Trump proposes vast expansion of offshore drilling

Psychosocial burden among offshore drilling platform employees.

Conditions of work on offshore drilling platforms are particularly hard due to extreme environmental situations created both by nature and technological processes. Oil drilling workers employed on the open sea are potentially exposed to permanently high stress. Apart from the obvious objective factors affecting drilling platform employees, a great role in the general work-related stress level i...

Safety of dynamic positioning operations on mobile offshore drilling units

Stress, fatigue, situation awareness and safety in offshore drilling crews

Please cite this article in press as: Sneddon, A., dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2012.05.027 Drilling for oil and gas on offshore installations is a hazardous occupation, and requires personnel to maintain high levels of work situation awareness (WSA). This paper presents a self-report scale developed to measure the WSA of drilling personnel, and examines the influence of the performance shaping fa...

Characterizing the near-bottom dispersion of drilling mud on three offshore banks

The fate of discharged drilling muds is an ongoing issue for offshore petroleum operators, regulators, the fishing industry and environmentalists. The problem is compounded by difficulties in measuring transient mud concentrations and in relating experience gained at one location to locations with different oceanographic characteristics. We use the benthic boundary layer transport model (bblt) ...

The Effect of Relationships on Contract Choice: Evidence from Offshore Drilling

We build a simple model to show that relationships and high-powered formal contracts can be either substitutes or complements, depending on the relative impact of relationships on incentive problems and contracting costs. Empirically, in the offshore drilling industry we find that oil and gas companies are less likely to choose high-powered fixed-price contracts as the intensity of their relati...