Safety & Suppression
This automated system rapidly floods open deck areas, process modules, or helidecks with high volumes of water or foam to cool structures and extinguish fires.
What is a Deluge System?
The 2010 explosion and fire on this semi-submersible rig in the Gulf of America led to the larges marine oil spill in U.S. history.
What is the Deepwater Horizon?
This type of fire occurs when high-pressure gas or oil escapes from a pipe or valve orifice, producing a continuous torch-like flame with massive radiant heat.
What is a Jet Fire?
When the general alarm sounds, all non-essential personnel must immediately report to these designated assembly locations.
What are Muster Stations?
When an uncontrolled blowout ignites, drill crews often pump heavy fluid known as "Drilling___" into the wellbore to kill the well.
What is Mud?
Abbreviated as ESD, this critical emergency system halts fuel flow, shuts down engines, and isolates pressure systems with the press of a button.
What is an Emergency Shut-Down System?
This 1988 North Sea disaster, which claimed 167 lives, reshaped modern offshore safety regulations and gas leak detection worldwide.
What is the Piper-Alpha disaster?
Unlike a jet fire, this fire type occurs when liquid hydrocarbon collects in a bunded area or open deck and ignites.
What is a Pool Fire?
Abbreviated as OIM, this individual holds ultimate operational authority and decision-making command during a rig emergency.
Who is the Offshore Installation Manager?
If a blowout fire cannot be contained from the surface, engineers drill one of these secondary wells into intercept the wild well underground and pump kill fluid into it.
What is a Relief Well?
Liquid hydrocarbon fires (Class B) on deck are most effectively smothered using water mixed with this agent to form a vapor-blocking blanket.
What is AFFF (Aqueous Film-Forming Foam)?
The primary cause of the catastrophic fire on Piper Alpha was a communication failure during shift change regarding a missing safety valve on a pump for this gas.
What is Condensate (LPG/Propane/Butane)?
Toxic, flammable and heavier than air, this rotten-egg-smelling gas presents an immediate explosion and health hazard during drilling operations.
What is Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)?
Firefighters entering smoke-filled or oxygen-deficient compartments must wear this gear, abbreviated as SCBA.
What is Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus?
This massive stack of high-pressure valves is the primary safety barrier used to seal a well during an uncontrolled kick.
What is a Blowout Preventer (BOP)?
These high-capacity water nozzles mounted around the rig deck can be operated manually or remotely to fight fires from a safe distance.
What are Water Cannons?
Following major disasters, international regulatory bodies made these enclosed, fire-resistant survival craft mandatory for rapid rig evacuation.
What are TEMPSC (Totally Enclosed Motor Propelled Survival Craft)/Lifeboats?
The sudden structural failure of a steel beam or vessel under extreme radiant heat occurs rapidly when steel reaches approximately this temperature range.
What is 900-1100 degrees F
Specialized support vessels equipped with systems designed to spray water onto a burning platform from sea level are known as these.
What are Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels?
An accumulator system with 3000 psi system pressure and a 1300 psi minimum operating pressure should have ____ pre-charge psi.
What is 1100 psi?
High-pressure CO2 and Inergen total-flooding fire suppression systems are typically reserved for these enclosed, highly sensitive rig areas.
What are Electrical Control Rooms/Engine Rooms/Switchgear Rooms?
Published in 1990 in response to Piper Alpha, this landmark report established goal-setting safety regimes and safety cases in the UK North Sea.
What is the Cullen Report?
This phenomenon occurs when a liquid inside a pressurized tank boils above its normal boiling point and the tank ruptures, causing a massive fireball.
What is a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion)?
During a helideck fire, this specific team member is tasked with primary rescue operations while wearing heat-reflective proximity gear.
Who is the HLO (Helideck Landing Officer)?
Following the 2010 Gulf Coast spill, major offshore operators formed these non-profit consortiums (such as MWCC and HWCG) to store, maintain, and rapidly deploy emergency capping stacks worldwide.
What are Marine Well Containment Companies/Response Organizations?