Elgin-Franklin go-ahead ‘in days’
French operator Total said it expected the Health and Safety Executive to approve the restart of the Elgin-Franklin development within days.
French operator Total said it expected the Health and Safety Executive to approve the restart of the Elgin-Franklin development within days.
The boss of a North Sea helicopter operator has vowed its Super Pumas will be back in the air within months.
North Sea health and safety experts are working in Iraq to help the country recover from war.
Oil and gas industry training body Opito has launched new courses aimed at improving the skills of elected safety representatives (ESRs).
Step Change in Safety, the oil and gas industry safety initiative, launched a programme yesterday to help reduce hydrocarbon leaks offshore.
Experts have warned that plans to site a wind turbine near the north-east coast could cause chaos for offshore helicopter operators.
An occupational health arm of services giant Capita has said it is expecting growth of the use of a remote healthcare system for the offshore oil and gas industry.
David Cameron has pledged to do what he can to protect Scots oil workers abroad - but warned BP and other firms to "redouble" their security efforts after the Algeria attack.
Helicopters grounded after an aircraft ditched in the North Sea will not return to the air until March at the earliest, it emerged yesterday.
Any oil or gas leak from a North Sea field is bad news - not just from a people or environmental perspective, but potentially also for the British economy.
Production at nine major North Sea platforms was halted last night afteran oil leak shut one of the UK's most important pipelines.
Experts from around the world are gathering in Norway today to consider how the unique medical skills pioneered in Aberdeen for the oil and gas platforms of the North Sea can be transferred to ever more hostile environments.
Survival training firm Falck Nutec said yesterday it had invested £400,000 in a new helicopter landing platform at Aberdeen International Airport.
A Shell rig which ran aground in Alaska has been refloated by a team of recovery experts. The Kulluk rig broke away from tow boats in high seas last week, drawing criticism from environmental groups which said it proved oil companies were not prepared to manage the extreme conditions of the Arctic safely.
Secret files have revealed that UK defence chiefs considered turning the North Sea into a minefield in the 1970s amid fears that terrorists would hijack a rig.
The UK government has published a report on improvements made to the safety regime in the North Sea offshore sector since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Two helicopters had to make emergency landings at Aberdeen Airport yesterday after warning lights came on in the cockpits.
A Super Puma helicopter made an emergency landing at Aberdeen Airport after a warning light came on.
The offshore industry's workforce wants and needs common global standards to improve safety and competency. And there is a critical, widespread need for companies to develop the kind of corporate cultures necessary to make credible headway with these critical issues.
The gear shaft on a Super Puma helicopter which ditched in the North Sea in May cracked just over a year after it was made, according to a report published yesterday.
Great Yarmouth-based Survival Systems International UK is to open its first service company in Australia.
Two Super Puma helicopters were at the centre of fresh safety fears yesterday.
A North Sea oil platform is operating with a reduced workforce after an outbreak of a highly contagious stomach bug.
There are a lot of angry and even scared people working offshore whose lives are being seriously disrupted by the fact that 19 EC225 Super Puma helicopters will remain parked, mostly at Dyce Airport, until Eurocopter finds out precisely why two members of the class suffered serious and, on the face of it, identical failures.
Offshore union representative Jake Molloy said Eurocopter had made a good effort at trying to restore the industry's confidence in the aircraft.