Performance of Safety and Pollution Control Devices in the Aftermath of Hurricane Andrew (Part of the Hurricane Andrew OCS Damage Assessment Program)

The goal of this project was to develop a reliability database that will increase the confidence in the methodology used to develop safety systems, thereby increase the safety of offshore developments. The basis of achieving the objectives of this work was to secure the support of operators associated with the Minerals Management Service to ease the gathering of data relating to the performance of safety and pollution control devices within the offshore environment. These data were collated into a computer database and used as input to the review of reliability assessment methodology and the performance of test case analysis.