Comparative Assessment of Process Safety Failure in Macondo and Bhopal

The study was to compare the assessment of process safety failures in Macondo and Bhopal explosion incidence in oil and gas companies. The survey method involves self-structure questionnaire, the population of the study consist of 4 major oil and gas companies in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. The instrument used for collection of data was structured questionnaire titled ¿Assessment of Macondo and Bhopal Explosion incidence (using ISC framework)¿ the instrument has a 43-items questions to obtained primary data. Secondary data was obtained using literature review of Macondo and Bhopal incidence. The Likert scale was used to accommodate all the research questions in the questionnaire. The result of the analysis was organized, summarized and presented using table, SPSS 2.0 was used in the analysis and reliability statistic. Analyses of data were done using mean, standard deviation, frequency and simple percentage. The sampling method used was the purposive sampling.