UK watchdog issues notice to supermajor over rusting stairwells
By Upstream staff
The UK’s offshore watchdog has served a safety notice on Shell after discovering serious corrosion problems on stairwells in the Brent Bravo utility leg in the UK North Sea, many of which had been first identified in an internal inspection report six months earlier.
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) told Upstream that three inspectors had visited the platform last week on a three-day routine inspection, but were unable to gain access to the leg.