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SECTORS Power and Utilities The power and utilities sector faces many challenges in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing secure, reliable, and affordable services. ORS supports power and utility companies with the provision of to-the-point technical risk management and process engineering advisory and training services to achieve improved safety and operational performance. Some examples of project engagements Client: Combined Power Plant and Desalination Unit, United Arab Emirates Project: Technical and Operational Risk Management Training Client: Regional Power and Utility Company, Sweden Project: Technical Safety and Regulatory Compliance Support for new hydrogen production facility Client: Public Power and Utility Company in Aruba Project: Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and C-HAZOP for Power Plant Expansion Project Client: Power Plant Technology Supplier, Finland Project: Provision of Functional Safety, Process Safety and Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) services for multiple power plant development projects around the world Client: Power and Utility Supplier, Denmark Project: Technical Safety and Risk Analysis Support for multiple projects including offshore wind sector and hydrogen production plants Client: Electrical and Utility Supplier, Colombia Project: Provision of training: technical risk assessments, electrical HAZOP etc. Client: Multinational Engineering and Technology Company, Sweden Project: Technical Risk Management Studies for Offshore Wind Power Development Projects in Germany Client: Leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Company, Denmark Project: RAM Analysis, HAZOPs, HAZIDs and Technical Safety Support for multiple Offshore Wind development projects in Americas, Asia, and Europe. available commercial tools: PHAST PHA-PRO Miriam RAM Bow-tie XP Aspen HYSYS Flaresim Symmetry Process Simulation CARA Fault Tree available NON-commercial tools: Onshore QRA Software for Risk Integration (ISO curves / F-N curves) Offshore QRA Software Consequence Modelling Hazardous Area Classification (ORS-HAC) Thermodynamic/Process Studies ORS also has access to an extensive in-house data collection in addition to subscriptions to recognized national/international data sources. Find Out How We Can Work Together CONTACT US

Finished FMEA, FMECA AND FMEDA: Understanding the key differences FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis), and FMEDA (Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis) are widely used in industries to assess and mitigate risks associated with system failures. In this webinar, our experts explored the key differences between these methodologies, including their scope, application, and benefits. WATCH REPLAY By understanding the nuances of each method, you can optimize your risk management strategy and ensure the success of your product development. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills in risk assessment!

Finished Process Safety and SIL: 10 essentials they do not teach you in school There are tonnes of textbooks and references about process safety and SIL. In this webinar, Thomas Solberg Fylking and Baris Arslan from ORS Consulting will instead focus on sharing practical experiences and knowledge from oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, hydrogen, and carbon capture sectors. The L&L will focus on what works and the pitfalls you should avoid when working with process safety and SIL in your industry. WATCH REPLAY In this webinar, Thomas Solberg Fylking and Baris Arslan from ORS Consulting share practical experiences and knowledge from oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, hydrogen, and carbon capture sectors. The webinar focuses on what works and the pitfalls you should avoid when working with process safety and SIL in your industry. The presenters discuss real-life examples from the project phase and operations and give some practical advice that works. Thomas and Baris also highlight some aspects essential to consider for Project Managers and Procurement Specialist to frame the assignments properly and get the right expertise on board.

Finished Essentials for confident and effective HAZOP participation WATCH REPLAY The intention of a HAZOP is to evaluate a design or an activity with the primary objective of identifying potential hazardous events and assessing the safeguards in place to prevent and mitigate these events. The outcome of a HAZOP can prevent accidents from occurring - and a bad HAZOP can fail to identify design flaws and hidden hazards. Its success depends solely on the contributions of the participants involved. Watch the replay of this engaging webinar where two of our HAZOP facilitators, Rikard Davidsen and Morten Nilstad Pettersen, share insights on how to shine as a HAZOP participant and give examples of pitfalls to avoid.

