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INSIGHTS DAN VELA, VP OFFSHORE PROJECT GROUP, OCEANEERING

OCEANEERING

REDEFINES

OFFSHORE

OPERATIONS

All images courtesy Oceaneering International

As offshore energy development confronts more applications, increasingly complex operating environments, and a turbulent global market, adaptability and integrated offerings may be the solution. At the center of this vortex is Oceaneering International’s Offshore Projects

Group (OPG) and Vice President Dan Vela, who shared insights with

MTR about the operations of a multi-vessel, multi-mission fleet.

By Celia Konowe and head out to the next one.”

Dynamic flexibility

The role is dynamic, requiring fexibility. “Whereas in

Dan’s wide-ranging career in oil and gas has spanned from an offshore technician to sales, account management manufacturing, you plan something, you put it in the sys- tem, and it kind of fows through. This does that, but it and now operations. He’s held his current role as vice presi- tends to move around in that process,” he explained. “Our dent - OPG Americas for three years.

A typical day may vary greatly, but there’s a common job is to keep it as tight and as in line as we can with the plan and follow it all the way through execution. That's emphasis on developing the teams and scopes that will ad- evolved over time of us learning how to do that the most dress the projects that come their way. “It's a lot of plan- ning of future work, of current work, and a lot of risk and effective way for both internal and external results. And hazard identifcation and management,” Vela said. “We we're still learning. It’s always something new. It's never a spend a lot of time on quality and making sure that our dull moment, that's for sure.”

External factors pose dynamic challenges. “Whether teams are prepared. Then, it's just the fawless execution of the projects and making sure that that they're going off the that's weather that affects us doing our operation or it's a way that we planned, and that we can come back, reload customer schedule that moves. A lot of our day-to-day is 20 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM