Petroleum safety

Those federal regulations of interest and importance for addressing subsurface environmental issues in chronological order of establishment include the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the Resource, Conservation, and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FTFRA), and the Petroleum Safety Act (PSA). These regulations are discussed below. 

This brochure was published by the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway. The Table of Contents is ... 

Petroleum activities may pose a risk to the external environment. Therefore, the 1981 Act on Protection against Pollution and on waste is obviously relevant to this type of activity. So is the 1976 Act on Control of Products and Consumer Services." We may safely conclude that it is a challenge to keep track of all acts relevant to petroleum safety. 

This also provides help in relation to the numerous governmental bodies involved 5 by means of the central decree (see further in Subsection 5.4), the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) is appointed the main state body in the field of offshore safely, co-ordinating the activities and responsibilities of the other state bodies administering the various pieces of legislation in the field. Its role is extensively discussed in the chapters comprising Part III of this book. 

They are The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, the Climate and Pollution Agency, Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. This reflects the fact that the regulations are based on the abovementioned acts, the enforcement of which is vested in the four different... 

See the Framework Regulations Sect. 67 2nd para. the Petroleum Safety Authority will carry out supervision of the management systems established pursuant to these regulations and will make the decisions necessary to implement provisions regarding the requirements for the administrative parts of the management systems . 

The value of having a coherent set of safety performance indicators is that it enables regulators and industry to detect problematic operatious aud iudustrywide or systemic risks and proactively address these vulnerabilities instead of waiting for the next big accident. A good example is provided by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), which continuously collects, reviews, aud reports on performance of operations in its sector of the North Sea and works with industry and labor on improvements, as discussed in several other chapters. ... 

In Australia, there is a specific requirement (see Of hore Petroleum Greenhouse Gas Storage Act section 695) for a review of the effectiveness of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority every three years. In practice, this judgement is made subjectively based on a comparison of NOPSA s practices with those of other regulators internationally and the views of key stakeholders, including industry. 

Workshop, Robust Regulation ry November 2011 in Stavanger, Norway, with participants from representatives of the Petroleum Industry, Trade Unions and the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). 

The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has been engaged in measuring the safety performance of the petroleum industry on the Norwegian OCS and the effects of PSA activities (see Chapter 10 by Bang and Thuestad in this volume). The Norwegian petroleum industry is required by law to report incidents that could lead to severe accidents to PSA. This is required for both major accidents and occupational accidents. The PSA and the industry have a tradition of close cooperation and sharing of experiences. 

The risk level of the Norwegian offshore petroleum industry has been analysed and presented on an annual basis by PSA. The scope of this risk level work covers all aspects of health, environment and safety (HES) within the authority s jurisdiction (Vinnem 2010). The first report was presented early in 2001, based on data for the 1996-2000 period. The methods used to collect data and analyse the risks were developed through the Risk Level Project (RNNP). Since then, annual updates have been performed. Also, since its beginning, RNNP as a tool has been undergoing development in cooperation with different stakeholders (Petroleum Safety Authority Norway 2009b). 

The following indicators have been established (Petroleum Safety Authority Norway 2009a, 2009b) ... 

An overview of the main indicators used for 2009 is presented in Table 9.5 (Petroleum Safety Authority Norway 2009b). 

In 2009, PSA also applied information drawn from RNNP and combined it with Environment Web databases to monitor acute discharges to the sea on the Norwegian OCS (Petroleum Safety Authority Norway 2011). Risk in this connection is confined to frequencies and volumes of acute discharges. The actual and potential environmental consequences of these spills were not assessed. 

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Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (2009a) Trends in Risk Level. 2008. Norwegian Continental Shelf (in Norwegian), http //www.ptil.no... 

Personnel who will carry out bell diving or surface-oriented diving, shall have a valid certificate. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway appoints suitable enterprises to issue certificates on its behalf. Payment can be charged for issuance of certificates. ... 

The Petroleum Safety Authority (2011). Trends in risk level 2011 - The 2011 study of trends in risk level in the Norwegian petroleum activity. ... 

PSA (2007) Utvikling i risikonivd - norsk sokkel. Ease 7 hovedrapport 2006. [Development of Risk Level - Norwegian Shelf. Phase 7 Main Report 2006]. Report Ptil-07-or, Petroleum Safety Authority - Norway. 

PSA (2or2) Risikonivd i petroleumsvirksomheten. Hovedrapport, utviklingstrekk 2011, norsk sokkel. [Risk Level in the Petroleum Industry. Main Report, Trends 2orr, Norwegian shelf]. Petroleum Safety Authority - Norway. 

In this chapter we will see how risk governance is reflected in an operating company such as Statoil. As a follow-up to the investigation of Gullfax G, the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Agency (PSA) requested that Statoil allow the International... 

Schiefloe, P.M. et al (2005) Arsaksanalyse etter Snorre A hendelsen 28.11.0 Statoil rapport til Petroleumstilsynet Stavanger Analysis of the Snorre A incident iilzSIo Statoil report submitted to the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Agency Stavanger)... 

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). 

All audits are available on the Petroleum Safety Authority s Web site at www.ptil.no. 

Granskingsrapport etter kollisjon mellom Big Orange XVIII og Ekofisk 2/4-W. Petroleum Safety Authority, 13 October 2009. 

Petroleum Safety Authority, Notification of order to BP, 9 July 2010. 

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