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• Safety and environment
  • QHSE policies

Health, safety and environment

In 2006, ExxonMobil recognised the safe operation of our seabed-logging surveys, awarding three of our crew members for their exemplary performance.

We are striving to optimise our health and safety performance in many ways. For example:

• High-voltage equipment is operated only by trained and permitted personnel who must follow strict procedures. We operate an alarmed tag out and lock out system, which is designed to restrict access for non-qualified personnel.

   

• Receivers are deployed and recovered by specialist crane drivers. Only designated personnel are allowed in the working area and each operation begins with a toolbox meeting, where everyone involved is given a health and safety briefing.

   

• Our personnel are trained in manual handling, and we continuously assess the design of handling tools. Automatic equipment handling lines on our purpose-built vessels have reduced the amount of manual handling that is required.

   

• The weather is continuously assessed before and during operations. We can operate safely in 4-5 m swells and our rapid receiver recovery time reduces the weather window that we require. Each of our four vessels has specific manuals of permitted operations, which detail what procedures are allowed under different weather conditions.

   

Environment

• The Norwegian government uses seabed logging in environmentally sensitive areas where seismic surveys and drilling are not permitted.

   

• Seabed logging can lessen the environmental impact of drilling, by reducing the number of wells required to find and appraise hydrocarbon reservoirs.

   

• Two independent studies, one commissioned by Woodside Energy, have examined the environmental effects of seabed logging. Both concluded that seabed-logging surveys were environmentally friendly and did not harm sea life. Studies on subsea electrical cables showed similar results.

   

• EMGS receiver anchors are made with a patented soluble cement. This means that after a survey the concrete anchors are reduced to disaggregated sand, leaving no discernible survey footprint and no hazard to subsea operations or fishing.