Oil & Gas Operations Blog
Practical guidance on permit to work, process safety management, joint integrity, and digital transformation for oil and gas and offshore energy operators — from the Elisian team.
Process Safety Management in Onshore Terminals: What Operators Get Wrong
Onshore terminals — gas processing facilities, pipeline terminals, and bulk liquid storage sites — operate under the same process safety obligations as offshore installations. The regulatory framework is equally demanding. The safety culture, in many cases, is not.
How Digital Permit to Work Reduces Insurance Risk in the Energy Sector
Insurers covering energy sector assets are asking harder questions about control of work than they were five years ago. The facilities that can demonstrate a robust, evidenced permit to work system are not just managing safety risk better — they are managing their insurance position better too.
What Is a Temporary Equipment Register — and Why Does Yours Probably Have Gaps?
Temporary equipment on an operating asset is one of the most consistently undermanaged areas of operational assurance. It arrives on site, gets deployed, and can remain in use — and in some cases in place — long beyond its approved period if the register is not actively managed.
What Is an Isolation Register — and Why Does It Matter?
An isolation register is one of the most important documents on any industrial site. It is also one of the most commonly misunderstood — treated as a record of what has been isolated rather than as an active control that governs whether people can work safely.
Contractor Safety Management on Complex Industrial Sites: Where the Gaps Are
Most serious incidents on industrial sites involve contractors. Not because contractors are less competent than direct employees, but because the systems designed to keep them safe often assume a level of integration and oversight that does not exist in practice.
What Is a Safety Critical Element — and How Should You Be Managing Them?
Every offshore installation and major hazard facility has safety critical elements — the physical barriers and systems that stand between a hazardous event and a major accident. Knowing what yours are is the starting point. Being able to demonstrate that they are performing to their required standard is what the regulator actually asks for.
Lone Worker Safety in the Energy Sector: Where Permit to Work and Operational Assurance Must Work Together
Working alone in an industrial environment is not inherently prohibited under UK law — but it carries obligations that many energy sector operators are not fully meeting. When something goes wrong with a lone worker, the question is never whether a policy existed. It is whether the system around that worker actually kept them safe.
Shift Handover Best Practices for Offshore Operations
More incidents in offshore operations occur in the first two hours of a shift than at any other point in the working day. The reason is almost always the same: the incoming team did not have an accurate picture of what the outgoing team left behind.
The Hidden Cost of Paper-Based Permit to Work Systems
Paper-based permit to work systems are not free. They carry costs that rarely appear in a budget line — until an incident, an audit finding, or a near-miss makes them visible all at once.
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