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64Maritime Reporter & Engineering News troduced called the Twin Axe. Despite the economic slowdown of the last years, the Damen philosophy of stan- dardization of supply while offering full through life support of the vessel, contin- ues to be their secret of success. The Group enjoys an annual turnover of $1.8 billion from their 35 owned or partner shipyards in 34 countries worldwide. An- nually, the group?s 6,000 plus employees build around 120-150 vessels and com- plete 1,000 repair jobs.Senesco Steams Ahead Rhode Island-based Senesco MarineLLC ? which for more than a decade was engrossed in primarily serving Reinauerrequirements ? has moved more aggres- sively into the outside commercial mar- kets. Senesco is an accomplished builder of modern tonnage, capable of most any mid-tier shipyard newbuild or repair chal- lenge. To look at future prospects it is sometimes wise to take a step back, and this surely is the case with Senesco. Inoperation since 1999, the Senesco ship-yard of today was born when the original developers of the then relatively new shipyard encountered construction diffi- culties with a very large ATB unit. At the same time, Reinauer Transportation Company had received two tank barges completed by the yard, with an ambitiousOPA-90 driven fleet replacement pro- gram also planned. The obvious quality of the workmanship found in the first two Reinauer barges with plans for more led to the rescue and redirection of the yardby Reinauer. Another driving force of the acquisition was the lack of open slots in Gulf Coast yards at the time, especially following the now-famous hurricane activity that took its toll on Gulf Coast infrastructure. Ded-icated to a fleet replacement program, theyard remained for more than five years, more or less as a captive operation by Reinauer. With the end of OPA-90 fleet replace- ment activity for both Reinauer and the Jones Act industry in general, the yard is now engaging the commercial marine in- dustry at large. Senesco Marine operates two facilities which include a new building yard and a repair yard both located on the deepwater of Narragansett Bay. Both facilities Topside Offshore Inland Offshore Inland Marine & Oilfield Services, Inc. (OIMO) offers a unique combination of topside marine servicesthroughout the U.S. and abroad. Posi-tioned with US Gulf (primarily deepwater) topside service centers in Pen- sacola, Mobile, Port Fourchon, Galve- ston, and Port Isabel as well assupporting topside services at additionallocations in Mexico, Western Mediter- ranean, and West Africa. Offering a strong engineering and design capabili-ties supporting both traditional marineoverhaul needs as well as more compli- cated and demanding project upgradesfor the oil and gas service and drill rig sector. Moving to a its offering of specialty services such as electrical, mechanical,and hydraulic services as well as high pressure and structural support are allenhanced by strong teams of scaffold builders, painters, riggers, etc. This full service offering allows OIMO to support the above service centers as well as mo- bilize these service teams to anywhere in the world. In recent years, OIMO has provided these traveling shipyard teams to support our customers in over a dozen countries around the world. In the recent past, OIMO has madeseveral technical and geographical in- vestments and improvements. Technically, the company?s engineer- ing and design capabilities has expanded to include more pipe, electrical, andstructural expertise as well as a new laser scanner system, which is used forreverse engineering and upgrade sup- port. The company has also expanded its electrical, electronic, and power man- agement services capabilities lead by astrong supervision team. Geographically, OIMO has put exten- sive effort into expanding its deep-water service locations especially with itslarge facility in Pensacola, Galveston, and Dos Bocas, Mexico. These locations include full servicetopside marine services, full fabrication, as well as subsea and drill rig projectmobilization and storage support.OIMO completes more than 500 proj-ects each year ranging from large rig up- grades to full topside ship special survey periods, to design and build projects fea- turing full service offshore installations. One project was a full service special survey period in Dos Bocas, Mexico on a jack up drill rig. This project included large structural ballast and hull repairs, reworking sev- eral piping systems, change out of mainengines, accommodation upgrade, scaf-folding, diving inspections, etc. Another example of OIMO?s capabil- ities can be highlighted from a recentproject off the coast of West Africa. The OIMO?s team removed two deck cranes from an Atwood Oceanic Rig and replaced them with two new Seatrax cranes. This project was handled by OIMO as the full general contractor pre-fabricating all the necessary under deck structures and pedestals and providing a high impact team to handle the entire onboard change out. In a recent letter from the Drilling andCompletions Manager, Jamie Ressler, the OIMO team and the Seahawk crew were congratulated and praised for alltheir good work: ?To the best of my knowledge,? Ressler said, ?no rig contractor/operatorpartnership has ever even considered such an under-taking. The crane change out would have been a significant body of work in a shipyard. The fact that the work was done in the field during rig operations without inci- dent or disruptions was exceptional. I know of zero examples where such a significant scope of work was conducted in the field while conducting well oper- ations.? Tom Haley, president, Offshore Inland Marine & Oilfield Services Inc. Offshore Inland Marine & Oilfield Services: Topside Service and Repair Around the World The "Sentinel? Class Fast Response Cutter is built by Bollinger and uses aDamen Stan Patrol 4708 as parent design. USCG Sentinel Class cutter. MR#8 (58-65):MR Template 8/9/2012 10:51 AM Page 64