Helicopters transport offshore workers to and from oil and gas installations every day, and the industry constantly works to improve helicopter safety.
DNV, along with five industry partners, is developing a specific safety standard that will include structural and functional design; fire and explosion protection; access, transfer and escape, and emergency power.
Welcome to 2009 - a guaranteed roller-coaster of a year, of that one can be sure. It will be a case of fasten seatbelts and prepare for a rattling. I regularly harp on about Opec and the criticality of its decisions to the non-Opec community, of which the North Sea is clearly a member. Well, in recent weeks, Opec decided to make two major output cuts.
