Multidisciplinary
safety in the energy transition
RECENT
ACTIVITIES
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We are recruiting a UK home PhD candidate for the project
"Liquid hydrogen fuelling process simulation – paving the way for
digital twinning hydrogen safety", fully funded by BP and DNV, which will
start on 1st October 2023. Don't hesitate to get in touch with Dr Henry Tan
(h.tan@abdn.ac.uk) if you are interested.
As we strive towards a cleaner and more
sustainable future, hydrogen energy carriers have emerged as a promising
solution. Hydrogen, in its liquid form, is likely to be a preferred carrier
over intermediate regional distances and is currently being examined for use in
transport vehicles, such as long-haul trucks. However, liquid hydrogen, being
extremely cold and distinct in behaviour from most other liquids, presents
unique safety challenges that need to be addressed to ensure efficient, safe,
and widespread use.
There has been a significant amount of
research conducted on the behaviour of liquid hydrogen in the event of a
process safety incident. The primary focus of most of this research has been
the response to these incidents, with less emphasis on understanding how to
prevent or minimize them through effective operational practices and barriers. This
project aims to bridge this gap in knowledge and develop a safer hydrogen
fuelling process.
Industry trends point towards the
implementation of digital twin technology for safety management. However, in
the case of liquid hydrogen fuelling processes, the lack of an actual operation
to mimic poses a hurdle. This project envisions a future where we will simulate
the liquid hydrogen fuelling process, use the results to predict potential
risks, and feed these back into the real system to improve safety measures.
This project will primarily focus on
stage A of this vision: conducting liquid hydrogen fuelling process simulation.
We aim to understand the unique challenges of handling liquid hydrogen by
drawing on existing research and standards. Our goal is to develop a process
model for the unloading, storage, gasification, and compression system of
liquid hydrogen. We will also be leveraging Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
modelling of a liquid hydrogen spill using ANSYS-FLUENT software.
This project will also incorporate
hydrogen explosion experiments in collaboration with BP and DNV. This
collaborative effort aims to validate the risk assessments generated from our
simulations, contributing significantly to our understanding of liquid hydrogen
safety.
The development of a validated and
reliable liquid hydrogen fuelling process simulation is a significant stride
towards creating a digital twin of the hydrogen safety system. This project
will form a critical foundation for future stages of development, including
lab-scale digital twin implementation and eventually full-scale digital twin
application for hydrogen safety.
Through these efforts, we hope to
enhance the safety, reliability, and operational efficiency of liquid hydrogen
fuelling processes, bringing us a step closer to realizing the full potential
of hydrogen as a sustainable energy carrier.
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Nur Hasnita Hamzah
joined us in June 2022. Her study is supported by MARA Scholarship for PhD Study,
Malaysia. Research direction: Safety and risk assessment in the emerging UK
sustainable energy sector.
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PhD project
available, “Safety
and risk assessment in the emerging UK sustainable energy sector”.
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Zhang, R., Meng, H.,
Ge, J., Tan, H (2022) A method for identifying the key performance shaping
factors to prevent human errors during oil tanker offloading work. Journal of Marine Science and
Engineering 10, 688.
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F.K. Bitar, D.
Chadwick-Jones, R.J. de Boer, M. Nazaruk, M. Lawrie,
(2022) Rewarding safety performance: Improving safety or maintaining beliefs? Safety Science 154, 105824.
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Miranda
Jones, Vice President of Health, Safety, Environment and Carbon of BP
delivered a guest lecture on Safety Leadership and Building Culture to the MSc
course EG55P9/Q5 Human Factors Engineering on 28 April 2022.
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Sulaiman, N.S., Tan,
H., Zardasti, L., Md Noor, N. (2022) Integration of
Bayesian network with fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for determining the
pipeline conditions. Process
Safety Progress 41(S1), p.S187-S196.
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Dr Fuzzy Bitar FREng
delivered a Guest Lecture on safety leadership to the MSc course EG50S2/S3
Safety and Risk Management and MSc course EG50P6 Engineering Risk &
Reliability Analysis on 17 November 2021.
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R. Aulia, H. Tan, S.
Sriramula (2021) Dynamic reliability model for subsea pipeline risk assessment
due to third-party interference. Journal of Pipeline Science
and Engineering, 1, 277-289.
