President Yang Su-yeong of Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) makes an inspection into underground stockpile facilities.

Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) has achieved the feat of logging disaster free facilities about 22 times longer than the stated goal at its underground and ground petroleum stockpiling facilities, the corporation said on July 1.

KNOC’s stockpiling facilities in Geojae are capable of storing 47.5 million barrels of crude oil. The corporation launched a disaster-free campaign on June, 16, 1995, and 9,126 days have passed as of June 9 since then, achieving the feat of logging disaster free facilities about 22 times longer than its goal of making its facilities disaster-free.

The feat is owed to KNOC labor and management’s joint efforts - taking preemptive steps to eliminate dangerous causes on a monthly safety inspection day, conducting periodic crisis response preparedness drills and danger evaluations, and having established awareness toward safety through outside and in-house safety educational programs, KNOC said.

KNOC has also systematically managed harmful danger factors by establishing the process safety management (PSM) and the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) 18001 and ISO 14001 regimes.

A KNOC official said, “The Geojae stockpile site’s achieving 22 times more than its disaster-free goal is attributable to all KNOC executives and staff members’ joint efforts to establish safety awareness with priority focus on safety.”

KNOC plans to make its utmost efforts to make sites disaster free to correspond to public trust, the official said.

Participants of a seminar organized by KNOC pose in front of KNOC’s publicity booth. (Photos: KNOC)

 
KNOC Shares Petroleum E&D Technology & Site Experiences at Seminar

KNOC participated in the 114th spring seminar hosted by the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers held at the Gyeongju Hwabaek International Convention Center on June 25 to share its site expertise and publicize its projects to support the general public.

Baek Oh-kyu, head of KNOC’s division, delivered a commemorative speech in which he stressed the overcoming of a crisis and hardships of the natural resources exploration & development, buffeted by the COVID-19 pandemic, through aggressive exchanges among industry, academia and research circles.

During the seminar, experts at each field presented research outcomes based on machine-learning petroleum E&D technologies using big data and site experiences.

KNOC revealed to the private sector data on petroleum E&D, now under way, opened a publicity hall on the provision of oil field test-beds and shared materials and oil fields, acquired by KNOC, with industry, academia and research circles.

KNOC has established technology material database on Korean continental shelves since 2017. The corporation has expanded and established overseas petroleum development technology material database on a gradual basis.

Starting this year, executives and staff members of generally incorporated entities as well as undergraduate school and graduate school students are allowed to use the materials by expanding the scope of beneficiaries.

KNOC is making efforts to create social values as a public entity specializing resources E&D by providing quality petroleum E&D development and testbeds.