OilVoice - Dolphin Energy Awards Risk Services Call-off Contract to ESR Technology

Dolphin Energy Awards Risk Services Call-off Contract to ESR Technology

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

ESR Technology, one of the industry's leading engineering, safety and risk management consultancies, today announced that it had been awarded a contract by Dolphin Energy Limited to supply a broad range of safety and risk management services.

Now fully operational, the Dolphin Gas Project is one of the largest trans-border energy projects ever undertaken in the Middle East. Today Dolphin Energy delivers 2 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas per day from Qatar's North Field reserves to meet the growing energy needs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. The gas is extracted via two offshore wellhead platforms and then transported to the gas treatment and compression plants at Ras Laffan via sub-sea pipelines, prior to onward transmission to the UAE and Oman.

Under the call-off agreement, ESR Technology will provide a broad range of key safety and risk management consultancy services to meet the needs of the Project. The scope of the agreement covers the provision of:
• HAZIDs
• HAZOPs
• Quantitative Risk Assessments
• Design Reviews
• Risk Reduction Evaluations
• HSE Safety Cases
• Safety Reviews
• Safety Critical Systems Evaluations
• Performance Standards Evaluations
• Fire and Explosion Risk Assessments
• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Analyses
• Vulnerability and Escalation Management
• Escape, Evacuation and Rescue Evaluations
• Emergency Readiness Analyses
• Consequence Modelling
• Safety Integrity Level Assessments
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
• Human Factors Evaluations

"We are delighted to be supporting Dolphin Energy with a broad range of safety and risk management services," said Neil Ketchell, ESR Technology's General Manager for Oil and Gas Safety. "The project is being led by our established Abu Dhabi team and supported by our wealth of experience back in the UK to ensure that we meet the very high safety standards required."