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Applicable to all Oil & Gas Operators SAFETY CASE GUIDELINES FOR OIL AND GAS FACILITIES IN NIGERIA Code: DPR GUIDE 0036 – 2020 Revision Date: 2nd October 2020

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Applicable to all Oil & Gas Operators  
 
SAFETY CASE GUIDELINES FOR OIL AND GAS FACILITIES IN NIGERIA 
                Code: DPR GUIDE 0036 – 2020 
 
Revision Date: 2nd October 2020 
 
 
 
This is a property of the Department of Petroleum Resources. All rights reserved  
 
Figure 1: Types of Safety Cases 
Concept 
Front End 
Engineering 
Design (FEED) 
Detailed  
  Design/Fabrication 
Operations 
  Decommissioning 
         
 
 
 
 
 
*CSE 
Design Safety 
Case 
Operational Safety Case 
Decommissioning 
Safety Case 
 
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4   SAFETY CASE CONTENT 
(Applicable to Design, Operations and Decommissioning Safety Cases) 
A facility’s Safety Case shall evidentially describe and/or broadly demonstrate, at a minimum, the 
following: 
i. 
Introductory information  
ii. 
Signed Statement of Fitness 
                                                          
1 Concept Safety Evaluation (CSE) is the set of exercise(s)/assessment(s) carried out during the concept 
selection stage of a project to comparatively assess and analyse the HSE  risks associated with all the proposed 
facility development options, with the aim of providing safety risks and justifications for the selected concept 
option and then, demonstrate that the risk and safety considerations of the selected concept is ALARP.