Overview

Safe and reliable operations should be everyone's first priority and it's important to learn from our own as well as other's mistakes. Near misses are sometimes not given the same external visibility as incidents leading to personnel harm and/or equipment damage. But often, the difference between an incident and a near miss is pure luck.

In this webinar, Ian Robertson will present four near miss case studies:

• poor knockout drum design
• over-pressure of compressor suction scrubber due to reverse flow
• effects of pipeline slugging on printed circuit heat exchangers
• effects of creeping change on an NGL injection system

Speaker

Ian Robertson, Genesis, Technical Lead

Ian Robertson is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with over 29 years industrial experience. He spent 20 years working in the UK, prior to moving to Houston in 2010, where became a licensed P.E. in both Texas and Alaska. Ian has successfully managed process engineering departments at two separate engineering consultancies. He is currently working at Genesis where he is the technical lead on their global brownfield conceptual engineering contract with BP.

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenters' own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the US Gulf Coast Member Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Format

A one-hour online session: 40 minutes' presentation + 20 minutes' Q&A.
Duration (for CPD recording purposes): up to one hour.

If you are recording mandatory CPD you should refer to your own regulator's requirements as recognition of CPD hours may vary.

Webinar archive

This webinar is free of charge and open to all to attend, but if you wish to access the slides and a recording to replay on demand then you'll need to be a member of the US Gulf Member Group.

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