Learning from failures: Accidents of marine structures on Norwegian continental shelf over 40 years time period

This paper investigates accidents, major accidents and disasters which occurred on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) over a period of more than 40 years time (1972-2013). An accident investigation based on the system life-cycle was applied on the data provided by the World Offshore Accident Database (WOAD) where the operation (in-service) stage of the life-cycle was found to be the stage with 96% and the installation stage with 4% of...