Safety Flash
BSEE/USCG: Dealing with extreme weather events
BSEE/USCG: Dealing with extreme weather events
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 16/22
- Emergency ResponseEvacuation, Escape and RescueMarine Operations
- Environmental protectionMechanical failureRisk management
- NavigationWell abandonment
- Competence and trainingEmergency responseEvacuation, escape and rescueSafety communication
- Marine industryUpstream oil and gas
- Vessel
Summary
This flash summarises joint BSEE/USCG findings on a drillship’s unsuccessful escape from Hurricane Ida in the Gulf of Mexico. Delayed temporary abandonment and riser retrieval problems preceded loss of riser equipment and fluid pollution. Recommendations address timely weather decisions, contingency planning, mass evacuation arrangements and training gaps.
Classifications: Environmental protection; environmental safety; pollution prevention.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Navigation; vessel navigation; passage planning.
Classifications: Well abandonment; plug and abandonment; P&A.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The United States Coastguard (USCG) and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have each published a joint Safety Alert relating to the reasons for a drillship’s unsuccessful attempts to avoid a hurricane.
IMCA SF 16/22. Themes: emergency response, evacuation, escape and rescue, marine operations.