Dolphin Energy achieves major safety milestone

Abu Dhabi: Dolphin Energy Limited yesterday announced that it had reached 40 million man hours without a lost time injury between the period of February 2009 to December 2013.

The company’s Upstream and Projects Divisions crossed the milestone and in so doing registered a 352 per cent reduction in the lost time incident rate (LTIR), which tracks the number of incidents that result in a lost time injury or illness per million hours worked, since operations began.

In addition, Dolphin Energy maintained its compliance record to environmental regulations and requirements, and in 2013 achieved a flaring rate lower than the target set by the Qatar Ministry of Environment.