It is a matter of time before someone dies out there.
Frederic Hauge in the Bellona foundation is furious after reading the Psa’s fresh tilsynsrapport from skandaleplattformen Goliath.
It reveals, among other deviations by brannspjeldet, by nødavstengingssystem, electric installations, training, maintenance of safety-critical equipment, security systems, deviation management and risk management.
– Proper operation
the Consequence of all the findings was the imposition of corrective action.
When we notify order as it is because we believe it is serious. We see that the previous orders have had the desired effect, and that efforts are being made to get abreast with the electrical system on Goliath, ” says Eileen Brundtland in the Psa to the Newspaper.
Why closed you not the platform?
” If we believed there was a danger for life and health, so we had made it. But we consider the operation of the Goliath as viable, ” she adds.
– Lackeys the Newspaper asked for access in the disputed Goliath-note: This is the answer we got
Frederic Hauge is not agree. He believes the audit should shut down the platform at the site.
– There are repeated offences and serious breaches of the sikkerhetsreglementet. A complete lack of learning. And why? For maybe to earn some slanter to its oil wealth. And it is in the best case. Most likely is Goliath a dangerous tapsprosjekt taxpayers must helfinansiere, ” he says.
Hauge says he’s also upset over the trade unions on the platform:
– It is we in the Bellona foundation, which has called out, while the unions claim we dramatiserer the situation. And see now! The trade unions have been lackeys for the owner and the pengesterke interests who want to keep the Goliath open to any price.
Øystein Olsen at the trade union Leaders say the staff at Goliath feel safe on the job. He rejects claims from the Hauge.
There will always be things on an installation that is not completely good, but I have not heard some of the employees of us express concern for the safety, ” says Olsen.
Friday burned it in the sauna: at Least 64 “unwanted events” on skandaleplattformen since 2015 Skandaleplattformen
the Goliat platform has been in the political headwinds in a long time, with associated questions about the profitability, security and political procedure.
” We have initiated the work to comply with the order, among other things, to further strengthen the organization related to maintenance. We were familiar with the conditions that were uncovered in the report, but it has taken longer than planned to complete the work, ” says Andreas Wulff in Our energy.
the Newspaper has previously revealed that the Norwegian petroleum directorate already in 2015 the rain up to that Goliath might be a giant tapsprosjekt for AS Norway. At the same time ended up e-mails go astray and created trouble for the then minister of petroleum and energy Terje Søviknes (Frp).
Laws improvement
Wulff says the Goliat platform is now on a steady course after having been in high seas for several years.
– In the course of the last year is a negative trend reversed. Still remains work in some areas, but it is being conducted.
Several independent calculations have argued that the Goliath can lose ten billion of the taxpayers ‘ savings, because oil companies can deduct costs of oil exploration on the treasure.
Terje Søviknes claimed, first, that there were numbers that showed how profitable the Goliat platform could be, but the numbers found Dagbladet at Søviknes’ own directorate.
The avgåtte the minister 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 profitable, 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
