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Abstract

The present study aims to identify hazards and analyze work areas in the Siraf Gas Condensate Refinery using the HAZID method. The research method is descriptive-analytical. One of the needs of the operational safety report is to illustrate that the operation, construction, design, facility maintenance, storage equipment, and related infrastructure that could pose major accident hazards within the refinery are safe and reliable. Several new refineries are under construction in Europe. The chemical specifications of crude oil are not fixed. Globally, crude oil extracted often has high acidity, which significantly affects plant maintenance and quality control strategies, especially regarding corrosion. Additionally, temperature and operational capacity impact corrosion and other failure modes. Thus, the refinery operations challenge is to sustain existing refinery facilities (which are often aging) and productivity (possibly beyond their initial design life). This issue needs decisions regarding the continuous operational period (lifespan) of the refinery based on factory data obtained from review strategies (and today increasingly according to risk-based inspections in the UK)‎.

Keywords: Hazard Identification, Work area analysis, Gas Condensate Refinery, Refinery facilities