Reports & Papers

Papers on Vital Subjects
A number of papers on aspects of Offshore Risk Management are presented for your information, covering a 10 year period.

Books (1985- )

Vinnem and Hope
(1986)
"Offshore safety management: theoretical fundament and practical experiences"
Tapir, ISBN 82-519-0758-6.
269 pages.
Vinnem (1999)"Risk Assessment"
Kluwer Publishing, ISBN 0-7923-5860-0.
505 pages.
Aven and Vinnem (2006)"Risk Management, with Applications from the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry"
Springer Verlag.
Aven and Vinnem (2007)"Risk, Reliability and Societal Safety, Proceedings of ESREL 2007, Stavanger, 25-27 June, 2007, Balkema"
Vinnem (2007)"Offshore Risk Assessment - 2nd edition"
Springer, ISBN 978-1-84628-716-9.
575 pages.
Vinnem (2013)"Offshore Risk Assessment - 3rd edition - Volumes 1 & 2"
Springer, ISBN 978-1-4471-5207-1; 978-1-4471-5213-2
950 pages.

Papers in international journals with referee (1995- )

Vinnem (1996)"Risk acceptance criteria for temporary phases"
Journal of offshore mechanics and Arctic engineering, 1996, 118, 204-209
Vinnem, Haugen and Børressen (1996)"Risk assessment of production and storage tankers"
Journal of offshore mechanics and Arctic engineering, 1996, 118, 198-203
Vinnem (1998)"Evaluation of methodology for QRA in offshore operations"
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Volume 61, Issues 1-2, July-August 1998, 39-52
Abrahamsen, Aven, Vinnem and Wiencke (2005)"Safety management and the use of expected values"
Risk Decision and Policy, 9, 347-358
Aven and Vinnem (2005)"On the use of risk acceptance criteria in the offshore oil and gas industry"
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 90, 15-24
Røed, Mosleh, Vinnem and Aven (2005)"On the Use of Hybrid Causal Logic Method in Offshore Risk Analysis, Reliability Engineering and System Safety"
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 94, 2, 445-455.
Aven and Vinnem (2006)"Case illustration of a decision framework for HES management"
Journal of Risk and Reliability, 220(O2), 115-121.
Aven, Røed and Vinnem (2006)"On the use of goals, quantitative criteria and requirements in safety management"
Risk Managm. an International Journal. 8, 118-132
Aven, Sklet, and Vinnem (2006)"Barrier and operational risk analysis of hydrocarbon releases (BORA-Release); Part I Method description"
Journal of Hazardous Materials, A137, 681-691
Sklet, Vinnem and Aven (2006)"Barrier and operational risk analysis of hydrocarbon releases (BORA-Release); Part II Results from a case study"
Journal of Hazardous Materials, A137, 692-708
Aven, Vinnem and Vollen (2006)"Perspectives on risk acceptance criteria and management for offshore installations - application to a development project"
Int. J. of Materials & Structural Reliability, 4, 15-25
Aven, Hauge, Sklet and Vinnem (2006)"Methodology for incorporating human and organizational factors in risk analyses for offshore installations"
Int. J. of Materials & Structural Reliability, 4, 1-14
Vinnem, Aven, Husebø, Seljelid and Tveit (2006)"Major hazard risk indicators for monitoring of trends in the Norwegian offshore petroleum sector"
Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety, Volume 91, Issues 7, July 2006, 778-7
Aven, Vinnem and Wiencke (2007)"A decision framework for risk management"
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 92, 433-448
Vinnem and Liyanage (2008)"Human-Technical Interface of Collision Risk Under Dynamic Conditions: An Exploratory Learning Case from the North Sea"
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), 4, 35-47
Aven, Osmundsen and Vinnem (2008)"Safety, economic incentives and insurance in the Norwegian Petroleum Industry"
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 93, 137-143
Røed, Mosleh, Vinnem, and Aven (2009)"On the Use of Hybrid Causal Logic Method in Offshore Risk Analysis"
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 94, 445-455
Vinnem, Seljelid, Haugen, Sklet, and Aven (2009)"Generalized methodology for operational risk analysis of offshore installations"
Proc. IMechE, Part O: J. Risk and Reliability, 223(O1), 87-97
Vinnem (2010)"Risk analysis in the planning processes of hazardous facilities - a case of an LNG plant in an urban area"
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 95, 662-670
Vinnem (2010)"Risk indicators for major hazards on offshore installations"
Safety Science, 48, 770-787
Vinnem, Hestad, Kvaløy and Skogdalen (2010)"Analysis of root causes of major hazard precursors (hydrocarbon leaks) in the Norwegian offshore petroleum industry"
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 95, 1142-1153
Vinnem (2011)"Evaluation of offshore emergency preparedness in view of rare accidents"
Safety Science, In Press, Available online 17 August 2010.
Skogdalen Utne & Vinnem (2011) "Developing safety indicators for preventing offshore oil and gas
deepwater drilling blowouts",
Safety Science 49, pp. 1187–1199
Skogdalen, Vinnem (2011)"Quantitative risk analysis offshore-Human and organizational factors", Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 96, 468–479.
Skogdalen, Khorsandi & Vinnem (2012)"Escape, Evacuation, And Rescue Experiences From Offshore
Accidents Including The Deepwater Horizon",
Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 25/1, Pp 148-158
Skogdalen, Vinnem (2011)"Combining precursor incidents investigations and QRA in oil and gas industry", Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 101, pp. 48-58
Skogdalen, Vinnem (2012)"Quantitative risk analysis of oil and gas drilling, using Deepwater Horizon as case study", Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 100, 58–66
Vinnem, Bye, Gran, Kongsvik, Nyheim, Okstad, Seljelid & Vatn (2012)"Risk modelling of maintenance work on major process equipment on offshore petroleum installations", Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 25/2, pp 274-292
Gran, Bye, Nyheim, Okstad, Seljelid, Sklet, Vatn, Vinnem (2012). "Evaluation of the risk model of maintenance work on major process equipment on offshore petroleum installations", Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 25/3, pp. 582–593
Vinnem (2012)"On the Analysis of Hydrocarbon Leaks in the Norwegian Offshore Industry", Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 25/4, pp. 709–717
Vinnem (2013)"Use of accident precursor event investigations in the understanding of major hazard risk potential in the Norwegian offshore industry", Journal of Risk and Reliability, 227/1, 66–79
Vinnem (2013)"On the development of failure model for hydrocarbon leaks during maintenance work in process plants on offshore petroleum installations", Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 113/1, 112–121
Hannisdal, Ariansen Braut, Schlichting & Vinnem (2013) "A risk analysis of cancer care in Norway: The top 16 patient safety hazards", The Joint commission Journal on quality and patient safety, November 2013, 39/11
Vinnem (2014)"Analysis of Hydrocarbon Leaks and Verification as an Operational Barrier", Journal of Risk Research, DOI:10.1080/13669877.2014.913661
Vinnem, Røed (2014)"Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry Project to Reduce Hydrocarbon Leaks," SPE Economics & Management, 672, pp. 88-99

