THREAT PERCEPTION OF OIL AND

PETRO-CHEMICAL
INSTALLATIONS : FIRE AND PILFERAGE
 Relevance

CISF is guarding OIL and Petrochemical industry.

Hence we must know about this public sector

undertakings to impart our duties successfully.
 Competency

This topic will help the participants to

perform following roles.

To perform the Duties of shift IC

To perform the Duties of post

Commander

In-charge of survey security team

 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the session the participants will be
able to :
Elaborate vulnerable points of oil industries

Explain threat perception

Elaborate challenges of CISF

Describe what is pilferage

Explain rules to prevent fire in petrochemical plants

Explain general safety precautions

VULNERABLE POINTS OF OIL INDUSTRIES

OIL Wells

Pipe Lines

OCS

GCS

Refineries

LPG Bottling Plant

VULNERABLE POINTS OF OIL INDUSTRIES

Rail and Road Network

Power Supply System

Water Supply System

Electricity generating plants, transmission line and distribution

system.

Bottling/Chemical manufacturing plants

Machine shops.
 Pilferage Terrorist
Illegal Attacks
Interference

Sabotage

Challenges
Riots

to CISF
Demonstrations Bomb Threat

Fire Strikes
Espionage
 REINFORCEMENT

List out 04 vulnerable

points of OIL industry.

What are the challenges for

CISF at OIL industry?
 PILFERAGE

The act or practice of stealing small

quantities or articles.

The peon pilfered enough pieces of wood

from the factory to make a chair

Damage, pilferage and Spill
POINTS WHERE PILFERAGE CAN BE DONE

Oil production unit

Storage tanks

Pipelines in refinery

During transit or delivery line

Bottling/Chemical manufacturing plants

Machine shops
 LEARNING REINFORCEMENT

A person who is
How can the
driving a OIL
person delivering
tanker escaped
LPG cylinder to
with the vehicle.
your home
Do you think he
perform pilferage
perform pilferage.
PREVENTIVE MEASURE TO STOP PILFERAGE

Static duty at the point of loading and unloading points

Patrolling along side of pipe lines

Anti pilferage alarm systems in storage tanks

Surveillance by CCTV and Manpower

Checking of OIL tankers carrying OIL

Checking of quantity and quality at delivery station

 Exercise

You are deployed at ONGC refinery

and in-charge Gate -01.
AS WE KNOW PETROCHEMICALS ARE :

Highly Volatile

Highly
Inflammable

Highly
Hazardous

Highly Vulnerable
 The Petroleum Act 1934 and Rules 1976

Rule 29- Loading of containers- barrels, upwards.

Rule 31- prohibition of smoking, fires, lights.

Rule 117- precautions against fire:-

No smoking

No person shall carry matches, fuses or other appliance

No fire, furnace or other source of heat or light

Adequate number of portable fire extinguishes

THE PETROLEUM ACT 1934 AND RULES 1976

Rule118 Supervision of operations

Rule119 Cleanliness

Rule125 Protection against corrosion

 Learning Reinforcement

What do you What is

know about the supervision of
Petroleum Act operations
 GENERAL PRECAUTIONS

Use of fire
arrester is
compulsory by
all type of
vehicles inside
the plant
premises.
 GENERAL PRECAUTIONS

No
Electronic
items
allowed
inside plant
including cell
phones.
GENERAL PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT FIRE

Do not allow oiled rags

Control all hot works

Training on first aid fire fighting.

Any time a fire extinguisher is used, the fire station

should be informed for follow up action.
Learning Reinforcement

What are the precautions against fire in

OIL industries
 Summary

To day we discussed:

VULNERABLE POINTS OF OIL INDUSTRIES

THREAT PERCEPTION

CHALLENGES OF CISF

WHAT IS PILFERAGE

RULES TO PREVENT FIRE IN PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS

GENERAL SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

Any Question ?
 THREAT PERCEPTION
Sabotage
1. Enemy agent
2.Terrorists
3.Disgruntled employees
4.Subverted employees
5.Agitations
6.During strike
7.Mentally deranged persons.
8. Acts of sabotage committed by persons under the influence of
alcohol
 METHODS USED BY SABOTEURS
 Multiple separate fires in different places
 Trials between fires
 Candles
 Chemical
 Matches
 Flammable liquids
 Rags, crumpled paper, waste
 Gas and pilot lights
 Plants, timing devices
 Miscellaneous mechanical devices
 Electrical appliances.
 Reinforcement
 List out the threats to OIL and Petrochemical industries.
 What kind of methods can be use for sabotage in oil
industry?
 Describe the oil well and refinery?