S-OIL said on March 4 the company was building a global top-level digital-based safety management system by introducing the Process Safety & Operational Risk Management Solution (PSORMS).
PSORMS is one of the core solutions of the S-OIL Integrated Manufacturing Operation Management System (S-imoms) the refinery company has been implementing to maximize operational efficiency and make its plant in Onsan a smart plant, with the world’s top-level competitive edge.
S-OIL has successfully completed the first stage of the S-imoms , a project to digitalize the whole of the plant operation system, such as production, equipment, maintenance, inspection and safety and has launched the second stage project whose completion is slated for the first of 2026.
PSORMS’s first stage project was implemented in cooperation with DNV, a global leader in risk and safety management digital solutions.
It was put into operation in May 2024. It has reaped diverse achievements, such as creating a safe work environment, improved legal compliance and the systematic safety management of cooperative companies, and improved work efficiency using web and mobile devices.
S-OIL has been evaluated to have built a smart safety work system since it consists of an energy shutdown verification module for guarantying the safety of work environments, safety device and safety guarantee connectivity monitoring module, and Job Safety Analysis (JSA) modules for systematically managing the implementation of potential risk factors of each safety stage and safety measures.
In particular, the JSA module employes data learning, generative AI technologies, such as danger evaluation data of 2,800 standard work cases, past accident cases and death danger factors, enabling more precise danger evaluation and contributing to preventing safety accidents and improving of process safety.
From now on, S-OIL plans to spread AI technologies to other PSORMS modules.
The second stage project of the PSORMS consists of eight modules, such as change management, accident management, fair trade risk evaluation and emergency countermeasures and responses, and management of cooperative companies.
The second-stage project of the PSPRMS is being implemented based on the same platform in connectivity with the first-stage project, based on the platform “DNV Synergi Life.”
When the second-stage project of the PSORM is completed, S-OIL is expected to be equipped with digital-based process safety and operation risk management solutions with the world’s top level competitive edge.
An S-OIL official said, “The S-imoms PSORMS is a project to realize S-OIL’s safety management tenet through digital solutions, and we will build the world’s top level process safety and operation risk management systems through solutions harmonizing technology, safety and human beings.”
University students from Korea, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pose as they participated in the “Korean-Arabian Youth Exchange Program” that took place from Feb. 7 to Feb. 15.
S-OIL Supports Cultural Exchanges among Koreans and Arabs
S-OIL Science and Culture Foundation, established by the refinery company to foster gifted manpower in the pure science sector and offer academic research, is to hold the “Korean-Arabian Youth Exchange Program” from Feb. 7 to Feb. 15.
The event is designed to promote mutual understanding of each other’s culture and history through exchanges between Korea and Saudi Arabia and the growth of global leaders through expanding of global recognition.
Twelve university students of Saudi Arabia were invited for visiting Korea for nine days under the Korean-Arabian Youth Exchange Program.
Under this year’s program, 14 Korean students wanting to visit Arab countries with a keen interest in Arab culture are selected for visiting Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for nine days.
The selected Korean students are given the change to tour tourist stops in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Dubai and experience Arabian culture. They are to tour Prince Sultan University.
Riyadh and Ajman University of Ajman, the UAE, and take time to promote communications with local students.
A S-OIL official said, “Korean university students are expected to widen their understanding of Arabian districts and culture and grow into global leaders through the Korean-Arabian Youth Exchange Program, and S-OIL Science and Culture Foundation is hoped to serve as a pillar of Korean-Arabian culture exchanges.”
S-OIL Science and Culture Foundation has continued to implement projects to promote Korean-Arabian culture exchanges.
The foundation has given patronage to the Korean-Arabian Yuth Starup Idea contest and the Arabian Speech Contest on top of the Korean-Arabian Youth Exchange Program.
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