Proposal of a Warehousing Plan for BOP System Components Using the Soft DSR Approach
摘要
Blow-out preventer (BOP) reliability is of utmost importance to ensure that failures in operations do not lead to major accidents in oil and gas industry. It has been perceived that failures in BOP equipment might be related to components’ warehousing and storage, due to adverse conditions to which they are subjected. From a soft approach from Design Science Research (soft-DSR) based on Aerospace and Nuclear-electric Industry processes, this study aimed to elaborate and propose a warehousing plan for BOP components, covering cleaning, protection and packaging methods, as well as definitions of storage periods and conditions, addressed to the materials lifetime preservation in order to improve its reliability.