ABM Forprosjekt

The Preproject will design and prepare a subsequent main project tentatively named ?Autonomous Barrier Management (ABM)?. As a preliminary formulation, the purpose of the main project will be: Develop a framework for embedding autonomy in safety function s of subsea well intervention systems, and build a demonstrator for a specific wellhead protection system to verify that autonomy can improve its ability to detect, prevent and limit major accidents. Recent large accidents and incidents both internationa lly (e.g. Deepwater Horizon) and on the Norwegian Continental Shelf show how current safety systems in the petroleum industry may fail to protect personnel, environment and property from serious harm. One notable common cause is the inability of human dec ision makers to act correctly and timely in stressful and time-critical situations. The underlying idea of the ABM proposal is to verify if carefully delimited deployment of autonomy in safety systems can improve their ability to detect, prevent and lim it major accidents. Autonomy is the ability of a system to manage goals, make decisions and carry out actions without human intervention. Autonomous shutdown system can take over decision making upon detection of a harmful well event and initiate and cont rol a shutdown sequence.