OFFSHORE LOGISTICS
RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY The company predominantly dealt with the oil and gas market, however in 2003 there were the first inklings of renewables on the radar, albeit an immature sector. In 2006 CTC was sold to Deep Ocean and by 2010 the company had entered into the renewable industry, progressing steadily and completing its first 2 renewable projects.
PROFILE...
We have featured DeepOcean on numerous occasions within our magazine but never really on a more personal basis. We therefore sent our intrepid interviewer Fliss Chaffer, to learn more about the people behind the company – firstly in this edition, Pierre Boyde, and in the December/January 2014 edition Tony Inglis, who holds the daunting position of Managing Director.
HUMAN DYNAMO! when I finally caught up with Pierre it was abundantly evident that this gentleman is likened to a human dynamo – travelling on fast forward in every aspect of his life!
CAREER HISTORY
NAME: Pierre Boyde
COMPANY: DeepOcean UK
OCCUPATION: Commercial & UK Business Development Director
HABITAT: Yorkshire
Having completed his degree in marine engineering/ science and European studies at Southampton and Paris, his first step on the career ladder was within the oil and gas industry, where he gained considerable experience in offshore construction.
However his career was about to change course as he recounts one morning, whilst waiting to work offshore. On a boat in Aberdeen harbour, he received a call from an HR lady mentioning that there was a marvellous opportunity to have an interview with a small telecommunications company in the North, but it would have to be that day, and he would be strongly advised to attend.
CTC MARINE PROJECTS
The weather forecast did not bode well; he checked with the captain - 2 hours later he was on a flight to Teesside and cutting a long story short joined CTC Marine Projects, a fibre optical cable laying and seabed solutions company.
To date DeepOcean are one of the leading companies providing survey and seabed mapping; subsea installations, seabed interventions; IMr (Installation/Maintenance & Repair) and de-commissioning services worldwide.
GLOBAL PRESENCE
Pierre had an active role in successfully setting up a presence in Asia, moving to Singapore in 2005 for 5 years. This was a first, as previously there had been no other service such as this in the country, and by 2009 had 4 vessels working in China and Australia.
INTERESTING PROJECTS
With such a fascinating environment they have been requested to undertake unusual projects. One such project was to study the installation of cables across the north of Russia using nuclear powered freighters.
BESPOKE BARGE
Nearer to home they were asked to work with Fluor on the greater gabbard wind Farm to install the last remaining export cables after the previous installer went into liquidation.
DeepOcean chartered in an anchored barge and fast-tracked the project by re-designing the vessel from scratch. This proved tremendously difficult, and at times excruciatingly frustrating, however with tenacity and ingenuity they created a vessel suitable to mobilise and perform the project.
NEVER GIVE UP ATTITUDE The motto was ‘never give up!’ In fact, this very vessel was mobilised to Italy to deal with the recently parbuckled Costa Concordia in Giglio, Italy – the biggest salvage operation in maritime history.
DeepOcean were also involved in the preparation of the salvage operation in another way. They own ADUS, a 3D visualisation subsea software company which is so technically accurate and advanced, it allowed Titan Salvage to successfully acquire the contract to perform the massive salvage operation.
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