HSE International ISSUE 95 | Page 32

OIL & GAS: OFFSHORE SAFETY SUMMIT 2015 30 March - 01 April, 2015 Aberdeen Marriott Hotel , Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom Methods of extraction in the North Sea are becoming evermore technologically advanced. After a series of high profile oil and gas-related accidents in the past half decade, the industry has steered towards a more stringent regulatory regime. Macondo is still fresh in the mind of the global HSE fraternity even five years after that fateful day. The role of HSE continues to grow in importance as the human, environmental and financial costs of offshore incidents take their toll in the form of unacceptable loss of life and billions of dollars in fines and reparations. Worryingly, results of recent HSE and Asset Integrityfocused surveys* conducted by Oil & Gas IQ have shown some alarming cracks in the core columns that hold