Dynamic Risk Advisor – real time bowtie risk assessment monitoring system
Gustavo F. O. Silva A * , Augusto Borella A , Rodrigo Chamusca Machado B , Carlos Aberto AlmeidaA Intelie – A Viasat Company, Rua Helena, 140, 122 – Vila Olímpia/SP, Brazil.
B Ocyan, Macaé/RJ, Brazil.
C Intelie – A Viasat Company, Rua Dom Gerardo, 64, 9° andar – Centro/RJ, Brazil.
The APPEA Journal 62(1) 92-105 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ21120
Submitted: 17 December 2021 Accepted: 16 February 2022 Published: 13 May 2022
© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of APPEA.
Abstract
This paper describes the development of a Dynamic Risk Advisor to improve safety of operations in fleet marine construction and production oil and gas vessels, well, and subsea equipment in process safety management, providing rig management onshore and offshore tools to assess health, safety, and environment (HSE) performance in real time. This tool uses the bowtie methodology, and provides a useful framework to present a risk ‘picture’ and to satisfy management of health and safety at work regulations. The focus of the methodology is the relationship between safeguards (control systems/equipment, process controls, and human factors) and an overview of the safety process monitoring in a simple and visual form. As facilities and equipment age, those safeguards may become less effective or degraded (different from the condition at the moment of risk assessment creation/revision), risks may increase and that is why they must be monitored using an effective, continuous, and temporal-aware method. Ocyan and Viasat/Intelie created a solution to identify and analyse the hazards dynamically (in real time) using the LIVE streaming data platform, providing an interface that allows the client to manage the current risk profile of their assets using a bowtie diagram. Additionally, this also provides a way for the user to assess the effect of degraded safeguards on complex operations in real time, by monitoring the actual residual risk. The study started in 2019 and was developed together with the Ocyan HSE team and was extended to all fleet due to the positive results. The tool can be accessed from mobile phones and tablets.
Keywords: barrier management, bowtie, bowtie methodology, dynamic monitoring system, Dynamic Risk Advisor, equipment sensor monitoring, LOPA, real time monitoring, risk analysis, safety process monitoring.
Gustavo Fernando de Oliveira Silva is a mechanical engineer who graduated from Universidade Federal de Itajubá in 2006. He has over 13 years of experience in oil and gas, working in operations, projects, and planning. Gustavo started his career working offshore in Brazil as a LWD Engineer and Directional Drilling Engineer, then moved to operations coordination, with active participation in health, safety, and environment (HSE) meetings with significant customers and gained experience in coordinating multiple simultaneous projects. Gustavo also has international experience leading multicultural teams in Saudi Arabia. Currently Gustavo is working as a Solution Engineer at Intelie/ViaSat company in São Paulo, Brazil, creating technical specification requirements to the Development Team and Technical Leadership of Product Projects. Email: gustavo.silva@intelie.com.br. |
Dr Augusto Borella Hougaz is the Vice President of O&G Products with Viasat/Intelie. Dr Borella leads the company’s efforts to expand Intelie’s machine learning-based platform, Intelie LIVE, by bundling Viasat’s applications and services in IoT, cybersecurity, and managed communications. He has extensive experience in leading programs and projects for digital transformation, providing the product vision and delivery of solutions. Prior to joining Intelie, he held several roles with Petroleo Brasileiro, S.A. (Petrobras) including Drilling Engineer, R&D Manager, Technical Competency Manager, and his last position was Head of Digital Transformation. Dr Borella is the author of several academic and industry articles and a regular speaker at many international industry events including Oil and Gas TechWeek. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at São Paulo University and has attended many executive programs from institutions such as Singularity University, IMD, ISE Business School, and Fundação Dom Cabral. Email: augusto.borella@intelie.com.br. |
Rodrigo Chamusca Machado graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2010 from the University of Campinas, São Paulo. He also holds an MBA of Business Management from the FGV Institute. He joined Ocyan in 2011 as a trainee engineer and has followed up the construction and commissioning of four 6th generation drilling units in South Korea, DSME Shipyard. In 2013, he was promoted to Assistant Rig Manager of a drill ship. Since 2018, he has been leading Ocyan through the Digital Transformation Program and recently joined the Innovation and New Business Team as Head of Technology and Digital for all business units. Email: rchamusca@ocyan-sa.com. |
Carlos Junior graduated in Chemical Engineering and post-graduated in Safety, Petroleum, Environmental, and Process Safety Engineering at some of the most referenced universities in Brazil. He held a significant number of positions in management within the industry until 2003. Carlos then joined Ocyan Drilling in 2018 as Sustainability Director and currently manages Ocyan Drilling Units Occupational Safety, Process Safety, and Environment Departments. Email: carlosj@ocyan-sa.com. |
Luiz Augusto Penido graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, post graduated in Analysis and Systems Management at PUC-Rio de Janeiro and post graduated in Business Intelligence Master – Intelligent Systems for Decision Support in Business by PUC-Rio de Janeiro. He has over 15 years of experience leading high-performance teams in the development of critical systems in the oil and gas industry. Email: luiz.penido@intelie.com.br. |
Renan Carvalho graduated in Environmental Technology, post-graduated in Offshore Engineering and post-graduated in Safety Process. In 2011 he joined Ocyan as a Safety Officer working in offshore drilling units. In 2019, Renan Carvalho was promoted to Process Safety Manager in charge of Ocyan Drilling Operational Safety Department and Risk Assessment processes. Email: renancarvalho@ocyan-sa.com. |
Andre Mengatti graduated in Petroleum Engineering in 2010 at the University of São Paulo (USP). He joined Intelie/Viasat in August 2020 as a Solution Engineer, after 10 years of performing roles as a Real Time Operations Engineer and Well Engineer developing more than 20 pre-salt well drilling designs – conducting several HAZID assessments, well integrity thermodynamic and hydraulic simulations, and bottomhole assembly integrity evaluations. Email: andre.mengatti@intelie.com.br. |
Luciana Jorge Alcantara is the Lead Risk Manager of the Digital Products and Oil |
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