Other scientific papers in journals, chapters in books, reports in public domain (1995- )

VinnemIntroduction to Risk Analysis, in "Risk and Reliability in Marine Technology" (Editor C G Soares), Balkema, 1998.
VinnemOperational safety of FPSOs: Initial Summary report, HSE report OTO2000/086, 2001.
VinnemOperational safety of FPSOs: Shuttle tanker collision risk summary report, HSE RR113, 2003.
VinnemRisk Level Project, Annual Main and Summary reports, 2000-2010, Petroleum Safety Authority.

Papers in conference proceedings (1995- )

Vinnem et al. (1995)The Application of QRA for Offshore Installations in European Countries.
Presented at OMAE 1995, Copenhagen, June 1995.
Vinnem, Pedersen and Rosenthal (1996)Efficient Risk Management: Use of Computerized QRA Model for Safety Improvements to an Existing Installation.

Presented at SPE 3rd International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment, New Orleans, June, 1996.
Vinnem (1997)Environmental Risk Analysis of Near-Shore Wildcat Well; Approach to Rational Risk Acceptance Criteria.
Presented at UKOOA/SPE European Environmental Conference, Aberdeen 15-16.04 1997.
Vinnem (1997)FPSO Operational safety.
Presented to FPSO-Norge'97, Stavanger, 21-22.05 1997.
Vinnem (1997)On the Sensitivity of Offshore QRA Studies.
Presented at ESREL'97, Lisboa, 17-19.06 1997.
Vinnem (1997)Details of the Offshore QRA Sensitivity Studies.
Presented at ESREL'97, Lisboa, 17-19.06 1997.
Vinnem, Pappas and Cox (1997)Overview of the Need for Modelling Development in Offshore QRA Studies.
Presented at ESREL'97, Lisboa, 17-19.06 1997.
Vinnem (1998)Risk Analysis and Safety Systems, Are they affecting each other?
Presented at PDS workshop, Sintef, Trondheim, 01.04 1998.
Vinnem (1998)Use of Performance Indicators for Monitoring HSE operating achievement, ESREL'98, Trondheim, 16-19.06 1998.
Vinnem (1999)Risk Assessment of Offshore Platforms, keynote lecture at ESREL'99, Munich, October 1999.
Vinnem (2000)Perspective on Gas Explosions Risk Offshore; Low historic Gas Explosion Frequencies revealed in North Sea, SPE paper 61501.
Presented at the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Stavanger, 26-28.06 2000.
Vinnem (2000)Risk Monitoring for Major Hazards, SPE paper 61283.
Presented at the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Stavanger, 26-28.06 2000.
Vinnem, Hauge, Huglen, Kieran, Kirwan, Rettedal, Skåren and Thomas (2000)Systematic Analysis of Operational Safety of FPSOs Reveals Areas of Improvement, SPE paper 61175.
Presented at the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Stavanger, 26-28.06 2000.
Vinnem (2001)Use of Accident and Incident Data for Safety Optimisation.
Paper presented at ISOPE conference, Stavanger, June 2001.
Vinnem, Tveit, Aven and Ravnås (2002)Use of risk indicators to monitor trends in major hazard risk on a national level. Proceedings ESREL 2002.
Vinnem, Hokstad, Dammen, Saele, Chen, Haver, Kieran, Kleppestø and Thomas (2003)Operational safety analysis of FPSO - Shuttle tanker collision risk reveals areas of improvement.
Presented at Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 5-8.05 2003.
Vinnem, Aven, Sørum and Øien (2003)Structured Approach to Risk Indicators for major Hazards.
Presented at the ESREL 2003 conference, Maastrict, 16-18.06 2003.
Vinnem, Aven, Hundseid, Vassmyr, Vollen and Øien (2003)Risk assessment for offshore installations in the operational phase.
Presented at the ESREL 2003 conference, Maastrict, 16-18.06 2003.
Kierans, Vinnem, Bayly, Decosemaeker, Stemland and Eriksen (2004)Risk Assessment Of Platform Decommissioning And Removal.
Presented at SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, 29-31.03 2004, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Vinnem, Veire, Knudsen and Aven (2004)A method for developing and structuring risk activity indicators for major accidents.
