A special commission has been set up by Azerbaijan’s state owned oil company SOCAR, after three workers were killed in an accident at an oil and gas platform in the Caspian Sea. A statement from SOCAR said structures had collapsed during repair works after a wagon-house fell into the sea and caused a fire.
A helicopter with seven people on board was forced to make an emergency landing in Shetland yesterday. A full scale emergency was declared at Sumburgh Airport, and the emergency services were called to the busy airport.
Nigeria is free of Ebola, the World Health Organisation declared - a rare victory in the months-long battle against the fatal disease.
A rig owned by Norwegian driller Songa offshore has suffered failure on one of its four engines, while undergoing survey work in Scotland.
North Sea oil workers who have returned from a country affected by the deadly Ebola virus have been advised to stay away from UK offshore installations for at least 21 days, according to new industry guidelines.
A marine intelligence company said piracy in the waters around South East Asia could rise within the coming months.
Oil workers are set to return to a North Sea platform evacuated after a cargo vessel carrying cargo waste began drifting towards it. The Denmark-registered Parida, which was carrying a cargo of radioactive waste from Scrabster to Antwerp, lost engine power after a fire broke out in one of her funnels at about 8pm on Monday.
Calls have been made for a safety review after a blaze on a cargo ship carrying radioactive waste forced the evacuation of a North Sea oil platform. The Danish ship, MV Parida, suffered a fire in one of its funnels on Tuesday evening and the crew shut down the engines as they tried to carry out repairs.
Oil workers had to be evacuated from a platform in the North Sea after a cargo vessel carrying radioactive waste began drifting towards it. The Denmark-registered Parida, which was carrying a cargo of radioactive concrete waste from Scrabster to Antwerp, lost engine power after a fire broke out in one of her funnels at about 8pm on Monday.
The cost for operators to decommission rigs in the North Sea is expected to cost around £10 billion in the next eight years. Acteon company, Claxton, has created an infographic showing all the costs involved with decommissioning in the region.
HeliOffshore, a global safety-focused organisation formed by major providers of offshore helicopter transportation, has gone live and will be formally launched this month.
Women account for less than 10% of the engineering workforce in the UK, research has shown. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found 16 was the critical age at which females were lost to a potential career in the sector.
A fire at an offshore natural gas platform which forced four people on board to be evacuated has been extinguished by firefighters. The Baker platform in Alaska is operated by Houston-based Hilcorp Energy and a no-fly zone of two miles was put in place.
We’ve all seen horrific photos of people going around, through or under barriers at railway crossings and just making it across the track before a train comes thundering through. They are extreme examples of how we all take risks to save a few precious minutes.
A quality solutions provider has teamed up with an Aberdeen-based extreme sports centre to provide training for the oil and gas industry.
A man who contracted Ebola in Nigeria evaded surveillance and infected a doctor who later died, health authorities say.
Scotland’s top prosecutor has made a landmark legal move to access the black box recorder from a Super Puma which crashed last August killing four oil workers on board.
Norwegian offshore service firm SH Group is opening a new business unit in Sandnes to address the planned change in Norway’s safety regulations.
The new Category A emergency breathing system (CA-EBS) has been donned for the first time by a group of offshore workers flying out to North Sea installations.
Independent oil producer EnQuest has achieved a major safety milestone after recording a total of 11 years without a lost time incident (LTI) across three of its North Sea producing assets.
A call was today made for oil and gas companies to play a more active role in the fight against HIV.
As part of Energy Voice’s series examining the monumental transformation the offshore helicopter industry is undergoing, The Press and Journal’s energy editor Jeremy Cresswell took a dive to give his own verdict.
Oil firms were last night withdrawing staff from Nigeria and Liberia after the World Health Organisation declared the Ebola outbreak to be an international public health emergency.
New European laws will have a “detrimental impact" on safety standards in the UK offshore oil and gas industry, an industry lawyer has warned.
Oil and gas industry skills body Opito has announced changes to its underwater safety training for the Gulf of Mexico offshore workforce.