Video: Support for Step Change in Safety at Piper 25
The UK’s potential to become the safest oil and gas sector in the world is second to none, thanks to its unique safety partnership, a senior industry figure has claimed.
The UK’s potential to become the safest oil and gas sector in the world is second to none, thanks to its unique safety partnership, a senior industry figure has claimed.
A senior boss at BP told Piper 25 delegates about the root and branch changes the oil major had made in safety management since the 2010 Macondo disaster.
The man who led the inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster has told a conference looking at offshore safety that companies must view the bigger picture in protecting staff.
Changes to the structure of the Health and Safety Executive should have been communicated better, the organisation's chair has admitted.
As the Piper 25 conference gets underway in Aberdeen, we hear from key speakers addressing the improvement in offshore safety over the last quarter of a century.
[free] North Sea leaders today paid tribute in Aberdeen to the 167 people who died in the Piper Alpha tragedy, as union bosses raised fears that workers are still scared to raise safety issues.
Det Norske Veritas is to launch new training courses for elected safety representatives aimed at minimising the number of accidents offshore.
A call was today made to ensure health does not become the “poor relation” in health and safety.
Energy industry firms and training providers have been invited to submit nominations for OPITO's safety and competency annual awards.
The Scottish Government has pledged £100,000 to help restore a memorial to the victims of the Piper Alpha disaster to its former glory.
Two people have died and a man injured after a heat exchanger accident on a North Sea gas platform off the coast of the Netherlands.
Risk management specialists Det Norske Vertias has urged the global oil and gas industry to strengthen its focus on safety risk analysis ahead of the Piper 25 conference.
The judge who chaired the inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster has recalled the harrowing moment he stepped aboard the wreckage of the platform.
Oil and gas safety leaders have paid tribute to efforts to keep offshore workers safe in the past year after it emerged as one of the UK's safest industries.
The US coastguard is to finally end the cleanup efforts from the Deepwater Horizon disaster along the Florida, Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week - 38 months after the worst offshore oil spill in American history.
DNV has re-written the standard for Offshore Service Modules certification to cover a wider range of temporary equipment on top of the existing pressurised modules for temporary workspaces.
Nearly nine out of 10 offshore workers have lost confidence in the model of helicopter involved in two North Sea ditchings last year.
The 2010 Macondo spill in the Gulf of Mexico threw into relief once again the risks of extracting hydrocarbons from the earth.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has hit back at claims its unexpected shake-up of the offshore safety division will impact on North Sea safety.
An offshore workers' union claims a helicopter manufacturer has "jumped the gun" by announcing a fleet of grounded aircraft could return to service by July.
A fleet of helicopters grounded after two ditching incidents in the North Sea could be back in the air by July, the manufacturer said yesterday.
Twelve crew members are missing after a tug boat working for Chevron sank on Sunday due to rough seas off the coast of Nigeria.
Shell workers knew days in advance that a company drillship which went aground in stormy conditions in Alaska could be facing disaster.
Aberdeen-based standby vessel operator Atlantic Offshore Rescue said yesterday it had commissioned what would be the UK’s most powerful emergency-response and rescue vessel (ERRV).
Subsea 7 is to consider giving all Norwegian Continental Shelf employees sickness pay following social dumping criticism. Nevertheless, managing director Stuart Fitzgerald says Norwegian wage levels for everyone will affect the company’s competitiveness.