Safety

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

Out of control lift of Santos platform off WA could have killed

Terrifying video shows an offshore lift that went badly wrong off the WA coast in early July endangering workers hanging off a platform and those on the vessel.

Safety

Concern over corrosion found at Woodside’s North West Shelf LNG

Woodside has found corrosion during a shutdown of the North West Shelf's LNG Train 4 that potentially is a serious concern. It is understood Woodside is now inspecting other trains for the problem.

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.

Industrial Relations

UGL pushed spurious safety risks at Chevron’s Gorgon to kill industrial action

Maintenance contractor UGL has used a clause designed to ensure safety during a strike at Chevron's Gorgon LNG to portray the industrial action as illegal.

Safety

Gorgon workers left waiting for mercury contamination results

Safety regulator WorkSafe does not know when it will receive test results so four workers on Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant will know if they have received an unsafe exposure to toxic mercury.

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.

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.

Chevron

Chevron to restart Gorgon LNG train after $500M production loss

Chevron prepares to restart a Gorgon LNG train after losing more than $500M of production to repair faulty welds. Two trains to go.

COVID-19

Unions call on Inpex to improve travel to Ichthys

Unions want Inpex to return to the pre-COVID practice of flying workers through Broome, not the remote Truscott airstrip.

Safety

Chevron gets final OK for extended Gorgon fix

Chevron this week avoided a total shut down of its Gorgon LNG plant after it received final regulatory approval for delayed repairs to faulty welds.

LNG

Chevron to redo its botched Gorgon weld repairs

Welders will have to grind out and redo repairs at Gorgon performed to an incorrect procedure provided by Chevron and the delay could cost up to $250M.