Risk-based classification: combination of prescriptive and goal-based approaches
J. Esteve Otegui A , B. Le Gallo A and C. Toderan ABureau Veritas.
The APPEA Journal 52(2) 708-708 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ11122
Published: 2012
Abstract
In the past few years, different events have attracted attention on prescriptive regulations to ensure the safety and integrity of offshore production facilities. Discussions have arisen about whether it is not better to go for full goal-based regulations relying on risk assessments to justify designs and project philosophies. In response to those demands, guidelines about risk-based classification have been published. This extended abstract will give some background about classification, its historic roots and how the prescriptive rules were born. It presents the new guidelines on classification of offshore floating units based on a risk-approach in line with the formal safety assessments. It shows how the correct combination of known and experience-backed prescriptive codes with a risk approach can be obtained to the satisfaction of existing expectations.
Esteve Otegui is a Spanish naval architect (degree obtained at the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Navales of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) who has mainly worked for the oil and gas industry in offshore projects, providing technical help for the structural integrity management of floating production platforms. Hired in 2001 by Bureau Veritas’ Commercial Department of the Marine Business Line, Jose started first as project engineer carrying out structural analyses; since 2005, he has worked as offshore projects manager. In January 2011, he was appointed manager of the Offshore Centre based in Singapore. He speaks fluent English and French. He holds a master’s degree in energy management from the BI School of Management in Oslo, the ESCP Europe in Paris, and the Institute Francais du Petrole (IFP) in Paris. |
Since the begnning of 2011, Brice Le Gallo is Bureau Veritas’ deputy manager of the Regional Oil & Gas Offshore Centre, Asia Pacific. He started his career at Det Norske Veritas (DNV) as offshore engineer in the Offshore Deepwater Technology Department in the head office (Oslo, Norway) dealing with riser engineering and VIV. He joined Bureau Veritas in 2002 as fluid mechanics engineer in charge of sloshing calculations for LNG carriers and floating LNG new designs in the research department of Marine Division in the head office. In 2006, he was transferred to China to be hydro section chief of China Plan Approval Office, in charge of hydrodynamics and mooring projects mainly for offshore units (FPSO). In 2008, he became manager of advanced technology department for Greater China Region, covering various offshore engineering disciplines and managing the offshore software solutions activity. He graduated from Ecole Centrale Marseille (France) with a master’s degree in naval architecture and offshore engineering and holds an MBA from Euromed Management business school (France) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China). |
Catalin Toderan is naval architect and offshore engineer, and leader of Offshore Oil & Gas Rules Section, located in Bureau Veritas’ head office in Paris. He has about 10 years of experience in the shipbuilding industry, being involved in design- and production-related activities with shipyards in Europe and Asia. He managed several rules-development projects relating to various types of offshore units, offshore support vessels, tankers, and gas carriers. |
