'What drillers need to learn from nukes'

'What drillers need to learn from nukes'
04 May 2010


If there's one lesson to be learned from the Three Mile Island accident, it's that one player can drag down an entire industry, wrote Mark Mills for Forbes. He called for the offshore drilling industry to learn from the nuclear industry's response to that serious event in creating a peer-based safety regime along the lines of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, or its sister organisation the World Association of Nuclear Operators. After the recent Deepwater Horizon accident, "The offshore industry has to get ahead of the curve on developing, implementing, enforcing improvements in offshore operational reliability and safety. Otherwise it will be done by federal overseers, less effectively and certainly in a more unwieldy and painful fashion."