Adoption of Recent Industry Guidance on Process Safety Key Performance Indicators: An LNG Operator's Experience

摘要

Since the major incidents at Texas City refinery and Buncefield oil depot in 2005, the oil and gas industry has embarked on significant efforts to establish a system of performance indicators, the collection of which allows operators to better gauge the risk of suffering a major incident and, more importantly, identify the precursors to major incidents and mitigate these, thereby improving process safety performance. The 2010 Macondo blow-out reinforced the industry's prevailing and urgent requirement for a reliable system of metrics. RasGas Company Limited (RasGas), an LNG producer, has adopted the recently published Process Safety - Recommended Practice on Key Performance Indicators (Report no.456) by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) for the upstream industry, based on ANSI/API RP 754, Process Safety Performance Indicators for the Refining & Petrochemical Industries, First Edition, approved in 2010. This paper will cover how RasGas has adopted the four tier Key Performance Indicator (KPI) model practically, including the first year of Tier 3 and 4 leading KPI collection and analysis in 2012. The important role that the company's management system plays in providing the basis for Tier 4 metrics will be demonstrated.