 | Applied Operational Excellence for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries Applied Operational Excellence for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries offers a straightforward practical guide for oil and gas companies to understand the comparisons and contrasts between various types of safety management processes, including the standardized structure and ongoing extended benefits that operational excellence can bring to an oil and gas company. The goal of achieving operational excellence is to reduce costs, improve productivity, and enhance efficiency--in other words, operational excellence contributes to the bottom line. Following along with pre-built success in the process industries, many companies in the oil and gas industry appear to use a subset form of operational excellence, yet many are unsure or unaware of all the safety system components that will truly benefit the company holistically, and current literature is only applicable to the process and manufacturing industries. Packed with clear objectives and tools, structure guidelines specific to oil and gas, and guidance for how to imbed your existing safety program under the operational excellence umbrella known as "One-Step Merger," this book will help you establish an overall safety culture vision and challenge your organization to achieve higher levels of safety management and overall company value. Dennis P. Nolan, PE, PhD is currently a Loss Prevention Manager and Chief Fire Prevention Engineer. For over forty years, Dr. Nolan has devoted his career to risk engineering, fire protection engineering, loss prevention engineering, and systems safety engineering. Previously, he has worked for multiple companies including Boeing, Lockheed, Marathon Oil Corporation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, and NASA. He is the author of five other successful engineering titles, all published by Elsevier. He earned a PhD in Business Administration from Berne University, an MA in Systems Management from the Florida Institute of Technology, and a BA in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland. He is a US registered professional engineer in fire protection engineering in the state of California. Dr. Nolan has received numerous safety awards and is actively involved in many associations, including the American Society of Safety Engineers, Society of Petroleum Engineers, and National Society of Professional Engineers. Eric T. Anderson has nearly thirty years of experience in oil, gas, and petrochemical industries, with expertise in the areas of fir, health, safety, environment, and security support function. Eric now supports operational excellence adoption programs for current and past employers. He earned his BA at the University of Wisconsin and his MA at the University of Minnesota, both in Safety/Industrial Hygiene with postgraduate studies focusing on Finance Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
