Statoil Completes Gudrun Leak Investigation
,” said Bente Aleksandersen, senior vice president of the operations south cluster of Development and Production Norway. “The investigation gives us valuable information to learn from and it is our responsibility to use this information both in Statoil and towards the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSAN) and other players in the industry to prevent a recurrence of this type of incident. When the leak occurred, the emergency response system functioned as intended.”
BSEE Dir. Salerno to Address Offshore Technology Conference
; Rooms TBD Event #3 Who: Brian Salerno, BSEE Director Alfonso Zegbe, Agencia de Seguridad Energetica y Ambiental Anne Myhrvold, Petroleum Safety Authority Norway Marcelo Mafra Borges de Macedo, ANP What: OTC Panel Session – Operational Regulations in Deepwater after the Macondo Incident When: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.CDT Where: Offshore
PSA Audit of ConocoPhillips' Ekofisk Rig Safety in Order
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) informs that it has carried out an audit of ConocoPhillips which focused on the company's preparations and plans for permanent plugging and abandonment of the wells at Ekofisk 2/4 in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Objective PSA explains that the objective of the audit was to follow up the well-specific assessments used as a basis for planning of the plugging operations, identified challenges and the company's follow-up thereof, the siting of barriers and verification of risk assessments, competence and training. Result No non-conformities were
CIMC Raffles Starts Norway's Semisub Construction
design, will be capable of operating in water depths of 500 metres with drilling depth up to 8000 metres. Classed classification society DNV GL, the rig with DP3 system and a drilling package provided by NOV will be built to the Norsok standards, while meeting the requirement set by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway and the Norwegian Maritime Directorate. The unit, the sixth of its kind CIMC will have built for operation in Norway’s North Sea, is scheduled for delivery in 2016. Beacon Atlantic is the second GM4-D design semisub contracted by CIMC after the first unit, North Dragon,
Industry Targets Improved Offshore Leak Detection
Lundin, BP, ENI, Petrobras and GDF Suez Integrators: FMC Technologies Suppliers: NAXYS, Biota Guard, SonarDyne, VisSim, Stinger, Phase, Kongsberg, Norbit, Contros, Metas and KSAT Observers: Norwegian Oil & Gas, Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment and the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway
The Quest for Arctic O&G Standards
Improving and updating Arctic design standards for material, equipment and offshore structures for the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. Seventy representatives from seven countries met for two days in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador in early October 2013 to further the creation of standards for resource development in the Arctic. The countries represented included Canada, U.K., France, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, and Russian Federation. It was the third annual meeting of the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO’s) Technical Committee on
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