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2009/2010 Risk Safety Systems were in July 2009 awarded a multi million dollar project to design, fabricate and supply Exxon Mobil’s Kizomba A & B Floating Production Facilities with eight Integrated Escape Chute Systems. Kizomba A/B operate offshore in Angola, West Africa.
Since July 2009 a total of eight fully Integrated Escape Chute Systems (IECS) have been built delivered, installed and tested.
After many months of initial discussion engineering and design. Risk Safety Systems supplied a purpose built modular 7ft x 7ft skid and 14ft Cantilever frame designed to allow the IECS skid to be overhung saving valuable deck space for the two FPSO’s.
The system is free fall and mechanical, supplied with a front cantilever life raft cradle that is capable of holding two 50 man SOLAS A pack self righting life rafts. The painter lines are fed back into the lower chute container and attached to the 25 debarkation/boarding raft.
A stabilization plate is provided that sits 10 feet below sea level when deployed, and is connected using qty 4 x 15400Ib Kevlar cables ropes, these are attached under the main skid and fed through the debarkation/boarding raft in four places, and attached to the weighted stabilization plate.
The chute column has center guides that allow the four Kevlar ropes to slide through, however the system is designed that the chute column at no time bears any weight of the stabilization plate.
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Piper Alpha
The 1988 North Sea explosion remains the deadliest offshore oil rig disaster of all time
NFPA Journal®, July/August 2010
Shortly before 10 p.m. on July 6, 1988, natural gas leaking from a pump being serviced on the Piper Alpha oil production platform, located in the North Sea about 120 miles off the coast of Scotland, ignited and exploded, blowing through a firewall and causing crew members to abandon the platform’s control center.
Aut 20 minutes later, a line feeding gas to the Piper Alpha from the Tartan, another gas platform nearby, burst, and a fireball engulfed the rig.
A second gas line from the platform Claymore ruptured minutes later, further feeding the fire. As the explosions continued, a large portion of the platform collapsed.
In the aftermath, 165 Piper Alpha crewmen died, as did two members of the crew of a rescue craft launched by the standby vessel Sandhaven.
Only 59 of the platform’s crew survived, mostly by jumping from as high as 200 feet (61 meters) from the platform into the sea. Thirty bodies were never recovered.
The Piper Alpha, run by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd., went into operation as an oil platform in 1976 and was later converted to gas production.
At the time of the explosion and fire, it was producing about 10 percent of the North Sea oil and gas, according to an article published in the British newspaper The Times on July 4, 2008.
The Times also noted that it took the legendary Red Adair and his team three weeks to extinguish the fire, which resulted in what the paper reported as a $1.4 billion insurance loss to Lloyd’s of London.
According to The New York Times, Adair "had warned of a fire disaster sooner or later
in the North Sea after capping a fountain of oil from the Norwegian Ekofisk field
in 1977 that produced a 1,500-
On January 19, 1989, the Honorable Lord William Douglas Cullen began a public inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster that lasted 125 days.
The final report, published in November 1990, established the cause of the disaster and made 106 recommendations for changes in safety procedures and management that were accepted and implemented by offshore drilling companies.
— Kathleen Robinson
News Story 3.
2009/2010 Risk Safety Systems build and supply Dolphin Energy Qatar with four IECS integrated Escape Chute Systems.
As with Exxon Mobil, RSS provided a skid assembly to meet the needs of Dolphin Energies available deck space.
These systems were supplied as drop in units and only required a deck cut out. These systems are fully integrated and have a front life raft support cradle that accommodates 2 x 25 man life.
his increased the POB on each facility by 100 persons.
News Story 5.
Due to the recent and tragic Deep Water Horizon accident in the GOM in 2010. Risk Safety Systems have been approached by many of the major offshore Drilling and Production companies to provide information on alternative secondary means of evacuation.
The IECS system provides secondary means of evacuation from topsides to sea level without the need to enter the water and eradicates the need to use knotted ropes, scramble nets and throw over life rafts.
These have been the standard minimum requirements for evacuation within the GOM for
many years and are required when evacuees are unable to reach the main life boats
or helicopter heli-
News Story 4.
In 2010. Risk Safety Systems completed design and testing for the TEMPSC escape chute platform. This chute system is designed to allow the main lifeboats to be launched to three foot above sea level without any occupants. The chute has a purpose built stairway frame that is deck mounted and climbs up to the life boat. An open chute container is mounted in the top landing of the stair frame and the chute connected to the top of the life raft with quick release straps. In an emergency event the lifeboat is launched empty, the chute is then pulled down with the life boat as it is winched.
The descent is stopped 2 to 3 feet before the life boat reaches the sea, this stops wave action effecting the life boat and chute column.
The evacuees now transverse the chute directly into the life boat. After all personal are boarded, the escape chute is detached and the life boat is lowered the last few feet.
This system has been designed to reduce the TEMPSC life boat launching accidents as at no time are evacuees at risk until the raft is just above water.
There have bee several documented boat drill accidents in recent years, whereby the winches lock or snag ejecting occupants out of the life boats.
December 2009 -
Risk Safety Systems US Inc, launched its range of Code Red™ Personnel Survival Kits in February 2009. RSS Inc designed this unique range of survival kits to provide a last means of escape and survival if the worst were to happen. We live in a volatile world with natural disasters on the increase.
With global warming effecting weather conditions we are now experiencing more Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Tornados and Forest Fires, these events are becoming more frequent, this is not including, natural disasters such as Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions and Severe Weather Conditions.
Although natural disasters account for a large number of fatalities, we also need
to consider the risk of Fire within or day-
RSS, Have developed a comprehensive range of survival kits designed to provide escape or protection in the most severe of situations. These survival kits are unlike most others available on the market, these tend to be First Aid focused. The Code Red™ range of survival kits were designed by professional risk experts, with over thirty years experience in providing fire safety, risk assessment, fatality and probability studies and solutions worldwide.
National Fire Protection Reports and
Statistics -
Carbon monoxide incidents jump 18%.
U.S. fire departments responded to an average of seven calls per hour for non-
Learn to protect your family, and how an NFPA technical committee is expanding NFPA 720 to make all occupancies safer.
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