Equinor and Kongsberg Digital Team Up to Enhance Offshore Skills and Environmental Protection
Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor is collaborating with the maritime and offshore technology company Kongsberg Digital to boost its personnel skills to protect the environment, prevent offshore incidents, and perform holistic crisis management in advanced offshore operations.Keyto this collaboration is the deployment of four K-Sim Offshore simulators delivered by Kongsberg Digital. These will be integrated with KONGSBERG’s K-Pos Dynamic Positioning systems and NORBIT’s pioneering Oil Spill Detection system, Aptomar. According to Kongsberg Digital, the tailored configuration
Rapid Reaction: Emergency Training Saves Lives
in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, RelyOn Nutec Canada supplies a large number of services to the maritime sector ranging from strategic planning to the delivery of effective training programs. The company’s products and services include training delivery and management, competence management and crisis management, providing support not only to individuals in building their career skills but also to national and multinational companies in organizing their training, competence and crisis management procedures.Accident simulationRelyOn Nutec Canada recently gave a demonstration of one example of its safety
Innovative New Falck Training Center
, which will cover an area more than one hectare bigger than the current site, will be designed and built in accordance with the very latest standards for technology, the environment, occupational hygiene and safety and training technologies (virtual reality environments for incident control and crisis management, for example). The new site will also feature a field lab, for research and practical experiments. The functional wishes and needs of both national and international clients are the guiding principle on which the design for the training facilities is based. The expectation is that
FORCE Expands Tidal Energy Project Team
operations, as well as mapping the tidal resource in the Minas Passage. Janet MacMillan joins FORCE's newly expanded board as an independent director. Ms. MacMillan is a partner and lead strategic counsel at National Public Relations, and specializes in such areas as risk, reputation and crisis management, citizen engagement, governance and regulatory matters. FORCE also welcomes Paul Jamer to the board as an independent director. Mr. Jamer is a Marine Engineer and VP of corporate development for Aspin Kemp & Associates (AKA) - a Canadian systems integration company that provides
Kongsberg Delivers Simulator Upgrades
according to DNV Class A. An advanced ROV simulator interface and a hydraulic winch simulator for anchor handling as well as a hydrodynamic modeling tool for development of vessel models are included. Simsea’s ability to offer courses covering individual and best practice team training and crisis management will be significantly enhanced following the upgrades. Most offshore maritime operations will be covered, such as platform support, close proximity, anchor handling, subsea, offshore loading, rig ballast/stability, power management and DP. The facility’s DP training capabilities fulfil
BLUE: Ocean Film and Entertainment
future generations, but for the health of our own children. If humanity's life support system is lost, little else matters. I believe film and entertainment are the most powerful tools we have for reaching a large number of people in a short amount of time, hopefully before our only choice is crisis management,” she said. Like our fellow species in the sea, we are interconnected and our web of life is fragile and interdependent. BLUE takes lessons from nature to help build its ecology of ocean professionals working together to protect the planet’s blue heart, on which life on Earth
February 2025
