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A LOCAL marine engineering firm has rejected accusations by the RMT union that an incident during decommissioning work on the Buchan Alpha oil rig at Lerwick harbour âsent shockwaves among offshore contractorsâ and occurred because the job had been done âon the cheapâ.
Following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident in August last year, in which a pontoon was seen moving during a cutting sequence, Ocean Kinetics was issued with a
Notification of Contravention (NoC) letter by the watchdog.
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The firmâs managing director John Henderson confirmed to
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tony hayward. those weren t misstatements thp that s the way these guys really feel and i think they owe an apology call to all six parish presidents and governor jindal, who they all just blew off. doug, quick, before we let you go. the testimony today, we want you to comment on from that rig worker who said the alarm on site wasn t fully functioning? you re not an engineer pshgs i m not an engineer. seems pretty common sense to me, though. didn t it? reporter: unless you re bp and operating as a rogue outfit who has one thing in mind. get as much oil as quickly as possible and have an mms that looks the oh wear and don t take care of things. anybody with a home or building knows you have to mant thens things. to not manlt nens a rig where the potential of disaster was so great, particularly if your bp with the texas city incidents and alaska tundra incident tells us this isn t a fortune 500 company. bp turned itself into a company
golden oldies of tony hayward. those weren t misstatements. that s the way these guys really feel, and i think though owe an apology call to all six parish presidents and governor jindal, who they all just blew off. doug, quick, before we let you go. the testimony today, we want you to comment on from that rig worker who said the alarm on site wasn t fully functioning? i mean, you re not an engineer. i m not an engineer. seems pretty common sense to me, though. doesn t it? reporter: very common sense until you re bp and operating as rogue outfit, who has one thing in mind get as much oil as quickly as possible and have an mms that looks the other way and don t take care of things. anybody with a home or building knows you have to maintain things. to not maintenance a rig where the potential of disaster was so great, particularly if your bp with the texas city incident and the alaska tundra incident, tells us, this isn t a fortune