oil & GAS
For the Oil & Gas industry, extra vigilance when it comes to flammable leaks and gas detection is of paramount importance. That’s why Crowcon’s equipment is trusted by countless companies across the globe to safeguard against disaster from toxic and explosive substances. Across upstream, midstream and downstream operations, we facilitate the safety of those with their feet on the ground, doing their vital work to keep the world moving.
Mitigating Hazards in the Oil & Gas Sector
The highly flammable nature of Oil & Gas means such sites need to be highly-rigorous in their approach to gas detection and monitoring. Here are just some of the points at which there is heightened risk, and how they can be minimised.
Exploration
Exploration activities, such as drilling and extraction, are extremely hazardous tasks due to the discovery and potential uncovering of various hydrocarbons such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, as well as Particulate Matter (PM2.5 and PM10), which are both toxic and flammable. Ensuring workers are equipped with the relevant gas detection equipment is important to ensure they are alerted to the presence of harmful gases within plenty of time to take action.
Mitigating Hazards in the Oil & Gas Sector
The highly flammable nature of Oil & Gas means such sites need to be highly-rigorous in their approach to gas detection and monitoring. Here are just some of the points at which there is heightened risk, and how they can be minimised.
Perimeter Monitoring
Technology that measures the ambient air concentration of a particular chemical at the perimeter line of a site, whether this is at a petroleum refinery or a chemical plant, is known as ‘perimeter monitoring’. This monitoring is crucial to ensuring wide ranging awareness across your whole site and to ultimately avoid the consumption or distribution of harmful materials and gases.
Mitigating Hazards in the Oil & Gas Sector
The highly flammable nature of Oil & Gas means such sites need to be highly-rigorous in their approach to gas detection and monitoring. Here are just some of the points at which there is heightened risk, and how they can be minimised.
Hot Works
The undertaking of hot works pose considerable risks, including the production of a source of ignition such as flames, sparks and temperatures high enough to ignite flammable gases or combustible materials. Ensuring personal safety in these situations through the use of multi-gas portable monitors is paramount. Investment in infrared technology for flammable gas detection is of particular importance, as this delivers reliable detection in areas where pellistor type detectors would fail, due to poisoning or volume level exposure.
Mitigating Hazards in the Oil & Gas Sector
The highly flammable nature of Oil & Gas means such sites need to be highly-rigorous in their approach to gas detection and monitoring. Here are just some of the points at which there is heightened risk, and how they can be minimised.
Shutdown & maintenance
Avoiding unnecessary shutdowns and maintenance across oil and gas applications is crucial, specifically when work is undertaken in remote and variable environments, such as rigs or offshore spaces. Using a reliable and robust gas detection monitoring system is an ideal way to monitor potential hazards, and ensure that shutdowns and any required maintenance procedures can be undertaken in a way that reduces downtime and operational inefficiency.
Mitigating Hazards in the Oil & Gas Sector
The highly flammable nature of Oil & Gas means such sites need to be highly-rigorous in their approach to gas detection and monitoring. Here are just some of the points at which there is heightened risk, and how they can be minimised.
Leak Testing
With the risk of localised leaks across all streams of the oil and gas industry an ever-present danger, ensuring top-tier fixed gas detection is in place is vital. Flammable gases can be present close to pressure relief devices and as a result the filling and emptying of these areas is necessary to deliver early warning of localised leaks. The use of portable laser methane detection enables you to pin-point leaks in hard-to-reach areas even from considerable distances, reducing the need for personnel to enter potentially dangerous environments or situations while performing routine or investigative leak monitoring.
Applications
Gas detection ensures safe operations by monitoring for flammable and toxic gases during refining processes.
Detecting gas leaks prevents hazardous chemical reactions and ensures safety in production plants.
Gas detection systems help prevent leaks and explosions by monitoring pressurised pipelines.
Continuous gas detection is critical to avoid leaks in large storage tanks, ensuring the safety of personnel and equipment.
Monitoring for combustible gases minimises fire risks in systems that use fuel gases for power generation.
Gas detection systems ensure worker safety by detecting harmful gases released during drilling operations.
Detecting the presence of gases in exploration sites aids in identifying resource deposits and prevents potential hazards.
Gas detectors for the oil & GAS Industry
Portable Monitors
Fixed Monitors
Panele sterowania
Oil & Gas Standards and Certifications
SIL is the standard which measures the specific level of protection and robustness of your gas detection equipment. The SIL level number is defined by the amount of risk reduction needed to maintain an acceptable rate of failure, as determined within the IEC 61508 standard. The lower the number, the lower the risk of failure. In line with this, SIL2 certified products are defined as having a ‘low statistical risk of failure that you do not know about in the product’.
These tend to relate to the ability for a product to self-test when it comes to hardware units, alongside lower maintenance requirements, more rigorous development processes and well recorded software.
Knowing that the sensor being used meets SIL2 levels assures the operator that strict attempts have been undertaken to ensure safety across electrical, electronic and programmable systems.
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