Super Wednesday

Dear All,

We had a dropped coil tubing incident last week when , one of our Well Test Unit while  pulling out of hole the Coil Tubing to surface and when  20 m was  remaining to surface  the Coil Tubing  parted at surface between gooseneck and the coil tubing reel and fell in the no go zone where nobody was near and the remaining coil was still in injector head.

These incidents clearly demonstrate the  importance of having  effective zone management prevent injuries from these incidents.

Tubular handling remains our major source of dropped objects. Planning the job properly and ensuring the implementation of use of tubular handling checklist can help in reducing incidents from this activity. Kindly ensure to consider the following prior to commencing tubular  handling operations in your locations:

• Tubular handling checklist is used & handling equipment¿s are checked
• JSA is available and discussed thoroughly during TBT
• Operations are carried out by competent crew
• Effective zone management is respected and Hard barrier is exist
• Effective and continuous supervision of the task
• Always intervene and STOP  if things are not going according to plan

Kindly share the learning attached flashes with your crew.

Road Safety

Shell Development Oman, as operator of Block 10, would like to inform all road users in Block10 about its intention to reduce the speed limit from 80km/h to 60km/h to be effective on February 1, 2023, on all the graded roads in Block 10. In addition to Block 10 concession, the reduction will also include the road from Saih Rawl leading to Block 10 concession, per the below map.

Starting from 1st of February 2023, IVMS system will trigger overspeed violation if speed is above 60km/h in Block 10.

Learning From Assurance

This week¿s Learning From Assurance is on Road Safety and Load Restraints. Further assurance requirements can be obtained from IDEAL and the Level 3 Road Safety self-audit questionnaire.

To support the FLS with assurance checks and compliance with SP-2001, please find attached PWR 8.8.1 and a short summary below of the load restraint requirements from SP-2001;

Each site shall ensure the following;

1. Ensure the Contractor has a procedure to manage the restraining / securing loads
2. Perform a Gap Analysis against the requirements in SP-2001 and add to bridging document.
3. Transport Supervisor to physically check and verify the following;
   1. Suitable vehicle (size, road worthy, RAS, fixings)
   2. Load correctly positioned (balanced with centre of gravity)
   3. Load correctly restrained (locking / lashing rated WLL, correctly installed, ratchet binder)
   4. >13mm chains, straps >50mm and no damage, secured inboard of the rub rails, support points, lash angle
4. Driver shall inspect the load every 100km (50km on graded) or after harsh braking
5. Driver is responsible for his load. All liquid shall be transported in dedicated tanker (baffled) to prevent stability problems
6. Drive to the conditions of the road and complete daily inspection checklists.

The OPAL road safety standard is attached for your reference. All 7 books of standards can be found here. To reference PDO standards, use the following link SP-2001

To access more LFAs/PWRs from UWA activities please follow this link to UWD Knowledge Base  KB.

UWD HSE Website:

To download HSE alerts & other HSE  info please follow the below link and steps.                                                                                                                                                                                

PDO: http://sww16.corp.pdo.om/WEHSE/UserPages/HomePage.aspx

Contractors: https://web.pdo.co.om/WEHSE/UserPages/Login.aspx or scan the QR code (login id & password needed)