Companies are facing a fundamentally new and more challenging operating environment -"zero tolerance" for consequential damage. Stakeholders demand companies demonstrate that they fully understand the impact of accidents and that they are working to reduce the risks and associated costs.

Our approach
We use a range of techniques and modelling tools to provide an appropriate level of complexity in providing an assessment of risks posed. These cover hazard identification techniques, consequence modelling and risk analysis which combine to provide an overall "risk picture". These analyses are most beneficial in the initial design of your installation but can also be employed at any point in the life cycle to assess modifications.

We provide the following services to assist in managing the potential impact of technical risks:

• Identification of all credible hazards or threats to a company’s operation
• Consequence assessments in order to evaluate the impact of potential undesirable events including:
• • Sand management and flow assurance
  • Fire and Explosion assessments
• Risk assessments on different detail levels (qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative)
• Development of risk-based and cost effective solutions together with our customers
• Training courses for industry representatives

Consequence modelling evaluates effects of accidents and the impact on personnel, equipment, structures and the environment. Estimation of the consequences of each possible event often requires some form of computer modelling. Our advanced software includes a range of modelling tools to evaluate problems such as the dispersion of gases and smoke, and the effects of fires and explosions.

Our consequence assessment services include a range of advanced tools used as basis for the following types of assessments:

• Simulations of the fire behaviour
• Dynamic simulation of multiphase flow
• Probabilistic evaluation of explosion loads
• Structural response as a result of fire and explosion exposure
• Advanced simulation of gas and smoke dispersion
• Simulation of sand erosion and flow assurance

While these analyses often provide the final output from our work, they may also be combined with accident frequency analysis to provide risk results used as a basis for design requirements, compliance against authority requirements, optimising of technical systems and identifying cost effective measures for risk reduction. Risk modelling for complex and integrated analyses is performed with specialised software:

Offshore – Neptune Technology Framework
Onshore - SAFETI

Benefits
By providing a range of tailored consequence assessment principles and techniques, we enable our clients to understand their threats and opportunities.

These include:

• The transfer of "lessons learned" from other industries and companies
• Creating an understanding of business performance from the perspective of risk exposures
• Identification of hazards
• Quantification of consequences and risks
• Development of understanding of the "risk drivers"
• Engineering decision support to determine optimum solutions for modifications