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Dr Fuzzy Bitar FREng
took the appointment as the Honorary Professorship of Practice of the University
of Aberdeen in October 2021.
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Renyou Zhang, Henry
Tan, Waheed Afzal (2021) A modified human reliability analysis method for the
estimation of human error probability in the offloading operations at oil
terminals. Process
Safety Progress 40, 84-92.
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We won the Royal
Academy Visiting Professor Award 2021 (1/09/21 →
31/08/24), with Dr Maureen Jennings as the Visiting Professor and Dr Henry Tan
the Academic Champion. The project title is “The effective application of
psychology in practical engineering problem solving”.
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Dr
Fuzzy Bitar FREng gave a lecture, "The application of risk management
in a high hazard industry," to the MSc course EG5558/1E Applied Risk
Analysis and Management on 1 April 2021.
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Dr Maureen Jennings
was appointed as Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen (Contract 25/1/21 to
31/7/21).
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R. Aulia, H. Tan and
S. Sriramula, 2021. Dynamic reliability analysis for residual life assessment
of corroded subsea pipelines. Ships
and Offshore Structures 16, 410-422, DOI:
10.1080/17445302.2020.1735834.
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Dr Renyou Zhang
joined the Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology and won a research
project from the Beijing Association for Science and Technology
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Dr Maureen Jennings
was appointed as Honorary Research Fellow, School of Engineering, University of
Aberdeen, since 2020.
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Dr Maureen Jennings
became a member of the Step
Change in Safety Competence Core and Development Work Groups.
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On 9th January 2020,
Reza Aulia successfully defended his PhD thesis “Dynamic Reliability
Analysis for Pipeline Performance Prediction” subject to minor
corrections. The external examiner is Prof Zaili Yang, Department of Maritime
and Mechanical Engineering, Liverpool John Moores
University, and the internal examiner is Dr Peter Dunning. The Supervisors are
Dr Henry Tan and Dr Srinivas Sriramula. Reza is expecting a job interview in
his home country Indonesia soon. Congratulations Reza, and Good Luck!
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Invited seminar, Dr
Henry Tan, “Challenges in the estimation of the longevity of offshore
structures”. China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China.
3rd January 2020.
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Invited seminar, Dr
Henry Tan, “Sudden Interface Debonding and Coalescing in Energetic
Materials”. Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China. 28th December
2019.
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Invited seminar, Dr
Henry Tan, “Challenges in the estimation of the longevity of offshore
structures”. Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China. 27th December
2019.
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Invited seminar, Dr
Henry Tan, “Geometrical and Computational Studies for the Prevention of
Biofilm Formation and Bacterial Infections”. Southern University of
Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, 20th December 2019.
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Invited seminar, Dr
Henry Tan, “Geometrical and Computational Studies for the Prevention of
Biofilm Formation and Bacterial Infections”. Harbin Institute of
Technology, Shenzhen, China. 19th December 2019.
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R. Aulia, H. Tan and
S. Sriramula, 2019. Prediction of corroded pipeline performance based on
dynamic reliability models. Procedia
CIRP, 80, 518-523.
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Speech by Fuzzy
Bitar, Chair of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP)
and head of BP upstream executive office, at IOGP's EGM in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. November 2019. The title of the speech is “Climate
change, my daughter and me”.
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M. Jennings, 2019. The
oil and gas industry, the Offshore Installation Manager (OIM) and the
management of emergencies - Changes necessary to achieve effective competence
assessment of OIMs in controlling emergencies. Journal of Loss Prevention
in the Process Industries, 59, 1-13.
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On 27th
March 2019, Pedro Perez successfully defended his EngD thesis “Accident
Precursor Probabilistic Method (APPM) for Modeling
and Assessing Risk of Offshore Drilling Blowouts” subject to minor
corrections. The external examiner is Prof. Athanasios Kolios of Department of
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde.
The internal examiner is Dr Srinivas Sriramula. The Academic Supervisor is Dr
Henry Tan and the Industrial Supervisor is Mr Adriano
Ranieri, CEO of Witt O’Brien’s Brasil.
