Safety
Members of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers reported 32 fatalities and a 26% jump in hours worked in 2024, which lowered the rate by 0.03 per million hours worked.
Unlike traditional inspection methods, distributed fiber-optic sensing offers continuous, real-time monitoring capabilities, allowing for early detection and response to potential leaks, which is especially crucial in remote or inaccessible locations.
Technical safety standards are essential as global offshore exploration heats up.
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Behavior is neutral. This simple mantra will set your safety program free of the dysfunctions that kill your safety culture. Behavior is not right or wrong, good or bad. It just is. Approach behaviors with the dispassionate, objective view of a scientist. -
Despite the challenges of working in the offshore environment, Sulzer Wood has recently recorded 9 years without a lost-time incident, which equates to approximately 1.5 million man-hours.
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement says its final well-control rule removes unnecessary regulatory burdens to responsible offshore development while maintaining safety and environmental protection.
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Advances in robotics can revolutionize the way maintenance, inspection, and testing is performed, making operations safer by reducing exposure of personnel to hazards. This paper analyzes the causes of slow industry adoption of robotic technologies and presents a roadmap for accelerated adoption.
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This paper explains how an ultradeepwater drilling contractor is applying real-time analytics and machine learning to leverage its real-time operations center to improve process safety and performance.
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Wärtsilä’s integrated infrastructure combines the bridge systems, cloud data management, data services, decision support tools, and access to real-time information for the fleet of tankers managed by Sovcomflot, Russia’s largest shipping company.
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement says its staffing and inspections are up, while the environmental group Oceana says that oil and gas drillers have a financial incentive to ignore safety.
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Even as the Trump administration has taken steps to expand offshore oil drilling, a new report shows that thousands of oil spills are still happening and that workers in the oil and gas industry are still dying on the job.
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Behavior-based safety is not a new concept nor is it new at Murphy Oil. But when Murphy launched its Safety Observation Program as a digital tool, it revitalized the way the culture of safety spread throughout the company.
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Safety depends on developing a dedicated culture mind-set and mitigation of risks, from the planning and engineering phases to the work site. These papers selected by OGF technical paper editor Gerald Verbeek present various practices for reducing and eliminating the number of incidents.
