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Training Success With U.S. Rig Simulator Featured At Conference
Nearly 200 persons have successfully completed training on an offshore rig ballast control simulator, similar in function to those used to train airplane pilots.
Details of the program were reported by Gregory D. Szczurek, vice president, Houston Marine Consultants, Inc., New Orleans, at the recent North Sea Technology Transfer Conference at the Technical University of Nova Scotia.
Mr. Szczurek said the simulator, designed by Houston Marine and W.S. Atkins, is a full scale mockup of a ballast control panel aboard a semi-submersible drilling unit that reflects changes in ballast, loads and sea conditions in the same way a drilling rig would respond at sea.
The U.S. Coast Guard approved course consists of two days of classroom instruction in stability principles and calculations, which are then followed by three days of "hands on" training with the simulator.
The stability and ballast control courses are taught by Houston Marine at the Det Norske Veritas Technology Center in Houston but are independent of the regulatory agency.
The simulator can be used to train/or upgrade the skills of control room operators, barge engineers, barge movers, masters and toolpushers.
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- Huthnance Corporation Formed To Consolidate Rig Ownership page: 6
- Brochure On Halon 1301 Fire Extinguishing Systems Offered By Walter Kidde page: 6
- Bay Ship Converts NavAids Barge For U.S. Coast Guard page: 6
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- NMEA Plans to Expand Electronics Technician Certification Program page: 7
- Hose-McCann Introduces Dial Telephone System page: 7
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- Magnavox Announces First Fully Automatic Vessel Monitoring System page: 8
- Magliocca Elected New General Chairman Of NSC Marine Section page: 9
- BFGoodrich Offers New Brochure On Cutless Line Of Rubber Bearings page: 9
- Training Success With U.S. Rig Simulator Featured At Conference page: 10
- Borum Wins Kings Point Outstanding Professional Achievement Award page: 10
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