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Transocean workers worried about safety
HOUSTON, An assessment of the safety culture at Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, found many workers frustrated, The New York Times reports.
Transocean arranged for the assessment by Lloyd's Register a month before the April explosion that killed 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon and set off the biggest oil spill ever in U.S. waters.
Lloyd's was to cover four Horizon rigs in the Gulf and the headquarters in Houston.
The confidential report said many employees were concerned that workers and managers on drilling rigs did not have enough experience to know what problems were likely to come up and how to deal with them. They also cited company bureaucracy.
Many employees said company investigations of accidents and close calls focused on assigning responsibility, not on changing the culture to prevent new ones.
There are 139 Transocean rigs drilling for oil around the world and 14 in the Gulf of Mexico, the Time said.
HOUSTON, An assessment of the safety culture at Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, found many workers frustrated, The New York Times reports.
Transocean arranged for the assessment by Lloyd's Register a month before the April explosion that killed 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon and set off the biggest oil spill ever in U.S. waters.
Lloyd's was to cover four Horizon rigs in the Gulf and the headquarters in Houston.
The confidential report said many employees were concerned that workers and managers on drilling rigs did not have enough experience to know what problems were likely to come up and how to deal with them. They also cited company bureaucracy.
Many employees said company investigations of accidents and close calls focused on assigning responsibility, not on changing the culture to prevent new ones.
There are 139 Transocean rigs drilling for oil around the world and 14 in the Gulf of Mexico, the Time said.
