event review
Round table sessions have become a popular part of the conference
DP conference turns issues into opportunities
market and other sectors, the conference is held by Riviera in association with the Dynamic Positioning Centre, part of C-MAR group. This year saw the conference attract more than 140 delegates and 14 exhibitors, both records for the fast-growing, increasingly popular industry forum. Giving the Platinum Sponsor’s welcome at the 2012 event, Peter Aylott, chief operating officer of C-MAR group, said the industry needed to adopt a collective approach to improving standards, recognising emerging challenges and generating innovative solutions. “Riviera’s conference is an excellent event which in only a short
E time has
grown to equal MTS’s long standing DP conference in Houston,” said Mr Aylott. As he remarked, manpower and skills shortages are a recurrent theme throughout the industry. “The exponential growth in demand for DP operators (DPOs) is
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stablished in response to demand for a dedicated international event focusing on DP in the offshore
Riviera’s European Dynamic Positioning Conference, the fourth example of which took place in London 24-25 May 2012, has become a springboard for the dynamic positioning (DP) industry to embrace opportunities and tackle challenges ahead
well-known,” he told delegates, but it is becoming a critical problem. “Not only is the workforce ageing, but we also have a real
challenge in generating common
standards and delivering consistent results. “I believe that this conference is reaching critical mass that enables it to really generate influence within the industry as a whole. There is a strong sense in which it is beginning to do much more than provide an opportunity to confer, and can provide ‘added value,’ using discussions at the event as the basis of potential action plans and conveying these to the appropriate organisation.
This will require real energy and drive, he told delegates, but as he also highlighted, “there are more experts here than in regulatory and government bodies.” Speakers at the event highlighted many of the other key issues facing the industry where, many remarked, there was a need for increased collaboration between the various players in the market. One obvious area is failure mode effects analysis (FMEAs), which involve owners, classification societies, shipyards,
DP
equipment designers and other specialists. Another is the industry’s response to and involvement in the development of rules and regulations governing the sector. Other speakers at the fast-growing event highlighted the fact that although most DP-equipped vessels are offshore vessels and oil and gas units such as mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs), the industry is no longer solely the preserve of that market. Increasingly, DP is being used by the cruise and passenger ship community, in the heavy lift and pipelay sectors and in the tanker/
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