Resilience Abilities In Recent Blowouts In The Petroleum Industry

Resilient abilities among actors in complex collaboration make it possible to succeed drilling wells in complicated reservoirs. However, the last decade has shown that drilling operations can lead to disastrous outcomes. In a resilience engineering perspective we study the blowouts at Deepwater Horizon and Snorre A, to see how poor resilient abilities contributed to the incidents. The study show that combinations of poor resilient abilities contributed to both incidents. Abilities to anticipate what can go wrong and abilities to monitor what is going on in present time have in particular been inadequate. Poor planning processes and communication among involved actors in particular impacted resilience