Finished Barrier Management – Aquaculture in Exposed Areas Meet ORS Consulting and learn more about us, our services and take a dive into barrier management applied to aquaculture in exposed areas. In this lunch webinar Per Ståle Larsen from ORS Consulting will share lessons learned from risk and barrier management on fish farming concepts intended for operation in exposed areas WATCH REPLAY The webinar continues with a Q&A session held by Thomas Fylking and Morten Nilstad Pettersen to reply to all HAZOP-related questions.

SERVICES System Reliability and Availability Up Anchor 1 Reliability is a staple in most businesses. It is the probability that a component, part, system, or process performs correctly within a specified period. A reliable system is one that will function appropriately with a minimum need for maintenance or repair Most systems in facilities constitute interconnected components, with each component playing its role and helping to achieve a performance level. A system reliability assessment allows businesses to identify weaknesses of these components and quantify the impact of their failures on the overall system or process. ORS is a leading system reliability solutions provider. We are helping businesses and facilities with a wide range of services, including uptime and availability assessments, Fault Tree Modelling, among others. System Reliability and Availability Related Studies FMEA/FMECA FMEA (Failure Modes and Effect Analysis) and FMECA (Failure Modes Effects and Critical Analysis) are methodologies used to determine potential failure modes in a system and provide corrective measures for each failure mode. FMECA is similar to FMEA with regard to risk assessment and failure analysis. However, in addition to FMEA functionalities, FMECA ranks failure modes in order of severity. RAM Analysis RAM analysis is a method to define the production capacity and availability of a system to keep producing. This analysis involves a mapping of the different failure modes, frequencies, consequences, and their effect on production. RAM Analysis helps to reduce costs, debottleneck and provide input to spare parts and maintenance planning. Learn more > Production Assurance Production assurance describes the certainty of a facility achieving its production goals and meeting its intended end-results. End results may be customer expectations, the safety of a production process, or reduced production costs. Production assurance is particularly important within systems associated with oil and gas exploration and is introduced in ISO 20815:2008 standard. Fault Tree Modeling Fault Tree Modeling is a methodology used for conducting reliability analyses of complex systems. It involves creating a logical representation to model chains or pathways that can lead to failure or an undesirable loss event. It helps to keep systems safe and in desirable operating conditions. System Safety System safety is a risk management methodology that involves the identification and analysis of different hazards in a system, process, or facility. It also involves the provision of measures to eliminate or mitigate the effect of these risks. Among others, system safety is widely applied in the defence industry. Find Out How We Can Work Together CONTACT US Latest Insights Assessing Cybersecurity Risks for ICS/OT as a Part of Process Safety Management What is a Procedure HAZOP? Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). Overview of available techniques and when to apply them MORE INSIGHTS

SERVICES Chemical & Process Up Anchor 1 Chemical & Process Engineering involves the design, optimisation and operation of industrial scale processes for the safe manufacture of useful products and materials. From onshore chemicals production to offshore oil and gas, Chemical and Process engineers are at the heart of an organisations technical capability for delivery of business, safety and environmental performance. ORS have an expert chemical and process engineering team supported by a range of state of the art software tools and techniques to help our clients get the most from their assets. This includes activities are studies such as: Development of process schemes and improvements to maximise production and ensure safe operation. Creation and management of Digital Twins, Shadows and Models using live plant data where available. Dynamic simulation of new or existing plants to improve performance and explore equipment, set-point and other design changes. Software: Aspen HYSYS; SLB Symmetry, Flaresim, PHAST, CFD & FEA (ANSYS) Chemical & Process Related Studies Heat & Mass Balance Development Development of process heat and mass balance through equipment selection and optimisation to maximise production and minimise energy requirements. Arange of process simulation software is available to complete this including Aspen HYSYS and SLB Symmetry. Equipment Optimisation Individual unit operation assessments completed to help improve performance and ensure business demands are being met. This can range from traditional vessel, valve and pump sizing/costing through to more advanced analysis to study local heat, mass, and momentum effects using CFD & FEA. Digital Twins Development of digital models which reflect the as-built condition of chemical and process plants to identify performance and profit improvements. These can be developed into Digital Shadows and Twins with the capability of updating set-points through DCS to realise improvements and business performance. Flare, Venting, Relief, & Blowdown System Performance Safe disposal of fluids in an emergency situation is an essential part of any process plant design. Hence flare systems are considered safety-critical. We use Flare System Analyzer and other industry-standard tools to ensure back-pressures, velocities, momentum, flare tip radiation, and low-temperature material design constraints are all met. Dynamic Process Simulation Dynamic simulation of a process plant behaviour to better understand the effects of failures and the ability of the design to safely address these failures. Overpressure Protection assessment Different combinations of instrumented and mechanical overpressure protection systems exist in all process plant designs. Vessel and piping design reviews, relief valve sizing and selection to the requirements of API 520/521/526, and reliability assessments of instrumented systems under IEC61511 are all necessary to ensure the system is suitably protected. Find Out How We Can Work Together CONTACT US Latest Insights Assessing Cybersecurity Risks for ICS/OT as a Part of Process Safety Management What is a Procedure HAZOP? Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). Overview of available techniques and when to apply them MORE INSIGHTS