Presented at PSAM7, Berlin, 14-18.06 2004.
Abrahamsen, Aven, Vinnem and Wiencke (2004)Safety management and the use of expected values. Presented at PSAM7, Berlin, 14-18.06 2004.
Vinnem, Aven, Hauge, Seljelid and Veire (2004)Integrated Barrier Analysis in Operational Risk Assessment in Offshore Petroleum Operations.
Presented at PSAM7, Berlin, 14-18.06 2004.
Aven, Røed and Vinnem (2005)A discussion of the IEC standards 61508 and 61511 in a risk management context. 16th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2005).
Aven, Vinnem, and Vollen (2005)Perspectives on risk acceptance criteria and management for offshore installations - application to a development project. 16th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2005).
Sklet, Aven, Hauge and Vinnem (2005)Incorporating human and organizational factors in risk analyses for offshore installations, 16th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2005).
Jødestøl, Fredheim, Hoell, Wakili, Vinnem, Myhrvold, Hasle and Ytterborg (2005)Achieving an industry standard in the assessment of environmental risk: Oil spill risk management and the mira method, 2005 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) 81-91
Vinnem (2006)On the analysis of operational barriers on offshore Petroleum installations.
Presented at PSAM8, New Orleans, 14-19.05 2006.
Vinnem, Aven, Seljelid, and Sklet, (2006)Integrated barrier analysis - a methodology to Reveal weaknesses in offshore petroleum operations.
Presented at PSAM8, New Orleans, 14-19.05 2006.
Vinnem, Husebø, Aven, Seljelid and Tveit (2006)Leading indicators for major hazard risk in offshore Petroleum operations.
Presented at PSAM8, New Orleans, 14-19.05 2006.
Vinnem, Kvitrud and Nilsen (2006)Quantitative Risk Analysis of Stability for Floating Offshore Installations.
Presented at ESREL2006, Estoril, 18-22.09 2006.
Vinnem and Ravdal (2006)Analysis of barrier indicators.
Presented at ESREL2006, Estoril, 18-22.09 2006.
Røed and Vinnem (2006)Safety barrier performance diagrams - a contribution to accident investigations.
Presented at ESREL2006, Estoril, 18-22.09 2006.
Røed and Vinnem (2006)Evaluation of accidents and incidents in the offshore oil and gas industry by use of Safety barrier performance diagrams.
Presented at ESREL2006, Estoril, 18-22.09 2006.
Vinnem, Witsø and Kristensen (2006)Use of ALARP evaluations and risk acceptance criteria for risk informed decision-making in the offshore petroleum industry.
Presented at ESREL2006, Estoril, 18-22.09 2006.
Vinnem, Seljelid, Aven and Sklet (2006)Analysis of barriers in operational risk assessment - a case study.
Presented at ESREL2006, Estoril, 18-22.09 2006.
Kvitrud, Nilsen, Næss, Dalsgaard and Vinnem (2006)In service experiences 1996-2005 in Norway, and risk analysis of anchoring systems.
Presented at ESREL2006, Estoril, 18-22.09 2006.
Vinnem et al. (2007)Operational Safety Condition - Concept Development.
Presented at ESREL2007, Stavanger, 25-27.09 2007.
Knudsen, Vinnem and Aven (2007)Methods to monitor risk for onshore petroleum plants.
Presented at ESREL2007, Stavanger, 25-27.06 2007.
Chen, Moan and Vinnem (2007)Safety of shuttle tanker offshore loading operations with emphasis on the human barrier.
Presented at ESREL2007, Stavanger, 25-27.06 2007.
Vinnem, Seljelid, Haugen, and Husebø (2007)Analysis of Hydrocarbon Leaks on Offshore Installations.
Presented at ESREL2007, Stavanger, 25-27.09 2007.
Vinnem, Seljelid, Haugen, Sklet and Aven (2007)Generalised Methodology for Operational Risk Analysis.
Presented at ESREL2007, Stavanger, 25-27.06 2007.
Vinnem (2008)Challenges in analysing offshore hazards of an operational nature.
