Evergreening - Effectively Managing Plant Flare and Relief Systems to Prevent Unsafe Operations

Inadequate management systems can be the underlying cause for accidents on oil and gas facilities. An efficient management approach is a useful way to focus and adopt accident prevention activities.

Plant flare and relief system is a critical safety feature hence it is vital that it is efficiently managed and maintained throughout the operational lifecycle of a plant.

Evergreening is an element based integrated approach, which if adopted properly, deeply embeds management practices into a single, well-balanced process for managing flare and relief systems.

The main objective of the Evergreening Program at Saudi Aramco facilities is to efficiently manage the flare and relief system preventing unsafe operations. The program offers a framework for data and change management system which ensures that flare and relief data remains complete, accurate and up-to-date. Inaccurate data can result in safety and environmental consequences as well as impacts to business continuity and productivity. It is therefore paramount that data be treated as a vital resource and that systems are developed to keep it Evergreen.