Drydocks World Completes World’s Largest Turret
Drydocks World the leading provider of maritime and offshore services to the shipping, oil, gas and energy sectors marked a major milestone in successfully completing the world’s largest turret mooring system with His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline and Group attending the sail-away and completion ceremony to celebrate the occasion. At almost 100 meters high, weighing over 11,000 tons and with a diameter of 26 meters, the turret will ensure the Prelude floating liquefied natural
New Safety System Approved for North Sea Offshore Workers
The world’s first Category A Emergency Breathing System (EBS), developed by the Survitec Group, has gained approval and certification by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). This is the first major response to the government inquiry and report into helicopter safety, which followed a fatal crash in the waters off Shetland last year. The development of a new, improved EBS was identified as one of the key requirements of the report. Survitec has been working in association with the oil and gas industry as a priority since then to develop a system
Offshore Energy: Monitoring Performance
tools being used and reduce uncertainty. The standard sensors and parameters that should be measured within the system include: • Meteorological – the monitoring of the meteorological conditions offshore is critical to ensuring the safe operation of the asset. In 1981, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the Helideck Certification Agency (HCA) introduced the CAP 437 standard for the U.K. Continental Shelf and currently recommends that meteorological parameters and motion of the helideck are measured for an FPSO. Such parameters provide critical operational information which
Nessco Appoints Phil Goodall
costs.” Nessco also provides the UK offshore industry network, a live online database for weather monitoring across all North Sea assets, on behalf of Oil & Gas UK. This system supplies data from more than 90 offshore sites to helicopter operators, and complies with the Civil Aviation Authority’s CAP437 specification for reporting of weather from offshore helidecks. Nessco designs, engineers and deploys integrated telecommunications networks, providing total solutions for platforms, process plants and pipeline installations. Established in 1979, Nessco has
February 2025
