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Craig Wiggins to Lead Aker Solutions’ MMO in UK

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Craig Wiggins to Lead Aker Solutions’ MMO in UK

Aker Solutions has appointed Craig Wiggins as its managing director of maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) business in the UK.

Wiggins will be based in Aberdeen and have responsibility for the company’s brownfield engineering capability in the region.

“We’re very pleased to welcome Craig on board in this key position,” said David Clark, regional president for Aker Solutions in the UK and Africa.“His strong track record in the MMO area and experience from both our customers and the wider industry will bring valuable insight and leadership to a strategically important market for Aker Solutions.”

Wiggins joins Aker Solutions from BP, where his most recent role was focused on delivering organization within their global upstream business. Previously, Craig spent the rest of his 30-year oil and gas career with Shell and Petrofac in a variety of senior operational and business improvement roles.

“I am delighted to join Aker Solutions and lead the MMO business at an important time for the organization,” said Wiggins. “Aker Solutions has a strong client base and an excellent track record in the North Sea. I look forward to the next stage of our development as we build on our excellent customer relationships and deliver key projects for our customers on the UK continental shelf and beyond.”

Commercial Diving Certifications

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Commercial Diving Certifications

Commercial diving is a lucrative way to spend your time underwater. It requires certification through a high level of training in both diving and construction trades.

 

You will have the opportunity to work all over the world in exciting locations doing things that keep the adrenaline pumping and your face smiling. It is a career that is not for everyone, but if it is for you, you’ll love every minute of it.

The first step to a career in commercial diving is to become certified. Certifications come from several different SCUBA diving organizations like the Association of Commercial Diving Educators. Usually this organization certifies a commercial diving school to handle your diving education. Check to see if the school you are considering is associated with a proper, respectable certifying organization.

Commercial diving schools are located all over the USA, from California to South Carolina to Texas. A simple search at Google.com will bring up quite a few schools for you to choose from. Most require a high school diploma or G.E.D., but no previous diving skills. You will need to be able to work in dangerous, stressful conditions, have strong problem solving and decision-making skills, high stamina, learn solid diving and swimming skills, be a team player, and willing to learn mechanical trades.

Before you pick a commercial diving school, do your research about them. Look into each school’s standards, training time, costs, experienced instructors, job placement services, curriculum, equipment, real world training conditions, reviews by former students. Be sure to ask questions about anything and everything. Remember that this school is an investment in your future career and financial future.

Picking the right school for you may be the most important step in your path to becoming a commercial diver.

As a commercial diving student, you will learn all the basics of commercial diving in a comprehensive and rigorous environment. Most schools vary in length from 16 weeks to 6 months. When you graduate from commercial school you should have a solid understanding of safety, surface supplied diving, physics, anatomy, physiology, dive medicine, decompression, hyperbaric chambers, underwater tools, support equipment, welding, cutting, dive operations planning, offshore oil fields, mixed gases, and saturation. The skills you learn will help prepare you for commercial diving jobs in fields such as deep sea exploration, hazardous material diving, underwater wet welding, underwater burning and rigging, salvage expert, or underwater structural inspection. Get the scoop on offshore oil rig jobs in that section of JobMonkey. Essentially you will become an underwater construction expert and any job that exists in construction on land, will most likely exist underwater also.

Your commercial diving school, if properly certified and in good standing, should be able to help you find your ideal job with a proper job placement service. Next you need to to build your resume. As you gain experience, your opportunities open up. In no time, you’ll be making a good paycheck on a regular basis. Entry-level positions usually make $18,000 to $35,000, with $10,000 to $15,000 increases per year of experience. With time, you can make around $100,000 a year. Commercial diving is a booming industry that welcomes driven divers like you.

Here are a few organizations that will help you start this exciting career path:

  • Association of Commercial Diving Educators
  • Association of Diving Contractors International
  • American National Standards Institute
  • American Welding Society
  • International Diving Schools Association

 

 

 

 

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PSA Inspects Fabrication of Gina Krog Flexible Risers

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PSA Inspects Fabrication of Gina Krog Flexible Risers

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of Statoil and the fabrication of flexible risers for Gina Krog FSO.

The objective of the audit was to monitor the fabrication of flexible risers, follow up the operator and supplier/subcontractor and verify that the project is being planned and executed in compliance with regulatory requirements.

