Offshore Process Safety

Volume editor:   Faisal Khan (Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety CenterArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering Texas A&M University College Station TX USA), Rouzbeh Abbassi (School of Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 151mm, 
Weight:   700g
ISBN:   9780128140277
ISBN 10:   0128140275
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   22 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Faisal Khan is a Chemical Engineering Professor and Director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center and the Ocean Energy Safety Institute, Texas A &M University. He is the founder of the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety Engineering (C-RISE), a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. His areas of research interest include offshore safety and risk engineering, inherent safety, risk management, and risk-based integrity assessment and management. Dr. Khan is actively involved with multinational oil and gas industries on the issue of safety and asset integrity. He also served as the Safety and Risk Advisor to the Government of Newfoundland, Canada. He continues to serve as a subject matter expert to many organizations including Lloyd’s Register EMEA, SBM Modco, Intecsea, Technip, and Qatar-gas. He served as a Visiting Professor of Offshore and Marine Engineering at Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Australia where he led the development of offshore safety and risk engineering group and the initiative of global engagements with many international institutions. He is the recipient of President Outstanding Research Award of 2012-13 at Memorial University, President Outstanding Research Supervision Award of 2013-14 at Memorial University, CSChE National Award on Process Safety Management of 2014, P, and Society of Petroleum Engineer award for his contribution to Health, Safety and Risk Engineering. He has authored over 500 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on safety, risk, and reliability engineering. He has authored five books on the subject area. He is the Editor of the Journal of Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Safety in Extreme Environment, and ASME Part A (Risk and Uncertainty Analysis). He regularly offers training program/workshop on safety and risk engineering in different places including St John’s, Chennai, Dubai, Beijing, Aberdeen, Cape Town, Doha and Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Rouzbeh Abbassi is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research at the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia. After completing his PhD from Memorial University (Canada) in 2010, he held postdoctoral fellow positions at Memorial University and Princeton University (USA), before serving as a senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania (Australia). Dr. Abbassi is founder and former discipline leader for the Bachelor of Civil Engineering program at Macquarie University. He is internationally recognized for his research in risk and safety engineering and its application to diverse energy operations, authoring over 200 papers in this field, with over 8,000 citations, and holds editorial roles with various journals. Throughout his career, he has led and contributed to various industry-based projects and notably spearheads Macquarie University's involvement in the $329M BlueEconomy CRC, which focuses on offshore renewable energy and aquaculture facilities.