Upstream Oil & Gas
Typical services provided by ESC in the Upstream Oil & Gas sector include:
Offshore Drilling Platforms
• Delivering Hardware Reliability Analysis of Emergency Shutdown (ESD) and Fire and Gas (F&G) detection systems and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Verification on existing system
• Providing product certification for legacy ESD system, including ‘prior-use’ assessment
Offshore Wellhead Platforms
• Conducting risk evaluation for the departing gas pipeline with Cost Benefit Analysis
• Chairing HAZOP and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) studies to ascertain Safety Related System requirements
• Producing hardware reliability sensitivity analysis to identify suitable testing/maintenance strategy and system architecture for SIL4 High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS)
Offshore Production Platforms
• Providing Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) including dispersion modelling and consequence analysis
• Facilitating and leading Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and LOPA studies to determine SIL requirements and verification of proposed ESD and F&G detection systems