Grant: Strategic Workshops Program

Offshore oil and gas, shipping and fishing companies need to know how their developments and operations can safely progress in harsh environments. This makes risk-based safety and integrity management a valuable and essential research area. The proposed two-day workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to share knowledge, and to identify and establish new collaborative research opportunities relevant to the challenges faced in safety and integrity management of natural resource developments in harsh and frontier areas. The workshop will provide the opportunity for academia and industry to exchange ideas on the challenges faced by those working in harsh environments, and to identify potential solutions, research priorities and funding opportunities. The workshop will focus on two important themes-safety and integrity-with a full day being devoted to each theme. Each theme/day will include a keynote speech, a plenary lecture and series of six technical presentations. Towards the end of each day, there will be panel discussions that will identify potential research directions and opportunities for collaborations between industry and academia. In particular, the workshop will allow researchers from the Safety and Risk Engineering Group at Memorial University to establish new research partnerships with industry.