The document summarizes a webinar on taking responsibility for technology. It discusses three key points: 1. Technologists should accept responsibility for decisions that impact public safety and promptly disclose any risks. 2. They should be honest when stating claims or estimates based on data. 3. Improving understanding of technology, its appropriate applications, and potential consequences is important.

1. Taking Responsibility for Technology
November 8, 2012
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
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2. Don Shafer
CTO
Athens Group, LLC
dshafer@athensgroup.com
Hosted by:
Michael Milutis
Director of Marketing
Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI)
Michael_Milutis@compaid.com
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Athens Group provides independent, 3rd party technology
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and production systems. Our mission is to help operators,
drilling contractors and asset owners ensure safety, reduce
non-productive time (NPT), and safeguard the environment
over the entire asset lifecycle.
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8. Taking Responsibility for Technology
In our post-Macondo world, we all must understand the
technology we are building, implementing and using.
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9. “Controlling” Technology is NOT the point
The life raft was at a 45-degree angle to the water. There's something called a painter
line that these life rafts attach to the rigs. We had pulled all that tight. And no one had
ever cut it. So we're tied to the rig and we're dumping people out of the life raft.
Transocean has a no-knife policy. No pocketknives of any kind. No one had a knife to
cut this line.
Mike Williams, Chief ET, DWH
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10. Technologists need a Code of Ethics
We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the
quality of life throughout the world and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its
members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and
professional conduct and agree:
1.to accept responsibility in making decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the
public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;
2.to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected
parties when they do exist;
3.to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data;
4.to reject bribery in all its forms;
5.to improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential
consequences;
6.to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others
only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
7.to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and
to credit properly the contributions of others;
8.to treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or
national origin;
9.to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;
10.to assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in
following this code of ethics.
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11. Focus on three points:
We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the
quality of life throughout the world and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its
1. to accept responsibility in making decisions
members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and
professional conduct and agree:
consistent with the safety, health and welfare of
1.to accept responsibility in making decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the
public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;
the public, and to disclose promptly factors that
2.to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected
parties when they do exist;
might endanger the public or the environment;
3.to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data;
4.to reject bribery in all its forms;
5.to improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential
consequences;
3. to be honest and realistic in stating claims or
6.to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others
only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
estimates based on available data;
7.to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and
to credit properly the contributions of others;
8.to treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or
national origin;
5. to improve the understanding of technology,
9.to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;
10.to assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in
its appropriate application, and potential
following this code of ethics.
consequences;
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12. August 1628
Vasa, the most lavishly
appointed and heavily armed
warship of its day, but one too
long and too tall for its beam
and ballast-a matchless array of
features on an unstable
platform. The standard stability
test of the day-30 sailors
running from side to side trying
to rock the boat-tilted the Vasa
perilously, the test was
canceled and the ship readied
for launch. Minutes after her
grand launching, with all
Stockholm watching, the Vasa
heeled, listed and sank, killing
about 50.
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13. December 1903
Burning of Chicago's Iroquois Theater - a supposedly
indestructible, up-to-the-minute design-in this case, a theater
advertised as "absolutely fireproof“ - killed 602 people, more
than twice the toll of "the Great Chicago Fire" 32 years earlier.
The Iroquois's owners acted with as much haste and hubris as
their Titanic counterparts, installing no firefighting equipment,
forgoing fire drills and opening before the sprinkler system was
ready. Instead, like so many others, they relied on a single
technological magic bullet: an asbestos curtain that would drop
down and shield the audience in the (rather common) event of a
backstage fire. An oil-painted backdrop brushed against a hot
calcium-arc spotlight and ignited. The asbestos curtain started
dropping on cue but caught on a stage light. Crew and cast
opened the stage door to flee, admitting a powerful gust that
sent fireballs shooting out over the unshielded audience.
Fleeing patrons either found the doors barred or could not turn
the newfangled latches on them.
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14. December 1903
Burning of Chicago's Iroquois Theater - a supposedly
indestructible, up-to-the-minute design-in this case, a theater
advertised as "absolutely fireproof“ - killed 602 people, more
than twice the toll of "the Great Chicago Fire" 32 years earlier.
The Iroquois's owners acted with as much haste and hubris as
their Titanic counterparts, installing no firefighting equipment,
forgoing fire drills and opening before the sprinkler system was
ready. Instead, like so many others, they relied on a single
technological magic bullet: an asbestos curtain that would drop
down and shield the audience in the (rather common) event of a
backstage fire. An oil-painted backdrop brushed against a hot
calcium-arc spotlight and ignited. The asbestos curtain started
dropping on cue but caught on a stage light. Crew and cast
opened the stage door to flee, admitting a powerful gust that
sent fireballs shooting out over the unshielded audience.
Fleeing patrons either found the doors barred or could not turn
the newfangled latches on them.
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15. July 1979
Atlantic Empress and Aegean
Captain, gigantic supertankers
collide off the island of Little
Tobago in the Caribbean Sea,
killing 26 crew members and
spilling 280,000 tons of crude oil
into the sea. At the time, it was
the worst oil-tanker accident in
history and remains one of the
very few times in history when
two oil tankers have collided.
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16. July 1981
On July 17, 1981, approximately
1,600 people gathered in the
Hyatt Regency Kansas City
atrium to participate in and watch
a dance competition. The fourth
floor walkway collapsed onto the
second floor and both walkways
then fell to the lobby floor below,
resulting in 114 deaths and 216
injuries. The basic problem was a
lack of proper communication,
failure to review the initial design
thoroughly, and failure to perform
basic calculations that would
have revealed its serious intrinsic
flaws — in particular, the doubling
of the load on the fourth-floor
beams.
