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Plenary Lecture

Human Factors Approach in Drilling Rigs Monitoring and Personnel Training

Professor Sorin Dan Grigorescu
Department of Measurements, Electrical Apparatus and Static Converters
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University ‘Politehnica’ of Bucharest
Romania
E-mail: sorin.grigorescu@upb.ro

Abstract: Society rush for energy and information is common knowledge, but must be always room to organize this race especially when natively hazardous processes are on the way. The well known say “No chain is stronger than its weakest link” brings the idea, proven by experience, where human beings are involved, mistakes will be made. That suggests there is no place for low safety zones where dangers for human life and environment safety lies. Productive monitoring of drilling rigs for oil and gas, both for critical and auxiliary equipment, makes a delicate balance between efficiency and safety involving the human factors approach. All harsh environment around the inland and offshore drilling rigs, coming frequently with isolation and additional stress of permanent noise, work in shifts, midnight gas alarms and overall danger, stretches the operator’s behavior to limit. These make the human factors even more important for this kind of job where control and solutions are critical for safety of personal and protection of the environment, recent incidents in the offshore rigs proving there are no unnecessary measures taken for good control of the rig and human skills to handle it. Beyond the design of the monitoring system, the personnel training must reflect the importance and care for human factors. Taking the drilling rig monitoring as example, this lecture will present the aspects of human factors in human machine interface design for easy to grasp, easy to control, intuitive system and the modality to take all the benefit of it in the process of personnel training.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:Dr S. D. Grigorescu holds a degree in Electronics and telecommunication (1984) from the University ‘Politehnica’ of Bucharest (RO) and a PhD in Measurements for Electrical Engineering (1996) from the same university. He started as a scientific engineer at The Institute for Computer Science from Bucharest (1984-1990), and since 1990, he serves at the ‘Department of Measurements, Electrical Apparatus and Static Converters’ starting as Assistant , Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Professor (2000) and, since 2012, head of the department. He is specialized in Virtual Measurements and Measurement Systems and research interests include: sensors, distributed measurement systems, electrical metrology, signal processing, expert systems, monitoring of power plants and drilling rigs, smart grid and e-learning. He has 26 publications in ISI journals and conference proceedings and 13 patents. He is head of the research teams for several grants and industrial projects in the fields of instrumentation, power quality and integrated control of the drilling rigs.

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