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skilled workers with rope access experi- ence can get to any place on stationary or foating facilities quickly and safely to perform inspections, repairs, rescues or fabric maintenance, as required.

Gulf of Mexico

Focusing on core competencies

If successful, the O&M Supply Chain Lab process should allow owners/operators to better manage a wide range of assets— such as offshore platforms, refneries and gas plants. These assets require specialized expertise for O&M activi- ties. Recruiting and retaining skilled technicians to carry out these activities is increasingly diffcult and expensive.

And, more importantly, the fast-changing regulatory and compliance environment makes the chain of accountability an important factor in hiring personnel and selecting contractors.

In addition to these challenges, high

Stork helps deliver long-term success by streamlining clients’ processes that are key turnover in the workforce, lack of experi- to ensuring efcient, sustainable operations and maximizing ROI.

ence, and limited resources for oversight repair—but also specialized rope access entry to areas that are typically accessible and management are increasing risk and clear that choosing a technical services skills. They are recruited based on specifc only via traditional scaffolding. Not only is costs. It follows, then, that outsourcing to provider using three-bids-and-a-buy pro- competencies such as structural repair traditional scaffolding expensive, it is also the right O&M provider should be based curement practices may result in lower knowledge and are trained to work on oil time consuming to erect and dismantle, on fnding a company that has O&M day rates but higher overall risks, costs and gas assets by using rope access to gain posing an increase in risk exposure. Stork’s skills as a core competency. It is also and downtime. Since uptime, O&M costs

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