RIASSUNTO
Abstract
ENI-Agip Division is actively working to develop processes increasingly compatible with the environment and health and safety principles, aiming at the best care of HSE aspects for all company's activities.
The effort expended to continually improve prevention and protection systems is considerable. At present, Agip Division is actively involved in projects with universities and research institutes as well as associations representing oil companies, as shown by the large number and high level of ongoing innovative and R&D projects.
A lot of activity concerns ongoing scientific research projects focused on management of consequences arising from environmental emergencies, definition of monitoring and techniques management systems for clean-up activities, coupling and uncoupling problems related to subsidence modeling and forecasting, etc. Also, the evaluation of accidental consequences after fire, explosion and blowout events is being actively followed. The same approach is adopted in the corrosion management where a combination of the estimated likelihood of failure due to corrosion and the consequence of this failure is assumed to define the level of risk.
The paper deals with all the innovative projects presently ongoing and intended to significantly improve Agip's HSE performance in the near future.
Introduction
ENI Agip Division confirmed its commitment with regard to health, safety and environment, by ensuring that performance was monitored continuously and that HSE issues were kept under constant observation.
In every phases of its operating process, ENI Agip Division has identified specific objectives, in terms of health, safety and environment, and has developed technical solutions to limit the impact of its activities. This involves all operating areas: from exploration to development and from production to plant decommissioning.
In December 1998, ENI Agip Division has obtained ISO 14001 certification, by the Italian Shipping Registry, of its Environmental Management System for activities in Italy.
In 1999, ENI Agip Division drew up and issued a single policy statement on Health, Safety, Environment, Quality and Radiation Protection issues (HSE-QR).
This statement spells out the objectives that the Division undertakes to pursue in order to ensure the development and well being of its own human resources and the community at large. The Integrated HSE-QR Management System covers the Division's entire operating process and specifies the most appropriate instruments to protect the environment and the health and safety of employees, contractors and populations exposed to its activities.
The new integrated system has made it possible to highlight aspects connected with the prevention, reduction and elimination of quality deficiencies in processes, services and products.
On the basis of these agreements, ENI Agip Division is committed to pursuing specific objectives, including the participation in safety and environmental research projects.
ENI Agip Division's safety and environmental research effort is mainly directed at the projects that regard traditional research themes such as:
""Use of biomarkers in the ecotoxicological monitoring of the Val d'Agri Terminal area"", a project concerning activities in the Agri Valley, in Basilicata, coordinated by the University of Siena with the \participation of EniTecnologie.