UK forum issues offshore safety guidelines

July 31, 2012

The Well Life Cycle Practices Forum (WLCPF), set up in the UK after the Macondo tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, has published four new sets of guidelines for offshore operational safety.

Bob Tippee

The Well Life Cycle Practices Forum (WLCPF), set up in the UK after the Macondo tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, has published four new sets of guidelines for offshore operational safety.

The new guidelines cover operation of subsea blowout preventer systems, well integrity throughout the well lifecycle, well suspension and abandonment, and qualification of materials used for suspension and well abandonment.

WLCPF is a permanent function created by the Oil Spill Prevention & Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) and managed by Oil & Gas UK. OSPRAG completed its work last year (OGJ Online, Sept. 23, 2011).

The forum has published nine sets of guidelines.

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Bob Tippee | Editor

Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.