BP ordered to boost safety after Norway probe(fire last July at the North Sea Valhall platform)
BP ordered to boost safety after Norway probe
BP Plc (BP/) was ordered to improve safety after being accused of “serious non-conformities” by Norway’s Petroleum Safety Agency following an investigation into a fire last July at the North Sea Valhall platform.
The fire was caused by a crane engine that overheated and blew sparks into flammable gases, creating a blaze that took more than an hour and a half to extinguish, the report said. While no one was hurt, the accident had the potential to cause injuries and the loss of life, the agency said.
“The PSA’s investigation of the incident has identified a number of serious breaches of the regulations related to BP’s management system,” the agency said in an e-mailed statement. “These relate to lack of maintenance, deficient maintenance management, inadequacies in risk identification and deficient barrier management.”
The findings are a setback for BP’s efforts to bolster safety at its operations worldwide after the April 2010 explosion (BP/) at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and triggered the worst U.S. oil spill. Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley said the company had reached a turning point in the third quarter after temporarily shutting down 48 exploration and production operations across the globe to ensure higher standards were implemented.
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