The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers(IOGP)is a global forum in which membercompanies identify and share best practices to achieve improvements in many areas including upstreamprocess safety.The IOGP Safety Committee has undertaken a multi-year strategic project to focus on fatalityprevention,known as Project Safira,which addresses transportation safety,personal safety and processsafety.This paper presents data analysis work conducted on process safety and the associated learnings.In 2010,the IOGP started a pilot project to collect upstream process safety event(PSE)data in alignmentwith the upstream and downstream reporting criteria.Since 2014,an annual quality control and validationreview of process safety event data,reported by IOGP member companies,has been undertaken by a groupof process safety engineers and data reporting experts.This group has,over a period of years,developed alist of point of releases and refined a set of key words based on the threat lines in a generic PSE bow tie.With five years of PSE data reported by IOGP Member companies,this paper presents the findings fromthe data analysis process as well as insights and learnings.Submitted Tier 1 narrative descriptions havebeen analyzed annually,as well as collectively,to determine trends in points of release,category key words,causal factors and chronological patterns in fatal incidents.The results have shown differences in causesrelated to events with fatal or environmental outcomes.This provides the basis for a standardized industryapproach in prevention strategies to eliminate process safety fatal incidents.Having the largest database ofupstream process safety performance and fatality data enables analysis of upstream PSE trends and learningthat is not possible in individual companies.IOGP is in a unique industry position to encourage international upstream industry collaboration andsharing of industry best practices to prevent process safety incidents,and their potential impact on life,theenvironment and assets loss.
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