Last week we blogged how over half the rigs in the North Sea failed safety checks.
As if to highlight the problem, a major evacuation operation was launched yesterday after a fire broke out on a remote North Sea oil platform. Ninety of the 159 people on board the Thistle Alpha platform, 120 miles north-west […]

The safety regime at Britain’s North Sea oil operators has been condemned after a report found almost 60% of oil platforms had problems that oil companies should have addressed.
The report, by the Health and Safety Executive, argues the industry had lost the trust of the regulator as a result of the failings uncovered by the […]

BP yesterday accepted blame for failures to protect employees, the environment and consumers as it agreed to hand over a total of $373m to settle a string of criminal investigations into its conduct across America.
In an effort to put lapses under the leadership of Lord Browne behind it, BP struck a broad deal with the […]

Mexico has started to evacuate 13,360 workers from its Gulf of Mexico oil rigs as powerful hurricane Dean neared.
According to state oil company Pemex, which produces some 70 per cent of its crude oil from offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and is a major supplier to the United States, the […]

BP has once again been accused of serious safety breaches after a fire broke out at its Prudhoe Bay operations in Alaska.
On August 6 a fire took hold at one of three so-called gathering centres within BP’s Prudhoe Bay operations. According to a letter sent to a congressional committee by long-term oil industry critic Chuck […]