According to PSA, no non-conformities were identified.

However, two improvement points were identified in connection with document management, and responsibility and authority.

PSA said it has given Statoil a deadline of November 10, 2015 to report on how the improvement points will be dealt with.

Gina Krog (previously Dagny) is located about 30 kilometers northwest of Sleipner. The plan is to develop Gina Krog with a platform resting on the seabed, while the wells will be drilled with a mobile jack-up drilling rig. The liquid will be transported via a tanker, and the gas via the Sleipner field.

Baker Hughes: US Oil Drillers Slow Pace Of Rig Cuts

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Baker Hughes: US Oil Drillers Slow Pace Of Rig Cuts

U.S. energy firms reduced oil rigs for an eighth week in a row this week but slowed the rate of those cuts to just one rig, data showed on Friday, a sign some drillers may soon return to the well pad with hopes of rising crude prices in the future. The total rig count for the week ended Oct. 23 fell to 594, the least since July 2010. Over the past eight weeks, drillers cut a total of 81 rigs, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said in its closely followed report.

The reduction this week was the lowest since drillers started cutting rigs at the start of September after adding 47 rigs over the summer. Drillers decided to add the rigs over the summer during the spring when crude prices averaged $60 a barrel in May and June. U.S. oil futures this week however have lost over 5 percent to average $45 a barrel, sliding for a second straight week, on continuing oversupply concerns even as China’s latest interest rate cut raised hopes for stronger demand from the world’s top energy consumer.

The total count this week is less than half the 1,595 oil rigs in the same week a year ago. Since hitting an all-time high of 1,609 in October 2014, weekly rig count reductions have averaged 19. With natural gas rigs up one to 193 this week, the total oil and gas rig count held at a 13-year low, according to Baker Hughes. The rig count is one of several indicators traders look at in trying to figure out whether production will rise or fall over the next several months.

Other factors include how fast energy firms complete previously drilled but unfinished wells and rising well efficiency and productivity. Despite the overall decline in oil rigs, drillers added rigs in two of the four major U.S. shale oil basins this week. They added three in the Niobrara in Colorado and Wyoming and one in the Eagle Ford in South Texas, but removed three in the Permian in West Texas and eastern New Mexico.

There were no changes in the Bakken in North Dakota and Montana. On a weekly basis, the amount of U.S. oil pulled out of the ground has remained about 9.1 million bpd since the start of September, according to EIA’s weekly field production report, well below the 9.6 million-barrel per day peak seen in April. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saga Subsea Opens Office on Gran Canaria

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Saga Subsea Opens Office on Gran Canaria

Saga Subsea has established an office on the Gran Canaria Subsea and Offshorebase (GCSB), where it will be a part of development of the base together with Otech.

Managing Director in Saga Subsea, Einar Tollaksvik said: “We think that the foundations and pre-work for this Offshorebase, commenced by Otech and Satocan, have been done in a very professional way. With regards to our subsea activity and the services we provide today, we believe this base and Gran Canaria have great potential, and placed geographically perfect for a majority of these services.”

Managing Director in Otech, Odd Are Tveit said:“The companies behind GCSB are Otech together with Satocan. We have choosen Gran Canaria due to its strategically position in the middle of the most important oil and gas regions of the world, or as we say “in the center of the world”. This is the most southern port in Europe, able to offer our clients a safe place to mobilize, commence projects and use as a base for operations on West Africa and South America without being afraid of unpredictable costs, corruption and custom problems.”

Saga Subsea has established offices and storage on the GCSB, where it will accommodate shipment of rental tooling which is on its way from Haugesund.

The company will be able to receive vessels, and prepare them with equipment and personnel, or receive assets for maintenance and repair or preparations before, or after projects. Contractors will be able to send the equipment for storage, and in the future mobilize it directly from the GCSB.

Einar Tollaksvik added: “One of the most important things for the contractors, is for them to know that they can send down equipment, and that this is taken care of by a Norwegian company with solid experience within maintenance and repair of subsea assets. We have been a part of preservation work and preparations of subsea PIG L/R, maintenance and re-builts of FMC’s and manufacturing of a wide range of specialised ROV tooling.”

