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50 years of safety
Published:This issue of Dialogue celebrates the 50th anniversary with some stories from the decades which have passed since the oil prospectors arrived in the 1960s.
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1960s: Oil kid
Published:Norway didn’t become an oil nation because we were lucky. People often say we got something undeserved, that we’re a humble and unsophisticated folk who’ve stumbled on an oil mountain where we sit and incubate our petroleum wealth.
Technical and supervisory news
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Loss of positionPublished: 12 September 2022The number of structural incidents in 2020 was the highest for many years. In a number of cases, the causes of these events related to faults with or faulty operation of the dynamic positioning (DP) system.
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Employee participationPublished: 08 September 2022Making provision for employee participation is a key requirement in the petroleum regulations, and entrenched in the Norwegian Working Environment Act. It is also a demand which has been addressed over a long time and in many ways.
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The PSA at ONS 2022Published:Elements of energy was the theme for our presentation at Offshore Northern Seas (ONS ) 2022. This reflects the new responsibilities we have acquired in recent years, which extend beyond supervising petroleum safety.
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Ocean of trustPublished:Norway’s oil history is a tale of upturns and downturns, celebration and catastrophe, tough toil and technological progress. How did we get there? And what characterises the Norwegian model for safety?
Project reports
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Evaluation of possible pressure depletion in relation to blowout and kill ratesPublished: 18 August 2022On commission from the PSA, Add Energy AS has produced a report evaluating possible pressure depletion in relation to blowout and kill rates.
- Well integrity
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ICT security - Protection of data at rest and in transitPublished: 20 July 2022Sopra Steria has produced a report for the PSA which investigate the theme ICT security - Protection of data at rest and in transit.
- Cyber security