Human errors risk assessment for well operations

International Oil Gas Producers statistics state that human errors are the top contributors to many incidents, accounting up to 80% of causes of loss of well control. Assessing human error probabilities is noted to be a hard area to tackle, and margins of improvement can be significative.

Kwantis is developing for a Major Oil&Gas operator a new revision of a decision model able to assess human error probabilities based on HEART Human Risk Assessment technique. Object of the assessment are several human tasks related to drilling, completion and well intervention operations, and results of human errors probabilities will be used inside a Fault Tree Analysis approach for the evaluation of well blowout probability.

For more information: https://www.iogp.org/blog/news/to-err-is-human-understanding-how-mistakes-happen/