1. Overview of Marine and Offshore Safet Til Baalisampang, Rouzbeh Abbassi and Faisal Khan 2. Safety in Offshore Platforms-Use of QRA in the Norwegian Offshore Industry Stein Haugen 3. Human Factors in Marine and Offshore Systems Rabiul Islam and Hongyang Yu 4. Safety During Oil and Gas Transfer and Transport Sankaramoorthy Narayanasamy, Fan Yang, Rabiul Islam, Abdulla Sardar, Vikram Garaniya, Pedram Kooshandehfar and Natalia Nikolova 5. Safety During Offshore Drilling Operation Khaled Alnabhani 6. Safety of Offshore Topside Processing Facilities: The Era of FPSOs and FLNGs Nima Khakzad 7. Offshore Pipelines-Elements of Managing Risk Shawn Kenny 8. Regulatory Context Howard Pike
Faisal Khan is a Chemical Engineering Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center and the Ocean Energy Safety Institute, Texas A &M University. He is the founder of the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety Engineering (C-RISE), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. Dr. Khan is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries on the issue of safety and asset integrity. He also served as the Safety and Risk Advisor to the Government of Newfoundland, Canada. He continues to serve as a subject matter expert to many organizations including Lloyd's Register EMEA, SBM Modco, Intecsea, Technip, and Qatar-gas. He served as a Visiting Professor of Offshore and Marine Engineering at Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Australia where he led the development of offshore safety and risk engineering group and the initiative of global engagements with many international institutions. He is the recipient of President Outstanding Research Award of 2012-13 at Memorial University, President Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013-14 at Memorial University, CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, P, and Society of Petroleum Engineer award for his contribution to Health, Safety and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 500 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk, and reliability engineering. He has authored five books on the subject area. He is the Editor of the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Safety in Extreme Environment, and ASME Part A (Risk and Uncertainty Analysis). He regularly offers training program/workshop on safety and risk engineering in different places including St John's, Chennai, Dubai, Beijing, Aberdeen, Cape Town, Doha and Kuala Lumpur.
Dr. Rouzbeh Abbassi has a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering. He obtained his doctoral degree in Environmental Engineering from Memorial University, Canada. He spent four years as postdoctoral Research Fellow at Memorial University and Princeton University, USA focusing on integrating water/wastewater treatment processes with risk models to predict the environmental impact of these processes. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental, Safety and Risk Engineering at the School of Engineering at Macquarie University.