Significant Initiatives for Managing Emergency Response at Drilling Rigs in Remote Areas - Smart Alert System (SAS)

Abstract

Abstract Kuwait Oil Company is the premier Oil & Gas Company in the Gulf region involved in exploration and production of oil & gas reserves. The Company is one of the subsidiaries of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, State of Kuwait. In line with the Company strategy to improve its production capacity from current 3.0 Million BPD to 4.0 Million BPD, the company deployed many on-shore drilling rigs on a fast track basis during past two years. Present Rig Fleet includes 25 deep drilling rigs and 60 development drilling & work over Rigs. The Company has established the HSE Management System and procedures based on the international standards to focus on the health, safety of workers and environmental protection. Since majority of Rig fleet is deployed in desert remote areas, where there is a challenge in response time during any emergency situation. Various Initiatives and improvements programs were implemented to avoid such emergency at first place, which resulted in enhanced HSE performance especially the LTIFR as well, and in addition, Company has adopted the latest technology called Smart Alert System (SAS) for emergency response especially for drilling rigs working in remote desert areas. This system is based on GPRS, SMS, GPS protocol using GIS map enabled Tablet PCs. The presentation discusses the experience of Kuwait Oil Company in enhancing the performance overcoming all HSE challenges by implementing various intitative and sharing the best practices adopted for emergency response for Drilling Rigs operated in remote desert areas.