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Case Studies of Oil Tanker Spill-Related Accidents

Case Studies of Oil Tanker Spill-Related Accidents and Oil Tanker Spill Analysis [Pg.93]

Billions of metric tons of oil is shipped every year by tankers around the globe, and many oil tanker spill-related accidents occur. For example, 2.42 billion metric tons of oil was shipped by tankers in 2005 [1] and according to the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) since 1984-2007, 9351 accidental spills occurred between 1984-2007. [1,2]. [Pg.93]

From 1970, ITOFF has analyzed oil tanker spill-related accidents data and since 1974, it has maintained a database of accidental oil spills from tankers, combined carriers, and barrages. [Pg.93]

This chapter presents various important aspects of case studies of oil fanker spill-related accidents and analysis. [Pg.93]


Assists in developing and designing better engineering systems m the oil and gas industry. .. Provides case studies of oil tanker spill-related accidents and oil tanker spill analysis. .. well organized and presented," —Dr. Kouorush Jenab, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,... [Pg.206]

Chapter 5 is devoted to safety in offshore oil and gas industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are offshore industrial sector risk picture, offshore worker situation awareness concept, offshore industry accident reporting approach, and offshore industry accidents case studies. Chapter 6 is devoted to case studies of oil tanker spill-related accidents, oil tanker spill analysis, and oil spill causes. Chapter 7 presents various important aspects of human factors contribution to accidents in the oil and gas industry and fatalities in the industry. Some of the topics covered in this chapter are human factors that affect safety in general, categorization of accident-related human factors in the industrial sector, categories of human factors accident causation in the oil industry, and recommendations to reduce fatal oil and gas industry incidents. Chapter 8 is devoted to case studies of maintenance influence on major accidents in the oil and gas industry and safety-instrumented systems and their spurious activation in the oil and gas industry. [Pg.221]

Over the years, many oil tanker spill-related accidents have occurred around the globe. The case studies of some of these accidents are presented below, separately. [Pg.93]




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