A leading energy lawyer has suggested that the safety case model which transformed North Sea operations in the wake of the Piper Alpha disaster should be used by the offshore renewables industry.
Workers in the fast-growing offshore renewables industry could die unless safety lessons are learned from the oil and gas industry, delegates at the opening day of the All-Energy show in Aberdeen were warned yesterday.
Keppel Verolme and consortium partner French energy company AREVA have secured a $117.6million contract from Wetfeet Offshore to build a mobile offshore application barge (MOAB) for a new windfarm in German waters.