Educational seminar on oil- and gas fires – frontline knowledge on experience and calculation tools

SINTEF NBL as, Scandpower and ComputIT invites to a 2-day educational seminar on frontline knowledge on the prediction of the characteristics of oil- and gas fires.  The seminar  will include demonstration of a full-scale fire at the SINTEF NBLs test site at Tiller, Trondheim, where the participant will see, hear, feel and smell the effect of an oil fire with a release rate of about 3 kg/s (Approximately 120 MW).

Time and venue:  27 - 28 September 2011, Trondheim

Target group: Engineers in oil companies, consultancy companies, and others using or commissioning   calculation tools for fires hazard.  Safety personnel dealing with fire hazard qualitatively or quantitatively. Producers and suppliers of equipment who needs documentation of properties in fire.

Scope: Participants will get insight into possibilities and limitations of existing calculation tools, and will get experts’ view on how to use such tools in hazard analysis and in engineering projects.

Lecturers: Experts from SINTEF NBL as, Scandpower and ComputIT, experienced in fire testing, risk analysis and applied fire calculations.

The number of participants will be limited to optimize the benefit for each participant.

A certificate will be issued to document the participation.