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How are the regulations structured?Published:provisions is conferred by the Working Environment Act. In addition come the Pollution Control Act, the Fire and Explosion Protection Act and a number of health-related statutes. Norway’s oil and gas industry
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Use of standards to promote safety in petroleum activities in the ArcticPublished:the use of standards in regulation: Drilling and well design in the Arctic Technical regulation of fire safety, especially in the extreme cold Evacuation and emergency preparedness, especially taking into
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- Risk management
- Well integrity
- Process safety
- Emergency preparedness
- High north
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Evaluating the effect of PSA investigationsPublished:incident with dropped riser joint Equinor – Tjeldbergodden – investigation of turbine breakdown and fire Equinor – Gullfaks C - investigation of oil spill KCA Deutag – Askeladden – investigation of incident
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- Risk management
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How can risk be managed?Published:as the supervisory authority. Such events are defined as an acute incident, like a major spill, a fire or an explosion, which immediately or subsequently causes a number of fatalities and/or serious personal
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Piper Alpha at 35 – still highly significantPublished:NTBScanpix/PA Photos The major accident of 6 July 1988, when Britain’s Piper Alpha facility caught fire and exploded, remains one of the worst imaginable scenarios for everyone working in and with the petroleum
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- Barrier management
- Process safety
- Risk management
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Positive inheritancePublished:Statfjord A, fire (5) 1978: Statfjord A, helicopter crash (18) 1980: Alexander L Kielland, wreck (123) 1983: Byford Dolphin, diver accident (5) 1988: Piper Alpha (UK), gas blowout and fire (167) 1991: Ekofisk
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- Barrier management
- Emergency preparedness
- Structural safety
- Process safety
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Letter on artificial intelligence follow-upPublished:dimensioned for both normal and critical situations. Facilities Regulations, sections 32-34 concerning fire and gas detection system, emergency shutdown system and process safety system, first paragraph For
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- Artificial intelligence
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Industrial ICT systemsPublished:offshore and on land. Industrial ICT systems manage processes, monitor possible gas emissions or fires, and handle safe shutdown of facilities and platforms. That means they represent safety-critical equipment
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- Cyber security
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Annual Report 2024: A time of persistent uncertaintyPublished:maintenance and safety are interrelated. In 2024, Havtil investigated six incidents, three of which were fires on offshore facilities. We also investigated three cases of decompression sickness from diving. It
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- Havtil
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Suited for safetyPublished:production platform off Norway. The new suit is now being worn by everyone travelling offshore from Hammerfest. Better Today’s survival suits are better than they have ever been, believes Roy Erling Furre,
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- Emergency preparedness
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Taking a three-lane roadPublished:adopted on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea and at the Snøhvit gas liquefaction plant outside Hammerfest, but this probably has a longer time frame. “Because oil and gas contribute up to 10 per cent of
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40 years since KiellandPublished:bIDeUUN3-6w Kielland_lite.jpg Major accident A major accident can be defined as an incident, such as a fire or explosion, which causes the death of or serious injury to a number of people. Such an incident
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- Barrier management
- Emergency preparedness
- Structural safety
- Risk management
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RNNP 2022: risk level stagnating, PSA seeks improvementPublished:in 2022. Of the 23 incidents reported in 2022, 20 were unignited hydrocarbon leaks and three were fires. Unignited hydrocarbon leaks reported in 2021 and 2022 were at their highest level for the past 10
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Knowledge development in the High Northcommon measure for protecting the working environment and equipment in the High North. Enclosure and fire development are included in the remit. The project aims to achieve a better understanding of the degree
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- Emergency preparedness
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RNNP 2024: Maintenance needs prioritisingPublished:2023). Of these, five were unignited hydrocarbon leaks and one was in the category of other fires (not a process fire). The number of unignited hydrocarbon leaks in 2024 was the lowest reported since 2012.
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- RNNP
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Failures and incidents involving circuit breakersPublished:in the petroleum industry. Havtil has investigated some of these incidents: Equinor/Statfjord A – fire (16.10.2016) Equinor/Kårstø – electrical incident with personal injury (25.7.2020) Equinor/Statfjord
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- Electrical installations
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1970s: When the NCS became NorwegianPublished:working conditions. Another incident occurred on 1 November 1975 when a riser on Ekofisk Alpha caught fire. The platform was evacuated, but three crew died because a rescue capsule fell during lowering. Turning
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- Working environment
- Process safety
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Ekofisk – a cradle for safety progressPublished:the NCS, and the Ekofisk area was hard hit. Occurrences there included several helicopter crashes, a fire on the Ekofisk 2/4 A platform in 1975, with three deaths during the evacuation, and the major Bravo
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- Barrier management
- Emergency preparedness
- Risk management
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Engine fumes pose health risk offshorePublished:generators on mobile facilities a major contributor. And diesel-driven forklifts, cranes, cement units, fire pumps and emergency generators can have substantial local significance. So can permanent and temporary
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- Working environment
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Safe use of lithium-ion batteries in the petroleum industryPublished:offshore facility is important, and efforts must be made to reduce the risk of exposure to external fires and explosions, ship collisions and falling loads. It is also important that an incident in a battery
- Project report
- Barrier management
- Process safety