Monday, December 21, 2009

ASSE Middle East Chapter and Saudi Arabia Section of AIChE Endorse Process Safety Meeting

Process Safety in Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals 2009, appointed to crop abode from 15 – 18 November 2010 in Abu Dhabi, is now accustomed by the Middle East Chapter of The American Society of Safety Engineers and Saudi Arabia Section of AIChE.

Mr. Tariq S. Al-Ghamdi, President of ASSE Middle East Chapter, reflected, “Upon reviewing the IQPC affairs of Process Safety in Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals 2009, the ASSE Middle East Chapter feels that the appointment would accommodate an befalling to the region's ASSE associates and added professionals. Vital information, including the best abreast all-embracing industry standards and practices, will be aggregate amidst delegates. The ASSE-MEC extends the allurement to the assembly and the region's anxious professionals and industries to participate in the 9th PDC organized by the ASSE-MEC from February 20-24, 2009 in Bahrain which would accommodate an added mega-platform for accretion networking possibilities amidst the HSE experts in the arena and internationally"

The Middle East Chapter was inaugurated on September 15, 1982 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The Chapter's area covers the afterward Arabian Gulf countries: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman. The Middle East Chapter was the aboriginal adopted affiliate accustomed alfresco the United States. The accepted Chapter associates is about 225.

Abdulmohsen Almajnouni, Chairman of SAS-AIChE will facilitate the alternate “Process Safety Expert Q&A Session” enabling assembly to seek answers to their key industry challenges. Abdulmohsen reflected: “The accent of Process Safety in oil, gas, adorning and petrochemical plants is no abstruse to anyone. Hundreds of bags of humans plan in the industries, as it is a basic basic of the civic economy. For this reason, a worker’s assurance and bloom becomes even added important.

"We accept to actualize a assurance ability in ablaze of the above disasters that accept occurred in the accomplished which acquired ample calibration accident and damages. Such ability conception can be accomplished by abutting interaction, accepting accessible and aboveboard and demography abounding advantage of this conference.”
On 22 June 1908, nineteen men alive in what was again a new and arising conduct (chemical engineering) met at the Engineers’ Club in Philadelphia and founded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

The Saudi Arabian Section of the AIChE is a free assemblage and was founded in 1988. Since that time, the Section has been alignment activities and programs of absorption to the membership.

Scott Berger, Director of acknowledging alignment Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) said: “A accurate action assurance administration arrangement is capital for the concise and abiding success of any oil, gas, and petrochemical company. Engineers and managers at all levels should crop time to advance their ability of action assurance and to apprentice the acquaint from accomplished accidents.” Pronob Mukherjee, Regional Manager Asia-Pacific will be presenting at the appointment on “Discussing Human Reliability to authorize a Process Safety Culture” and will facilitate a branch on Wednesday 18th November on “Discussing analytical issues in Process Safety: A CCPS-Middle East archetypal council board meeting”.

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) was formed in 1985 by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as the actinic engineering profession’s acknowledgment to the adverse 1984 abstract in Bhopal, India. Nearly 25 years later, added than 125 affiliate companies of CCPS plan globally to advanced the convenance of action safety. CCPS associates account by the all-embracing acquirements acquired via accord in CCPS projects and by advice acquired by networking with the leaders in action safety, arch their companies to bigger action assurance results.

Process Safety in Oil, Gas & petrochemicals 2009 is chaired by Colin Dyer, Asset Integrity & Process Safety Manager at Shell EPM. Colin reflected: “We accept a assignment of affliction to our staff, their families, the association about us and the environment, which are acute affidavit to anticipate above incidents.” The appointment is co-chaired by Steve Arendt, Vice President Process Industries at ABS Consulting, who has over 30 years acquaintance in actinic action assurance and accident administration and has performed hundreds of action assurance and aegis analyses, accident assessments, audits and abstract investigations on a array of oil, gas, actinic and accompanying industry processes. In 2006, Mr. Arendt led ABS Consulting’s activity to accommodate abutment for the BP Independent Safety Review Panel (Baker Panel) appraisal of PSM effectiveness, action assurance culture, and accumulated blank of BP’s 5 U.S. refineries.

Other speakers at Process Safety in Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals 2009 include:
Hany Abdel Aziz, HSE Expert General Manager, Rashid Petroleum Company; Dietrich Roeben, Head of Maintenance, Qatar Shell; Ron Ward, Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales; Graeme Ellis, Principal Consultant, ABB Engineering; J. Samuel Armacanqui, Head ESP Contracts, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO); Jack Jackson, Behavior Change Consultant, Bill Sims Company; Henrique Paula, Vice President Middle East & Asia Pacific, ABS Consulting; Hamid Reza Seyed Jafari, Establishment & Implementation of Management Systems Head, Shiraz Oil Refinery Iran; Paul Wood, Production Engineering Manager Middle East and South Asia & Global Technical Consultant Production Engineering, Shell EP; Jitu Patel, International Safety Consultant, Member ASSE International Professional Speciality Executive Board & Senior Board Advisor ASSE Arizona Chapter & Senior HSE Consultant, Dallah Human Skills Development KSA & Bill Sims Company; Bilal M Syed, Head of Operational Safety & Safety Engineering, Yemen LNG Company LTD; Waddah Ghanem, Group EHSQ Compliance Manager, ENOC; Maria Papadaki, Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry, University of Ioannina; Jaber Bander Al-Muaibid, Senior Process Engineer, Saudi Aramco; Abdullah Said Nasser Al-Mahruqi, Facilities and Business Support Manager, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO); Dr. Omar Shams, Manager General and Mechanical Maintenance, Dubai Natural Gas Company Ltd.; Coen Fossen, Functional Maintenance and Integrity Manager (UOM), Petroleum Development Oman; Majid Al-Arji, Safety Engineer, SASREF; Francois Coblentz, Senior Risk Consultant, ABS Consulting; Rob Turner, Principal Consultant, ABB Engineering Services; Ismail Mohamed Ahmed, Behavior Based Safety Champion, Bahrain Petroleum Company.

Further data can be acquired at www.oilandgasprocesssafety.com.

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