The PSA (Petroleum Safety Authority Norway) has warned a man who fell overboard from a mobile drilling unit could have been killed.
The safety body has been investigating how a worker fell through a gap directly into the sea 13.5metres below from the drilling unit Scarabeo 8 in February this year.
The incident had occurred when subsea personnel were preparing to bring the blowout preventer (BOP) back into service after about four weeks of maintenance.
Two subsea engineers, who were working in the moonpool area at the time of the incident, entered the BOP carrier used to move he unit between the well centre and the parked position.
The PSA (Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority) has found a number of breaches after a lifeboat was unintentionally launched from the mobile unit Maersk Giant earlier this year.
The incident, in January, occurred during testing of the lifeboat systems.
An investigation by the PSA found if the boat had been released with workers in it, there could have been serious injuries caused or even fatalities.
The NSA said during testing, a lifeboat had descended to the sea, with efforts being made to activate the manual brake on the lifeboat winch.
Offshore giant Shell has been accused of breaking safety rules at its site at the huge St Fergus gas terminal.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued an improvement notice for the second time in just over a year after it emerged not enough was being done to prevent “major accidents” at the complex north of Peterhead.
The HSE accused Shell of failing to take “all measures necessary” to identify tasks which had the potential to cause a “critical” situation.
Pemex is trying to contain an oil spill which was punctured by thieves.
The Mexican state-owned company said the Gulf coast region of Tabasco has set up an emergency plan in order to supply drinking water to the capital of Villahermosa.
Workers were sent to the spill, which happened last week, as they made an attempt to limit any damage.
Four of the region's water treatment plants were shut down as a precaution.
An investigation has been launched after a worker was killed after a fire broke out in a refinery in east Siberia.
The incident happened on Friday at the facility, which is owned by Russian company Rosneft.
A spokesman for the company said the fire broke out shortly before 10am.
An oil worker has been taken to hospital from a North Sea platform after injuring his hand.
The man is understood to have crushed his hand in a door.
A helicopter will take the man - on a platform around 120 miles from Aberdeen - to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Oil workers who were freed after being abducted more than a month ago in Libya have returned home.
A foreign ministry spokeswoman said the Bangladeshi men had since rejoined their families in their village.
The men, Muhammad Helal Uddin, 46, and Muhammad Anowar Hossain, 39, said they were freed after their captors had confirmed they were both Muslims.
A plant in southeast China that produces a toxic chemical was rocked by its second explosion in 20 months, prompting a rescue operation by the nation’s army and reviving concerns about the safety of industrial projects.
The army deployed 118 soldiers and 25 specialized vehicles after the blast at the paraxylene-making Dragon Aromatics facility in Zhangzhou, People’s Liberation Daily reported on Weibo, a microblogging service.
Local residents have been transferred to four sites that are 18 kilometers (11 miles) away from the plant, the Beijing Times newspaper said.
Six people were hospitalized, and another 13 were treated for minor injuries, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
A search for three missing workers following a fire on a Pemex oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico is still underway.
The incident, which happened last Wednesday, killed four people and left dozens of other workers injured.
The state-owned company said repairs have begun to resume production at the facility while the search for the missing workers continues.
Pemex said it expects it will meet its output target of 646,000 barrels per day (bpd) for the region despite it being shut down on the platform following the fire.
A fire which broke out on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has now been put out.
Mexican state-owned Pemex said there were four fatalities on the Abkatun Permanente platform in the Bay of Campeche.
One of the workers was from Pemex, while another was a contractor working for services firm Cotemar.
Two others killed in the fire have yet to be identified.
The Mexican President has paid tribute to those killed by a fire on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
President Enrique Peña Nieto spoke just hours after the fire which has left four workers dead and dozens of people injured.
Around 300 workers had to be evacuated from the Pemex operated Abkatun Alpha platform in the Bay of Campeche earlier today.
An oil worker has died and more than a dozen others have been injured after a fire broke out on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
The incident happened on the Pemex operated Abkatun Alpha platform in the Bay of Campeche earlier today.
