The concept of crew emergency rescue and evacuation from offshore oil and gas facilities
The paper is devoted to the problems of crew emergency rescue and evacuation from offshore facilities, including the analysis of specific developments of life saving equipment used in case of accidents at offshore facilities in the arctic seas. The review of currently used life saving equipment resulted in a conclusion about the absence of emergency evacuation and rescue equipment to be used in case of fire and explosion onboard floating production units and oil and gas platforms operating in ice conditions. The paper presents the conceptual designs of launching device and emergency life saving equipment proposed for crew urgent evacuation. The main purpose of the investigations was to develop the prototype model of life saving equipment and determine the loads acting on crew during its launching in ice conditions based on model test results.