Human Factors and Non-Technical Skills:Towards an ImmersiveSimulation-Based Training Framework for Offshore Drilling Operations

摘要

Human factors are identified as the major contributor to oil and gas drilling and other operations relatedaccidents.Offshore oil and gas operations involve complex scenarios and decision-making with potentiallycatastrophic consequences.The current simulation-based training modules are often criticized for their lackof objective and validated measures for human factors and non-technical skills.There is also a need toinclude measures for enhanced situational awareness and decision-making for the offshore drilling crew.Inthis study,we present holistic human-centered training framework equipped with assessment techniques toanalyses situational awareness of partcipants in customized well-control operations.The training exercise used in this work included real-time well control operation customized for drillingbreak and kick detection scenarios.The assessment approach consisted of eye-tracking data analysis,questionnaire analysis,checklist score analysis,and communication log analysis.After individual analysisfrom each technique,a new framework was developed to triangulate results from each technique to providea comprehensive assessment.The participants included seven group of novices and one group of experts.The preliminary results indicate significant differences between the situation awareness and performance ofparticipants.Furthermore,there were observed notable differences between the perceptual,comprehensive,and projection ability of novices and experts in routine jobs on a drilling platform.The eye-tracking datafeatures included fixation count and fixation duration,and it was inferred that eye-tracking results can berepresentative of cognitive abilities of the partcipants.Furthermore,the fixation count and duration resultswere highly correlated with the checklist scores.Overall,the adopted methodology in this study have potential to open new avenues for human-centeredtraining framework and improvement in traditional assessment approach.Furthermore,it can also be helpfulin understanding of cognitive responses of the offshore professionals.