Health & Safety
Health and safety rules drive new industry initiatives
Evolving health and safety regulations are prompting a broad range of new initiatives within the industry, reports Eugene McCarthy. These include a subsea well incident response project, novel landing string assemblies, and new guidelines to make offshore support vessels safer.
La normativa de higiene y seguridad en constante evolución induce una amplia gama de nuevos proyectos dentro del sector, informe de Eugene McCarthy. Estas iniciativas incluyen un proyecto de respuesta para casos de incidentes en pozos de explotación submarina, nuevos conjuntos de cables de desembarco y las nuevas directrices para volver más seguras las naves de apoyo en alta mar.
Sich entwickelnde Gesundheits- und Sicherheitsregelungen lösen einen breite Palette an neuen Initiativen innerhalb der Industrie aus, berichtet Eugene McCarthy. Diese beinhalten ein Bohrloch- Störfallmelde-Projekt, neue Landebahn-Aufbauten und neue Richtlinien, um den Support für Schiffe sicherer zu gestalten.
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ine of the world’s leading oil and gas companies - BG Group, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Petrobras,
Shell, Statoil and Total - have launched the subsea well response project (SWRP), an initiative designed to enhance the industry’s capability to respond to subsea well control incidents. Acting on the recommendations of
the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers’ (OGP) Global Industry Response Group (GIRG), the companies have signed an interim joint development agreement, with Shell as the operator. Te project team will: design a capping
toolbox with a range of equipment to allow wells to be shut in; design additional hardware for the subsea injection of dispersant; and further assess the need for and feasibility of a containment system for shared use (Fig. 1). Te SWRP participants have appointed
Keith Lewis, former vp of front-end studies for Shell in the Americas, as manager of the project. “OGP has brought forward a
comprehensive set of recommendations for intervention on flowing wells following a well control incident. SWRP will now work to deliver on these objectives over the course of 2011. Designing systems that can be deployed effectively in different regions of the world is an immense challenge but member companies have assigned leading specialists to the task,” Lewis said. Te SWRP is a not-for-profit joint
Fig. 1. One of the project aims is to design a capping toolbox with a range of equipment to allow wells to be shut in.
initiative, and the project team consists of technical experts and senior management from nine of the major oil companies. SWRP’s objective is to manage the selection and design of caps and
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associated equipment to enhance industry capabilities to respond to well control incidents, and recommend a model for international storage, maintenance and deployment of this equipment.
Safety awards For the seventh year in a row, Expro has received an award from the UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in recognition of its safety record. Te RoSPA commendation is awarded to companies who can demonstrate outstanding safety management and performance. Tis is achieved by a consistent management and employee focus on health and safety processes across the business globally. Expro has received a number of awards
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