Natural environment
Natural environmentThe industry must work purposefully to prevent accidents which can cause acute discharges.
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The players must analyse their own activities in detail to map how dangerous situations can occur and develop – and which consequences various scenarios may have.
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The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) receives important applications concerning the petroleum activities in the Barents Sea.
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Status and signals - Natural environment
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Better informed on ice and cold
The technical and operational challenges facing Norway’s petroleum sector in the high north have finally been collected in a single report. “This gives us a solid basis for continued follow-up,” says Finn Carlsen, one of the PSA’s directors of supervision.Read more -
Seminar: When accidents threaten the environment
“A theoretical understanding is not enough. The lessons learned after Deepwater Horizon and other incidents must result in concrete measures,” said Finn Carlsen, Director for Supervisory Activity, during the seminar “When accidents threaten the environment” in Stavanger on 17 February.Read more -
Lofoten: putting facts in place
The technical basis for managing activities in parts of the northern NCS was revised in 2010, with the PSA providing input on safety and the working environment in the petroleum sector.Read more -
New RNNP report surveys acute discharge risk on the NCS
Both acute crude oil spills from petroleum operations on the Norwegian continental shelf and near misses for such incidents have fallen sharply since 2001, a new study has found.Read more -
Tough climate - vulnerable environment
Producing oil and gas in Arctic regions must cope with extreme cold and much wind and fog. Since the environment there is more vulnerable than in other parts of the world, accidents could have greater consequences.Read more