No more North Sea helicopter flights in extreme conditions as CAA reveals safety measures
Major changes to offshore helicopter safety, including stopping flights in the most severe conditions, have been announced by air regulators.
Major changes to offshore helicopter safety, including stopping flights in the most severe conditions, have been announced by air regulators.
North Sea operator EnQuest has launched a new incident management tool aimed at improving safety on the UK continental shelf.
Detailed information about North Sea weather has been vital to the safety of offshore workers this winter, according to the Met Office.
Safe transfer firm Reflex Marine has launched its latest unit for allowing offshore workers to be moved safely.
The man who led the Piper Alpha disaster inquiry has backed a new conference in Aberdeen to help challenge risks caused by workers in the oil and gas industry.
A new report has warned that millions of tonnes of dangerous gas could spew from the North Sea if carbon capture technology goes wrong.
A Chevron worker remains unaccounted for this morning after a major gas well fire in Pennsylvania.
Exclusive: Oil giant Shell has been sanctioned by safety chiefs after corrosion on one of its oldest North Sea platforms led to a gas leak.
Air-worthiness reports for the helicopter involved in the 2009 North Sea Super Puma disaster do not have to be disclosed, the sheriff overseeing the fatal accident inquiry has ruled.
Industry body Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) says weather reports from more than 100 North Sea platforms are helping helicopter pilots to fly as safely as possible.
The 18th day of an inquiry into the 2009 North Sea Super Puma disaster focused on the doomed aircraft’s high-tech monitoring system.
A global energy healthcare specialist is set to open its first UK centre, after investing £200,000 in an Aberdeen clinic.
The Sellafield nuclear site is being operated at “reduced manning levels“ following “the detection of elevated levels of radioactivity”.
A man who escaped a fatal helicopter crash yesterday spoke for the first time about his ordeal.
Energy industry safety representatives are being given the chance to attend a major new conference for free after later this year.
The pilots of a Super Puma helicopter could do nothing to prevent it from crashing into the North Sea, an inquiry has heard.
The man who led the inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster is to deliver the keynote address at a new conference looking at the human risk factors affecting the oil and gas industry.
Union bosses have backed calls for a full public inquiry into North Sea helicopter safety amid fears that commercial factors influence whether a helicopter flies.
An air accidents investigator has said the reasons why a Super Puma helicopter’s gearbox suffered a “catastrophic” failure may never be known.
Relatives of a BP executive killed along with six Britons when terrorists laid siege to an Algerian gas plant hope an inquest will provide them with vital answers, their lawyers said.
Dozens of staff have been airlifted off the Buchan Alpha North Sea platform ahead of the latest round of North Sea storms.
Oil and gas firms must remain vigilant about the risk their activities pose to fisheries, a report says.
Helicopter pilots will accuse regulators today of failing to ensure adequate safety in the oil and gas industry.
A metal fragment found in the gearbox of the helicopter involved in the 2009 North Sea disaster a week before the tragedy was not the first, it has emerged.
A mobile application is looking to revolutionise the energy industry’s access to safety guidelines – by targeting the most popular mobile platform on the market.