Apache Corp. awarded Servelec Controls a contract to modify the fire and gas safety systems on the Beryl Alpha platform in the North Sea to enable the safe expansion of its current processing capability. Beryl Alpha…
UK-based technical consultancy MMI Engineering discusses issues around passive fire protection integrity, and the launch of a new industry network – PFPNet. Weather erosion of lightweight concrete passive fire protection…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has identified regulation breaches following its investigation into a fire that broke out on Statoil’s Statfjord A platform in October 2016. Statfjord A…
Trelleborg has launched a new mobile app for FireNut solution. Image of a flange with FireNut, from Trelleborg. To make it even easier to specify FireNut, Trelleborg’s offshore…
An investigation has been launched into a fire that broke out on an oil production platform in the US Gulf of Mexico yesterday. Image from the USCG Twitter. The fire was on Renaissance…
Statoil has completed its internal investigation on a fire at the Statfjord A platform on 16 October, an incident that was part of a string of hazardous events, leading the Norwegian giant on a safety mission. Image…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation into a fire which broke out in an engine room on the Scarabeo 5 drilling unit on 22 November 2016. A team from the PSA traveled out to the rig, which is working on the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea…
Statoil reported a fire on the Scarabeo 5 drilling rig in the Njord field in the Norwegian Sea. Image of the Scarabeo 5, from Saipem. As of 20:30, Statoil said that there are…
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) is investigating a fire on Statoil's Statfjord A platform yesterday (16 October) morning. The operator said the fire started in a loading pump in the utility shaft on the platform. No one is reported to have been hurt and the fire…
Apply Emtunga is building the offshore accommodation modules to the oil rig projects Martin Linge and ETAP at the Arendal Yard in Gothenburg, Sweden. The living quarters for the oil rig Martin Linge are built by Apply Emtunga in Gothenburg…
Statoil entered into a six-year framework agreement with Trelleborg’s offshore operation in Norway for the supply of Elastopipe, corrosion protection, Passive Fire Protection (PFP) as well as Thermal Insulation (Vikotherm R2, S1 and P7). Elastopipe is the first corrosion-free…
Another deadly accident has struck the Abkatún complex in the Bay of Campeche, offshore Mexico. Three workers have died and six more have been injured following a new fire yesterday at the Abkatún complex, Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex…
Roxtec, a manufacturer of cable and pipe seals, has launched the Roxtec SPM seal. The light-weight, non-weld seal can be used with metal pipe onboard marine or offshore structures to provide protection against fire, gas, and water. The…
Azerbaijani officials have recovered and identified six people from the Socar platform incident in the Caspian Sea that resulted with dozens missing at sea, and a fire that is still burning. Image of Socar's West Azeri platform…
A search for missing oil workers continues in the Caspian Sea following a fire offshore Azerbaijan that started last week, on 4 December. Socar's West Azeri plaform. Image from Socar's Facebook…
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