Pedro is a Brazilian engineer with an MSc degree in Safety and Reliability
Engineering from the University of Aberdeen. Currently, Pedro holds the
Technical Directory of Witt O'Brien's Brasil - a
multinational consultancy firm specialised in environmental protection, risk, emergency and crisis management. Congratulations!
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R. Zhang and H. Tan,
2019. Decision-supporting models for human-reliability based safety promotion
in offshore liquid natural gas terminal. Safety and Reliability,
DOI: 10.1080/09617353.2019.1569419
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M. Jennings, 2019.
The oil and gas industry, the Offshore Installation Manager (OIM) and the
management of emergencies - changes necessary to achieve
effective competence assessment of OIMs in controlling emergencies. Journal
of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 59, 1-13.
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P. Perez, G. Dalu, N.
Gomez and H. Tan, 2019. Offshore drilling blowout risk
model – an integration of basic causes, safety barriers, risk influencing
factors and operational performance indicators. Safety and Reliability,
DOI: 10.1080/09617353.2018.1530901
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker, “Energy Challenges and Solutions – a Global
Perspective.” School of Electrical Engineering, Nantong
University, China, 8th January 2019.
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Dr Henry Tan is
honoured as the Guest Professor of the Institute of Technological Sciences,
Wuhan University, China, January 2019.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker, “Energy Challenges and Mechanics – a Global
Perspective.” the Institute of Technological Sciences, Wuhan University,
China, 3rd January 2019.
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N.S. Sulaiman and H.
Tan, 2018. “Dynamic reliability analysis of corroded pipeline using
Bayesian network,” International
Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7, 210-215.
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Congratulations to
former PhD student, Dr Shengke Zhi, who was elected as a Fellow
of the Institute of engineering and Technology (December 2018).
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker, “Energy Challenges and Solutions – a Global
Perspective.” China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd, Beijing, China,
26th Dec 2018.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker, “A Global Perspective on Energy Challenges and Mechanics.”
College of Engineering, Peking University, China, 25th Dec 2018.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker, “Energy Challenges and Mechanics – a Global
Perspective.” School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, China, 21st
Dec 2018.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker, “Energy Challenges and Solutions – a Global
Perspective.” School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang
University, China, 17th Dec 2018.
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Congratulations to
current PhD candidate, Mr Fawaz Bitar, who was elected as a Fellow
of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2018).
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Congratulations to
former PhD student, Dr Shengke Zhi, who was elected as a Fellow
of the Nuclear Institute (2018).
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Dr Henry Tan,
Chairman, 8th International
Symposium on Energy, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2018.
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F.K. Bitar, D.
Chadwick-Jones, M. Nazaruk, C. Boodhai,
2018. From individual behaviour to system weaknesses: the re-design of the Just
Culture process in an international energy company. A case study.
Journal
of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 55, 267-282.
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P. Perez and H. Tan,
2018. Accident Precursor Probabilistic Method (APPM) for modeling
and assessing risk of offshore drilling blowouts – A theoretical
micro-scale application. Safety
Science, 105, 238–254.
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F.K. Bitar, D.
Chadwick-Jones, M. Lawrie, M. Nazaruk, C. Boodhai, 2018. Empirical validation of operating discipline
as a leading indicator of safety outputs and plant performance. Safety
Science, 104, 144-156.
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On 13th
March 2018, Renyou Zhang successfully defended his PhD thesis subject only to
minor corrections. The title of Renyou's thesis is
“Integrated reliability and optimization analysis combining both Human
and facility factors.” This
project was supervised by Dr Henry Tan. Dr Waheed Afzal was the internal
examiner, and the external examiner was Zaili Yang, Professor of Maritime
Transport at the Liverpool John Moores University.
After this, Renyou will join the Centre for Human Factors in Complex Systems at
the Tsinghua University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Many
congratulations to Dr Renyou!
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On 1st
March 2018, Maureen Jennings successfully defended her PhD thesis subject only
to minor corrections.
Maureen’s thesis title was “An investigation of the current
competence assessment of Offshore Installation Managers: the lost components of
knowledge and understanding.”
