The post Net Zero: The Business Opportunity and the matching YouTube video introduce some of the themes of this site.Many companies are developing ‘Net Zero’ programs. They aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their organizations to zero by a specified date, often the year 2050. In this series of letters and videos we aim to provide realistic information for these…
IPCC: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
This material is taken from the post Another Clunky Sentence. The phrase ‘Net Zero by 2050’ comes from an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018 report. The pertinent paragraph reads as follows,In model pathways with no or limited overshoot of 1.5°C, global net anthropogenic CO2 emissions decline by about 45%…
When discussing Net Zero programs a question that people in the energy and process industries frequently ask is, “How will it affect my career? What do I need to do to stay employed?” Professionals in those industries are rightly concerned that their skills and experience will be uncalled for in a rapidly changing world, particularly in a world where oil companies have stated…
The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) conducts investigations into serious incidents that occur in the chemical and process industries. The following quotation is taken from the web site of the United States Chemical Safety Board.The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the agency's board members are…
Published: June 2021Updated: August 2021 The OrganizationThere are many opinions to do with climate change — its causes, its effects, how quickly it is happening, and whether it is even happening at all. Therefore, the United Nations created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the year 1988 in order to provide world leaders with authoritative guidance. At its web…
The content of this Article has been moved to Safety Moment #94: Fault Tree Analysis. Details to do with the application and use of this technique are provided in the book Process Risk and Reliability Management and in the ebook Frequency Analysis.Copyright © Ian Sutton. 2020. All Rights Reserved.
Overview (BSEE Risk)As part of its Well Control Rule BSEE appears to have made a major change in the manner in which offshore risk is to be managed. Section 250.107(a)(3) states,[y]ou must protect health, safety, property and the environment by utilizing recognized engineering practices that reduce risks to the lowest level practicable when conducting design, fabrication, installation,…
This article from the online journal The Hill makes some pointed criticisms to do with BSEE’s rolling back of regulations that were introduced following the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo explosion and fire. It states,The Deepwater Horizon disaster laid bare the unfortunate reality of decades of insufficient oversight. Multiple investigations pointed to a deficient safety culture and an atmosphere…
2020-05-27I would like to take a break from talking about this virus this week. (Wouldn’t we all?) Instead, let’s take another long-range look as to where the process industries may be going, and how safety management programs may have to adapt.There is much talk in the oil industry to do with the current low oil prices and how the loss of revenue will lead to a cutback in investment, something…
OverviewEvent Tree Analysis (ETA) uses the same logical and mathematical techniques as Fault Tree Analysis. However, whereas a fault tree analyzes how an undesirable top event may occur, an event tree considers the impact of the failure of a particular component or item in the system, and works out the effect such a failure will have on the overall system risk or reliability. Event trees use an…