Virtual Reality Offshore Operations Training Infrastructure: Enhancing Expert Containment, Decision Making, and Risk Communications

Description: The project team plans to develop training modules to evaluate and strengthen workers’ decision-making skills by developing tools and modules that simulate loss of well control scenarios in the offshore oil and gas environment. These modules could enhance process safety in offshore oil and gas operations by helping operators, training organizations, and regulators assess and manage preventable risks related to human factors.

Funding Cycle: Safer Offshore Energy Systems 2
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Real-Time Eye-Tracking System to Evaluate and Enhance Situation Awareness and Process Safety in Drilling Operations. Paper presented at the IADC/SPE, Fort Worth, TX.

Enhancing Situation Awareness and Process Safety in Offshore Drilling Operations: Applications of Eye-Tracking system. Paper presented at the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston TX.

Integrating Human Factors into Petroleum Engineering’s Curriculum: Essential Training for Students. Society of Petroleum Engineers

Analysis of Eye Tracking Data to Measure Situational Awareness in Offshore Drilling Operations

Using Content Analysis through Simulation-Base Training for Offshore Drilling Operations: Implications for Process Safety

Developing a Cross-Disciplinary, Scenario-Based Training Approach Integrated with Eye Tracking Data Collection to Enhance Situational Awareness in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations