Sustainable HSE Performance: Successful Management Systems and Monitoring Tools in the Middle East LNG Industry

Abstract

Abstract This paper describes the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) management systems and associated performance enhancing and monitoring tools adopted by one of the world's largest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) producers, RasGas Company Limited (RasGas), based in Qatar. The company's operations integrity management system, RasGas Elements of Excellence (RGEE), integrates the various HSE management systems within a single logical framework. This paper provides the following: An introduction to RasGas facilities and operations, and a discussion of how the increase in sophistication of the company's HSE systems has had to match its rapid growth;General overview of RGEE features, and its development and implementation at RasGas;RGEE performance monitoring tools and procedures and how the integration of discipline-specific management systems has further cemented their efficacy;Challenges of safe simultaneous operation of some of the world's largest gas processing trains with adjacent construction of new larger facilities requiring in excess of 35,000 contractors at times. Finally, this paper will review two global benchmarking surveys to demonstrable evidence of industry-leading success in reducing incidents in the HSE and security fields. The use of an integrated set of leading and lagging indicators and their relationship to driving performance is also discussed. RasGas’ sustainable performance in those benchmarking surveys confirms its success in integrating separate Health, Safety and Environmental management systems under RGEE, as well as adopting sophisticated tools within each Health, Safety or Environmental management system.