Under fire: Shell is feeling the heat over its Brent Bravo safety record
Pressure rises on Shell
Shell is under mounting pressure to explain its poor North Sea safety record after fresh revelations showed it has been by far the worst performer in the play, receiving six out of a total of 18 legal notices issued by the UK's Health & Safety Executive (HSE) over a two-and-a-half year period.
An HSE list of the 18 incidents between March 2005 and October 2007, obtained by Upstream, shows that Shell received six notices covering five of its North Sea installations.
This is far more notices than any other operator working in the UK North Sea.
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