He continues: “Our main offices is on Killingøy Offshorebase, Haugesund, which today is the largest subsea cluster area in the world. This is where we have worked up our experience for this type of work, and can also mention that the majority of our staff have solid experience with subsea operations. Most of our staff have been offshore for many years, and know what is to be expected by the clients. This is an enormous strength for us.”

Minister: Mexico To Take Part In OPEC Meet, Won’t Cut Oil Output

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Minister: Mexico To Take Part In OPEC Meet, Won’t Cut Oil Output

Mexico will take part in a technical meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Oct. 21 in Vienna but will not cut oil production, the country’s energy minister Pedro Joaquin Coldwell said on Wednesday. Joaquin Coldwell pointed to flagging oil output, which has steadily declined since reaching a peak of some 3.4 million barrels per day in 2004, to explain why Mexico would attend but not consider pumping less crude.

“We are going with a technical delegation to receive information… (and) exchange it with other producers,” he told reporters after an event in Mexico City. “But Mexico will not take part in any reduction in production volume.” Mexico is not a member of OPEC but has been invited, along with seven other non-member countries, to attend the Vienna meeting.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said late on Tuesday the head of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA Eulogio Del Pino would also attend the meeting to “present the details of our proposal.” Venezuela, which is an OPEC member, has proposed reviving OPEC’s old price band mechanism, attempting to set a $70 floor for the battered market, which oil traders see as doomed from the start.

When asked about the proposal, Coldwell declined to comment, saying he was not familiar with it and would make a decision after it was presented at the meeting. OPEC has invited eight oil-producing countries that do not belong to the organization to attend the meeting, in an attempt to devise a strategy to underpin slumping oil prices, Venezuela’s Del Pino told Reuters on Tuesday.

Delegations from non-OPEC members Azerbaijan, Brazil, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Norway, Mexico, Oman and Russia were invited but not all have responded yet, Del Pino said.

 

 

 

 

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DeepOcean to Install Cables for Walney Extension

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DeepOcean to Install Cables for Walney Extension

DeepOcean 1 UK, a subsidiary of DeepOcean, has been awarded a contract by DONG Energy for the installation and trenching works for the Walney Extension offshore wind project in the Irish Sea.

Offshore work will be performed from DeepOcean’s new cable installation vessel Maersk Connector in 2017, the company informed.

This is the second recent award for DeepOcean’s new cable lay vessel Maersk Connector, which joins the fleet in the first quarter 2016. DeepOcean’s scope includes route engineering as well as the installation and trenching of a total of 136 km offshore export cables and a 23 km interlink cable. The cables will be pulled ashore near Heysham and will link the two offshore sub station platforms at the wind farm.

Offshore work is expected to start in the first quarter 2017, subject to DONG Energy taking a final investment decision to proceed with the project.

The Walney Extension Project, WOW03 (west) and WOW04 (east), is anticipated to have a total capacity of 660MW. With up to 90 turbines each with a 7MW or 8MW output and 2 offshore substations and is to be constructed by DONG Energy AS, as the sole owner of the Project. WOW03 and WOW04 will consist of 2 x 220kV independent electrical systems each with their own offshore sub stations. The project is situated in the Irish Sea west-south-west of the Isle of Walney coast in Cumbria.

DeepOcean’s Ottar Maeland, EVP Greater North Sea said, “We are delighted to be expanding our relationship with DONG Energy from the offshore oil and gas market to the key growth area of offshore wind. This is a major contract using our state of the art new cable installation vessel Maersk Connector and the versatile installation and trenching vessel Havila Phoenix. DeepOcean’s investments in these advanced vessels and trenching systems are helping our customers bring down the risk and cost of offshore wind developments. DeepOcean’s investments and capabilities illustrate how the UK supply chain is working hard to support our Customers in bring clean power to millions of UK families.”

Human Capital Strategies Necessary to Address Future Oil, Gas Challenges

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Human Capital Strategies Necessary to Address Future Oil, Gas Challenges

Talent management strategies of the past are no longer sufficient to address the complex and dynamic workforce challenges the oil and gas industry faces today and will face in the future.

This was the focus of a webinar hosted by business conference creator Hanson Wade, in which leaders from human resource firm Mercer and Halliburton Company shared insights into how to meet short-term needs without jeopardizing long-term success.

