Incidents
The list below provides a listing of all incident alerts and can be filtered either by consequence (potential or actual) or cause. To view an alert, click the link.
Although this alert is land base, the principles of competence, management of change and control of work remain the same. During the mechanical excavation of two 6” pipelines and power cable, a 5 KV power cable tightened when contact was made with the track hoe bucket.
3 October 2011
Alert ID: 00314
These are facts from a well known oil and gas website. Thankfully this is not an incident alert in the usual fashion, but it includes facts that is worthy of discussion at TBT and other open meetings.
30 September 2011
Alert ID: 00313
Due to raised pressure in lock chamber of a HP Riser connector, ROV was fitted with a hot stab and deployed. The intention was to open the connector lock (CL) chamber isolation valve and equalize/reduce the pressure in the connector lock chamber to 3,000psi. Once the hot stab was installed into the ROV panel the ROV operator turned the CL valve to bypass mode, it was at this point the pressure showing in the CL chamber immediately dropped from 3,500psi to zero. The ROV then operated the Connector Unlock Valve (CUL) in line with the supplier’s procedure to verifiy there...
12 September 2011
Alert ID: 00312
When landing a chemical tank onto the supply vessel a Pressure Relief valve located adjacent to the tank's main lid fell from the tank onto the deck of the vessel. This dropped object would have caused considerable injury or fatality had it fallen while lifting to / from vessel / location.
31 August 2011
Alert ID: 00311
While in the process of stringing the travelling blocks with brand new drill line, the 1-3/8 inch drill line came free from the Wire Rope Wire Mesh Snake Grip and dropped to the rig floor from approximately 20 meters. The line and snake grip had been reeved through all three sheaves on the off driller’s side and had passed through the first two sheaves on the driller’s side of the travelling block. There was one last sheave on the travelling block to spool.
26 August 2011
Alert ID: 00310
During a routine inspection of the online Janice gas compression packages hydrocarbons was found to be seeping from a thermowell (picture 1) on the 2nd stage discharge dampener on train B. The compressor was shut down and the thermowell removed for investigation.
26 August 2011
Alert ID: 00309
When the drilling line was inspected, it was discovered that the drilling line had pulled out of the drilling line clamp in the drawworks. The loose end of the drilling line striking the drawworks guards was determined to have been the cause of the “slapping” noise heard at the time of the incident.
26 August 2011
Alert ID: 00308
A flushby operator was attempting to remove the back spin tool when he suffered a serious injury to his right hand.
26 August 2011
Alert ID: 00307
This alert is to warn workers using a Status Mentor PGD2 gas detector that some of them may be giving false readings due to software configuration. None of these gas detector should be used until its software and configuration has been verified.
26 August 2011
Alert ID: 00306
Fall Arrest Blocks can be extremely hazardous if opened and tampered with by anyone without appropriate training.
25 August 2011
Alert ID: 00305
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