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People & Company News Karen Seath will join Decom North

Sea (DNS) in September as General

Manager.With the total cost of UKCS de- commissioning expected to reach approx- imately $7.5 billion in the next fi ve years, these are strategically critical times for the North Sea decommissioning industry. Jill Rivette has joined C & C Tech- nologies’ Geotechnical Division in Hous- ton as a Senior Geotechnical Engineer.

She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and brings with her many years of experience in geotechnical engineering. Jim McClaugherty has joined

SeaTrepid International as senior sales manager for the Gulf of Mexico. Mc-

Claugherty joins with 45 years of experi- ence in the offshore industry, starting his career as a commercial diver in 1970 in the Gulf of Mexico, and over a 10-year period moved up the ranks as diver, lead diver and diver supervisor. Jack Davidson has been promoted from the role of operations director to managing director at Energy industry service company Fisher Offshore, part of

James Fisher and Sons plc. The expan- sion of the company’s subsea tooling de- partment was a focus in the fi rst quarter of 2014 and was followed in Q2 with the completion of a $3.3 million investment program. Paul Hopkins was appointed as principal engineer at 2H Offshore, an Ac- teon company, to develop 2H Offshore’s growing client base in Norway. Hopkins worked for 2H Offshore from 2001 - 2006 on a diverse range of riser projects, including Exxon’s Kizomba A and B de- velopments and BP’s Shah Deniz project. Phil Zivich has been promoted to

Manager, Inside Sales/Customer Service at PMI Industries, Inc. Zivich is responsi- ble for managing PMI’s customer-facing timely responses and day-to-day interac- tion. Tyson Alvanos has joined the L-3

Klein Associates marketing and technical sales group.Alvanos joins Klein with 10 years of experience as a senior technical sales engineer in the semiconductor, solar

LED and medical product applications fi elds. McMillan Design is celebrating 20 years of design, manufacturing and sales of the Sea Catch Toggle Release. Since 1994, Sea Catch, a quick release hook de- signed for the release of lines or objects under load, has gained praise from en- gineers and users in 14 major industries around the world and is now available in more than 68 different models with ca- pacities ranging from .65 tons to 150 tons or larger. The standard unit is connected via common shackles at each end where- as the LM Series is formed with enlarged jaws to receive and release fi ber line or wire rope rather than a shackle. Retriev- ing hooks and off-load hooks have been added to the general product line in recent years. Chevron USA recently used a Sea

Catch TR18RAM as an emergency dis- connect on the mooring line that secured an oceangoing barge to the stern of a drill ship for well test fl owback. LUSCHI will mobilize its vessel

Giovanella to Espírito Santo to assist in the dredging and fi nal disposal of accu- mulated sediments in the seawater storage canal of ArcelorMittal, one of the world’s leading steel and mining companies. The canal has approximately 600 m long and sedimentation volume in the order of 46,000 cu. m. The project aims to use a self-propelled trailing suction hopper dredger that allows it to suck up the sedi- ments into its own cisterns for disposal in offshore waters, provided by Companhia

Docas do Espírito Santo - Codesa. Calecore unites with sister company

N-Sea to continue geotechnical and ROV survey operations in Barents Sea Calesur- vey, Calecore’s Offshore Geophysical di- vision has seen steady increase in demand over the past two years for ROV Survey

Services. In June, WROV operations were undertaken onboard the Komman- dor Calum for a project West of Shetland whilst the Kommandor Stuart has been undertaking multiple integrated 2DHR,

ROV and seabed testing and sampling campaigns offshore Northern Norway.

The Siem Stork replaces the Kommandor

Stuart. The vessel is equipped with a new

SMD Quasar Work Class ROV and Cale- geo supplied Seabed Geotechnical tools.

The Kommandor Stuart will be heading

Karen Seath Paul HopkinsJim McClaughertyJill Rivette

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