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Welcome to Sutton Technical Books. We provide books, ebooks, checklists, webinars and seminars for managers,
engineers and executives in the process industries. Check us out by downloading a free copy of the ebook
Prestartup Safety Reviews (PSSR).
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Independent Third Party Auditors (I3Ps)
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One of the requirements of the proposed SEMS II rule is that companies operating
offshore will be required to use Independent Third Party Auditors (I3Ps).
If you would like to know more please review the
short article that we have written on this
topic.
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Peak Engineering Blog
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This post describes and analyzes the paper Nuclear
Energy and the Fossil Fuels presented by M. King Hubbert at the American
Petroleum Institute (API) in San Antonio, Texas in March 1956. Dr. King's paper
is of great importance because it provided the technical basis for the topic of
what later became known as "Peak Oil"; it also set the tone for the writings of
many later Peak Oil authors. (His paper can be downloaded as a .pdf file
here.)
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Dr. Hubbert's paper is in two parts. The first part analyzes the fossil fuel industry of his time (the early 1950s) and provides forecasts as to likely production rates over the next half
century. The second part of the paper is to do with the
transition that he expected to see from fossil fuels to electricity generated by nuclear power plants.
The first part, the analysis of the fossil fuel industry, was very insightful
and formed the basis of the forecasts he made with regard to the future
production of oil in the United States (he also predicted the timing of peak oil
production world-wide almost exactly, although his forecasts as to the
quantities of oil that would be produced were low, mostly because some major new
oil prospects had not yet been discovered in the 1950s.)
The second part of the paper, however, missed the mark. Although the nuclear power industry now constitutes an important part of
the overall energy mix, the optimism that Dr. Hubbert showed
regarding the transition from fossil to nuclear fuels has not
turned out to be justified.
Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
eBook
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The second edition of the ebook Incident Investigation and Root Cause
Analysis has been released.
It is priced at $39.50.
For more information please visit our
bookstore.
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Management of Change Ebook
The third edition of the ebook
Management of Change
is available. This
79 page ebook, which is priced at $39.95, is organized into five chapters:
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Management of Change
2. Types of Change
3. The Change Process
4. Change Forms
5.
Auditing Management of Change
Visit our
bookshop for more information, or learn more about the topic at our
MOC page. |
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eBook
SEMS-Plan B
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Our ebook SEMS-Plan B is now published. It is priced at $9.99, and can be ordered
here.
It will download as a .pdf file.
For more information about this ebook,
please visit our
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SEMS Success
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We have started a blog called "SEMS Success" at
semssuccess.wordpress.com.
Please feel free to comment on what we have written, or to add your own
material.
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Knols to Annotums
Google has announced that, effective April 2012, they will be discontinuing the
knol section of their business. Our knols have been transferred to a new Annotum
site suttonbooks.wordpress.com.
We're still trying to figure out what all this means. But, as far as we can
tell, the original knols are available at this new site (but the format has
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Book: Offshore Safety Management
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The book
Offshore Safety Management
has just been released. This 256 page book not only shows how to develop an
offshore safety management program, it also provides a detailed discussion on
how to develop and implement a SEMS program. To place your order please visit
the Elsevier
book store.
Individual chapters can be ordered as ebooks. |
The individual chapters are available in ebook form and are listed below.
sems.us.com
Please visit our new web site -
www.sems.us.com -
for information to do with the consulting and support services that we offer in
the SEMS (Safety and Environmental Management Systems) area.
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SEMS Seminar
We offer a two-day public seminar on SEMS. The next dates and locations are:
- March 19, New Orleans, LA
- April 30, 2012. Ventura, CA
- June 4, 2012. Washington, DC (area)
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For further information please check out
our
Seminars/Webinars page.
We also offer this course to clients in-house (we adjust the
content to address the client's specific needs).
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Book: Process Risk and Reliability Management
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Process Risk and Reliability Management, an 860 page book, was published in April 2010. Check out the book's
web page
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A summarized Table of Contents is provided below (the links are to
bookmarked chapter titles).
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Operational Integrity Management
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Culture and Employee Involvement
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Hazards Identification
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Consequence and Likelihood Analysis
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Technical Information and Industry Standards
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Asset Integrity
7. Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Analysis
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Operations, Maintenance and Safety
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Operating Procedures
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Training and Competence
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Emergency Management and Security
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Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
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Management of Change
14.
Audits and Assessments
15.
Process Safety Management Compliance
16.
Managing a Risk and Reliability Program
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