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How can safety instrumented systems (SIS) provide reliability for facilities in oil and gas industry?

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Question added by Ali Ibrahim , Lead Instrument Control Engineer , SNC Lavalin
Date Posted: 2013/12/05
Salman Butt
by Salman Butt , Power house manager , Zahid Tractor and Heavy machinery Co Zahid Tractor and Heavy machinery Co

A safety instrumented system ensures that the employer's small investment in this kind of system will keep the workspace free from accident which in turn will effect productivity. It also ensures that there are less legal percussion, accidental damage compensations, employee health damage and governmental sanctions to think about. All in all this is a small price to pay for the greater good.

CESAR NORIEGA
by CESAR NORIEGA , MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST BASED ON CONDITION AND RELIABILITY , CONFIPETROL

 

Generally instrumented systems fail and require change. For the above it is recommended to have redundant systems that can control automatically remote primary, remote secondary manual, and finally in site step by step. In addition to having at least two signal control systems.

Hemagiri Cheekuru
by Hemagiri Cheekuru , Manager , Seadrill LLC- West Tellus ,Auriga UDW drill ships

Safety Instrumented system can provide system failures conditions and it can prevent accidents with emergency shutdown the plant.

MUHAMMAD ALI
by MUHAMMAD ALI , SAFETY OFFICER , JAMINE CONSTRUCTIONS WORKS

Safety is the most critical concern in Oil and Gas industry.It is about company’s reputation and sustainability. Oil & gas operators spend a major amount of CAPEX and OPEX budgets insuring plant, personal and equipment safety. The key element of any successful Safety Instrumented system (SIS) is a direct function of its availability, reliability and integration with the plant’s central control system. SIS if not integrated seamlessly can result in reduced operator efficiency leading to increased downtime and operational risk.

Belal Saad
by Belal Saad , Lead Automation Engineer , Schneider Electric (Invensys)

we should have a redundancy every where, in the processor it is required to be voting processor and execute the process and make a voting between the results.

for the transmitter also we should have a redundancy.

redundancy in power supplies 

and all the important trip conditions and orders to be executed through a safety PLC to guarantee safety to humans, equipments and process.

Amir Moon
by Amir Moon , Safety Officer , United Printing & Publishing

Safety Instrumented System used to protect the Labor from injury and provide the realiablity that which machine is runing on the site is without risk

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