New tools, old tasks : safety implications of new technologies and work processes for integrated operations in the petroleum industry / by Torgeir K. Haavik.

"New Tools, Old Tasks explores how Integrated Operations (IO) will influence the safety of offshore drilling operations. The book is based on several years of practical experience combined with a research study on the safety of IO within the drilling domain. The book explores how safety can be understood in the change process of Integrated Operations, and provides recommendations for how IO may be developed and implemented in a way that will benefit both safety and efficiency"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Drilling in action: two short stories -- A brief introduction to integrated operations -- Drilling for oil and gas -- Safety of sociotechnical systems and sociotechnical work -- Methodological themes -- Integrated drilling operations as sociotechnical systems -- Articulation work: revisiting the case of mud losses -- Chasing shared understanding: revisiting the case of divergent depth measurements -- Challenging controversies : a prospective analysis of the implications of integrated operations -- New tools, old tasks. discussion and conclusions.

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