SERVICES Barrier Management Up Anchor 1 Barrier management is a framework for the identification of major accident risks and continuous risk management throughout a complete asset lifecycle. Integrity management ensures that systems, operational procedures, and organizations perform their function effectively and efficiently to avoid incidents and accidents. Integrity management comprises a variety of risk assessments, including barrier management, integrated design reviews, risk-based maintenance, and obsolescence management. ORS Consulting is a leading third-party integrity management solutions provider. We are helping businesses and facilities perform barrier strategy development, bow-tie analysis, risk-based maintenance and Integrated Design Review (IDR), amongst others. Barrier Management Related Studies Barrier Strategy Development Barrier strategy development involves establishing a strategy for how a project or asset operation will manage the accident risk, and to ensure that barriers are designed and maintained to ensure an acceptable risk level. Bow-tie Analysis Bow tie diagrams are powerful tools for managing major accident hazards and communication of key risk drivers. It typically involves creating a bow-tie diagram, which illustrates the chain of causes and consequences related to a hazard, and its barriers and mitigating measures. Performance Standards Performance standards are requirement specifications established for barrier functions or elements, as input for design and operation of a system. Among others, performance standards can give requirements related to reliability, maintenance and operability. Risk-based Maintenance Risk-based maintenance (RBM) is a maintenance strategy that prioritizes risk-sensitive systems and machinery, applicable for all industries. An RBM helps businesses to plan maintenance processes based on the probability of failure, possible effects (consequences), and calculated costs. Barrier Management System Implementation Barrier management system implementation involves establishing and maintaining barriers in a facility so that risks can be managed and operational excellence can be achieved. It involves establishing place technical, operational and organizational barriers against major accidents or incidents, and ensure that the barriers are maintained throughout the asset lifecycle. Optimization of Test Intervals The probability of failure of machinery or safety critical systems largely depends on the frequency of testing or preventive maintenance. Optimization of test intervals involves determining the optimum maintenance or test tasks that ensures high reliability, and at the same time minimizing downtime. Optimization of test intervals is typically performed in conjunction with performance monitoring of Safety Instrumented Systems. Obsolescence Management Obsolescence describes a situation in which a part, equipment, or service is no longer available even when it is still needed. Obsolescence management helps organizations to forecast, monitor, and plan when they are at risk of having obsolete parts, service, or equipment. It helps to reduce the risks associated with obsolescence. Root Cause Analysis Root cause describes a factor that caused a non-conformance in a system, component, or organization. A root cause analysis (RCA) is a problem-solving process that is used to identify these factors and provide approaches to preventing them. It may also provide means of responding to them. Integrated Design Reviews (IDR) Integrated Design Review (IDR) is a method used to scrutinize project interface, and is efficient for projects and assets with multiple stakeholders. This methodology focuses on the functionality of an integrated facility, and it aims to mitigate risks and ensure safe and efficient operations in these facilities. Risk-based Inspection (RBI) Risk-based inspection (RBI) involves quantitative and qualitative assessment of the probability of failure, possible consequences, and costs associated with systems and machinery. The information obtained from this assessment help business to determine design flaws and potential damages, as well as the location of possible dangers resulting from failures. Find Out How We Can Work Together CONTACT US Latest Insights Assessing Cybersecurity Risks for ICS/OT as a Part of Process Safety Management What is a Procedure HAZOP? Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). Overview of available techniques and when to apply them MORE INSIGHTS

