Oil & Gas Operations Blog
Practical guidance on permit to work, process safety management, joint integrity, and digital transformation for oil and gas and offshore energy operators — from the Elisian team.
Electrical Permit to Work: A Practical System Guide for Data Centres and Contractor Sites
Generic permit software treats electrical work as one hazard among many. Here's how to build an electrical permit to work system suited to real data centre risk.
Wind Turbines on Oil and Gas Platforms: What Integration Guidance Means for Control of Work
Adding wind turbines to an oil and gas platform, or co-locating a platform with a nearby offshore wind array, sounds like a straightforward energy transition story. In practice, it raises a set of control of work questions that most operators have not had to answer before. Two industries with differ...
Control of Work When Wind Meets Oil and Gas: The Operational Assurance Challenge Nobody Is Talking About
The integration of offshore wind generation into oil and gas facilities is one of the most significant operational changes the UKCS has undertaken in a generation. The safety case implications, the duty holder responsibilities, and the control of work challenges that come with it are only beginning to be understood — and the management systems on most assets were not designed for them.
Process Safety Management in Onshore Terminals: What Operators Get Wrong
Onshore terminals — gas processing facilities, pipeline terminals, and bulk liquid storage sites — operate under the same process safety obligations as offshore installations. The regulatory framework is equally demanding. The safety culture, in many cases, is not.
How Digital Permit to Work Reduces Insurance Risk in the Energy Sector
Insurers covering energy sector assets are asking harder questions about control of work than they were five years ago. The facilities that can demonstrate a robust, evidenced permit to work system are not just managing safety risk better — they are managing their insurance position better too.
What Is a Temporary Equipment Register — and Why Does Yours Probably Have Gaps?
Temporary equipment on an operating asset is one of the most consistently undermanaged areas of operational assurance. It arrives on site, gets deployed, and can remain in use — and in some cases in place — long beyond its approved period if the register is not actively managed.
What Is an Isolation Register — and Why Does It Matter?
An isolation register is one of the most important documents on any industrial site. It is also one of the most commonly misunderstood — treated as a record of what has been isolated rather than as an active control that governs whether people can work safely.
Contractor Safety Management on Complex Industrial Sites: Where the Gaps Are
Most serious incidents on industrial sites involve contractors. Not because contractors are less competent than direct employees, but because the systems designed to keep them safe often assume a level of integration and oversight that does not exist in practice.
What Is a Safety Critical Element — and How Should You Be Managing Them?
Every offshore installation and major hazard facility has safety critical elements — the physical barriers and systems that stand between a hazardous event and a major accident. Knowing what yours are is the starting point. Being able to demonstrate that they are performing to their required standard is what the regulator actually asks for.
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