In looking at workforce demographics, Philip Tenenbaum, senior partner and global leader of Mercer’s energy vertical, revealed global differences. For example, Asia has a young workforce, while the United States, Canada and Europe have more workers near retirement age.

“In 2025, there is still projected to be a shortage in critical jobs, even though lower oil prices has reduced talent demand,” said Jay Doherty, cofounder of Mercer’s Workforce Sciences Institute.

While there’s a substantial shortage in regions such as Russia, Kazakhstan, Libya, India, Latin America, the United States, Canada and Asia, there is a substantial surplus in Australia and Europe. And aside from petroleum engineers, there is a substantial surplus of other engineers globally.  

“Substantial shortages in Russia are driven largely by an aging workforce, not unlike the shortages in North America,” said Doherty. “Shortages in Latin America are a result of demand growth.”

Mahesh Puducheri, vice president of human resources for Halliburton, said though the company has made adjustments in its workforce, like other oil and gas companies, it has learned lessons from the past.

“This industry is notorious for not managing human capital on a long term basis,” Puducheri said. “We need to look outside the industry to hire people with different skillsets and teach them about oil and gas. We must be willing to change our approach.”

Puducheri also mentioned that during the downturn, Halliburton is investing in technology.

“Other areas where we decided not to cut back was our leadership and development programs,” he said. “At Halliburton, our primary focus is cutting discretionary spending. We didn’t want to cut our investment in people, so we didn’t cut training or leadership development.”

Halliburton’s focus is on the frontline level for leadership development because all future executives start there, said Puducheri. 

 

 

 

 

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VBMS Wraps Up Drilling for Dudgeon Export Cabling

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VBMS Wraps Up Drilling for Dudgeon Export Cabling

VBMS has completed two 1,170 meter long horizontal directional drillings at the landfall for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm.

The drillings were done in preparation for the installation of two 42 kilometer long export cables next year. To avoid worsening weather conditions later in season, the work was brought forward by three months. This meant that VBMS could deliver the project ahead of schedule to Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited, a subsidiary of Norwegian companies Statoil, Statkraft and Masdar, the company wrote in a press release.

Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited said: “We are very pleased with the performance that VBMS delivered on this part of the project in terms of efficiency and HSE. The drilling operations and associated marine work were executed within the scheduled time. The VBMS team and their subcontractors Visser & Smit Hanab and diving contractor Aquatech were all qualified, with personnel using first class equipment and marine spread which were very well suited for the scale of the work.”

VBMS will continue with the export cable installation at Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm in March 2016. The total scope of work for VBMS also includes the design, supply, installation, termination and testing of 67 inter-array cables, which measure approximately 100 kilometres, the company added.

The Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm is located 32 kilometres off the British coast, north of the town of Cromer in North Norfolk (UK) and 20 kilometres northeast of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. The 67 wind turbines have a total capacity of 400 MW.

Nova Scotia shipwreck leads to oil slick concerns

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Nova Scotia shipwreck leads to oil slick concerns

The S.S. Arrow may have sank more than 40 years ago, but the repercussions are still creating environmental concerns in Canada. According to the CBC, the Canadian Coast Guard is taking action to contain fuel leaking from the ship, specifically hiring professional divers to assess the damage. The investigation comes in response to several liters of oil which are though to have leaked out the wreck.

Ryan Green of the local Coast Guard told the source that “We haven’t had any visual signs of any impacts [to marine life] and certainly our partners with Fisheries and Oceans and the Department of Environment don’t see a problem with it.” All the same, he noted that the cleanup effort will be immediate and dependent on good weather for effectiveness.

This isn’t the first time fuel from the Arrow has caused concerns. A report from the U.S. Department of the Navy said that more than 10,000 gallons of Bunker “C” fuel escaped from the ship’s tanks after it initially grounded in February 1970. Using a transfer barge and various techniques and equipment, the Canadian and American governments set about cleaning up the spill.

The craft had originally been en route to Port Hawkesbury in Nova Scotia when it sank in Chedabucto Bay. It broke up in the force of the impact and left more than 1 million gallons of oil in the ship’s cargo tanks. The new oil sheen was originally spotted this August by a flyover crew from the Canadian government. Insurance for commercial divers may keep operators covered as they investigate older wreck sites that have again become a problem.

 

 

 

 

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