Her work was inter-disciplinary as between Engineering and Law. She was co-supervised by Dr Henry Tan
(School of Engineering) and Dr Greg W. Gordon (School of Law). Prof John Paterson was the internal examiner and the external examiner was Professor Genserik Reniers of the Safety and Security Science Group,
Delft University. Many congratulations to Maureen!
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Seminar, Safety management system integrating technical and human factors with
legislation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing,
China, 22 December 2017.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker and Chairman, “Safety management system
integrating legislation, technical and human factors”. Global Forum on
Total Maintenance & Operational Excellence, 26th - 27th
October 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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M. Jennings, 2017.
The oil and gas industry, the Offshore Installation Manager (OIM), and the
management of emergencies - Who is accountable for OIM competence? Journal
of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 50, 131-141.
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PhD Research
Seminars:
·
22 Sep 2017,
11:00-12:00, Pedro Perez, An Accident Precursor Bayesian Network Method for Modeling the Risk of Deep Drilling Blowouts
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20 Oct 2017,
11:00-12:00, Reza Aulia, Dynamic Reliability Analysis for Pipeline Performance
Prediction
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24 Nov 2017,
11:00-12:00, Maureen Jennings, An investigation of the
current competence assessment of Offshore Installation Managers: the lost
components of underpinning knowledge and understanding
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29 Nov 2017,
17:00-18:00, Renyou Zhang, LRF seminar, Integrated Reliability and Optimization
Analysis Combining Both Human and Facility Factors
·
8 Dec 2017,
11:00-12:00, Natalia Gomez Lopez, Risk modelling for offshore drilling
operations. A dynamic Bayesian network approach
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15 Dec 2017,
11:00-12:00, Ammar Allaw, Structural Reliability Assessment for Life Extension
of Un-inspectable Ageing Subsea Assets.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker and Chairman, “Comprehensive safety
management system integrating legislation, technical and human factors”.
Reliability Excellence Summit: Maximizing the Capability and Capacity of your
Assets, 12th -13th October, 2017, Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Dr Henry Tan,
Chairman, 7th International
Symposium on Energy, Manchester, England, 2017.
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R. Zhang and H. Tan,
2018. An integrated human reliability based decision
pool generating and decision making method for power supply system in LNG
terminal. Safety
Science, 101, 86–97.
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Nurul Sulaiman
defended her PhD thesis “Comprehensive Pipeline Integrity Management
System (CPIMS) using Bayesian Network” on 29 March 2017, and passed with
minor corrections. The external and internal examiners are Dr.
Athanasios Kolios of the Cranfield University and Dr.
Srinivas Sriramula, respectively. The external examiner is impressed by some
new ideas in her research.
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PhD Research
Seminars:
·
10 Feb 2017, Reza
Shahrivar. Risk-Based Inspection and Life
Extension System.
·
17 Feb 2017, Renyou
Zhang. An Integrated Method to Transfer
Human Reliability Analysis from Probability Prediction to Decision Making
Model.
·
24 Feb 2017, Reza
Aulia. Developing a risk-based decision
strategy for subsea pipeline life extension.
·
3 Mar 2017, Fawaz
Bitar. Behavioural Considerations in the
Effective Implementation of Safety Management Systems.
·
10 Mar 2017, Natalia
Gomez Lopez. Risk modelling for offshore drilling
operations: a Dynamic Bayesian network approach.
·
31 Mar 2017, Innocent
Friday Uwuijaren. Use of FRACAS for
collecting & analysing subsea equipment's reliability data.
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7 Apr 2017, Ammar
Allaw. SRA for Life Extension of Un-inspectable
Subsea Ageing Assets.
·
5 May 2017, Maureen
Jennings. An investigation of the current competence assessment of Offshore
Installation Managers: the lost components of underpinning knowledge and
understanding.”
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Keynote Speaker, “Making the best use of available pipeline data for
integrity management”. 4th
Pipeline Maintenance and Integrity Management for Oil & Gas Industry,
12th – 14th October 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Dr Henry Tan,
Chairman, 6th
International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics – towards a
big picture, August 2016, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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M. Jennings, 2016.
Potential barriers to the competence assessment of Offshore Installation
Managers: a hermeneutic perspective. Journal
of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 44, 132–142 .
