Talk on Instrumentation Systems on Offshore facilities

I was attending the " Talk on Instrumentation Systems on Offshore Facilities", conducted by IEM (The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia) in Petaling Jaya. I felt quite happy and excited because this is my first time to attend the IEM talk and accompanied by my colleagues. I was quite envy with my colleagues because they normally attending the outside courses with companions. It's not like me because I used to attend the outside courses alone.

Back to the talk again, this talk is focuses on instrumentation safety on offshore facilities. Basically, there are three main layer of protections on offshore to eliminate any hazards occur. Threre are basic process control, safety system (Alarm), and Fire/Gas system. The remaining is the auxiliary protection layers, such as plant emergency respond, and communiti emergency response. All these protection layers are independent.

The safety systems such as ESD, IPS, SIS, ASD,etc. will activate if the basic process control (Ditrubution Control System) is failed. The Fire & Gas system is a pasive system because only detects the fire and gas, not tends to fire fighting.

Conclusion, these three layer of protections are adequate to mitigate and reduce the hazards and risks on offshore.

I learnt lots of things this week.