SERVICES Safety and Compliance Up Anchor 1 Safety Management a fundamental activity for all projects and asset operations. Regardless of industries, a project needs to fulfil technical risk related requirements from local and regional authorities, international standards and end clients. Navigating the complexity of regulatory compliance requires both experience and a specific skillset in safety management. ORS frequently supports projects, from early concept to, and including, operational phase with safety management. This includes activities such as: Establish the regulatory framework that defines all relevant legal and contractual requirements; Prepare a HSE road map for a project or throughout asset lifecycles; Follow-up and manage technical risk management activities. This includes liaison with various stakeholders and contractors, follow-up of third-party studies, ensuring involvement from all relevant disciplines, and ensuring continuity in the risk management activities. Safety and Compliance Related Studies Project Risk Assessment Project risk assessment is a hands-on application of risk management to ensure that a project is meeting its targets in terms of cost, schedule and HSE. It includes identification of project risks, continuous monitoring and adjustments, as well as identification of measures to control the risk. Project risk assessment allows businesses to make the best choice from the available options needed to achieve a project’s objective. Risk-based interface management Risk-based interface management involves defining, controlling, and communicating information needed to make unrelated services, processes, or equipment co-function. Risk-based interface management assesses and mitigates the possible risks when working with contractors, subcontractors, and clients. Operational Readiness Review An Operational Readiness Review (ORR) is a thorough, proof-based appraisal of the project state before entering operation. ORRs are undertaken to ensure that all activities during engineering process are completed, all critical systems been tested and validated and confirm correct handover to operations. The ORR is a final validation to ensure a safe transition to operational phase for project deliverables. Cybersecurity risk assessment Cybersecurity Risk Assessment serves as a pivotal section of the modern company. Modern companies tend to create operations on a technological platform and, as such, are exposed to the risk of hackers and loss of data. Cybersecurity risk assessment is performed to expose an organization’s vulnerabilities to such attacks and provide solutions. Regulatory Compliance In all industries, all businesses needs to comply with regulations from local and regional authorities, industry standards and requirements from end clients within the area of safety and HSEQ. Regulatory compliance is a continuous activity ensuring that relevant requirements are identified, and that the correct decisions are made to avoid delays, business interruptions or accelerated costs. HSE Road Map The HSE Road Map is an activity and document prepared in the initial phase of a project to ensure that the regulatory requirements are identified and that the technical risk management activities are planned to ensure efficient project execution and compliance with HSE-related requirements. Safety Strategy The Safety Strategy is a cornerstone of safety design in a project, and is comparable with a technical design basis of a project. The safety strategy links hazard identification, risk analyses, safety studies, and the technical safety design, demonstrating that adequate safety barriers are in place. Find Out How We Can Work Together CONTACT US Latest Insights Assessing Cybersecurity Risks for ICS/OT as a Part of Process Safety Management What is a Procedure HAZOP? Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). Overview of available techniques and when to apply them MORE INSIGHTS

