Under normal circumstances, a large number of offshore workers and staff from the heliport, the police and the municipality, would have participated as mock casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the COVID-19 situation has forced the exercise management team to come up with an alternative scenario. The exercise is therefore carried out by extensive use of digital co-operation, explains P\u00e5l Erland, exercise supervisor and emergency response manager at OFFB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great value The participants include representatives from the police office in Flor\u00f8 in Vestland county, the state-owned company Avinor, which operates most of the civil airports in Norway, the Norwegian regional airline Wider\u00f8e, Kinn municipality, the security services provider Securitas, the helicopter company Bristow, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) and Neptune Energy\u2019s emergency response organisation \u2013 comprising its 1st, 2nd (OFFB), 3rd and 4th line (UK). The exercise takes place between 09:00 and 14:00 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Escalating offshore<\/strong> The exercise\u2019s overall goal is to see how Neptune Energy \u2013 as an operator and in collaboration with its partners \u2013 may handle a security incident\/legal offence starting at the heliport in Flor\u00f8 and escalating further to a petroleum field offshore, in the best possible way. The exercise will also be a test of the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association\u2019s guideline 003 \u201cRecommended guidelines for check-in and security checks at helicopter terminals\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, each participating organisation has its own set of exercise goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Must keep up the dialogue and collaboration<\/strong> \u201cThe activity level among OFFB\u2019s members is high. We must maintain the contact between us, and continue the good collaboration we depend on during an emergency incident,\u201d says Haug.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, on January 28, OFFB conducts a full-scale exercise, based on a hypothetical security incident at the heliport in Flor\u00f8 in Vestland county. A wide range of companies and authorities are collaborating in the drill.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nyheter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offb.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>\u201cIn practice, each participant will join tabletop discussions from his or her office or another suitable location, while at the same time, they\u2019ll notify, coordinate, communicate and collaborate as they would normally do in a real-life situation. Even though we cannot meet physically, such an exercise will provide great value to everyone involved,\u201d Erland says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The starting point for the exercise will be a security incident at the heliport in Flor\u00f8. From there, it evolves to include the Neptune Energy-operated offshore installations and drilling rig Deepsea Yantai at the Gj\u00f8a field in the North Sea. To successfully manage such a demanding scenario, close collaboration, coordination and good communication between the parties involved are essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ole Jacob Haug, OFFB\u2019s managing director, is pleased to see that the cooperating actors are dedicating time and resources to take part in this type of exercise. He believes these exercises may be even more important during the ongoing COVID-19 situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n