The audit was carried out from 4 to 27 March 2025 and is part of our case processing of Odfjell Drilling’s application for an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for Deepsea Bollsta.
Objective
The objective of the undertaking was to audit, and perform spot checks of, how the company complies with regulatory requirements within electrical facilities, safety instrumented systems and technical safety. The purpose of such spot checks is to measure the correspondence between the regulatory requirements and the technical condition of the facility. We also wanted to verify that ODL’s management system and organisation are able to identify and follow up on non-conformities.
Follow-up of previous non-conformities
As stated in our audit notice, as part of this audit, we verified how the company has addressed specific previously identified non-conformities and resulting orders. We found that the following non-conformities had not been addressed in line with the company’s feedback:
- Non-conformity concerning barrier management from chapter 5.1.1 of the report following the audit of 30 September 2022; our journal entry 2022/1283.
- Non-conformity concerning emergency power systems from Chapter 5.1.2 of the report following the audit of 10 February 2021; our journal entry 2021/2091.
Result
The audit identified 10 non-conformities. These concerned:
- Barrier management
- Operational barrier elements
- Passive fire protection
- Escalation prevention
- Shutdown of MF/HF radio station after emergency shutdown
- Documentation of classified areas
- Anchor winch sprinkler system
- Equipotential bonding
- Work in and operation of electrical facilities
- Documentation
What happens now?
We have asked Odfjell Drilling to report on how the non-conformities will be addressed. The deadline for this is set at 4 June 2025.
Before we issue an AoC, the company must have corrected all known safety-critical non-conformities, and the facility must have been issued with maritime certificates from the appropriate flag state.