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Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), Guidelines for Safety Evaluation of Platform Conceptual Design. NPD, Oslo, Norway, 1981. 

Holt, T. Kristiansen, T.S. Improved Sweep Efficiency During Gas Injection - Mobility Control, in Proc. SPOR Seminar, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Stavanger, Norway, 1990, pp. 59-77. 

Dalland, A., Worsley, D. and Ofstad, K. (Editors) 1988. A lithos-tratigraphic scheme for the Mesozoic and Cenozoic succession offshore mid- and northern Norway. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Bulletin No. 4, 65 pp. 

Gabrielsen, R.H., Faerseth, R.B., Jensen, L.N., Kalheim, J.E. and Riis, F. 1990. Structural elements of the Norwegian Continental Shelf Part I the Barents Sea Region. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Bulletin No. 6, 33 pp. 

Gutierrez, M., Makurat, A., Cuisiat, F., Tunbridge, L. and Jostad, H.P. 1995. In-situ stress variation in fractured reservoirs. Project Summary Reports, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 231-245. 

Koestler, A.G., Milnes, A.G. and Keller, P. 1995. Quantification of fault/fracture systems for reservoir simulation - use of systematie data from field analogues. In Olsen et al. (Editors), Projeet Summary Report on Reservoir Characterisation and Near Well Flow, PROFIT, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. 

Walderhaug, O, Prestholm, E. 0xnevad, I.E.I. (1995) Geometry of calcite cemented zones in shallow marine sandstones. In PROFIT Project Summary Reports (Eds Olsen, J., Olaussen, S., Jensen, T.B., Landa, G.H. Hinderaker, L.), pp. 75-90. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Stavanger. 

Hanssen, J. E. In SPOR Monograph Recent advances in Improved Oil Recovery Methods for North Sea Sandstone Reservoirs Skjaeveland, S. M. Kleppe, J., Eds. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Stavanger, Norway, 1992 pp 277-283. 

Weiss, H. M., Wilhelms, A., Mills, N., Scotchmer, J., Hall, P. B., Lind, K. Brekke, T. 2000. NIGOGA—The Norwegian Industry Guide to Organic Geochemcial Analysis [online]. Edition 4.0. Published by Norsk Hydro, Statoil, Geolab Nor, SINTEF Petroleum Research and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, www.npd.no... 

Fig. 2. Illustration of the general trend of the faults. Please note that some faults are only tentatively mapped. Courtesy of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).

At around 120 bcm/year, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (2005). In October 2007, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy refused to approve a proposal which would have accelerated production and exports of gas, http //www.regjer ingen.no/en/dep/oed/Press-Cen ter/Press-releases/2007/Troll-Future-Development.html id=486412. 

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (2005) FACTS The Norwegian Petroleum Sector 2005 , Stavanger. 

The pilot project report, which was published in April 2001, included (1) a survey of various indicators of the development of the risk level, (2) interviews with some of the key actors in the industry, and (3) proposals for further work (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate 2001). These proposals included a questionnaire to be distributed to all employees working on offshore installations. By including interviews and questionnaires, the RNNP project legitimised the opinions of offshore workers and union representatives as valid and necessary input to an assessment of safety in the petroleum sector. 

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (1998). Annual Report 1997. Stavanger. 

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (2001). Uteikling i risikonivd - norsk sokkel. Stavanger. Sammendragsrapport. [Development in Risk Level - Norwegian Shelf. Summary Report]. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Stavanger. 

Lind0e, P. and Olsen, O. E. (2009) Conflicting goals and mixed roles in risk regulation. A case study of Norwegian Petroleum Directorate , Journal of Risk Research, 2 (3-4) 427-441. 

Even with the reduction of inspection activities, for which MMS was criticised after the Deepwater Horizon accident, it still conducted a far larger number of inspections than the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) or, after 2004, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) had ever conducted. Independently of the efficiency of MMS inspections, the U.S. regulators have been much more visible on offshore installations than regulators in Norway. The Norwegian oil and gas sector has never had the kind of detailed governmental hands on offshore activities such as the United States had after the establishment of the MMS, not even in the years before the introduction of the internal control system in the 1980s (see Chapter 10 in this volume). 

Olaf Thuestad previously worked in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and then as director of Regulatory Development at the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) from 2004, when it was established, until 2010. He is now senior... 

Figure 1. Maintenance management model (The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate 1998).

RNNP is a biyearly investigation carried out by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The investigation uses input from statistics, questionnaires and interviews to give and present a picture of the overall risk in the petroleum industry. This case study covers the qualitative part of the investigation. Around 20 persons, all with central HSE positions, were interviewed most of them members of a safety forum dealing with HSE questions within the petroleum industry. The... 

The NORSOK Standard Z-013 is a standard edited by theNPD (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate), which is a Norwegian agency in charge to regulate the oil industry activities in the North Sea. This standard has been reedited in 2001 and refers to risk analysis and emergency preparedness. 

The RNNP project was initiated under the direction of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (PD) in 2000. Since 2004 the project has continued under the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), the aim being to measure and improve health, safety and environmental conditions in the petroleum activities offshore and at the petroleum facilities on land. 

There was a need to have imbiased and as far as possible, objective information about the actual conditions and developments. The authorities, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) at the time, now the Petroleiun Safety Authority (PSA), Norway, defined a project ( the Risk Level Project ) of extended indicators, in order to fulfil these needs. 

On August 23, 2000 the editorial in Oljeindustrien (the journal of the Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF)) outlines their views of the safety level (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate 2000 121) ... 

As a response to the obvious need for clarification about the risk level and as a first step measure to turn the development of safety in a positive direction, the authorities, here represented by the NPD, launched the first RNNS pilot proj ect. The project was done in cooperation with external research institutions and the expressed purpose was to establish a methodology to assess trends in the risk level and safety work at the Norwegian continental shelf (Ministry of work and administration 2001). This pilot project, which included extensive interviews with some of the key actors in the industry, documented the conflicts discussed above (Norwegian Petroleum Directorate 2000). Generally speaking, it became evident that some of the actors had very different views of the risk picture and development, and expressed different perceptions of reality. As a result, the trust among the partners in the industry was low. 

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