The 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster will be marked with an offshore safety conference.
North Sea oil companies were told last week that more must be done to improve their offshore safety record.
Sensitive to accusations that the BP oil spill could be its own Katrina, the Obama administration recently seized the opportunity to declare a moratorium on deepwater drilling buying time to conduct supposed offshore drilling safety studies.
Oil and Gas UK - the body representing operators and contractors in the North Sea - is using the 20th anniversary of the disaster to reinforce the safety message offshore.
Opponents of the expansion are pointing to the spill as timely evidence of safety concerns over offshore oil extraction.
"The administration put together a group of experts to review safety recommendations for offshore oil and gas exploration, " Barrasso said.
The report contains recommendations for improved safety measures in offshore drilling.
The report calls on the European Commission to extend the remit of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to cover safety inspections of offshore installations such as oil rigs.
Oil and Gas UK has been lobbying ministers, asking them to resist attempts by the European Commission to introduce new regulation of offshore oil and gas health and safety.
It is no wonder that BP are acting out this exercise in a public way as US lawmakers threatened to block any application BP would make to be party to drilling and exploration activity involving new US offshore leases because of its past safety record.
Visitors to an offshore drilling rig or production platform receive safety training and are outfitted with steel-toed boots, safety goggles, gloves, hearing protection, and a helmet.
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Inspectors focused in particular on the safety and integrity of almost 100 offshore installations and their equipment.
Transocean, the world's largest offshore drilling contractor, said its top priority is safety.
Safety - both for the marine environment and those who work offshore - must be a priority.
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After the kidnapping, remaining crew-members - operated by Augusta Offshore SpA, a Naples-based shipping company in southern Italy - had sailed the vessel to safety.
Royal Dutch Shell has said that it will suspend its offshore drilling programme in the Arctic for the rest of 2013 in order to give time to ensure safety.
The House Natural Resources Committee Thursday approved an amendment to bar new offshore oil and gas drilling permits to BP or any other company with a significant history of violating worker safety or environmental law.
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