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Project Number 459
Date of Summary December 22, 2004
Subject

Comparative Risk Assessment of the Decommissioning Options for Large Platforms in the POCSR
Performing Activity TSB, Inc. of Houston, Texas
Principal Investigator Dr. Robert Byrd
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Completion Completed
Description

The purpose of this project was to compare the safety risks associated with completely removing 3 representative platforms from the POCSR. There were 2 phases:

  1. Conduct an MMS forum of Decommissioning safety issues;

  2. Conduct a risk assessment.
Progress The forum of decommissioning safety was held in Ventura, CA on February 11-12, 2003 with invited experts on decommissioning. The attendees reviewed a draft interim report that lists the safety aspects of decommissioning Federal platforms offshore CA. A revised phase 2 report for the project was prepared.
Report
AA (162 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Twachtman Snyder & Byrd, Inc. Comparative Health and Safety Risk Assessment of Decommissioning Large Offshore Platforms, Final Report, Case Studies for Decommissioning of Three Offshore Platforms in the Pacific OCS Region, June 2003.
 

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