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17. April 1986
Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant in
Ukraine that suffered a catastrophic
meltdown. On April 26, 1986, one of the
reactors underwent rapid overheating,
leading to a meltdown that released an
enormous cloud of radioactive fallout,
simultaneously endangering the lives of
hundreds of thousands of people in
surrounding areas. Since the disaster,
over 4,000 people have died due to
cancer from the radiation. As it stands
today, Chernobyl has a 17-mile radius
―Exclusion Zone‖ which is considered
too hazardous to live safely in. Scientists
estimate that Chernobyl will become fully
safe to inhabit – in 20,000 years.
Close but no cigar:
Three Mile Island
Hanford N-Reactor
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18. August 2007
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge
was an eight-lane, steel truss arch
bridge that carried Interstate 35W
across the Mississippi River in
Minneapolis. During the evening
rush hour on August 1, 2007, it
suddenly collapsed, killing 13
people and injuring 145. NTSB
found the primary cause was the
under-sized gusset plates.
Contributing to that error was the
fact that 2 inches of concrete were
added to the road surface over the
years, increasing the dead load by
20%. Also contributing was the
extraordinary weight of construction
equipment and material resting on
the bridge just above its weakest
point at the time of the collapse.
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19. October 2009
Husky Racer: Toppled Boxes Top Heavy Due to Software Glitch
Maersk Line – 18 Containers lost overboard
The preliminary examination of the
accident found that the inaccurate
container weights were on the loading
plan because of a system shortcoming
which did not update the operations
department when the shipper provided
more accurate contents details to the
carrier.
Maersk Line is running trials on an
upgraded software package that will
provide cargo planners with the declared
weights of the containers. This is
scheduled to be introduced in the first
weeks of January 2010.
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20. December 2009
A control system failure occurred on a large, off-shore
construction vessel. Two control units were restarted twice,
unsuccessfully. A blinking red lamp on the PLC indicated that a
memory reset was required, even though a memory reset had
NEVER been requested by control system diagnostics during
equipment operations. As soon as the hydraulic power packs
started, a loud bang was heard. A quadruple joint of pipe
dropped approximately one meter to the welding deck below.
A second quadruple joint of pipe in the pipe elevator was
released (all clamps opened and the hydraulic safety stop
swung away) and fell the full length of the tower, smashing
through a crowded access platform to the deck below.
Result
Eight personnel were injured - four fatally. All were located on
the access platform and several were thrown overboard by the
impact.
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21. IEEE Code of Ethics
We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the
quality of life throughout the world and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its
1. to accept responsibility in making decisions
members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and
professional conduct and agree:
consistent with the safety, health and welfare of
1.to accept responsibility in making decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the
public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;
2.to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected
the public, and to disclose promptly factors that
parties when they do exist;
3.to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data;
might endanger the public or the environment;
4.to reject bribery in all its forms;
5.to improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential
consequences;
6.to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others
3. to be honest and realistic in stating claims or
only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
7.to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and
to credit properly the contributions of others;
estimates based on available data;
8.to treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or
national origin;
9.to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;
10.to assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in
following this code of ethics.
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22. Opportunities LOST!
1. June 22, 2009 - Mark E. Hafle, a senior drilling engineer at BP, warns that the metal casing for
the blowout preventer might collapse under high pressure.
2. March 2010 - An accident damages a gasket on the blowout preventer on the rig.
3. April 1 - Halliburton employee Marvin Volek warns that BP's use of cement "was against our
best practices.―
4. April 6 - MMS issues permit to BP for the well with the notation, "Exercise caution while drilling
due to indications of shallow gas and possible water flow."
5. April 9 - BP drills last section with the wellbore 18,360 feet below sea level but the last 1,192
feet need casing. Halliburton recommends liner/tieback casing that will provide 4 redundant
barriers to flow. BP chooses to do a single liner with fewer barriers that is faster to install and
cheaper ($7 to $10 million).
6. April 15 - Morel informs Halliburton executive Jesse Gagliano that they plan to use 6
centralizers. Gagliano says they should use 21.
7. April 15 - Gagliano also recommends to circulate the drilling mud from the bottom of the well all
the way up to the surface to remove air pockets and debris which can contaminate the cement,
saying in an email, at "least circulate one bottoms up on the well before doing a cement job."
Despite this recommendation, BP cycles only 261 barrels (41.5 m 3) of mud, a fraction of the
total mud used in the well.
8. April 17 - Gagliano now reports that using only 6 centralizers "would likely produce channeling
and a failure of the cement job."
9. April 18 - Gagliano's report says "well is considered to have a severe gas flow problem."
10. April 20 -7 am - BP cancels a recommended cement bond log test.
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23. IEEE Code of Ethics
We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the
1. to accept responsibility in making decisions
quality of life throughout the world and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its
members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and
consistent with the safety, health and welfare of
professional conduct and agree:
1.to accept responsibility in making decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the
the public, and to disclose promptly factors that
public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;
2.to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected
might endanger the public or the environment;
parties when they do exist;
3.to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data;
4.to reject bribery in all its forms;
5.to improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential
3. to be honest and realistic in stating claims or
consequences;
6.to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others
estimates based on available data;
only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
7.to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and
to credit properly the contributions of others;
8.to treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or
national origin;
9.to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;
5. to improve the understanding of technology,
10.to assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in
following this code of ethics.
its appropriate application, and potential
consequences;
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24. Don Shafer, CSDP
Chief Technology and Safety Officer
Athens Group, Inc.
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28. Don Shafer
CTO
Athens Group, LLC
dshafer@athensgroup.com
Hosted by:
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Director of Marketing
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Michael_Milutis@compaid.com
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