Collisions Between Platforms and Ships in Norway in the Period 2001-2010

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Kvitrud, A. (2011) 'Collisions Between Platforms and Ships in Norway in the Period 2001-2010', in *Proceedings of the ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2011)*, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 19–24 June 2011, paper OMAE2011-49897, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1115/OMAE2011-49897. Compiled into [[platform-ship-collisions-norwegian-shelf]].

A statistical and case-based review by the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) of collisions between ships and offshore installations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Reports 115 collisions since 1982 and 26 in 2001–2010 (no fatalities or personal injuries), then describes the six most severe cases of the decade (West Venture 2004, Ekofisk 2/4-P 2005, Njord B 2006, Grane 2007, Ekofisk 2/4-W 2009, Songa Dee 2010), their impact energies, and the common human and organisational causes. Born-digital PDF (MS Word 2007), clean text layer, OCR ok; verified via the RAW PDF and the resolving ASME DOI.

**Renamed** from the inbox filename `OMAE2011-49897 COLLISIONS BETWEEN PLATFORMS AND SHIPS IN NORWAY.PDF` (spaces, all-caps, uppercase extension) to a descriptive kebab-case name.

**Pagination note.** Printed page footers run 1–5 and match the PDF pages exactly: PDF p. N = orig. p. N (offset 0). The journal-wide footer string is absent; cite the paper number OMAE2011-49897.

**DOI note.** No DOI is printed in the offprint; `10.1115/OMAE2011-49897` follows ASME's standard scheme and was confirmed to resolve to the OMAE2011 proceedings entry on the ASME Digital Collection (verified 2026-06-16).

**Reading note.** European decimal style appears in some tonnages — "4.679 dead weight tons" = 4,679 dwt; "126.183 dead weight tons" = 126,183 dwt (dots are thousands separators, not decimals).

**Routing note.** Owned by maritime-domain-kb: ship/offshore operations, vessel types, and maritime safety are explicit focus areas. Cross-relevant to remote-operations-kb (shore-based traffic monitoring at Ekofisk/Sandsli; DP supervision) and human-centered-design-kb (automation over-reliance, autopilot left engaged); those KBs link rather than duplicate.

```bibtex
@inproceedings{kvitrud2011collisions,
  author    = {Kvitrud, Arne},
  title     = {Collisions Between Platforms and Ships in Norway in the Period 2001-2010},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2011)},
  series    = {OMAE2011},
  number    = {OMAE2011-49897},
  pages     = {1--5},
  year      = {2011},
  month     = {6},
  address   = {Rotterdam, The Netherlands},
  publisher = {ASME},
  doi       = {10.1115/OMAE2011-49897}
}
```

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