Northern Offshore plays key role at IADC North Sea Safety Awards event

The IADC North Sea Chapter (NSC) held its annual dinner and safety awards ceremony on 14 May at the Mercure Ardoe Hotel in Aberdeen. A total of 360 drilling contractor members, associate members and their guests attended.

The awards were presented by Northern Offshore’s John Monks, who is also IADC’s North Sea Chapter Chairman, and guest speaker James McCallum of Senergy. IADC offshore division vice president, Steve Gangelhoff, Northern Offshore’s Sr. Vice President - Marketing, spoke on behalf of the IADC, discussing both changes in the industry’s safety culture and the fundamentals that will continue to drive its future HSE efforts.

John, also offered remarks: “This year IADC marks its 70th anniversary, and I feel particularly honored to have been chosen to chair the North Sea Chapter in this milestone year. Many fine examples of safety and environmental success have been considered for tonight’s awards, and our members should take pride in the commitment being shown by their employees.

“Across our industry, safety statistics reveal that this year sees that, for the 10th year in succession, the three-year rolling average of injury rates for major and over-three-day injuries is downward, and of that we should be very proud.”

He continued, “Any injury however, is an injury too many, and we all need to raise the bar further.”

“The offshore employers need to address hydrocarbon releases with the same attitude as they are doing safety,” John added.

(Left to right)
Peter Stephen, Lord Provost of Aberdeen. Steve Gangelhoff, Northern Offshore’s Sr. Vice President Marketing. Val Hood, Secretary for IADC North Sea Chapter. Penny Mallory, Sporting Celebrity & After Dinner Speaker. John Monks, Northern Offshore’s General Manager. Gordon Ballard, Chairman of Step Change for Safety. Dougie Vipond, Master of Ceremonies and BBC Presenter.

14 May 2010

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Northern Offshore is proud to announce that our jack up drilling rig Energy Enhancer has received the Silver Award for Occupational Health and Safety for 2010 from the United Kingdom’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (“RoSPA”). The Silver Award recognizes the crew of Energy Enhancer’s occupational health and safety performance, throughout 2009, assessed against the RoSPA judging criteria.

RoSPA is a U.K. charitable organization, formed in 1917, with the mission to save lives and reduce injuries, and the vision to lead the way on accident prevention. RoSPA Safety Awards have been recognizing health and safety success for over 50 years. This key fixture in the U.K.’s health and safety calendar offers organizations a prime opportunity to prove their ongoing commitment to raising health and safety standards and to be a part of the longest running and most highly respected occupational safety awards program.

“This award is welcome recognition that our capable and experienced Energy Enhancer crew members are committed to the belief that an injury free offshore work place is truly achievable” said Roddy Smith, Director, QHSE, Northern Offshore UK Ltd. “We congratulate them for bringing such attention to themselves and to our Company.” (April 7, 2010)

07 April 2010

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We are proud to announce that John Monks, our General Manager Northern Offshore U.K. Ltd. has been elected to the post of Chairman of the North Sea Chapter of the International Association of Drilling Contractors. John has been an active supporter of the IADC for many years and apart from serving on many committees, he is also a former Chairman of the North Sea HSE Working Group. The North Sea Chapter is one of the larger and more active branches of the IADC and John’s election recognizes his standing as an industry leader in that part of the world. In his new position John will chair several IADC committees and attend forums and meetings with trade unions, politicians, regulators, trade associations, operators and the media, on behalf of IADC. We wish him well!

08 February 2010

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