ALL IN A DAY’S WORK
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK
NAME Neil Collier
COMPANY Reef Subsea Integrated Projects (RSIP)
OCCUPATION Offshore Equipment Manager
HABITAT Bergen, Norway
ORGANISATION & PLANNING Neil’s role upon commencement of a project is to organise the team, equipment and oversee the constant maintenance of all RSIP’s offshore equipment (of which he adds is so much more efficient with the advent of the computer).
COMPANY EXPERTISE As a global leader in providing specialist subsea services to the offshore renewable and oil and gas industries, Reef Subsea Integrated Projects’ scope of expertise ranges from subsea construction, trenching of cables/umbilicals, inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) and ROV/ survey services. I was fortunate to catch up with Neil Collier, Offshore Equipment Manager to find out more about his role within this specialist industry.
THE YORKSHIRE CONNECTION Having lived in Norway for the past 15 years, I was surprised to hear Neil’s dulcet tones were still loyal to Yorkshire (haling from Sheffield) which goes hand-in-hand with an imitable sense of humour! - Imperative to counterbalance the huge responsibility he has in maintaining all the equipment.
No stranger to offshore life, Neil worked for many years for Fugro, prior to being in the military. He undertook a short stint onshore, but missed the offshore life so he returned and joined Reef Subsea.
Such upcoming projects for RSIP includes the mobilisation of the 750kW Q1000 jet trencher for subsea trenching work on Bøyla with Technip in the early part of 2014, as well the start of the Grane permanent reservoir monitoring (PRM) project, where RSIP will provide the installation and burial of seismic array cables at the Grane site offshore Norway for client Statoil. Neil’s team is also responsible for the equipment support on the ongoing Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm project, which will see RSIP install inter-array cables in field 13km off the North Wales coast.
The very nature of the beast working subsea presents numerous challenges and each project demands precision planning. Neil was involved in the cable burial and laying of gas pipelines from Norway to Holland, which brought up its own challenges.
Needing to avoid damaging existing pipelines and cables on the seabed, it was necessary to build a bridge across them by placing concrete mattresses, creating a ramp, known as ‘building a crossing’. Cables are tested when on the vessel as well as when laying, establishing any foreseen problems prior to laying.
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