Plans for EU law on oil platform safety in new year
The move follows a review of existing rules, which the commission now says revealed the need for an overhaul, including “more coherent” legislation to guarantee the highest safety standards.
A report out yesterday suggested tighter controls on granting drilling permits, independent supervision of oil platforms and new technical criteria for safety controls — including the kind of “blow-up preventer” believed to have failed in the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
