Hydrocarbon releases system

Offshore hydrocarbon releases are currently reported to HSE as dangerous occurrences under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) and, more recently, the  European Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1112/2014 now also applies in the UK and creates legal obligations to report certain types of incident to the regulator.

The Hydrocarbon Releases (HCR) System contained detailed supplementary information in addition to that provided under RIDDOR (and previous offshore legislation prior to April 1996), and the dataset contains reports dating from 1 October 1992.

There is some overlap across the hydrocarbon reporting requirements within the UK and European legislation, and the supplementary reporting requirements that implements Recommendation 39 of the Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha Disaster for gathering data on hydrocarbon releases. To minimise the burden on industry a single reporting tool, the Report of an Oil and Gas Incident Form (ROGI), was introduced.

With the introduction of the ROGI and the EU Offshore Safety Directive, new data requirements became necessary. Due to the age of the previous Hydrocarbon Release Database platform, upgrading was not possible and the system has now been decommissioned. However exactly the same non-attributable incident details are still available, free of charge, in the form of spreadsheet data from our Offshore statistics page[40].

Guidance on the reporting requirements is available from HSE[41] and  Industry.

Link URLs in this page

  1. Offshore oil and gashttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/index.htm
  2. How we workhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/how.htm
  3. Offshore health and safety lawhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/law.htm
  4. Workforce involvementhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/workinvolvement.htm
  5. Unconventional oil and gas exploration (shale gas)https://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/unconventional-gas.htm
  6. Overview - Offshore topicshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/topics.htm
  7. Accommodationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/accommodation.htm
  8. Ageinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/ageing/index.htm
  9. Corrosion and materialshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/corrosion-and-materials.htm
  10. Offshore divinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/diving.htm
  11. Electrical and control systemshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/controlsystems.htm
  12. Evacuation, escape and rescue (EER)https://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/eer.htm
  13. Fire, explosion and risk assessmenthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/assessment.htm
  14. Human factorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/humanfactors.htm
  15. International liaisonhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/liaison.htm
  16. Marine and aviationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/marineaviation.htm
  17. Maritime integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/maritimeintegrity.htm
  18. Mechanical engineeringhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/mechengineering.htm
  19. Occupational healthhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/occupationalhealth.htm
  20. Offshore pipelineshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/pipelines.htm
  21. Process integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/processintegrity.htm
  22. Researchhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/offshoreresearch.htm
  23. Safety caseshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/safetycases.htm
  24. Safety management systemshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/managementsystems.htm
  25. Structural integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/structuralintegrity.htm
  26. Verificationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/verification.htm
  27. Wellshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/wells.htm
  28. Working timehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/workingtime.htm
  29. Overview - Resourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/resources.htm
  30. Overview - Publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/publications.htm
  31. Operations noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/notices/index.htm
  32. Safety alerts and noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/notices/index.htm#safety-alerts
  33. Offshore information sheetshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/infosheets/index.htm
  34. Research reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/researchreports.htm
  35. Statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics/index.htm
  36. Offshore charging informationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/charging.htm
  37. Key programme final reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/programmereports.htm
  38. Offshore Directivehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/directive.htm
  39. Subscribehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/ebulletin/index.htm
  40. Offshore statistics pagehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics/index.htm
  41. available from HSEhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/omar/reporting/incidents-to-omar.htm
  42. Offshore publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/publications.htm
  43. Research reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/researchreports.htm
  44. Offshore statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics/index.htm
  45. Diving micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/diving/index.htm
  46. Pipelines micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pipelines/index.htm
  47. Electricity micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/index.htm
  48. Carbon capture and storage micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/carboncapture/index.htm
  49. Regulating major hazards micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/regulating-major-hazards/index.htm
  50. Safety bulletinhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulletins/index.htm
  51. HSE Publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/index.htm
  52. Science and researchhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/research/index.htm
  53. Charging activitieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/charging/index.htm
  54. Health and safety statisticsfile:///J%7C/website/livelive/statistics/index.htm
  55. International Regulators Forumhttp://www.irfoffshoresafety.com/
  56. Institution of Occupational Safety and Healthhttp://www.iosh.co.uk/
Updated 2020-12-01