الجمعية القطرية لمهندسي البترول

Our industry has diligently improved our safety performance over many decades. Systems for safe work have been put in place, our understanding of personal safety risks has been enhanced, and tools to manage all aspects of personal safety have been implemented. What’s more, we have results to prove our success. Whereas personal safety remains a key focus area and improvement potential remains, catastrophic industry events have introduced a new conversation. Process Safety deals with a different level of risk. It is a level where our learning and statistics on personal safety do not apply, a level where we need to look for weak and leading signals through different and stronger prisms, a level where we still have significant improvement potential and where the daily conversations are not yet where they need to be. This presentation will provide insight into the Process Safety challenge using Wells as the example. It will cover how it can be approached from a systems point of view, how it can be made meaningful through all organizational levels, and how to involve all involved companies to help mitigate the exposure. The material is suitable for both new joiners to the industry and experienced professionals, and is relevant both for subsurface and surface disciplines.

Olav Skar is the General Manager - Wells for Qatar Shell. He holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Mining and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Strathclyde (1988) and completed his MSc in Well Design and Engineering with Robert Gordon’s University in 2009. He recently celebrated 25 years as an SPE member.

His career to date has spanned all aspects of Wells operations, engineering, business and people development in locations including The Netherlands, UK, Norway, Thailand, Syria, New Zealand, Algeria and –presently- Qatar. He believes that by the end of his career- excellence in Safety, Environment and Social Performance will drive a positive shift in public perceptions about our industry, and he is keen to help take a lead in making that happen. Olav and his partner of some 21 years, Alexandra, have 4 boys between 9 and 17 which keeps the home-front loud!