services Process Safety and SIL Up Anchor 1 Any process that handles hazardous substances has the potential for a loss of containment event that could lead to a significant incident. Asset owners need to ensure that the process equipment is designed, maintained, and operated to minimize the likelihood of this. Process Safety is a framework for ensuring that the process design envelope is protected and has resilience against system failures and degradation. Process safety consequently focuses on preventing or mitigating loss of containment scenarios that could lead to fires, explosions, and accidental chemical releases at process facilities. An important part of Process Safety is Functional Safety. The core of functional safety is about defining requirements for instrumented safety systems and so-called safety instrumented functions, which normally include an input device, logic solver, and a final element. ORS is a leading provider of Process Safety and SIL. We are helping businesses and facilities with a wide range of services, including all lifecycles of functional safety management, HAZOPs, dynamic process simulations, process safety time assessments and overpressure protection assessments. Process Safety and SIL ReLAted Studies HAZOP HAZOP is a structured, multi-discipline assessment of a process system to ensure that the risk for loss of containment is minimized and that the design meets process safety-related standards. Learn More> Dynamic Process Simulation Dynamic simulation of a process plant behaviour to better understand the effects of failures and the ability of the design to safely address these failures. Process Safety Time Assessment Ensuring that Safety Instrumented Systems can react within a suitable period following a process disturbance and avoid the design envelope from being exceeded. Steady-state and dynamic methodologies are used to meet IEC 61511 and ISO 10418 requirements. Flare, Venting, Relief, & Blowdown System Performance Safe disposal of fluids in an emergency situation is an essential part of any process plant design. Hence flare systems are considered safety-critical. We use Flare System Analyzer and other industry-standard tools to ensure back-pressures, velocities, momentum, flare tip radiation, and low-temperature material design constraints are all met. Overpressure Protection assessment Different combinations of instrumented and mechanical overpressure protection systems exist in all process plant designs. Vessel and piping design reviews, relief valve sizing and selection to the requirements of API 520/521/526, and reliability assessments of instrumented systems under IEC61511 are all necessary to ensure the system is suitably protected. Functional Safety Management Plan The Functional Safety Plan describes the project plan, organization and principles to ensure functional Safety throughout the entire period of the project development and asset operation. A functional safety plan must state a set of measures to ensure that the target Safety Integrity Level (SIL) is achieved. SIL Allocation/LOPA SIL allocation, e.g. with Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is a methodology for defining performance requirements for safety instrumented functions. In addition, the assessment can be used to evaluate whether adequate protection layers are in place to reduce risks to acceptable levels. SIL Compliance verification A SIL Compliance verification is applied to confirm that Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) meet the performance requirements, as detailed in the functional safety process. Such requirements include reliability requirements, architectural requirements as well as a demonstration of avoidance and control of systematic errors. Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) FSA is a third-party evaluation of the functional safety activities in a project, to confirm that standards (such as IEC 61508 and 61511) as well as Company requirements are correctly applied. FSAs are typically performed in steps depending on the phase and maturity of the project. The FSA prevents systematic failures and helps to ensure that functional safety is achieved in facilities. Safety Manual A Safety Manual is documentation provided by equipment or system suppliers justifying use in SIL-related functions. The intention with the Safety Manual is to provide input documentation for the overall SIL Compliance verification, and to demonstrate that the supplier organization, management systems and manufacturing process ensure sufficient reliability and minimizes systematic errors. SIS Performance Monitoring Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) performance monitoring involves follow-up and benchmarking of SIS component failure frequency against design documentation and acceptance criteria. Among others, this can be used to adjust test intervals, improve test and maintenance regime or input to modification projects. Process safety training We support organizations with tailormade training courses within all aspects of process safety. For example, ORS has supported asset owners with SIL training for operators, functional safety management, technical safety, and planning / execution of Process Hazard Analysis. Find Out How We Can Work Together CONTACT US Latest Insights Assessing Cybersecurity Risks for ICS/OT as a Part of Process Safety Management What is a Procedure HAZOP? Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). Overview of available techniques and when to apply them MORE INSIGHTS

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