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EDITOR’S LETTER

Safety is job 1 V ol. 48 No. 4

ISSN 0305-876x USPS# 017-058

The stressed importance of safety, particularly from the oil majors, 118 East 25th Street, is legendary in the offshore sector, and this month Wendy Laursen

New York, NY 10010 takes a deep dive into the risk of dropped objects, which is a leading tel: (212) 477-6700; fax: (212) 254-6271 cause of incidents offshore. Whether you operate in the North Sea, www.OEDigital.com the Gulf of Mexico, Africa or Asia, there are often prolonged periods of harsh environmental conditions at all locations, conditions that can

EDITORIAL accelerate corrosion and push corroded systems to failure. While there is

GREGORY R. TRAUTHWEIN

Editor & Publisher no pattern, per se, the top causes of dropped objects include inadequate risk assessment, human factors, inadequate procedures, failed fxtures and

BARTOLOMEJ TOMIC

Managing Editor fttings, poor housekeeping, collisions, and snagging. [email protected]

The matter of corrosion and degradation of cranes in the offshore en-

ERIC HAUN vironment is of particular interest, due to the massive loads they are asked [email protected] to handle seamlessly, effciently, safely, day in and day out.

ELAINE MASLIN, Aberdeen

This is relevant too in the burgeoning offshore wind sector, as Bar- [email protected] tolomej Tomic reports this month on the rapidly expanding size of tur-

WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI, Oslo bines and it’s resulting impact on the size and capability of cranes. Off- [email protected] shore wind turbines are reaching new heights both literally (meters), and

PRODUCTION / GRAPHIC DESIGN fguratively (MW), and as the demand for larger turbines surges, so do the

NICOLE VENTIMIGLIA [email protected] challenges faced by offshore installation contractors, which need to come up with bigger vessels, and, consequentially, bigger cranes.

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TERRY BREESE, VP Sales

Our feature focus this month is Huisman’s Product Director of +1 (561) 732-1185 • [email protected]

Cranes, Cees van Veluw, who discusses how simultaneous growth in safe

GARY LEWIS, Panama working load, hook height and boom length are impacting the product (516) 441-7258 • [email protected] line-up at Huisman and translating to the growing global feet of vessels to carry them.

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