RHM 303
Midstream Operations Safety and Risk Management
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHM 302 | 24-26 Aug 2026 | Online | 2000 |
| RHM 303 | 27-29 Oct 2026 | Istanbul | 2700 |
* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!
COURSE OVERVIEW
Midstream facilities, gas processing plants, pipeline systems, terminal operations, NGL facilities, share a specific risk profile that distinguishes them from upstream production and downstream refining. Large inventories of highly flammable hydrocarbons under pressure, extended geographic footprints, high consequence failure modes, and the complexity of managing simultaneous operations across multiple work teams and contractors simultaneously: these are the risk conditions that midstream operations professionals face every day.
This course addresses safety and risk management specifically from the midstream operational perspective. It is not a generic HSE or PSM course, it is a course about the specific hazard scenarios, risk assessment tools, emergency response frameworks, and operational safety management systems that are most relevant to the midstream sector.
The course covers the major accident hazards in midstream environments and the process hazard analysis tools used to manage them, emergency response for major incident scenarios, SIMOPS management, and the safety culture and leading indicator frameworks that distinguish proactive safety management from reactive compliance.
COURSE OUTLINE
5 days
Day 1: Process Hazards and Risk Assessment
o Major Accident Hazards in Midstream.
o Reading What HAZOP Results Tells the Operator and the Supervisor.
o The Bow-Tie as an Operational Tool.
o FandG Detection Systems and Safety Instrumented Systems.
o Exercises:
• Exercise 01: Experience Facility Romeo's gas release from inside the operational decision making before the investigation decides what went wrong.
• Exercise 02: Trace the HAZOP deviation that produced the near miss, identify every safeguard that was supposed to stop it.
• Exercise 03: Build the Bow Tie for Facility Romeo's separator loss of containment scenario.
• Exercise 04: Determine what Facility Romeo's SIS bypass actually meant for the facility's real safety level.
• Facility Romeo Anchor Scenario: All case studies and exercises draw from a midstream gas processing facility that experienced a near miss major accident with each module revealing a different layer of the safety system that was quietly failing beforehand.
Day 2: Emergency Response and Operational Safety Management
o Major Emergency Scenarios: ESD Architecture, Shutdown Sequences and Blowdown Systems.
o Emergency Escape, Rescue and Muster.
o SIMOPS: Identifying Concurrent Activity Hazards and Managing Interaction Risks.
o Safety Culture, Leading Indicators, Human Factors and Environmental Considerations.
o Exercises:
• Exercise 05: Identify the correct and the incorrect decisions in Facility Romeo's emergency response.
• Exercise 06: Develop the immediate shutdown and muster sequence using data to determine the only valid muster point.
• Exercise 07: Assess whether the SIMOPS configuration at the time of Facility Romeo's near miss was adequate.
• Exercise 08: Identify which leading indicators in Facility Romeo's safety performance data were signaling the near miss before it happened.
Day 3: Practical Workshop
Morning Session: Diagnose simultaneous safety failures developing at Facility Romeo and leave knowing exactly how to recognize the same pattern in your own facility before it becomes an incident.
Afternoon Session: Make the integrated safety call that keeps Facility Romeo running safely when the crises converge simultaneously and leave with the decision-making framework that works when the pressure is real and the clock is running.
Individual Quiz Assessment: 20 questions. Minimum passing score: 60%.
INSTRUCTOR
Petro Teach Instructor
The Instructor is a Petroleum Engineer, holds M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, and is Specialist Natural Gas Engineering. He has over 20 years of hands-on O&G industry experience spanning gas processing, crude treatment, production operations, and technical training across onshore and offshore environments in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
His operational background includes five years as OJT Instructor at production facilities in the Middle East, AGRU Package Leader roles, and extensive experience as Process Engineer across upstream and downstream O&G facilities.
Since 2015 he has been a Senior Lecturer on IFP Training’s international instructor roster, delivering advanced gas processing, thermodynamics, field processing, and operations training to engineers and operators across three continents.
FAQ
DESIGNED FOR
o Metering Engineers and Measurement Engineers responsible for fiscal and allocation metering systems
o Operations Engineers and Field Operators working with custody transfer metering stations
o Petroleum Engineers and Production Technologists who use metering data for allocation and reporting
o Commercial and Contracts professionals who need technical grounding in measurement principles for dispute resolution
o Pipeline Operations Engineers with fiscal metering responsibilities
Recommended experience: Minimum 2 years in an OandG production, processing, or pipeline environment. Basic familiarity with process instrumentation is assumed.
COURSE LEVEL
Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
o Identify the major accident hazard scenarios specific to midstream facilities and explain the mechanisms by which each could escalate to a catastrophic event
o Facilitate or participate effectively in a HAZOP study and explain how HAZOP findings translate into operational safeguards and procedures
o Apply the Bow Tie methodology to a midstream hazard scenario, mapping threats, barriers, and consequences for a defined top event
o Describe the principles of Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and explain how Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) are specified and managed
o Develop an emergency response plan for a major incident scenario at a midstream facility, including notification, escalation, and operational shutdown sequences
o Design and implement a SIMOPS management system for concurrent operations at a midstream facility, identifying the conflicts and controls required
o Identify leading safety indicators relevant to midstream operations and explain how they are used to predict and prevent major incidents before they occur
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