ORS Consulting

ORS Consulting

Highly-specialized risk and safety management consultancy.





Our core service areas

BOP Risk Mitigation Services, LLC, has combined resources with ORS Consultancy to provide our clients with more inclusive operational safety related services. These combined services better serve our clients need to optimize the safety and reliability of their operations, while reducing risk and costs with technical as well as technology based initiatives.


SIL and Reliability




• SIS Lifecycle Management

• Functional Safety Management Plan (FSMP)

• SIL Assessment and Allocation

• Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

• Safety Requirements Specification (SRS)

• SIL Verification Assessment

• Functional Safety Assessment (FSA)

• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

• Fault Tree Modelling

• Periodic Reliability Assessment (PRA)

• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM)





Technical Safety and Risk

• Technical Safety Engineering

• Escape, Evacuatoin and Rescue Analysis

• Fire and Explosion Strategy (FES)

• Safety Case

• Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA)

• Qualitative Risk Analysis

• Hazard Identification (HAZID)

• Consequence Modelling 

• Firewater Optimization Studies

• Process Safety Studies

• Hazard and Operability Studies

• Safe Operations (SAFOP)

• Simultaneous Operations (SIMOPS)





Barrier and Integrity Management

• Barrier analysis

• Development of Barrier Strategy

• Implementation of Barrier Management Systems

• Barrier Management Audits

• Integrated (Barrier) Design Reviews

• Bow-tie Analysis

• Safety (and Environmental) Critical Elements

• Performance standards

• Optimziation of test intervals

• Risk-based Maintenance



Highly specialized risk and safety advisory

Since their inception, ORS has been involved in hundreds of projects around the world. Their clients typically include asset-owners, engineering and construction companies, or system suppliers. We perform specialist studies, and independent 3rd party verifications by our contract subject matter experts. Our engagement varies from providing specific studies to delivering full-package risk and safety services for complex industrial development projects. A few examples are:

• Delivery of full-package risk and safety services for an offshore field development project in Mediterranean Sea, including deliverables related to HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, dropped object studies, EERA, dispersion studies, RAM analysis, active/passive fire protection studies, ENVID etc.

• Barrier and Integrity Management support for numerous subsea tie-back projects, primarily in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

• Long-term production assurance/RAM specialist support for a regional gas transportation network operator  

• Functional Safety and SIL Support for multiple asset / facility development projects in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, USA, Australia, Angola, Mexico, Angola, Singapore etc.

• Contracting Technical Safety and HSE resources for development projects, and operational support in multiple industries (petrochemicals, petroleum, offshore fish-farming, carbon-capture)

• Facilitation of specialist workshops (HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA, WHAT-IF, SAFOP, SIMOPS etc.) globally

• Extensive risk and safety studies involving design- and operations of subsea blowout preventers (BOP)