John Merriman For a comprehensive course on Safety Instrumented Systems that covers Functional Safety, IEC 61508, IEC 61511 amongst many other topics, click here. —————————————————————————————————– May 07, 2010 -After the massive oil spill due to BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, today the containment operation began when a large dome was lowered into the sea, to prevent … Read more
For Hazardous Area Classification, download the practical guide to hazardous area classification now! ————————————————————— May 02, 2010 -It is now feared that the BP Oil Spill leak, from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster may rise to about 100,000 barrels per day in a worst case scenario. This will make it perhaps the second biggest … Read more
April 30, 2010– Interested in knowing the sequence of events that took place during one of the largest offshore oil & gas industry accidents that took place? I’m referring to the Deepwater Horizon accident, where the rig, owned by Trnasocean and leased out to BP, suffered an explosion(probably a blowout) and then a massive fire … Read more
April 30,2010 -The massive oil spill triggered by the massive Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig explosion, fire and sinking into the sea , now threatens the Louisiana coastline. It has been declared as a National Emergency. Large booms are in place near the coastline to arrest the oil spill and prevent it from being washed ashore. … Read more
You can now download the Safety Instrumented Systems e-learning course demo from here. Covers Safety Integrity Level (SIL), IEC 61508 and related topics in detail. ———————————————————————————————– April 29, 2010– The oil rig explosion and fire that occured in the Gulf of Mexico last week is now thought to be leaking out five times the oil … Read more
