The audit was conducted from 22 to 30 April 2020.

Background

This audit was a continuation of our audit of holistic barrier management with a focus on barrier strategies and facility-specific performance requirements. In recent years, organisational and operational barrier elements have been central to our follow-up activity.

In 2020, we wanted part of our supervision to include the current issues facing the industry (pandemic and low oil prices), but with the main theme of risk and barrier management at Equinor.

Objective

The objective of the audit was to follow up Equinor’s risk and barrier management. This includes follow-up of the activities the company will be undertaking in 2020 relating to “holistic barrier management”.

Result

No regulatory non-conformities were identified during the audit, but we observed conditions categorised as improvement points. These were:

  • Risk management relating to capacity and competence
  • Assessment of factors individually and in combination
  • Competence
  • Follow-up of MIS Risk at Åsgard B 

What happens now?

We have asked Equinor to give us their assessment of the improvement points we observed by 31 August 2020.