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Dr Henry Tan,
Chairman, 5th
International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics – working on
small scales, July 2016, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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R. Zhang and H. Tan,
2016. Multi-objective optimization of power supply system for shipping LNG
off-loading process based on switching Markov chain and genetic algorithm. Chemical Engineering
Transactions, 48, 697-702.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Plenary Speaker, “On surface roughness evolution and corrosion
maintenance” CSTI 2015
— Corrosion and surface treatment in industry 2015. 30 Sep 2015 - 02
Oct 2015, Liptovský Mikuláš,
Slovakia.
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Azhar Aziz, seminar
presentation, 25 September 2015, FN185, Fraser Noble Building.
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Pedro Perez, seminar
presentation, “A Micro Scale Model for Bayesian Based Risk Assessment for
Deep Blowout”, 14 September 2015, FN185, Fraser Noble Building.
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Dr. Henry Tan is invited to join the DNV GL’s
Offshore Europe Reception and Dinner, 8 September 2015.
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Natalia Gomez Lopez,
seminar presentation, “Offshore drilling operational reliability, a
dynamic Bayesian network framework”, 4 September 2015, FN185, Fraser Noble
Building.
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Maureen Jennings,
seminar presentation, “An investigation of the current competence
assessment of Offshore Installation Managers: the lost components of
underpinning knowledge and understanding”, 28 August 2015, FN185, Fraser
Noble Building.
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Nurul Sulaiman,
seminar presentation, “Reliability analysis of subsea pipeline using
Dynamic Bayesian Network”, 21 August 2015, FN185, Fraser Noble Building.
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Renyou Zhang, seminar
presentation, “Multi-objective Optimization of Power Supply System for
Shipping LNG Off-loading Process Based on Switching Markov Chain and Genetic
Algorithm”, 14 August 2015, FN185, Fraser Noble Building.
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Robert Sheppard, Chief Technical
Advisor, Energo; Gerhard Ersdal, Principal Engineer
Structural Integrity, Coordinator R&D, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway; Dr.
Henry Tan; Ken
Bruce,
Senior Vice President, Global Asset Integrity Services, Lloyd’s Register Energy comment on
asset integrity in InnovOil, 26 May 2015.
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Dr. Henry Tan, lecturing the course
“Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts” for
Master of Science students in programmes of Renewable
Energy, Oil
& Gas Engineering, and Safety
& Reliability Engineering in academic year 2015/2016 and 2016/2017.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker. “Safety management with limited data available”. 9th Annual Offshore Safety Summit.
30 March - 01 April 2015, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker. “Performance of Materials in Challenging and Harsh Environments,
including Monitoring and Managing Continuous Material Service Life”. Asset Integrity Management Stavanger.
10th-12th February 2015, Stavanger, Norway.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker. “Pipeline life extension: maintenance under limited data
available”. 8th Annual
Pipeline Integrity Management Forum. 4th-5th February
2015, London, United Kingdom.
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Dr Henry Tan, Invited
Speaker. “Pipeline life extension: maintenance under limited data
available”. Subsea Integrity
Management Summit, North Sea. 2nd-3rd December 2014,
Aberdeen Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Dr Henry Tan,
Chairman, 4th International
Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics – working on small scales,
11-13 August 2015, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Dr Henry Tan,
Chairman, 3rd International
Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics – towards a big picture,
7-9 July 2015, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Dr Henry Tan,
Founding Editor, opening access Journal
of Energy Challenges and Mechanics.
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Dr Henry Tan,
Chairman, the 2nd
International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, 19-21 August
2014, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Dr Henry Tan,
Chairman, the 1st
International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, 8-10 July 2014,
Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Dr. Henry Tan is invited for a speech on the 7th Annual Pipeline
Integrity Management Forum, 5th - 6th February 2014, Berlin, Germany. The
title of his presentation is “Life extension: maintenance of North Sea
ageing pipelines”.
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Robbie Williamson,
the Engineering Doctorate candidate in our group, is chairing the Offshore Panel of the 57th
Pipeline Industries Guild Dinner.
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Ibrahim Fahmy, the
PhD candidate in our group, is the
invited Chairperson for Risk Management Session of the 7th IPTC ‘’International
Petroleum Technology Conference’’. The conference is sponsored
by Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil to be held in Doha 20-22 January,
2014.
