News Story】Safety is an eternal rule

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Forwarding safety story sharing------------------------------【News Story】Safety is an eternal rule 2018-03-07 Source: Sinopec News Network Over the past five years, the builders of the Fuling shale gas field have evolved from trial and error to developing five distinct technical systems and over a hundred technical standards specific to the development of shale gas in this area. Over the past five years, the Fuling shale gas field has produced more than 15 billion cubic meters of gas, supplying \"Fuling gas\" to over 70 large and medium-sized cities in 6 provinces and 2 municipalities, thus serving as an important resource foundation for Sinopec’s initiative to \"gasify the Yangtze River Economic Belt.\" All of this is made possible by the guarantee of safety measures! Over the past five years, the Fuling shale gas field has achieved the \"four zeros\" goal: no well blowouts, no industrial fires, no environmental pollution, and no reported safety or environmental incidents. In 2017, Fuling Shale Gas Company was awarded the honorary title of “Advanced Unit for Work Safety in Chongqing” on a five-year basis by the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security and the Chongqing Municipal Work Safety Supervision Bureau. Jiang Jianfei, the safety director of Fuling Shale Gas Company, said: Inherent safety starts with every employee. Our requirement is that everyone understands safety, talks about safety, values safety, and knows how to ensure safety. Keep the safety mantra in mind: “Safety is in your hands, safety is under your feet, safety is part of your life.” ”This slogan has been hung at the construction site ever since the ground construction work began at Jiaoye 66 gas collection station. Wu Qiang, the person in charge of the project construction, said, “Since I started working at the gas field, the phrase I hear most often every day is ‘production safety’!” ”Ground construction is the first project in the production development of a gas field. While implementing a construction supervision system, the Surface Engineering Project Department of Fuling Shale Gas Company also imposes strict requirements on contractors and subcontractors. It has established an integrity system for the entities involved in the project, put in place a blacklist system for such entities, and stepped up efforts to hold them accountable. Measures such as financial penalties and suspension of work are used to impose constraints on these entities. To strengthen personnel management, the project department established a working system featuring \"subcontract registration, construction with certified personnel, and on-site attendance tracking.\" It also set up a safety inspection system involving the constructor, the contractor, and the supervisor as a unified entity, implemented the \"one site, one permit, one responsible person\" system, and standardized the management of professional and labor subcontractors as well as the supervision of key areas and critical points at the construction site. During the slope stabilization work on Platform 88 at Jiaoye, inspections carried out by engineering quality supervisors and project managers revealed that the generators on site were not grounded, and the power lines were installed in the air without any wooden poles used for support. Immediate corrective actions were required of the construction party. In the assessment for that month, the Surface Engineering Project Department imposed further penalty points in accordance with the \"Fuling Shale Gas Company Contractor Quality Assessment Method\". “It may be a minor matter, but it cannot be tolerated; otherwise, it would be a dereliction of duty. ”The head of the ground engineering project department said. “\"Safety is of utmost importance, from start to finish; no aspect can be neglected,\" this is the requirement placed by the on-ground project department on all construction units and supervisors. To this end, the project department has established a commencement inspection system that compiles information on construction organization, plans, quality, safety, environmental protection, emergency response plans, as well as personnel, materials, and equipment into a confirmation \"menu\" for thorough inspection; work shall not commence unless all requirements are met. During construction, work on the next stage shall not proceed without the approval of the supervision personnel. At the same time, attention is paid to aspects such as employees’ work attitude, professional skills, operating procedures, and equipment maintenance, in order to improve the quality of the constructed project. Everyone is a “safety officer.” “Safety at the drilling site is no trivial matter; everyone is a safety officer and supervisor. Ensuring safety means managing people.” ”This is a phrase often said by the person in charge of the drilling project department at Fuling Shale Gas Company. During the early stages of gas field construction, a drilling team was carrying out lifting operations, and several workers were standing under the crane arm without wearing safety helmets. Fuling Shale Gas Company imposed disciplinary action in response to this incident, ordering the team to suspend operations for a week for rectification and imposing corresponding fines. After this incident became known, the safety awareness of all construction workers **increased**. Now, everyone shares the feeling that safety measures in gas fields are becoming increasingly strict, more meticulous, and of higher quality. Feng Yang, the