A previous post commented on the bonding waiver for the Vineyard Wind project’s offshore facilities. According to this presentation by Cliff Carroll at the “Close to the Wind Summit” (Jan. 27 in Hyannis, MA), certain onshore bonding requirements are also being waived. Per Mr. Carroll, the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board has overruled the Town of Barnstable’s objections to bonding waivers for large transformer substations to be located withing the town.
Now there is no Federal bonding on decommissioning and now we have no bonding as a town.
Mr. Carroll’s brief bonding comments begin at the 11:30 mark. Prior to that he considers some of the environmental risks associated with these substations.
The conclusion of the investigation is that Swedish jurisdiction does not apply and that the investigation therefore should be closed,” the Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement.
Little has changed since our last update. Will we finally get a substantive update from an official investigator?
STOCKHOLM, Feb 5 (Reuters) – The prosecutor leading Sweden’s probe into the Nord Stream gas pipeline blasts in the Baltic Sea in 2022 plans to announce a decision this week on whether to drop the case, press charges or request that someone is detained, his office said on Monday.
The statement confirmed an earlier report by Swedish daily Expressen. It was not immediately clear which day an announcement would be made, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office said.
The Honor Roll companies for 2023 (listed alphabetically) are Anadarko, bp, Cantium, Chevron, Eni, Hess, LLOG, Murphy, QuarterNorth, and Shell.
BOE Honor Roll criteria:
Must average <0.3 incidents of noncompliance (INCs) per facility-inspection.
Must average <0.1 INCs per inspection-type. (Note that each facility-inspection may include multiple types of inspections (e.g. production, pipeline, pollution, Coast Guard, site security, etc). On average, each facility-inspection included 3.3 types of inspections in 2023. Here is a list of the types of inspections that may be performed.
Must operate at least 3 production platforms and have drilled at least one well (i.e. you need operational activity to demonstrate compliance and safety achievement).
May not have a disqualifying event (e.g. fatal or life-threatening incident, significant fire, major oil spill). Due to the extreme lag in updates to BSEE’s incident tables, district investigations and media reports are used to make this determination.
platforms
2023 well starts
2023 (10 mos.) oil prod. (million bbls)
2023 (10 mos.) gas prod. (bcf)
Anadarko
10
11
66
60
BP
7
11
105
65
Cantium
96
10
5
6
Chevron
8
10
67
39
Eni
3
1
6
13
Hess
3
3
18
36
LLOG
10
7
25
35
Murphy
7
4
42
57
QuarterNorth
9
1
13
23
Shell
20
20
141
140
Also noteworthy:
Zero shut-in violations for Anadarko in 2023
<1 INC for every 10 facility inspections for Anadarko, Chevron, and Murphy
<1 INC for every 20 inspections (all types) for Anadarko, bp, Chevron, LLOG, Murphy, and QuarterNorth
The 2023 Safety Honor Roll list will be posted tomorrow.
As background information, below is a summary of compliance data for 2022 and 2023.
The performance of Fieldwood and Cox skewed the 2022 and 2023 data. In 2022, Fieldwood was issued 448 INCs, 26% of the Gulf of Mexico total. In 2023, Cox was by far the leading violator with 718 INCs, 39% of the GoM total (780/43% when Cox affiliates are included). These data point to the importance of considering safety and compliance in approving lease assignments and making supplemental bonding determinations.
2022
2023
facility inspections
3309
3100
inspection types
10856
10341
W INCs
809
1050
CSI INCs
530
600
FSI INCs
376
180
total INCs
1715
1830
INCs/facility inspection
0.52
0.59
INCs/inspection type
0.16
0.18
Pacific facility inspections
280
300
Pacific inspection types
802
744
Pacific W INCs
22
11
Pacific CSI INCs
13
14
Pacific FSI
1
0
Pacific total INCs
36
25
Pacific INCs/facility inspection
0.13
0.08
Pacific INCS/inspection type
0.04
0.03
Alaska facility inspections
8
5
Alaska inspection types
37
22
Alaska W INCs
0
1
Alaska CSI INCs
0
1
Alaska FSI INCs
0
0
Alaska INCs total
0
2
Alaska INCs/facility inspection
0
0.4
Alaska INCS/inspection type
0
0.09
INC=incident of noncompliance, W=warning, CSI=component shut-in, FSI=facility shut-in. No Alaska facilities are located on the Federal OCS. One Alaska facility, Hilcorp’s Northstar island, has wells that are completed on the OCS; hence the limited BSEE inspections.
Must average <0.3 incidents of noncompliance (INCs) per facility-inspection.
Must average <0.1 INCs per inspection-type. (Note that each facility-inspection may include multiple types of inspections (e.g. production, pipeline, pollution, Coast Guard, site security, etc). On average, each facility-inspection included 3.3 types of inspections in 2023. Here is a list of the types of inspections that may be performed.
Must operate at least 3 production platforms and have drilled at least one well (i.e. you need operational activity to demonstrate compliance and safety achievement).
May not have a disqualifying event (e.g. fatal or life-threatening incident, significant fire, major oil spill). Due to the extreme lag in updates to BSEE’s incident tables, district investigations and media reports are used to make this determination.
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 