Montara Blowout

Question: Critical Evaluate a new policy direction in australia offshore safety regulation. Answer: By reviewing the incident, there are several major reasons has been identified of this incident like structural issues, technical faults and most importantly communication gaps. First of all the design of the well construction must be standardized by two barriers to stop the uncontrollable flow of hydrocarbons. The primary pressure of these barriers should be cemented at the end of the casing to prevent the hydrocarbon flows from the reservoirs to the environment. Then the management of the company was also failed to guide the field employees to ensure that the operations were processed according to the documented requirements (Linde, Baram and Renn 2015). The secondary barrier which has been suggested for this particular case should be made with two PCCCS (Pressure-Containing Corrosion Caps) to design a constructed well. Some of the greatest problems which have been found out are errors during the installation of cement shoe which resulted in improper functionalities and removal of PCCCS for operational purposes. Blame was put on those people who were present at that time in the facilitated area but is the flawed decision of the operational personnel as they are directly engaged in these activities. People who are involved in the cementing activities also are not skilled enough to handle this situation with their technical abilities (Linde, Baram and Renn 2015). As per the organizational design, roles and responsibilities of the senior managers with construction engineers and drilling engineers played a significant role in the occurrence of this event due to serious gaps in their communication and skills. Solution As a solution to this incident, it can be recommended that organizational issues and risks must be incorporated into offshore safety rules and regulations. Risks must be identified with regulatory scrutiny process and should be documented properly so that higher authorities of the organization will be able to remove these problems from the grassroots level (Myrto Konstantinidou 2016). Most importantly, each and every member of the organization must have proper communication with each other, and they should be highly skilled with technical expertise. References Linde, P., Baram, M., and Renn, O. 2015.Risk governance of offshore oil and gas operations. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=enlr=id=YaayAAAAQBAJoi=fndpg=PA188dq=A#v=onepageqf=false [Accessed 21 Mar. 2016]. Myrto Konstantinidou, M. 2016.Safety of offshore oil and gas operations: Lessons from past accident analysis. [online] https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/. Available at: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC77767/offshore-accident-analysis-draft-final-report-dec-2012-rev6-online.pdf [Accessed 21 Mar. 2016].