INDUSTRY NEWS PEMEX DELVES DEEP INTO UK SUBSEA SECTOR


SUBSEA UK SHARES KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE WITH MEXICO’S NATIONAL OIL COMPANY


Senior figures from Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, have been discovering the secrets of the UK subsea sector’s success and how it has revolutionised the way in which hydrocarbons have been extracted from beneath the seabed during a fact-finding visit to Aberdeen.


Organised in partnership with the Department of International Trade (DIT), the five-day subsea learning event included site visits to some of the sector’s most innovative companies, including GE Oil & Gas, Aker Solutions, Hydrasun, Wood Group, BP and ROVOP. The delegation experienced what it’s like to operate a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), learnt about diving operations and toured a number of subsea manufacturing plants.


The mission provided a broad but in- depth overview of the sector, covering how technology has evolved over the years to meet the demands of exploration and production companies as they move to harsher and more


complex environments in order to recover the world’s oil and gas reserves.


They also gained an insight into the subsea industry from a UK perspective and as a global sector, looking at how subsea fields are developed, and how subsea systems are designed, installed, operated and decommissioned around the world.


Neil Gordon, chief executive of Subsea UK, said: “Welcoming the Pemex team to Aberdeen to see first-hand some of the ground breaking technologies and innovations that created the subsea sector centre of excellence was an important development opportunity for the sector.


“The Energy Reform in 2013 saw Mexico’s oil and gas industry undergo some big changes as it opened its doors to international companies for the first time. This fact-finding mission has allowed us to showcase the UK’s subsea industry and demonstrate why the UK leads the way around the world in subsea technology and expertise. “


Each year, Subsea UK works with DIT to organise trade missions to Mexico in a bid to increase business and trade opportunities in this very promising energy hub.


“Mexico has the potential to be one of the fastest-growing oil and gas provinces in the world and this visit to Aberdeen builds on the already close ties between our two countries. With Mexico’s energy ambitions and the UK’s wealth of experience, there are huge opportunities for collaboration.We hope the delegates found the visits to the various companies involved to be highly valuable,” added Mr Gordon.


FIRST WORKERS COMPLETE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY’S NEW ONSHORE SAFETY TRAINING STANDARD WITH WILD GEESE GROUP


The first downstream oil and gas workers have successfully completed safety-critical training under a new industry standard which has been developed using the same high criteria used to train offshore workers safearound the world.


Wild Geese Group (WGG) in Malaysia is the first company to achieve OPITO’s approval to deliver training as part of OPITO’s Onshore Petroleum Processing & Refining Facilities Standards which were launched in November 2016.


The training provider is the first in the world to be approved to deliver plant manager and incident commander initial response training and assessment training after meeting the strict criteria set out by the industry safety, standards and workforce development body. Personnel from NUSAPETRO Sdn.


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Bhd onshore plant have been the first to undertake the training and assessment.


OPITO’s emergency response framework for onshore personnel encompasses key specialist roles whose function is to manage any emergency, coordinate the response and respond to instructions around controlling an incident. These include control room operators,


plant managers, incident commanders and fire/emergency response team leaders.


The industry organisation’s globally recognised upstream standards are delivered to workers in 45 countries and last year saw a record number of new approvals awarded to training provider companies, demonstrating the value the sector places on using OPITO standards.


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