Statoil saves, and has more accidents: Fagforeningstopp believe that we have … – Aftenposten

Statoil presented Thursday morning figures showing that the number of “serious incidents” increased in the third quarter.

And worse it: in October Statoil has had six serious incidents on the Norwegian continental shelf, as yet, not covered by statistics.

According to the Psa was in each of the last three events, the risk that lives would be lost.

Statoil’s own figures show that the frequency of “serious incidents” in the company increased to 0.8 in the third quarter, after having been 0.6 the last two years.

We have had a positive development a long time, but now see that it has bottomed out and reversed. We see we have had too many events lately, and that I take very seriously, ” says Statoil ceo Eldar Sætre to Aftenposten.

Statoil has for the last three years to cut costs sharply.

Administrative and operating expenses were in the third quarter, 34 per cent lower than in the same period in 2013.

SAFETY-violations between management and employees

the trade Unions in Statoil believes the cuts and new operating model security concerns, and has broken the cooperation with management on health and safety work.

But Sætre says they don’t see anything that points in the direction of the increase in serious incidents has to do with kostnadskuttene.

” We have had a positive development in the statistics of our in the years we have worked with kostnadsforbedring. This is not things that work against each other. An efficient organization is also a safer organization, ” says Sætre.

1. Tuesday, 25. October was 600 employees were evacuated from the oil refinery Mongstad after be blamed on hydrogen leakage. No one was injured in the incident.
2. Saturday 22. October went gassalarmen on the Snorre A platform in the north Sea. 205 people were on board. The cause was the evaporation rates of the gas in the air. The situation was clarified in the course of an hour.
3. Clock 15.19 Sunday, 16. October afternoon went gassalarmen on board on the Gullfaks A platform operated by Statoil in the north Sea.
4. Sunday, 16. October brought a fire on the Statfjord A platform on Sunday morning that 20 of the 67 persons who were onboard were moved with a search and rescue helicopter to Statfjord B. the Production on the platform is now back to normal.
5. On Saturday 15. October there was a gas leak on the drilling rig Songa Endurance on the Troll field. 20 of the 107 persons who were onboard the aircraft was moved to a different platform.
6. Wednesday, 12. October at 16.05 was notified of an accident at the Sture terminal in Hordaland. Six people were sent to Haukeland hospital after being exposed to H2S gas (hydrogen sulfide)
7. 27. september was the instability in a well in the Visund A. After the Aftenbladet understand poured the gas/oil from the reservoir.

It is the deputy and HSE in the trade union Safe, Roy Erling Furre, strongly disagree.

“There is reason to think that when one stands in a dramatic realignment, with the possible loss of work, interferes with the focus on the daily safety work,” he says.

It does not help if you are a good driver if someone sitting in the backseat and lets out wasps, he adds.

Believes Statoil has lost control

the trade Unions have responded to a long series of changes the Statoil management adds up to, and fear in particular, that the new procedures for campaign maintenance will go out of the safety of the installations.

Furre believe the last ukenes events suggest that we have lost control.

It looks absolutely awful. I can’t remember any company that has had as many serious incidents in so short a time, ” he says.

Key performance indicators from the group’s income statement for the third quarter of 2016. Figures for the same period in 2015 in brackets.

* Operating income: 12.092 million dollars (13.614 million dollars).

* Operating profit (adjusted): 636 million dollars (2.027 million dollars)

* Earnings before taxes: 661 million dollars (963 million dollars)

Audit: – The common denominator is Statoil

Also, the Psa is concerned about the development. Already in our notified the authority about the increase in incidents with a major accident potential on the shelf.

– What we have seen in the past, is that there are a lot of leaks and brønnhendelser, that the common denominator is Statoil, and that they come close, ” says Eileen Brundtland in the audit.

the Company was on Wednesday called on the carpet to the petroleum safety authority norway. Statoil is investigating all serious incidents, but Sætre says the company will now move even more to work.

We will go deeper down and farther back in time, to see if there are some connections here that it is not easy to see from the surface, said Sætre.

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