offshore safety

The U.S. Coast and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have issued a joint safety alert, Safety Alert 05-22, in response to an incident

By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Cost cuts by Norway’s oil and gas industry appear to have contributed to a rise in accidents in

Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA could face new production stoppages on platforms in the Campos Basin if it does not resolve lingering

The US Coast Guard’s Office of Investigations and Casualty Analysis has released a compilation of the past 4 years of maritime and offshore safety

By Gwladys Fouche STAVANGER, Norway, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Oil companies are overlooking some vital safety issues when preparing to drill in frontier Arctic

  LONDON–Two helicopter operators that transport workers to oil rigs in the North Sea have suspended flights using Super Puma aircraft after one

OSLO–The Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA (STO) said Wednesday that the May 26 gas leak on the Heimdal field in the North Sea was serious, and

OSLO–Norway’s oil safety agency opened an investigation Wednesday into last week’s scare in the Barents Sea involving an Eni SpA (E)

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Recent incidents in the U.K. North Sea have highlighted the dangers faced by workers as ageing oil and gas installations reach the end

Human factors has been named the biggest challenge facing the offshore oil and gas industry, according to a survey of industry professionals released today by

Travis Niemi, a commercial fisherman, talks to the US Coast Guard about the importance of offshore lifesaving equipment after his boat capsized and sank off

RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones Newswires), Brazilian state-controlled oil and gas producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR, PETR4.BR) said a worker died and two were

By Katarina Gustafsson and Alexis Flynn BP PLC’s (BP) efforts to monitor and respond to sudden pollution releases such as oil spills in the Norwegian Sea