Offshore Risk Assessment vol 1. Principles, Modelling and Applicatio

Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas i

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Jan-Erik Vinnem

Offshore Risk Assessment vol 1 Principles, Modelling and Applications of QRA Studies Third Edition

Springer Series in Reliability Engineering

Series Editor Hoang Pham

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Jan-Erik Vinnem

Offshore Risk Assessment vol 1 Principles, Modelling and Applications of QRA Studies Third Edition

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Jan-Erik Vinnem The Faculty of Science and Technology University of Stavanger Stavanger Norway

ISSN 1614-7839 ISBN 978-1-4471-5206-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-5207-1

ISBN 978-1-4471-5207-1

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Preface to 3rd Edition

This is the third edition of the book; the first edition was published in 1999 and the second edition in 2007. The author has since then returned to an adjunct professorship at University of Stavanger, Norway, teaching a course in applied offshore risk assessment. Starting from January 2013, the author is also adjunct professor at NTNU, Trondheim in marine operational risk. The author has been involved in several signific