Oil and Gas Disasters and Industrial Hazards Associated with Drilling Operation: An Extensive Literature Review

This article focuses on the systematic literature review based on the life-threatening disasters and potential hazards associated with onshore and offshore oil and gas drilling operation around the globe in the last eighteen (18) years. Seventy-six relevant research articles have been reviewed in the first round of literature review based on oil and gas industries. Further, twenty-one articles have been considered which specifically related to oil and gas drilling operations from reputed and authentic databases. Whereas, thematic analysis and tabular representation approach has been used for the development of this review paper. According to the overall findings of this review paper, most of the incidents and fatalities have been recorded in Middle Eastern and South East Asian oil and gas drilling sites. Moreover, the drilling equipment maintenance operation was highly associated with health and safety risk factors at both drilling domains due to the lack of accident prevention. Furthermore, accidents due to fire explosion, blowout, uncontrolled well and helicopter and marine accidents were also higher at onshore and offshore sites which has been categorized as safety, chemical, ergonomic and environmental hazards.