational, Safety and Reliability Factors

Introduction

This course is delivered through a balanced combination of lectures and practical sessions. All delegates will receive a Certificate of Attendance upon completion of this course

Objectives

    On successful completion of this short course you will: 

    • Be able to explain the concept of RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) and its application in the offshore energy industry
    • Have a basic understanding of reliability analysis techniques and the mathematical basis of risk and reliability
    • Be able to apply various tools (e.g. fault tree and event tree analysis, FMEA/FMECA, HAZOP, reliability block diagram) in risk and reliability assessment of offshore energy systems

Training Methodology

The training methodology is interactive with group exercises and is suitable for all employees involved in functions management. The pace and level of the training workshop is customized to the understanding of the delegates. Ongoing back-up and support is available after the training on request to the supplier, and the training course is also available for in-house presentation as well as for “Competency Transfer”.

Who Should Attend?

The course will benefit mechanical, structural, pipeline, industrial engineers and technicians who are or plan to be involved in risk and reliability assessment of offshore assets

Course Outline

Introduction: concept of RAMS, risk management and reliability engineering:

  • Failure distributions: how to analyze and interpret failure data, introduce the most commonly used discrete and continuous failure distributions (e.g. Poisson, Exponential, Weibull and Normal)
  • Reliability and availability analysis: system breakdown, MTTF/MTBF/MTTR, survival, failure/hazard rate
  • Risk management process: hazard identification, assessment, evaluation and mitigation (risk acceptance, reduction, ignorance, transfer)
  • Risk assessment techniques for offshore energy systems: risk matrix, Pareto analysis, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, hazard and operability studies
  • Reliability analysis techniques for offshore energy systems: reliability block diagram, minimal cut-sets, series and parallel configurations, k-out-of-n systems, redundancies
  • Human reliability analysis and accident causation: major accident sequences, risk perception and control of risk, human reliability assessment tools: HEART and THERP
  • Offshore safety case and formal safety assessments: regulatory regime, safety case requirements, types of study, scenario development, examples of use of QRA methods, consequence analysis, vulnerability of essential systems, smoke and gas ingress, evacuation escape and rescue and typical output
  • Review of major offshore accidents: Sea Gem, Alexander Keill and, Star Canopus and Piper Alpha disaster
  • Introduction to maintainability and its various measures, impact of maintenance strategy on system reliability
  • Introduction to structural reliability analysis: stress strength interference and limit state concepts, first-order/second-order reliability method (FORM/SORM), Damage accumulation and modeling of time dependent failures
  • Workshops and case studies: Work in groups to determine the risk and reliability of subsea production systems using various tools and techniques

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