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NOPSEMA

The Perth-based National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority is the independent health, safety and environmental regulator for oil and gas in Commonwealth waters.

Decommissioning

Tardy BHP ordered to clean up three oil and gas fields offshore WA and Victoria

Offshore regulator NOPSEMA has had enough of BHP's "limited action" and ordered the decommissioning of three fields, adding to the cleanup bill heading towards Woodside shareholders.

Carbon Emissions

Santos' oil Dorado is a lode of Scope 3 emissions

Santos wants to approve its $2.8B Dorado oil project off WA in mid-2022 but science and the law will provide hurdles to its 165 million tonnes of carbon pollution.

Safety

Equipment failure injures two workers on Woodside's Ngujima-Yin oil vessel

Two Woodside offshore workers were injured when a 500kg load fell after a lifting appliance with unapproved modifications failed but Woodside reported only one injury to the safety regulator.

Safety

Review calls for tougher line on offshore safety

A Federal Government review of safety in offshore oil and gas recommends more focus on design changes, diving and mental health and greater input from workers.

Safety

Regulator tells Woodside to fix safety issues on ageing North Rankin A platform

Woodside must check if corrosion on fourteen 24-tonne caissons under an offshore platform could cause them to fall onto subsea pipelines with possibly catastrophic results.

Decommissioning

Regulator blasts ExxonMobil’s Bass Strait maintenance, orders huge decommissioning push

Bass Strait partners ExxonMobil and BHP must plug 180 wells, dismantle ten platforms and tackle life-threatening corrosion after intervention by offshore safety regulator NOPSEMA.

Decommissioning

Regulator calls time on delays to $52B offshore oil and gas decommissioning

Regulator NOPSEMA has wrested control of the schedule for cleaning up Australia's offshore oil and gas fields from tight-fisted operators in a move that may result in an offshore jobs boom later this decade.

COVID-19

Oil and gas job cuts six times deeper than 2020 Australian average

The Australian oil and gas industry shed about 3000 jobs in 2020, a far deeper cut than the national average, leaving the offshore safety regulator NOPSEMA worried about lack of maintenance.

Safety

Behind closed doors: what worries Australia’s offshore safety regulator NOPSEMA

While Australia's offshore oil and gas industry grew safety regulator NOPSEMA was troubled by cost-cutting operators, old wells to clean up and dealing with COVID-19.

Safety

Regulator orders Inpex to stop Ichthys drilling until it is safe

After 200 tonnes of large pipe fell out of control Inpex and Maersk cannot drill for more gas at Ichthys until they convince the regulator that there will be no potentially fatal incidents.

Decommissioning

Regulator tells Woodside to clean up oil field and may take legal action

Woodside's own lack of maintenance means it cannot dispose of an 83m-long structure onshore as planned and will instead sink it to be an artificial reef near the Ningaloo Marine Park

Safety

Wheatstone platform still partly shutdown as Chevron investigates anomaly

Chevron has another pressure vessel to worry about, this time on the Wheatstone platform, after Gorgon LNG production was slashed this year to fix faulty welds.

Safety

ENI’s poor maintenance causes marine hazard off WA coast

An eight year wait for ENI's Woollybutt oil field to be decommissioned and poor maintenance have caused subsea kit to surface and pose a danger to vessels.

Decommissioning

Sellers of oil and gas assets should stay liable for cleanup: report

North Sea expert recommends changes to stop a repeat of Woodside escaping a $360 million cleanup bill by paying a tiny inexperienced company to take an old rusty asset.

Decommissioning

Northern Endeavour still waiting on Federal Government plan

While the idle Northern Endeavour costs $4 million a month, Government and industry are still talking about how to keep the clean-up bill below a possible $230 million.

Safety

Offshore maintenance backlog worries unions and safety regulator

Delays in offshore oil and gas maintenance after COVID-19 workforce cuts worries safety regulator NOPSEMA and unions, who have pointed to Inpex's Ichthys LNG project as a concern.

Safety

Offshore oil and gas warned long rosters affect mental health

Extended offshore rosters can be bad for the mental health of workers and the safety of the facility, warns offshore safety regulator NOPSEMA.

Decommissioning

Tougher policing of offshore oil and gas decommissioning

Offshore oil and gas operators that continually delay costly decommissioning will now be watched more closely by offshore safety and environment regulator NOPSEMA.

NOPSEMA

Woodside gets environmental OK for Scarborough LNG

NOPSEMA has given the environmental credentials of Woodside's Scarborough LNG project a regulatory tick and gushing praise.

Shell

Shell shutters Prelude LNG and delays Crux expansion

Shell has shuttered production from its giant Prelude floating LNG facility and delayed the Crux backfill gas project.

Woodside Petroleum

Woodside offers workers big bucks as inspiration against exhaustion

Woodside's offshore workers may get a $50,000 bonus for working 12 weeks straight but unions claim the long stint is unsafe.

Woodside Petroleum

Woodside slashes offshore maintenance workforce

Woodside has heavily pruned its critical offshore maintenance teams leaving casual workers facing an uncertain future.

Inpex

Casual offshore workers left behind as Inpex prepares for virus

Inpex is reducing its offshore workforce to tackle COVID-19 risk leaving casual workers not knowing when they will next have paying work.

Decommissioning

Big taxpayer bills for failed Northern Endeavour start

The first bill of $10 million bill is due for the failed Northern Endeavour as it is revealed that Woodside's sale of the vessel four years ago required no government approval.

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Government asleep as offshore failure developed

If the Federal Government had been alert the financial failure of the Northern Endeavourur would not have been a surprise. Now Canberra has a huge bill for its omission.