subject: Fire And Gas Detection Systems [print this page] Fire and gas detection systems are vital to ensuring safety and protection in oil and gas exploration environments. Safety solutions providers in the market today offer wide-ranging solutions to protect oil and gas exploration environments which include the personnel, the products and the plant. They offer services for fire and gas detection, fire suppression, emergency shutdown systems, security and access control.
Gas and fire detection systems and suppression in an oil and gas exploration/production environment is often a complicated task. Solution providers have to apply unique approaches that have been developed to curtail specific threats within the production environment. For instance in an offshore gas rig, safety threats can occur when the rig is struck by lightning. Lightning can often ignite the gas that is being emitted from the vent stack. Such a fire is prevented by infusing carbon dioxide to extinguish the flames. However in other situations, such as when a fire is triggered by roller bearings running dry, the fire suppression approach is entirely different. So, to offer effective solutions, safety solution providers must understand the nature of the trigger and the specific environment that is at risk. This would require an understanding of the basic construction of the environmentthe cabinet/enclosure/vent stack/deckand the equipment operating therein.
When offering fire and safety protection systems, specialist solution providers create solutions tailored to the unique needs within a customer environment, and bring onboard several expert project managers, technical consultants, maintenance managers and purchasing specialists. Further, these providers offer solutions that are compliant with British and European EN standards, and ensure that customer environments meet the appropriate standards on health, fire protection and safety as set out by various legislative requirements.
While scanning the market for specialist fire safety solutions, oil and gas companies would do well to look at solution providers who are able to offer:
Scalable solutions to support requirements in organisations of varied sizes and from varied environments.
Hardware procurement support from reputed and reliable manufacturers in the industry.
Diverse and extensive industrial experience combined with proven track records in project completion.
Skilled engineers with expertise in design, project management and execution.
Global consultation, design, manufacture and commissioning services.
