Traduction de «Plate-forme à circulation fermée » (Français → Anglais) :

(9) Every door or hatch on a floating platform used to ensure the watertight integrity of internal access openings during the operation of the platform shall, while the platform is afloat, be equipped with an indicator at the ballast control station to indicate whether the door or hatch is open or closed.

The need for increased safety of offshore oil and gas exploitation activities has been dramatically highlighted by recent accidents, most notably by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010: offshore activities in the Mediterranean are likely to increase due to the discovery of new reserves of fossil fuel, and an accident of such kind could have immediate large-scale effects on a semi-closed Sea such as the Mediterranean, causing tragic consequences for its economy and its fragile ecosystems, and undermining the efforts made by EU Mediterranean coastal Member States to achieve and maintain good environmental status i ...[+++]n their marine waters as required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

(15) In order to promote the free movement of workers, freedom of establishment and the free provision of services, while ensuring an adequate level of qualification, the European body recognised as competent to put forward a platform shall be, at the European level, the representative of professional bodies (or similar bodies) and/or any association recognised as representative of a professional body at European level, and shall have the task of establishing common platforms at European level under which professionals meeting a number of criteria relating to professional qualifications are awarded the right to bear the professional titl ...[+++]e awarded by those associations or organisations.

(9) In order to promote the free movement of workers, freedom of establishment and the free provision of services, while ensuring an adequate level of qualification, the European body recognised as competent to put forward a platform shall be, at the European level, the representative of professional bodies (or similar bodies) and/or any association recognised as representative of a professional body at European level, and shall have the task of establishing common platforms at European level under which professionals meeting a number of criteria relating to professional qualifications, based on a points system to be decided at European ...[+++]level, are awarded the right to bear the professional title awarded by those associations or organisations.

From what I understood about the explosion in Louisiana, the valve simply did not close on the blowout preventer.

The Royal Commission into the Ocean Ranger disaster indicated that if the power to the ballast control system had remained off, they would have survived the storm and no one would have been lost.