Petrochemical

Enterprise risk management

Because complexity, uncertainty and change are inherent to the petrochemicals sector, the risk profile of every enterprise is constantly evolving. DNV helps you identify, understand and manage each of the component risks, to maximise opportunities and avoid or mitigate losses.

SHE risk management

A new risk agenda is emerging for hazardous industries, as stakeholders' expectations regarding safety, health and the environment (SHE) management have increased. DNV helps customers manage their SHE risks throughout the life cycle of their petrochemical projects and operations.

Verification

DNV’s verification services provide expert assistance in planning, designing, building, operating as well as de-commissioning offshore constructions and plants.

Asset risk management

Managers constantly seek opportunities to improve operational results and control the associated asset risks. DNV works closely with clients to understand the unique characteristics of their operations and develop the best solutions for their assets.

Supporting software: Safeti

Using the Safeti framework, you can effectively manage your inspection and maintenance information.

Protecting people, plant and processes

The petrochemical industry faces the challenge of improving competitiveness whil also enhancing safety and environmental performance. DNV helps you build stakeholder trust and confidence by effectively managing the opportunities and risks related to these goals.

Protecting people

The petrochemical industry process materials that can be hazardous to human health and to the environment. DNV has a history of developing and applying tools and techniques for identifying, assessing and managing risks in hazardous industries.

Plant performance

Over the last decade, DNV has developed a unique methodology to forecast the long-term performance of complex assets. This methodology can be applied to a multitude of assets including petrochemical plants.

Improving processes

Petrochemicals operators face a range of risks far broader than health and safety incidents. DNV uses its proprietary technology, isrs7, to assess the effectiveness of the key business processes within an organisation, determine the overall health of the business, benchmark business processes against global best practices and develop improvement plans where required.

Clean Refinery of the Future

The clean refinery of the future application outlines how refineries and petrochemical plants of the future will be safe, reliable, efficient, green and profitable operations that are achieved through the application of an updated set of service offerings and technology tools that have been customized for a given plant

Process safety management

Effective management of process safety is a significant concern for the industry. DNV can help you address your specific needs when developing and implementing improvements to your process safety management system.

Hot topics

DNV position paper: Key aspects of an effective U.S. offshore safety regime

As a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out accident in the Gulf of Mexico, DNV has prepared a position paper highlighting the key aspects of an effective US offshore safety regime.

Clearing the smoke

The focus of safety management for many years has been on the prevention and mitigation of incidents. In this article we aim to highlight the importance of incident investigation techniques as a powerful management systems tool and how, through adaption, similar incident investigation techniques can be used for both occupational and process safety incident investigation, regardless of size or complexity.

2011-09-27DNV releases updated standard for offshore wind turbine structures

DNV’s recognized standard for design of offshore wind turbine structures has been through a revision process together with the wind energy industry. The updated standard which aims to reduce cost and increase safety is now available.

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