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Helicopter Flights Not Risky for Offshore Operations says Shell Boss
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Friday June 13, 2008 18:11 by budgie
Another reason for Shell to adopt a safer offshore for Corrib. One of the arguments for the way Shell want to operate the Corrib gas field has always been that using a production pipeline/ onshore refinery would limit the need for helicopter flights for workers.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4might be risky if they go over the Mull of Kintyre.... :D
A helicopter is a collection of spare parts flying in formation, with people in the middle. Every rig worker is trained in helicopter evacuation, sitting in a steel box in a tank of water that is pumped full of smoke while they have to find and put on their lifejackets and escape into freezing water. The training is supervised by frogmen in full diving gear to rescue the drowning idiots who inflate their lifejackets before getting out of the exit.
Oil industry helicopters are SO SAFE that you can find 53,000 Google hits at http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=oil-rig+helicopter+...crash including videos, death reports, adverts for class-action personal injury claims, etc.
That was then. This is now.
Shell say helicopters are safe for rig workers.
Shell say an offshore option for Corrib is not safe because the workers would have to fly in helicopters.
Which is it?
Which is it? The "favourable" comparison above states that offshore transport (does Stevens mean just helicopters, or supply boats too?) only kill 4.5 workers per million hours, which is 7 and a 1/2 times as much as commercial airline flights (in which he probably does include the horrendous decline in worldwide air safety since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the massive increase in incompetent civilian flights in the newly rich far east and Africa).
On the other hand, the "offshore" option in Ireland is quite different to the North Sea or equatorial rigs - the water is shallow, the weather is far less extreme and the staffing is low for production monitoring. A safety analyst should be comparing the expected and worst-case scenarios for offshore and onshore disasters.
Given that the Irish government sold the rights for a pound, you might expect Shell to take on the risk rather than the local population. Or a judicial review of the original rights sale.