Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority ordered BP PLC to review its management systems for the second time in two years after concluding that serious safety breaches caused a North Sea leak that could have turned into a major accident.
Norway
's
Petroleum Safety Authority ordered BP PLC to review its management systems for
the second time in two years after concluding that serious safety breaches
caused a
North Sea
leak that could have turned into a major accident.
Nobody was hurt in the Sept. 12 leak at the company's Ula field, but the PSA
said a number of lives could have been lost in the accident, which involved the
leak of 125 barrels of oil, 1,600 kilograms of gas and some extremely hot
water, shutting down the Ula platform for more than two months.
The order of a safety review from
Norway
comes
as BP just spent almost two months in a courtroom in
New
Orleans
defending its safety record related to the 2010
Deepwater Horizon disaster in the
Gulf of Mexico
,
which killed 11 people and triggered the largest offshore oil spill in
U.S.
history.
The company is awaiting a judge's ruling.
The PSA gave BP until September to review its risk management, including why it
failed to identify and address the weaknesses that led to the Ula leak. BP also
has been asked to evaluate whether safety measures in response to a 2011 fire
at the Valhall field in the
North Sea
were
adequate.
Nobody was injured when a crane caught fire at Valhall, but it took over an
hour to extinguish the blaze. PSA concluded that serious breaches of safety
regulations had occurred.
"We have seen the letter from the PSA and have already closed some of
these gaps," said BP spokesman Olav Fjellsa. BP is also looking deeper
into whether it had taken the necessary steps to learn from the Valhall fire. "As
a company, we take this seriously, and we want to learn from unwanted
incidents," he said.
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