Subsea Innovator Wins SUT Award
. I am now working on the development of a new concept which I believe has the same game-changing potential as subsea compression. With the experience we’ve gained, it will not take as long as 30 years this time and I am aiming at seeing it operational while I am still in work.” Jane Bugler was also presented with The Houlder Cup for her outstanding contribution to underwater operations at the event on December 1. Recently retired, Ms Bugler spent the latter part of her career with the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) as technical director. She was responsible
New Chief Executive to Sign on at IMCA
. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a chartered engineer in the U.K. Leatt’s appointment follows on the heels of IMCA’s announcement yesterday naming Richard Benzie as the successor for longtime Technical Director Jane Bugler who will retire at the end of September. Leatt’s career in the marine industry began in 1978 when as a graduate engineer he qualified as a commercial air diver and has subsequently spent his entire professional career in the marine contracting business. His first appointment was
IMCA Names New Technical Director
Richard Benzie has been appointed Technical Director of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) to replace Jane Bugler who retires at the end of this month after 18 years in the role. Benzie will join IMCA in the near future. “More than any other individual past or present, Jane’s name is synonymous with the IMCA brand and the objectives of the association. Replacing Jane is therefore a big challenge, but one that I relish.” says Richard. “In these testing times for our industry I am delighted to be joining an organization I know well, whose track
IMCA Revises Multibeam Echosounds Guidelines
to cover wide swathes of the seafloor in a single pass. In addition, increases in processing power and availability of data storage at reasonable prices have made the technology accessible to a wider range of users,” explains IMCA’s Technical Director and Acting Chief Executive, Jane Bugler. In addition to a glossary of terminology and an introduction, there are sections on multibeam echosounders (overview, installation and operation, transducer, navigation and attitude, motion sensor, heading, synchronised timing, offset measures, water level adjustments, and sound velocity
IMCA Revises Diving Guidance
can be downloaded free of charge from the IMCA website, with printed copies available for purchase from the association. “Our diving guidance documents are used throughout the world, indeed often use of them is a requirement for diving contractors responding to a tender,” explained Jane Bugler, IMCA’s Technical Director and Acting Chief Executive. “The DESIGN series of documents have long played an important role within the industry. “In the early 1980s, in order to give some guidance to the offshore industry, IMCA’s predecessor the Association of Offshore
IMCA Survey Examines Global ROV Statistics
two surveys, with 518 in February, and 561 in August. “These statistics are intended to reflect personnel and vehicle levels on two occasions in the year roughly six months apart – February and August,” explained IMCA’s Technical Director and Acting Chief Executive, Jane Bugler. However she warns, “From 2014 the figures were required for all personnel working on ROV operations both offshore and onshore and also for total numbers of ROVs in fleets. Some respondents did not fully understand this revised data collection requirement and therefore the figures for 2014
IMCA Appoints Faure as President
. In addition to becoming President of IMCA, having served as Vice President of IMCA since September 2014, he also becomes Chairman of the association’s Overall Management Committee (OMC). “We welcome Bruno as our President and OMC Chairman for the next two years,” says Jane Bugler, Acting Chief Executive of IMCA. “At the same time we are able to announce that Leon Harland, Executive Vice President Commercial & Technology at Heerema Marine Contractors, has taken over as the IMCA Vice President. “I am delighted and honored to take the chairmanship of IMCA
IMCA Publishes Introduction to Inertial Navigation
. The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has published ‘An Introduction to Inertial Navigation Systems’ (IMCA S 022) produced for the association by Gordon Johnson under the direction of the IMCA Offshore Survey Division Management Committee. Jane Bugler, IMCA’s Technical Director explained, “This new document provides a broad overview of INS technology currently in use in surface and subsurface positioning solutions, giving a general overview of the technologies, the applications and a number of important considerations in their use
IMCA DP Proposal to be Basis for Updating IMO Guidelines
international standard for DP systems. The guidelines have successfully provided the framework on which national regulations and classification society rules are based, and which are supplemented by a growing body of more detailed industry guidance,” explains IMCA’s Technical Director, Jane Bugler. “Over the decades since MSC/circ.645 was first published in 1994, DP has evolved from being a tool primarily for mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) maintaining position over offshore wells, to being employed for a wide range of position keeping operations, with systems being fitted
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