on Wednesday, wrote the Newspaper about all the variances the petroleum safety authority norway has found after the supervision on the Goliat platform in the Barents sea.

the Platform has been the subject of extensive sikkerhetsavvik also earlier, in addition to a number of critical questions about the ownership, profitability and political control from the former oil minister Terje Søviknes (Frp).

the Audit reveals, among other deviations by brannspjeldet, by nødavstengingssystem, electric installations, training, maintenance of safety-critical equipment, security systems, deviation management and risk management.

Requires the minister’s involvement

It was still not appropriate to shut down the platform, according to the audit.

” If we believed there was a danger for life and health, so we had made it. But we consider the operation on the Goliath that properly, ” says petroleum safety authority norway to the Newspaper.

A is not satisfied. The party tells the Newspaper that they would ask the ministry of labour and sosialminister Anniken Hauglie (H) take action.

– the Goliat platform has been riddled with scandals. The security of the platform have been under any criticism. The oil company Eni has with plainness not taken the responsibility they have to ensure workers and the environment. Therefore we require now that the arbeidsministeren intervene, ” says Lars Haltbrekken (A) to Dagbladet.

on Thursday, he sent questions to the ministry of labour and sosialminister Anniken Hauglie (H) about what she intended to do with the conditions on the Goliath.

Friday burned it in the sauna: at Least 64 “unwanted events” on skandaleplattformen since 2015 KrF agree

He gets the support from the Sector.

Security should be top priority on the Norwegian continental shelf. It is unacceptable that time and time again revealed new errors and omissions on Goliath, ” says Tore Storehaug (KrF).

He and Haltbrekken has long been critical to the Goliat platform, which in addition to the rebuke from the audit, also has been in a political storm in a long time.

– the Audit believes that the operation is justifiable. Where you can sit in Oslo and assume something else?

– There have been so many problem with the Goliat platform, it has been closed down previously and I don’t think it’s any great reason to have the confidence of the operator in this case. Therefore, it is important that Parliament now have full clarity in what the government intend to do to ensure that the operation forward is safe for people and the environment, responds Haltbrekken.

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the ministry of Labour and sosialministeren says to Dagbladet that she can’t comment on the case yet.

Among other things, the profitability of Goliath aroused fierce debate. Former oil minister Terje Søviknes (Frp) claimed, first, that there were numbers that showed how profitable the Goliat platform could be, but the numbers found Dagbladet at Søviknes’ own directorate.

Søviknes was also accused of having misinformed the Parliament in the case when he first claimed Goliath was profitable in 2019. Søviknes claimed then that 2024 was the right year for when the Goliath was to earn money for the community, but also this calculation had many faults, according to critics.

Also security at the Goliath has been criticized: Fire, gas leaks, falling objects and accidental discharge is among at least 64 unwanted events on the Goliath.

First he said 2019. Then he said 2022. Now says Terje Søviknes 2024