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Ibrahim Fahmy, the
PhD candidate in our group, is
the invited Speaker for ADIPEC 2013 Conference ‘’The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition
and Conference’’. The conference will be the largest gas and
oil event for the Middle East to be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE between 10 - 13
November 2013,
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Subsea Integrity 2013 Workshop,
School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen. Date: 26 August 2013. Venue:
TAYLOR C11.
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Ibrahim Fahmy, the
PhD candidate in our group,
chaired the Day Two session of the conference Offshore Support
Vessel Technology, 09 - 12 June, 2013 - Le Royal Méridien, Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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The book “Corrosion
and Materials in the Oil and Gas Industries”, edited by Reza Javaherdashti, Chikezie Nwaoha and Henry Tan, has been published by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis LLC, USA.
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Ibrahim Fahmy, the
PhD candidate of the Subsea Integrity group, is an invited member for the 7th
IPTC ‘’International Petroleum Technology Conference’’
technical programme selection committee meeting held in Doha on 29th-30th
May 2013. The conference is sponsored by Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil.
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Ibrahim Fahmy, the PhD candidate in our group,
attended the SPE Applied Technology Workshop on Management of QHSE Risks in Brownfield
Projects and Operations, 8-9 April 2013, Abu Dhabi, UAE, as a
Discussion Leader.
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Ibrahim Fahmy, the PhD candidate in our group,
attended the IMCA conference on Major
Incident Prevention in Marine Operations (seminar
programme, BYM
Marine & Maritime News) 19-20 February, 2013, Dubai, UAE. Ibrahim gave a
presentation “Injury and fatality prevention during lifeboat drills and
maintenance”.
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Robbie Williamson,
the Engineering Doctorate candidate in our group, chaired the Offshore Panel at the National Annual General Meeting 2012 of the Pipeline Industry Guild.
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Welcome to join the Safety Engineering and Risk Management
Debate 2012.
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Mohamed Elyas, a secondary school pupil of the Robert Gordon’s College,
undertakes as a part of the work in our group on “Risk and safety
implications of corrosion effects on subsea pipelines”. Mohamed achieved
straight Band 1As in his 5 subjects in Chemistry, English, Mathematics, Physics
and Technological Studies, as reported in his school website.
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Dr. Henry Tan, lecturing the course
“Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts” for
Master of Science students in programmes of Subsea
Engineering, Renewable
Energy, Oil
& Gas Engineering, and Safety
& Reliability Engineering in academic years 2012/2013, 2013/2014,
2014/2015.
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Dr. Henry Tan. Invited lecture: Safety and reliability engineering in subsea oil and
gas industry, Institute
of Applied Mechanics, Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, China. 18 July 2012.
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Dr. Henry Tan. Invited lecture: Safety and reliability engineering in subsea oil and
gas industry. Department of Naval Architecture and
Ocean Engineering, Seoul National
University, Seoul,
South Korea. 16 July
2012.
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Dr. Henry Tan. Invited lecture: Safety and reliability engineering in the oil and
gas industry. Institute of Solid Mechanics, Department of Engineering
Mechanics, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China. 12 July 2012.
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Dr. Henry Tan. Invited lecture: Safety and reliability engineering in the oil and
gas industry. School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. 2 July 2012.
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Dr. Henry Tan. Invited lecture: Safety assessment and maintenance decision making in
the oil and gas industry: the Bayesian network modelling that combines industry
experiences with inspection data. 2012 Shengli Oil
Field Forum, SINOPEC, Dongying, Shandong, China. 26 June 2012.
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Prof. Youngsoon Yang of the Department of Naval
Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul,
Korea, visits the Subsea Integrity Research Group on 15th June 2012.
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Dr. Henry Tan attended the Safety & Reliability
Engineering evening event at the University of Aberdeen on 23 May 2012. The
School of Engineering has recently established The LRET Centre for Safety and
Reliability Engineering. Dr.
Henry Tan is on the Advisory Board of the centre.
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Dr. Henry Tan is invited to visit SINOPEC and China University of Petroleum, in the summer
of 2012, for collaborative researches.
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Sameer Ashok Chapgaon,
an MSc candidate in Subsea Engineering, won the E.ON Ruhrgas Student Travel Award. The award will
sponsor him to attend the MCE Deepwater Development Conference in Paris in the
month of March, 2012.
