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Threaten kostnadskuttene in the oil industry security? Now will work and sosialminister Anniken Hauglie find the answer.
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The last year there have been several serious incidents offshore with the potential for a major accident. Now put the minister Anniken Hauglie down a range to find out if there is a connection between the many events and the large kostnadskuttene taken in the industry in the wake of the oljeprisfallet.
– More fear that it may be related. But it is too early to say. Several of these accidents is to review with the Psa. But this work is started in the background of a changing sikkerhetsbilde, as expressed in the Psa’s RNNP report. The petroleum safety authority norway has pointed out that the security stands at a crossroads and that the trend should be turned around, says Hauglie.
RNNP, or “risk level in Norwegian petroleum industry” is the part of the authority annual mapping of risks in the sector, and several indicators showed a negative development in the 2015 report, published in april. 2016-the report can be even worse.
There were several events in 2016. It was the background that the government decided that we wanted to set down a working group with a view to create a report to look at this, ” says Hauglie.
Under pressure
the Committee will be chaired by professor Ole Andreas Engen at the Department for civil protection at the University of Stavanger. In 2013 led the same Meadow, a group of experts that reviewed the regulations for health, environment and safety (hes) in Norwegian petroleumssektor. The time pointed all the arrows upward in the Norwegian oljebransje, and few of their recommendations were taken to follow. In the current downturn, the situation is becoming worse, believe the Meadow.
– its Security is put under pressure, turning the Meadow fixed.
– the Problems occurs when we want to drive cost-efficiency, and sleek organizations as they have done in Statoil, where he said up and moved hse employees.
– Statoil ceo Eldar Sætre argued that simplification would provide better security?
It is an interesting argument. But I think he should be able to give a more detailed explanation, ” says Engen.
Statoil has during the autumn been involved in five ulykkesgranskninger, related to the fire on the Statfjord A, the gas leak at the Sture terminal, hydrogen leak at Mongstad-refinery, fire on the drilling rig “Scarabeo 5″ and a well out of control on the “Songa Endurance”. Statoil’s own indicator of serious hendelsesfrekvens have was ticking upward, and the company has promised a review to look at common underlying causes, and assess whether kostnadskuttene recorded.
In the course of the last year were also 13 people when a helicopter on the way home from the Gullfaks B platform crashed at Turøy. This is, admittedly, formally outside the Psa’s area of responsibility, but characterizes the entire industry.
Believe in trepartssamarbeid
The new selection is broad, and representatives from both governments, companies and unions should work together on a report to be supplied to the minister 1. October 2017.
the Meadow has, moreover, great faith in trepartssamarbeidet. The expert group he led in 2013 delivered a warm defence of this Norwegian model. The staff and the authorities want to hear, but companies are given very wide freedom to select their own practice. The government of Norway imposes very general functional requirements compared with the safety authorities in most other oljeland. All of the events despite the fact, the Meadow still believe in the Norwegian system.
at the same time understand he also that the oil companies must carry out efficiency measures in the light of lower profitability. He also believes that any security procedures with advantage can be omitted in the case.
A good portion of the security systems can actually be redundant. For detailed procedures can also be a threat. They can prevent you to perform your job and reduce the necessary attention to be able to perform duties in a safe manner, ” says the professor.
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