The tool integrates two well-established market-leading systems that, together, allow incident investigation, reporting and management from start to finish.

UK independent oil and gas producer EnQuest was one of the driving forces behind the tool, which involved embedding Kelvin Top-Set's special investigation software with DNV GL's Synergi Life tool.

Synergi is dedicated to capturing, categorising and recording incidents.

EnQuest senior health, safety, environment and assurance adviser Barry Quinn said the company had wanted to create "a tool that would give it a complete, end-to-end process from incident identification, recording and investigation through to cause analysis and effective corrective action, and while there are many great solutions on the market, we were unable to identify any that fully incorporated incident management and investigation capabilities".

"In bringing the two systems together we have created a tool that standardises our approach to incident investigation and gives us a complete and accurate picture of all incidents across our assets, which will be extremely valuable in helping us to learn lessons and ensure we continue to deliver safe results," he said.

"It is also time and cost-effective because it removes the need to manually cross-reference or transfer information from one system to another.

"More than 100 people in our offshore and onshore teams have already been trained in the system and the feedback has been extremely positive.

"We've also had a lot of interest from other operators, particularly those in the Norwegian sector, who are keen to see the work we have done."

Kelvin Top-Set global business development manager George Dyer-Wilson said the benefits of merging the Synergi life and Top-Set systems had been recognised for some time but "EnQuest was instrumental in bringing all parties together and making it happen".