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The contract with CRC
Press/Taylor and Francis LLC, USA, for the book “Corrosion
and Materials in the Oil and Gas Industries” (ISBN 13:
978-1-4665-5624-9) edited by Reza Javaherdashti, Chikezie Nwaoha and Henry Tan was
signed in January 2012. Contributions
from the members of our group:
·
Robbie Williamson,
Reza Javaherdashti and Henry Tan, Chapter 1: Introduction
·
Reza Shahrivar, Chapter
18: Aging and life extension of pressure systems
·
Mark U. Ideozu, chapter 17: Safety and risk implications of
corrosion of oil and gas facilities
·
Sameer Ashok Chapgaon, Chapter 12: Material selection in oil and gas
environments
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Dr. Henry Tan, invited speaker: Dealing with uncertainties and
limited data in pipeline maintenance. Oil & Gas Pipelines Conference
2011: bridging the gap between commercial, strategic and technical knowledge. 29th – 30th
November 2011, London.
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Poster for the Engineering Open
Day, University of Aberdeen. Designed by Fiddo Fiddoson with contributions from group members. 23 November 2011.
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Robbie Williamson, Principal Integrity Engineer of the Wood Group Integrity Management, UK. A lecture to MSc Subsea Engineering students. 16
November 2011, KCF8, Kings College.
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Dr. Henry Tan, invited speaker: Decision
making in maintenance: Effectively managing and overcoming uncertainties caused
by a lack of available data. Presentation at the Oil & gas Pipeline
Integrity Management Summit, 3rd and 4th October 2011, Aberdeen, UK.
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Dr. Henry Tan, opening
address: Structural integrity management: adopting the right risk-based
mitigation strategy. 5th Annual Pipeline Integrity Management &
Maintenance Forum, 23rd- 25th March 2011, London. Forum programme.
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Dr. Henry Tan, roundtable
discussion leader: Re-assessing ageing pipeline infrastructure to ensure
safety, integrity and reliability. Oil & Gas
Pipeline Integrity Management Summit, Aberdeen, UK, 7 - 8 October 2010. Conference program.
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Dr. Henry Tan, lecturing Subsea Integrity at
the University of Aberdeen (2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013,
2013/2014, 2014/2015).
DOCTORATE THESES SUPERVISED
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Dr Fuzzy Bitar.
Thesis (EngD) title: Human
Performance in the Effective Implementation of Safety Management Systems. School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, June
2020.
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Dr Reza Aulia. Thesis (PhD) title: Dynamic
reliability analysis for pipeline performance prediction. School
Engineering, University of Aberdeen, January 2020.
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Dr. Pedro
Perez. Thesis (EngD) title: Accident Precursor Probabilistic Method
(APPM) for modeling and assessing risk of offshore
drilling blowouts. School Engineering, University of Aberdeen, March 2019.
Currently, Pedro is the Technical Director at Witt O'Brien's Brasil.
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Dr.
Maureen Jennings. Thesis (PhD)
title: An investigation of the current
competence assessment of Offshore Installation Managers: the lost components of
knowledge and understanding. School Engineering, University of Aberdeen,
March 2018.
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Dr.
Renyou Zhang. Thesis (PhD) title: Integrated reliability and optimization
analysis combining both Human and facility factors. School Engineering,
University of Aberdeen, March 2018. Currently Renyou is a pectoral research
associate at the Centre for Human Factors in Complex Systems, Tsinghua
University, China.
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Dr. Nurul
Sulaiman. Thesis (PhD) title: Pipeline
Integrity Management System (PIMS) Using Bayesian Networks for Lifetime
Extension. School Engineering, University of Aberdeen, March 2017.
Currently Nurul is a Lecturer at the Universiti
Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia.
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Dr.
Shengke Zhi. Thesis (PhD) title: Developing
an optical method to measure the instantaneous angular speed of machinery in
condition monitoring. Schools of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil
Engineering, The University of Manchester, August 2008. Shengke is currently a
Business Development Manager of the New Nuclear & Generation Services,
Clean Energy at the Amec Foster Wheeler, United
Kingdom.