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white rose oilfield development application - Husky Energy

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Additional contingency plan materials will address:• oil spill response and monitoring strategies, equipment requirements and locations, and personnel;• collision avoidance procedures;• ice management; and• authority and chain of command responsibilities.7.2 Concept Safety Analysis<strong>Husky</strong> Oil has conducted a concept safety analysis of the major personnel safety and environmentalhazards and risks associated with the two viable options being considered for developing the White Rose<strong>oilfield</strong>. The options are:• a steel FPSO facility (with integral storage); and• semi-submersible facility with a separate floating storage unit.The analysis assesses the preliminary basic design concepts, layout and intended operations with respectto safety and environmental hazards and risks. The results of this analysis have been incorporated intothe preliminary safety plan.The quantitative estimates of risk to personnel and the environment are based on event tree modelling ofmajor hazards associated with each option. Where quantitative assessment methods are not appropriate,qualitative methods are used. The quantitative estimates of risk are then compared to <strong>Husky</strong> Oil’s targetlevels of safety to determine if these targets are being met.The Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Installations Regulations requires target levels of safety to beidentified for offshore projects to ensure that the risks from major hazards are acceptable. <strong>Husky</strong> Oil’starget levels of safety are in keeping with other offshore operations and contain both risk-based andimpairment-based criteria. Risk-based criteria include individual, group and environmental risk.Impairment-based criteria outline criteria for the facility’s safety functions, including the facility’sprimary structure, temporary safe refuge, escape routes and evacuation systems. <strong>Husky</strong> Oil mustsubsequently demonstrate as part of the design process that the risks to personnel and the environmentare as low as reasonably practicable by implementing risk reduction measures, if required. <strong>Husky</strong> Oil iscommitted to following this process.Risk to individuals is a primary criterion that must be met in the final design of the facility. It ismeasured by the fatality rate per individual per year. The risk to the environment is expressed in termsof oil spillage associated with various accident scenarios and the likelihood of these scenarios occurring.Impairment-based criteria are used during the concept and design phase to provide guidance duringdesign, as well as to identify the potential for major accidents.White Rose DA Project Summary • January 2001 Page 106

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