site manager responsible for construction at the Jiaoye 82 drilling platform, said that the drilling site now operates under visual management and clean production practices. To enhance safety, we have defined job responsibilities for each position. In addition to their regular duties, team leaders are also responsible for organizing weekly training on well control and conducting thorough inspections of well control equipment ； The drill master must organize his crew to master actions such as the “four-seven” technique. In short, everyone bears the responsibility for safety. The drilling project department also frequently organizes the participating units to conduct periodic reviews of safety efforts, identify existing problems, and adopt a approach that involves identifying major risks, eliminating serious hazards, preventing major accidents, detecting minor issues, and putting an end to any lack of diligence, in order to continuously strengthen safety management. The head of the drilling project team explained that during drilling operations, it is necessary to identify any unconventional or high-risk tasks involved in the work on a daily basis. For each such unconventional or special task, a responsible person for risk management is assigned, and specific risk prevention measures are established to ensure that all risks are identified and that the corresponding preventive measures are properly implemented. The project department also conducts strict assessments of safety issues in accordance with the \"Fuling Shale Gas Company Contractor Quality Evaluation Methods\" and the \"Drilling Project Contract.\" Scores are assigned based on the severity and number of issues, and these scores are used as a basis for deductions from the payment for each well. The results of monthly assessments are taken into account in the annual evaluations; those with lower rankings face greater difficulties in winning bids, thereby effectively motivating construction units to improve their safety management. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward violations; in terms of safety work, we continue to uphold a strict approach without relaxation, and we make relentless efforts to ensure that responsibilities are fulfilled. ”The person in charge of the gas testing project team stated clearly. Fracturing operations are a typical \"multi-service\" operation. The site has teams for acidizing and fracturing, fluid preparation, perforation, coiled tubing, etc.; as a result, there are many devices on site, numerous construction teams, and numerous high-pressure risk points. The gas testing project department, on a monthly basis and based on the actual progress of construction, works together with the contractors to thoroughly identify potential risks at each stage of the work, formulates control measures, and then distributes these measures to the contractors for compliance. To address the problems related to the \"three excesses,\" the well testing project team adopts a three-pronged inspection approach that includes startup inspections, regular patrols, and specialized checks. It focuses on monitoring well control measures, fire safety, and high-pressure protection on site, and maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward outdated, faulty equipment as well as any leaks or losses. Not long ago, the project department once again organized safety managers from relevant company departments and five general contractors for gas testing to form a joint inspection team. This team conducted HSE cross-inspections on six gas testing and fracturing platforms, including the Jiaoye 190 platform that was under construction. The contractors were required to, based on identifying each other’s shortcomings, share their advanced safety and environmental management practices, working together to improve the level of safety and environmental management in these gas testing projects. For the identified safety hazards, solutions and deadlines were proposed; those that could be rectified immediately were addressed right away, while those that could not be fixed immediately were set a deadline for correction. In accordance with the \"Fuling Shale Gas Company Contractor Quality Assessment Methods\", the \"Gas Testing Project Quality Control Measures\", the \"Gas Testing Project Contract\", and the \"Gas Testing Project QHSE Notices\", the project team implements a monthly assessment system for contractors, issuing reports on the assessment results each month. These reports serve as the basis for deducting points under the team’s scoring system as well as for making deductions in the settlement for individual wells. To enhance safety measures, they developed the \"Guidelines for Emergency Response to Sudden Environmental Incidents\" and the \"Emergency Plan for Sudden Environmental Incidents\", and ensured that all employees of the construction company were aware of these documents. They also established clear requirements for safety training for the company’s employees, organizing two safety training sessions per month focusing on topics such as well control, fire protection, and joint emergency response at the site. In addition, a daily inspection checklist has been established for the key stages of construction, with responsibilities assigned to individual persons. Any signs of safety issues are addressed promptly to ensure that the construction quality meets the design requirements. By the end of 2017, the Fuling shale gas field had completed testing operations on 324 gas wells in total, with no safety or environmental incidents occurring. (Liu Dongya, Zhu Yilin)