A worker died on the North Sea Platform of Repsol Sinopec’s Tartan Alpha platform. The incident is believed to be non-work related and the cause of death is being termed as natural. The police have informed the family. All production from the platform has been stopped. Source: Oil Industry News  Continue Reading

An oil leak and a subsequent fire killed at least 4 people in Balikpapan, an Indonesian oil town in the East Kalimantan province. A state of emergency was declared post the leak. The oil leak has stretched over 7 square miles and has contaminated the sea and the air. The port city, which has a...Continue Reading

Risk criteria are defined by ISO as ‘terms of reference against which the significance of a risk is evaluated’. A common approach is to divide the risk spectrum into three broad regions, where the highest risk is termed as unacceptable; lowest as acceptable and the middle region is known as ALARP (as low as reasonably...Continue Reading