Fire Protection Offshore. Seminar Report

摘要

Fire and explosions have the potential to cause disasters in the offshore activity. A large number of people as well as a substantial accumulation of material values on top of huge hydrocarbon quantities in a severe environment are obvious reasons for caution. The fire and explosion projects sponsored by the Safety Offshore Research Programme were mainly started in late 1978 or early 1979. In the period up to the end of 1980, the Safety Offshore financed research within the three areas of fire, spreading of gases and gas explosions. Starting in 1981 the research on gas explosions will be financed in separate and substantial industry programs and the Safety Offshore decided not to sponsor further research into gas spreading as well. At the same time it was decided that fire research should be given a higher priority and the industry become more involved in the financing and steering of these research efforts. The seminar was arranged with two main objectives. The first being to spread the results of the fire research to users in the various areas of the oil industry. A second objective was to get feedback from a wider range of users about the direction of the research. Separate abstracts were prepared for each paper presented at the seminar. (ERA citation 10:008282)