OSLO, Dec 12 (Reuters)– Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has actually informed Transocean, Maersk Drilling and also Odfjell Drilling to intensify emergency situation discharge tools and also treatments on 22 overseas oil well, it stated onWednesday

Drilling gears are outfitted with encased lifeboats that can be gone down right into the sea in an emergency situation and also proprietors need to fulfill a collection of technological and also functional demands for just how to prepare and also accomplish discharges.

“All the audits identified a non-conformity from the regulations. This was the same for Maersk, Transocean and Odfjell,” PSA stated, including the companies had actually been asked to discuss just how they would certainly repair the drawbacks.

“The PSA has now received a response from (each) company, but this does not describe how the breach of the regulations is to be corrected,” it stated in a declaration.

The audits consisted of 9 gears each at Maersk and also Transocean and also 4 at Odfjell.

Maersk Drilling, a subsidiary of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, stated it required a lot more appointments with the PSA prior to picking the actions, which may call for added financial investments.

“We are going to continue the dialogue to understand their reasoning… and to clarify what solutions have to be implemented,” Jakob Korsgaard, head of Maersk Drilling procedures in Norway, informed Reuters.

“Depending on the outcome, it might require modifications or upgrades of our rigs, but it’s too early to say,” he included.

To operate the Norwegian continental rack, each boring gear need to have supposed Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC), which is granted by the PSA.

While the regulatory authority might eventually withdraw an AoC if technological problems and also security administration systems do not fulfill demands, it was early to review such actions, a PSA representative stated.

Odfjell Drilling and also Transocean did not instantly react to Reuters demands by phone and also e-mail for remark.

The PSA provided the business a March 31 due date to repair the drawbacks. (Reporting by Terje Solsvik and also Nerijus Adomaitis; Editing by Edmund Blair and also Mark Potter)

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