Fire and Their Mitigation Efforts in Gas Processing Facilities

Many hazard identification and risk management techniques are used in chemical process industries (like HAZOP, QRA, PHA) at the design stage and in operational plants to ensure smooth and safe run of all plant operations and activities. The implementation of these techniques is robust, yet accidents happen in chemical process industry. The investigation of such accidents has shown that the active measures for prevention are inadequate and are often poorly designed. The purpose of this manuscript is to study a gas processing facility and identify the needs for such active measures which will act as first line of intervention to fire incidents, that will help in avoiding the escalation of small incident towards a catastrophic event.