The audit was conducted from 17 to 21 February 2025.
Background
The audit is motivated by the letter of allocation to the Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority, Chapter 2.1, which states that our supervisory activity shall help ensure that the companies work actively and continuously to fulfil their responsibilities and work systematically to prevent and reduce major accident risk.
Safety systems have an important role in detecting, preventing, and limiting the development of hazards. Through testing and maintenance activities, the company must ensure that the systems meet the preconditions and assumptions on which their design and subsequent modifications were based.
Objective
The objective of the audit was to verify how the company handles SIL in operations, with a focus on safety systems, and the company’s follow-up of performance requirements, so that the safety level is maintained and improvement measures are implemented where necessary.
Result
The audit identified seven non-conformities concerning:
- overview of blocked safety functions
- compliance with own requirements
- follow-up of assumptions made and results achieved
- follow-up of safety functions
- visibility of potential weaknesses as input to TIMP
- documentation
- one non-conformity is exempt from public disclosure
We also identified an improvement point concerning application testing.
What happens now?
We have asked Equinor to report to us by 2 May 2025 on how the non-conformities will be addressed, and to give us their assessment of the improvement point observed.