SUBSEA EQUIPMENT/UNDERWATER INSPECTION
The Future of Subsea Equipment and Systems Assurance
As a key requirement to any subsea operational project, be it installation, inspection and maintenance or decommissioning, the complete process requires detailed and thorough planning and implementation. As with writing any procedure, or even this news article, the more people who can review and check the content to ensure it is aligned to the requirements, increases the level of assurance that the content will be correct, and safe to use. Thus, providing a higher level of assurance and success for the project.
When we consider our subsea equipment, tooling, methods statements, and procedures for implementation, these will include ROV’s, Diving systems, Vessels and much more. The International Marine Contractors Association has developed accepted audit and assurance check lists and protocols that can be used to check and verify such systems. The importance of each system (ROV, Diving and Vessels) are fundamental to the subsea operational environment and each involve humans. As such, the potential is not just equipment failure or damage, but personal injury or in the worst case scenario, fatality.
As the industry is now going through some tough times with the reduction in human capital, resources, implementation of travel restrictions, and budget restraints to name a few, we must not just use ‘Safety First’ as a slogan but it must be a mindset and be implemented. Now is the time to ensure safety and assurance remains at the highest priority for any project. Planning and Preparation Prevents… Poor Performance.
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Assurance of procedures, equipment, systems, and personnel is now more important than it has ever been.
Assurance processes have had to adapt and change due to the global travel restrictions, and by doing so many have been sceptical on the level of assurance that is being provided. Over the past 10 months, KB Associates Pte Ltd and their team of competent personnel have established a Remote Auditing and Assurance process that has been accepted by major operating companies and contractors within the oil and gas and renewable energy industries around the world for auditing and assuring ROV’s, Diving Systems (Air Diving Systems, Hyperbaric Reception Facilities and Saturation Diving Systems), Diving Safety Management Systems and project procedures. From Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia to Australasia, our clients have been able to continue their operations with the robust assurance process, conducted by competent auditors and subject matter experts. Working with personnel onsite, the assurance process is conducted using various means of verification, technology to confirm live onsite status, and
certification checks. The due diligence has been enhanced while engaging personnel onsite to act on findings and closeout actions during the process.
In today’s business climate, costs are high on the list of any project management team. The mindset of assuring that the systems are safe and operational is an advanced cost. However, allowing for this will potentially return dividends when the project is a success, with no down time due to equipment and system failures that should have been prevented from the onset. Remote auditing and assurance have the obvious bonus that it can be conducted across borders, time zones and with no travel and associated costs incurred.
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