Oil Incident News

Lloyd's Register (LR) won a contract to provide Maersk Oil with a comprehensive suite of risk-management services to support the offshore operator’s commitment to meet global demand for energy in an efficient, safe and environmentally responsible manner. The agreement requires Lloyd’s Register to support Maersk Oil’s global management of four key areas of operational risk -- hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA), accident and incident investigation, management of change and contractor management. “Ensuring consistent standards of risk management across a global network of high-value offshore assets is an increasingly complex task.

The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) issued a news release stating that a major maritime exercise to test preparedness for a maritime and oil incident, called Exercise Discovery, will be held in Aberdeen, Scotland on January 29, 2002. The exercise is intended to test the interaction between those who might be involved in a real incident, including MCA, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), oil companies, and organizations that provide emergency services. Source: HK Law