As we approach the end of 2022, I’m still waiting for:
- Nord Stream Pipelines sabotage report(s): Will Denmark, Germany, and Sweden publish reports? Will the responsible parties be identified? I surely hope this wasn’t a US/UK operation.
- Huntington Beach Pipeline Spill investigation report: >14 months since the spill and still no report. What vessel(s) struck the pipeline? The pipeline operator seems to have had minimal responsibility but has been vilified. How will the vessel owner(s) be penalized?
- Offshore Incident Statistics (BSEE): Still no data for 2021 or 2022. The previous OCS safety regulator (MMS) updated these tables at the end of each quarter.
- BSEE/Coast Guard investigation reports for two 2020 GoM occupational fatalities that have yet to be documented. Also waiting for the reports on a 1/24/2021 fatality, a 5/15/2021 explosion and fatality, and a 3/25/2022 fatality. Lives were lost. When will we find out what happened and why?
- Decommissioning status and liability update for Platforms Hogan and Houchin, Santa Barbara Channel.
- (2008) Russell Peterson liftboat fatality offshore Delaware. This was the first fatality associated with the US offshore wind program. The Coast Guard has yet to issue a report.
- (2010) Sinking of the Aban Pearl semisubmersible offshore Venezuela. No report was issued.
- Summary of the incidents on the “BOE watch list” in 2011.
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