2. Motivation
• Statoil is developing technology and operational procedures that allow the
company to operate in a susainable manner in the Arctic – which is a new
and exciting area with lots of potential.
• Two important factors will be key to get access to the Arctic; emergency response
and environmental issues. In this challenge we will address human safety.
• The escape, evacuation and rescue (EER) routines needs adaptation to arctic conditions,
e.g. ice, low temperatures, wind, waves and darkness.
• Arctic conditions can be punishing. We have to be prepared for challenges that
we have not been exposed to before.
Do you have an innovative idea to solve the EER challenge?
Think out of the box!
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3. Challenges
Successful solutions should take this into account:
The EER system should not pose a significant risk to personnel who may require
to use it, and have at least one available escape route from manned areas to designated
temporary refuge.
Escape
The escape route shall be safely located or otherwise protected. Either it’s a life boat
or temporary refuge: It should protect from scenarios including fire, gas, ice and waves,
slippery or blocked pathways.
Evacuation
There should be an available means of evacuation for all persons on board, and it should
be located such that it can be safely boarded. The evacuation process shall safely transport
people to safe distance from an emergency event, and shall provide critical protection
and life support until rescue and recovery can be performed.
Classification: Internal 2011-06-07 3-
4. Challenges
Successful solutions should take this into account:
Rescue
Rescue facilities should be provided in order to safely recover personnel from the sea or
evacuation craft and transport them to a place of safety with appropriate medical facilities.
The time and means to rescue should be sufficient to give a good prospect for survival for all
persons who have evacuated from the installation.
Both the evacuation and rescue solution should be prepared for different conditions: Open sea,
ice, waves, temperatures, wind, snow, darkness, how to stay dry, dehydration, timeframe and
general infrastructure.
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5. Challenge:
Design a Craft
How can we create a Craft that is able to move away
Q: from the installation when launched on water/ice?
General requirements is that the craft will be surface born, operating either
in or on the ice and water surface.
1. The craft must have the ability to transit 2. The evacuation system must be
away from the installation to an area suitable available to all persons on board the
for await rescue and recovery, say 500- installation in circumstances that
2000m. necessitate an evacuation. Use 150
people on board as an example,
and more than one evacuation unit can
be proposed (as for lifeboats today).
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6. 3. Flying evacuation craft have 4. Underwater evacuation is frequently
typically not made it past a blue-sky considered and rejected, from a
thinking and options analysis, psychological and cost perspective rather
typically due to size and limited than a technical one. Can you propose a
capacity. If you think it is possible solution that can overcome these
to overcome this obstacles please obstacles?
feel free to propose solutions.
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7. Challenge:
Design a launching
mechanism
Q: Is it possible to create a launching
mechanism which can handle arctic
conditions for this Craft?
1. Year-round means of 2. The launching 3. The evacuation system must
evacuation. This involves mechanism should be be able to launch an evacuation
both open water and waves able to operate with a craft and subsequently clear the
as well as ice floes and full tilt/list of at least 15 installation in reasonable
ice cover with rubles, not degrees. expected environment and
only flat ice. emergency scenarios without
harming the persons on board.
The launching mechanism must
make it possible to avoid the
zone where ice is breaking into
the installation.
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8. Challenge:
Rescue people from an evacuation Craft
Q: Do you know how to create a
mechanism to rescue people from an
evacuation Craft to a stand-by vessel,
a helicopter (if available) or other safe
haven places?
The evacuation craft must have the ability to protect
the people on board form environmental conditions
(low temperature, waves, icing etc.) and sustain life
while awaiting rescue and recovery.
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9. Challenge:
Evacuation free solutions
Q: Is it possible to create solutions that will NOT depend
on evacuation of people?
1. Evacuation free 2. A place provided where 3. Survivability requirement
installations can actually be personnel can take refuge for safety critical systems,
the solution with the highest for a predetermined period PS14:
success factor. ”Wait and whilst investigation, “Evacuation means and
burn out” are often enough emergency response and temporary refuges shall be
– but do we dare? And then: evacuation preparation designed and protected for
Do we need a backup are undertaken […] 30 minutes is regarded
solution? as a minimum for manned
installations”
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