The International Regulator’s Offshore Safety Forum is held in London from 30 March to 1 April 2005. The aim of the conference is to exchange good practices and experiences and compare differences in regulatory approach and safety performance.
Links:
The Conference’s web site
Information on the International Regulators Forum (IRF) (Link to the PSA's website)
Gale Norton, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, USA, held a keynote address at the start of the conference.
Quotation from her keynote address:
“We and our international partners have also co-sponsored 35 International Workshops on the topics such as decommissioning, pipeline safety, offshore structures, drilling procedures, ice mechanics, new materials and human factors. We have had the opportunity to share our own research facilities such as those at the Offshore Technology Research Center at Texas A&M University and the National Spill Response Test Center, and to make use of outstanding facilities abroad.
Thanks largely to the efforts of our colleagues with the Petroleum Safety Authority in Norway, there is now a website that describes our cooperative and independent research. The site has a unique search engine that provides access to research projected conducted by any of the participating agencies and is an outstanding resource.”