CNOOC BECOMES CHINA’S FIRST OPITO APPROVED SAFETY TRAINER
The largest producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas in China, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), has become the country’s first organisation certified to train workers to OPITO safety standards.
Its safety training facility, CNOOC Safety & Technology Services Co. Ltd, achieved the internationally recognised approval this summer and it’s anticipated that more than 1,000 of its personnel will be certified within the first 12 months.
CNOOC is China’s third largest state-owned E&P firm. It has operations in the South China Sea as well as being involved in LNG storage activities within the Tianjin port district of the Bohai Sea. Internationally, it has assets in Asia, Africa, North and South America, Oceania and Europe.
WOMEN IN MARITIME PLEDGE
Coltraco Ultrasonics are proud to have signed the Women in Maritime Pledge: “We are committed to building an employment culture that actively supports and celebrates gender diversity, at all levels, throughout our organisation, and our industry.” This comes as the ITF estimates that women make up only 2% of the world’s maritime workforce.
Coltraco are proud to support gender parity and equal pay. Carl Hunter, CEO and Clare Hunter, Head of Marketing & Communications were delighted to attend the Women in Maritime Charter Launch, as one of just 60 companies who have signed the pledge. In a video created by the Dept for Transport (DfT) for this occasion our Marketing & Communications Assistant proudly describes her “fulfilling” career in the maritime industry.
Coltraco hope that this is the start of positive change within the maritime sector. Coltraco hope that the UK will lead the world in changing the gender balance to create equal opportunities for all.
With thanks to MaritimeUK who have been the wind in the sail of this Charter, supported by DfT, Department for International Trade, leading associations like SMI and ABP and fellow industry leaders.
The training centre and its satellite facilities are based in the city of Tianjin where up to 40,000 CNOOC personnel are based. It obtained OPITO approval after meeting the strict criteria set out by the global, not-for-profit, skills organisation for the energy sector over a period of 9 months.
The approval will see the company introduce personnel to the specific safety issues and regimes relevant to offshore installations and equip them with the basic emergency response knowledge and skills for travelling offshore by helicopter.
The offshore survival approval includes: the Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training (BOSIET) with Emergency Breathing System (EBS); Helicopter Underwater Emergency Training (HUET) with EBS; and the refresher course, Further Offshore Emergency Training (FOET) with EBS.
CNOOC Safety & Training Services Co. Ltd also gained approval to deliver Basic H2S Training, providing participants with knowledge and understanding of hazards and gas, and appropriate emergency response actions to take should a related incident arise.
The tug is equipped with everything that a busy commercial port requires. A Mampaey tow hook provides 150kN of capacity whilst the vessel achieved a bollard pull is 10 tonnes and free running speed of 10 knots on trials. An aft lifting gantry and 7 tonne winch provides plough-dredging capability. As well as dredging, the vessel’s other duties will include towing, pushing, surveying and lifting which is carried out with A Cormach 8700 E4 Marine Deck crane.
Below deck, Doosan V158 engines providing 480HP at 1800rpm are flexibly coupled to Twin Disc gearboxes with a reduction ratio of 6.10:1. The 1.7m twin propellers are driven through Kort nozzles. Above deck the vessel is fitted with an external fi-fi-monitor and pump, and the wheelhouse is fitted with the latest equipment such as Furuno electronics as well as a high precision GPS for carrying out survey work.
p6 |
www.dockyard-mag.com | October 2018
Macduff Ship Design is pleased to have had the opportunity to work with Shoreham Port on this project and at present is being kept busy with a full order book of new and repeat designs for owners both in the UK and abroad.
SHOREHAM 16M HARBOUR TUG AUTUMN 2018 PRESS RELEASE
Macduff Ship Design has announced that the 16m Harbour Tug, ‘Acamar’, which was designed for Shoreham Port Authority for operation in their busy harbour, has successfully completed the delivery voyage from Macduff to Shoreham on the south coast of England.
The build process started in August 2017 with the first steel being cut for the vessel. The entire construction and outfitting of the vessel was supervised by Macduff Ship Design with the owners being kept updated regularly as to the vessel’s progress. ‘Acamar’ is constructed entirely from steel to a hard-chine hullform with a box skeg and Kort propulsion supply KT30 bow thruster. The final touches were completed on the vessel in July 2018 with delivery being achieved in early September. The design, inspired by the popular ‘Eileen Mcloughlin’ hull, was customised to suit Shoreham Port’s busy operations schedule and narrowed in order to fit through lock gates. The unusual but aptly named ‘Acamar’, which derives from an Arabic phrase meaning ‘end of the river’, complements Shoreham’s existing vessel ‘Adurni’ by adding extra capability to the Shoreham fleet.
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52