A spokeswoman for Pemex confirmed one person had been killed while 16 others had also been hurt.
Two of the workers are believed to be in a serious condition.
An energy industry safety group has moved to allay fears that offshore workers could be left stranded at sea if they don’t comply with new rules for helicopter flights.
In line with size restrictions that come into force today, passengers need to have had their shoulders measured so that they can be assigned a seat next to a window large enough for them to crawl through in the event of a ditching.
On Monday, an Aberdeen-based workplace healthcare provider, RPS, said workers whose measurements have not been recorded will be allocated an “extra broad” seat by default.
It went on to warn that unmeasured workers might find that there is not enough room for them, as there are a limited number of XBR seats on a helicopter.
BG Group has begun production once again from its Knarr field after it was shut down following a small fire.
The incident happened on March 24 when there was a small electrical fire in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning unit in a technical room on the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO).
A full investigation was started immediately and short term recommendations and a spokesman said the findings have been acted on and shared.
Total has evacuated all expatriate staff from Saana and Kharir in Yemen.
The French oil major said its operations on Yemen’s Block 10 have also been reduced , with gas production maintained only for local power generation and supply to nearby communities.
It comes after disruption in the region following an overnight military raid by Saudi-led forces against Houthi forces.
The Petroleum Safety Authority in Norway has started an investigation into a fire which broke out on the Petrojarl Knarr FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) vessel.
The incident halted production temporarily and happened only one week after it had begun.
An oil worker has passed away after becoming unwell at the Shetland Gas Plant (SGP).
An oil worker has passed away after becoming unwell at the Shetland Gas Plant (SGP).
The 61-year-old, who worked for services company Petrofac, said the man had become unwell on site and was taken to Bain Hospital in Lerwick before being transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
A Petrofac spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that a Shetland Gas Plant worker sadly passed away today (Thursday 26 March 2015).
An investigation has been launched by the Petroleum Safety Authority in Norway over an incident involving a dropped object on the West Venture drilling facility.
The incident happened earlier this week in the Norwegian North Sea.
There is an urgent need to cut the accident rate among helicopters working in the global oil and gas industry to at least the level of mainstream commercial airlines, an aviation “summit” in Canada has heard.
This was the core message of Mark Stevens, chairman of the aviation sub-committee at the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP), on day two of the 2015 CHC Safety & Quality Summit in Vancouver.
Mr Stevens said there were 406 helicopter and 71 fixed wing accidents over the period 1998-2014, killing 502 and 171 people respectively.
Production had to be halted temporarily from the Knarr oil field in the Norwegian North Sea after a small fire broke out.
The incident on the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) happened just over a week after production began.
Oil workers have been evacuated from a North Sea platform after a supply vessel crashed into it.
Production on the Apache-operated Forties Echo was also shut down following the incident at around 8.40am yesterday.
An Apache spokesman said 15 personnel were flown by helicopter to the nearby Forties Bravo as a precaution.
A further 15 workers remain on board the stricken platform.
There were no injuries as a result of the collision and no hydrocarbons leaked into the sea.
Offshore workers have undergone a sizeable change in body shape and build over the past 30 years –partly due to “comfort eating”.
Research by Robert Gordon University has concluded that offshore workers are an average 19% heavier than they were in 1985 – with significant growth in neck, chest, hip, waist and wrist sizes.
The bodies of nearly 600 offshore workers were scanned using a handheld 3D device for the research.
The employees were measured while waiting to be transported to the North Sea, with researchers also travelling to platforms for the work.
An Aberdeen safety culture training firm has launched a workshop course aimed at drill rig crews at a conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Optimus Seventh Generation has developed the ‘Operationalising the Safety Case’ workshop to raise awareness of major hazardous accidents and safety barriers designed to protect the rig.
E-learning firm Atlas Knowledge has extended its contract to deliver a newly revised offshore safety programme for a further seven years.
The Aberdeen firm will continue to deliver the Minimum Industry Safety Training (Mist) online programme, retaining its position as the only provider of Mist refresher training.
