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vSHIP: New Ship Simulator for

Offshore Industry

Marine Simulation released its latest product, vSHIP, which is designed to train and prepare shipboard person- nel for the ever growing roles and responsibilities they face in support of the offshore industry. Available as a desktop PC based simulator, vSHIP is designed to inter- face with marine electronics and navigation software via industry standard interfaces, as well as with other vSHIP and ROVsim Pro installations, providing a real world, coordinated operation simulation. Potential training applications include: offshore mooring and support oper- ations, coordinated bridge / ROV team operations, naval mine and ordnance sweeping and clearance, as well as complex mission rehearsal. http://www.marinesimulation.com

MTNW: Adamac Deal

Measurement Technology NorthWest (MTNW) announced an award from Adamac, a Nigerian Oil & Gas

Services company, for a project that called for nine running line tensiometers, displays, and software to monitor the anchor winch lines for a pipe-laying barge. “The Gulf of

Guinea off of Nigeria is one of the fastest growing new oil patches. It is becoming as criss-crossed with sub-sea pipes as any ocean in the world,” said Tom Rezanka, Managing

Director of MTNW. “Oil companies operating in sub-sea environments have to be very careful about where they place their anchors for mooring. They need to know immediately if one of their anchors is slipping and could potentially pull through other nearby pipelines, or disrupt the laying of their own pipe.” Kehinde Onibokun, Assistant General Manager of Adamac’s Pipelines Unit agrees with Rezanka, stating: “Adamac is a fast growing Oil & Gas Services firm, working with the largest energy producers in the world.

Part of our responsibility for personnel, equipment and environmental safety is to ensure that our own pipeline lay- ing equipment is outfitted with the latest technology for monitoring.” Kehinde went on to explain the reason

Adamac chose to work with MTNW: “MTNW’s anchor winch monitoring technology provides instant feedback to the vessel operators for immediate decision-making and also has data-logging for long-term, after-action review and analysis.”

Rezanka explained that having technology continuously monitor anchor winch tension trends and historical peak loads locally at the winch station, in the control room, and remotely through the PC increases the safety factor beyond other currently available systems. With historical data-logging of tension loads that MTNW’s WinchDAC software provides, vessel owner and managers have the capability to demonstrate and certify performance to their customers. “We have placed anchor winch mooring systems in the North Sea, Dubai, Venezuela, Singapore and now

Nigeria,” said Matt Mostad, VP of Sales at MTNW. “We are pleased to see growing recognition in the importance of mooring monitoring and data-logging for end-customers and for rig managers.” www.mtnw-usa.com www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 57 (Photo Cour tesy Measur ement T echnology Nor thW est (MTNW))