Kudos to offshore-energy.biz for drawing attention to the recent Coast Guard medevacs from the pipelay vessel Solitaire. Three health-related medevacs from the same facility in <2 months would seem to warrant further scrutiny. Will the Coast Guard investigate?
The only timely information on medevacs is from Coast Guard news releases. Information on private medevacs is seldom provided, except as included in the BSEE incident tables, which are typically more than 1 year behind, and update presentations by BSEE’s Gulf of Mexico region.
Below is information on 2023 YTD Coast Guard medevacs associated with Gulf of Mexico oil and gas activities. As previously posted, at least 12 workers died at OCS facilities in 2021-22 of natural causes. Unfortunately, “natural cause” fatalities and illnesses receive little industry or regulator attention.
| date | vessel or platform | description | condition report |
| 5/18 | OSV Brandon Bordelon | 50-year-old male crewmember with an injury to his leg | stable |
| 5/17 | Allseas’ pipelay vessel Solitaire | 65-year-old male crewmember was experiencing heart attack-like symptoms | stable |
| 4/26 | crew boat Mr. Fred | halted search for missing crewmember | presumed dead |
| 4/23 | Allseas’ pipelay vessel Solitaire | 32-year-old male crewmember experiencing severe abdominal pain. | stable |
| 3/22 | Allseas’ pipelay vessel Solitaire | crewmember was experiencing seizure-like symptoms | stable |
| 3/18 | BP’s Atlantis platform | 28 year old male, eye injury | stable |
| 3/13 | unidentified platform 40 miles south of Port Fourchon | 37-year-old man having difficulty breathing | stable |
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