Regulation Norwegian offshore safety

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). 

Ersdal, G. 2014. The Norwegian barrier regulation. Barrier management principles and application to marine system safety. Offshore Risk and Safety seminar, 2014. 

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