Prerequisites of a NaTech event at a production gas well in Romania

This paper describes the need for NaTech risk approach in the extraction and transport activities involving potentially hazardous substances, such as natural gas. Considering the increasing trend in frquency of extreme natural phenomena, industrial facilities are becoming increasingly vulnerable. This makes the scientists focus on predicting such phenomena and on reducing the vulnerability of elements exposed to risk. There are many such international pursuits supporting the extended evaluation studies of NaTech risks, both during the activities performed on the industrial site but especially before their design. NaTech type events, already occuring in the natural gas extraction industry, are an undeniable argument in favour of repetition probability, especially in areas at risk to occurrence of natural phenomena (especially the instability of the land).