Integrity Training in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Posted by: Ron White

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Many propositions have been put forth as solutions to improving the offshore oil and gas industry.

Yet our biggest problem is INTEGRITY IN OUR PEOPLE , the industry serves up a set of requirements for field employees to earn a full time position and keep it, earning an above average wage working 1/2 of the year.

  1. What happens offshore stays offshore
  2. You must be willing to get your hands dirty to make the big money offshore
  3. You must be willing to look the other way in matters of non compliance
  4. You must be willing to deny the truth until it is proven in a court of law

All of these are came to light in the BP / Transocean / Halliburton trial. Unfortunately it is not unique to the industry. In fact it is the normal everyday occurrence for each of the incidents which occur in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the course of a year there were at least 8 average well blow outs, 150 fires, 280 injuries, 12 vessel crashes, 10 deaths, all of which end up in court with the same drama of what went on in the BP/Transocean/Halliburton trial.

 

Whatever happened to telling the truth up front instead of dragging it out for 2 years with lies and deceit and cover ups?

The offshore oil and gas industry will never be able to be trusted as a reputable industry so long as men are allowed to lie and corporations engage in cover up with legal consuls all the while urging them to deny, deny, deny, until they prove it in court.

I have seen the majority of all of the offshore operator companies “Training Matrix” and on not even one of them have I seen any requirement where the employees are required to engage in some type of Integrity Training and even less required to take a polygraph test to verify if they have engaged in any illegal activity when on federal offshore property.

Compliance to this day is sometimes not taken too seriously. Despite automated regulatory compliance software solutions available in the market, risk assessment and management is still something of “low value” to some companies.

By Staff writer: Ron White.

 

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