Presented at PSAM9, Hong Kong, 18-23.05 2008.
Vinnem (2008)On the risk to personnel in the offshore industry.
Presented at PSAM9, Hong Kong, 18-23.05 2008.
Heide, Vinnem and Lambert (2008)Methods to Monitor the Risk of Electric Power Systems.
Presented at PSAM9, Hong Kong, 18-23.05 2008.
Vinnem (2008)On causes and dependencies of errors in human and organizational barriers against major accidents.
Presented at ESREL2008, Valencia, 22-25.09 2008.
Vinnem (2009)Risk indicators for major hazards on offshore installations.
Proceedings of the ASME 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 31 - June 5, 2009.
Skogdalen, Haugen, Heldal, Holo, Okstad and Vinnem (2009)Analysis of barriers in marine operations on offshore oil installations.
Proceedings of the ASME 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 31 - June 5, 2009.
Skogdalen and Vinnem (2009)Risk influencing factors related to evacuation from offshore installations.
Presented at ESREL2008, Valencia, 7-10 September, 2009.
Vinnem (2009)Analysis of risk indicators for major accidents on offshore installations.
Presented at ESREL2008, Valencia, 7-10 September, 2009.
Okstad, Sørli, Wagnild, Skogdalen, Haugen, Seljelid, Sklet and Vinnem (2009)Human and organizational factors effect on safety barriers in well operations.
Presented at IADC Drilling HSE Europe conference, Amsterdam, 23-24 September, 2009.
Skogdalen and Vinnem (2010)Risk influence factors related to helicopter operations in the North Sea.
Presented at PSAM10, Seattle, 7-11. June 2010.
Vinnem (2010)Major hazard indicators, status and future outlook.
Presented at ESREL2010, Rhodos, Greece, 5-9 September 2010.
Vinnem (2010)On the ethics of risk assessment.
Presented at ESREL2010, Rhodos, Greece, 5-9 September 2010.
Hestad, Kvaløy, Lilleheier and Vinnem (2010)Using mixed effects Poisson regression models to analyse incident data.
Presented at ESREL2010, Rhodos, Greece, 5-9 September 2010.
Nyheim, Gran, Pedersen, Seljelid, Vinnem and Vatn (2010)Use of Bayesian network for modeling Risk Indicator Factors.
Presented at ESREL2010, Rhodos, Greece, 5-9 September 2010.
Haugen, Vinnem & Seljelid (2011)Analysis of Causes of Hydrocarbon Leaks from Process Plants, presented at SPE European Health, Safety and Environmental Conference in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Vienna, Austria, 22–24 Februrary 2011
Vinnem, Wagnild & Heide (2011)New Approach to Risk Monitoring for Acute Environmental Spill to Sea on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, presented at SPE European Health, Safety and Environmental Conference in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production held in Vienna, Austria, 22–24 Februrary 2011
Gran, Nyheim, Seljelid & Vinnem (2011)A BBN risk modell of maintenance work on major process equipment on offshore petroleum installations, presented at ESREL2011, Troyes, France, 18–22 September, 2011
Vinnem (2012)On the analysis of hydrocarbon leaks from offshore installations in a work process context, presented at PSAM/11ESREL2012, Helsinki, Finland, 24-28.6.2012
Røed, Vinnem & Nistov (2012) Causes and Contributing Factors to Hydrocarbon Leaks on Norwegian Offshore Installations, SPE-156846, presented at SPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Perth, Australia, 11–13 September 2012.
Vinnem & Røed (2013) Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry Project to Reduce the Number of Hydrocarbon Leaks with emphasis on Operational Barriers Improvement, presented at SPE Europe HSE Conference and Exhibition, London, UK, 16–18 April 2013.
Vinnem (2013)Updated Requirements to Area Based Cooperation in Emergency Response Reflecting 10 Years of Norwegian Success, presented at SPE Europe HSE Conference and Exhibition, London, UK, 16–18 April 2013.