Collisions Between Ships and Platforms in Brazilian Waters

A review of accidents involving collisions between ships and offshore platforms was carried out. There are reports and publications that present numbers, statistics and even details of the most important collisions between ships and offshore platforms, especially considering the North Sea region, but publications about accidents in Brazilian waters are rare. Thus, this paper reports the few existing publications that consider this problem in Brazilian waters and shows the results of eleven years of collecting data of collisions on Petrobras’ platforms.