Lloyd's Register to provide risk-management services to Maersk Oil

Sept. 12, 2011
Lloyd's Register has been awarded a major contract to provide Maersk Oil with a comprehensive suite of risk-management services.

Offshore staff

LONDON – Lloyd's Register has been awarded a major 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.

The agreement covers Maersk Oil's current production areas, which include Denmark, the UK, offshore Qatar and Kazakhstan, from where the company sources a daily aggregate of about 700,000 boe. It also covers Maersk Oil’s exploration and drilling campaigns; the company currently has offshore exploration activities in the producing countries as well as in Norway, Angola, Brazil, the US Gulf of Mexico and Greenland.

To assure a globally consistent implementation of the HIRA work stream, Scandpower will support Maersk Oil in applying the structure and intent of ISO 31000, the international standard for risk management, thereby providing a framework to assure consistent systems implementation while remaining flexible enough to address disparate legislative requirements, cultural expectations and specific operational needs.

The contractor management and management of change work-streams will reflect industry best practice and the structure and intent of international standards. The accident and incident investigation work-stream will focus on providing specialist training for Maersk Oil employees, which includes an analysis of the leaders' role, human factors and the behavioural aspects of accident causation.

Human factors specialists, who recently joined Scandpower from the former Human Engineering and Lloyd's Register EMEA, will help to ensure a seamless delivery of the four global work packages.

09/12/2011