Hazard Identification in Offshore Rigs Operation

Abdelrahman Ashraf 1, Said Abdelkader 2

DOI NO. https://doi.org/10.59660/51113 Received 02/05/2025, Revised 05/06/2025, Acceptance 14/07/2025, Available online and Published 01/01/2026

Abstract

The oil and gas industry are crucial to the growth of the global economy. However, this industry
is fraught with significant life-threatening risks. Over the years, numerous accidents and fatalities have been reported at both onshore and offshore drilling sites, largely due to insufficient health and safety regulations and prevention measures. Despite some progress in controlling a small percentage of these risks in recent years, the inherently unpredictable nature of the drilling profession continues to pose substantial challenges to ensuring safety.

 Where Hazard: something that can cause harm. And Risk: the chance that harm will occur and how bad it could be.  

The current study is limited to hazard identification of offshore rigs operation, based on reports on accidents that occurred all over the world, within the time span from 2010 to 2024.

The aim of this research was to identify and classify the hazard scenarios associated with operating these platforms and to arrange the scenarios according to their risk value by using an appropriate mathematical model. It also identified methods to reduce the safety and health risk factors which face these rigs. The analytic descriptive methodology was used to achieve the aforementioned aim, a suitable software package was used to statistically analyze this data and a suitable Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) model was used to rank the hazard scenarios. Ranking correlation factors between elements of risk factors were developed and discussed.