Oil Drops

  • It is at times like this that bumper sticker humor comes in handy. One of my favorites has to be the infamous “God, please let me have another oil boom – I promise not to mess this one up” version that graced the bumpers of pickup trucks on the Gulf Coast in the late 1980’s. I lived through that cataclysmic event during my 14 years in Houston. It was in 1985 that the bottom had dropped out of oil, reaching a nadir of $12 per barrel. Using the time-honored Keefe family tradition of buying high and selling low, I eventually shed a primary residence and a three-unit rental property in the Bayou City during the worst of it.
    It is okay if you find yourself inclined to ask, “So what?” It’s a good question. That’s because the Offshore Annual of MarineNews touches upon many things; none more important than the value of lessons learned. First and foremost amongst those is the mandate to not repeat the scenario that played out on the Gulf Coast in the late 1980’s. Back then, tens of thousands of workers (involuntarily) departed an industry that they had lost faith in, never to return. The void this created, even to this day, has left a generational and skills gap that quite frankly, the offshore sector hasn’t yet recovered from. We simply can’t afford to do that again. NOIA’s Randall Luthi and IMCA’s Jane Bugler touch on just a few of the reasons why. Turn the page and drill down for answers.
    Safety and offshore energy are still inextricably connected. Beyond this, our expert commentators say that industry can’t turn its head from this reality ever again, even if the price of oil drops to 1986 levels. The trick will be how to accomplish that goal and still remain inside those scaled back CapEx budgets. It can be done. Inside this edition, you will find out how and why.
    For those readers who need real data to support the notion that the oil industry can and does make it happen on a daily basis, look no further than this month’s BY THE NUMBERS entry, assembled by Dagmar Etkin, PhD, President and Principal Consultant at Environmental Research Consulting. Etkin, appropriately enough, examines the changing risks for offshore well blowouts in a statistical survey that sheds unique, balanced light on the real performance of the energy industry. While a catastrophic blowout scenario is a very rare event, contingency planning and preparedness, as well as technological advances in prevention will be important in the years to come. And when it comes to environmental research, nobody drills deeper than Etkin. The report starts on page 8.
    Offshore Oil & Gas, Safety, Prevention, Response – and yes, oil pollution itself – all have a place in this month’s edition. Furthering the first four causes while eliminating the final challenge is what the industry is all about. And, you didn’t have to be selling real estate in Houston in 1987 to know that.



    (As published in the May 2015 edition of Marine News - http://magazines.marinelink.com/Magazines/MaritimeNews)

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    a testing program that will the fact that container ports are close to cities, and [all of the study aspects such as heat-release, ignition, safety, pilot-oil people that will be] working on board the vessel. We need to energy fraction, NOx and N2O emissions.” make sure that everybody's safe,” said Brindley

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    February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 33

    EAL AND STERN TUBE DAMAGES STACKING not forget any oil leak, big or small, can be catastrophic to the marine environment and marine life, with some EALs found to THE DECKS be only slightly less damaging than the phased-out traditional WITH BEST-IN-CLASS MARINE oils,” said VP of Business Development

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by CSIRO)
    February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32

    the incidents analyzed by Gard were attributed to ghost ? shing gear that enter the stern tube seal area causing seawater to contaminate the lubrication oil. A 2022 study by CSIRO scientists estimated that the amount of longline ? shing gear littering the ocean each year can circle the Earth more than

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    February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31

    EAL AND STERN TUBE DAMAGES “Our recommendations “A good bearing are simple. Please design is have good control over important.” your oil quality in the primary barrier, the aft – Øystein Åsheim Alnes sealing system,” Head of section for Propulsion and Steering, – Arun Sethumadhavan DNV

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to EALs)
    February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 30

    started experiencing bearing damage, with many of them having lubricant contamination problems. The affected vessels were often delivered with mineral oil then converted to EALs and subsequently suffered sealing problems. DNV rules support the use of mineral lubricants, EALs and water lubrication and

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    February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20

    ? oating energy business that leverages the skills and tion vessels. We are forecasting some potential supply chain lessons learnt from deepwater oil & gas projects into the bottlenecks as a result of the increased activity. emerging ? oating wind segment, with measures including: To show how ?

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    February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18

    Intelatus Floating Production White Paper. Floating Production – A growing segment in transition © AdobeStock_Dolores Harvey The specialized deepwater oil & gas and ? oating offshore wind segments will share many of the same stakeholders and supply chains, competing for increasingly scarce resources

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    February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12

    Maritime Risk Top Marine Business Risks in 2024 By Rich Soja, North American Head Marine, Allianz Commercial yber incidents such as ransomware attacks, data linked to several large ? re incidents at sea in recent years. breaches, and IT disruptions are the biggest worry Regularly assessing and updating

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    February 2024 - Marine News page: 35

    simulation systems to be a much safer and more effective form of training.” Burry said the company’s simulators are deployed glob- ally, from ships and oil rigs offshore to land-based installa- tions in training academies and elsewhere. In addition to building the simulators, Virtual Marine owns and operate

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    February 2024 - Marine News page: 31

    rates, and these impacts are felt more strongly in the U.S. than they are in Europe, Møller said. “Now we are paying the premium, because the oil market is high. But going further down, probably oil market is going to take a turn again and our business will become equally cheap, because we

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sel)
    February 2024 - Marine News page: 30

    vessels (OSV), which have seen their charter rates [they] only need it for two or three. . . The sustainable ves- rise due to a strengthened offshore oil and gas sector. The sel ownership perspective is revenue certainty and knowing cyclic up and down of oil and gas markets directly affects 30 |

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    February 2024 - Marine News page: 14

    Insights to the organization’s team of more than 75 expert instruc- without paying that price in blood and oil.’ They get to do tors. “We bring in the specialists who know the material things they would not normally get to do, and then they can through and through.” re? ne those skills in what we know

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    of port safety at the Hampton Roads Ship- experience in the global energy, maritime and offshore ping Association, where his role covers training, project oil and gas sectors. management and labor relations throughout the port. 6 | MN February 202

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    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 59

    London every two years, will come together across a wide range of sectors, including more than 100 companies are expected to conduct product or offshore oil & gas, renewables, defense, maritime security, service launch activity. Exhibitors introducing new solutions marine science, ports, aquaculture and

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    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 54

    to ? oating wind, there are many long-estab- tional ? xed-bottom units, and conservative esti- lished technologies and companies in the ? oating offshore oil Tmates call for 300 GW of ? oating offshore wind by and gas industry that will translate to ? oating wind. However, 2050, according to Gazelle CFO

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IEEE and ASTM Committees)
    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 52

    Electronic and Photonic Micro- leadership positions in a variety of systems 6. “Improved Ef? ciency & Reliability for Data Center Servers Using Immersion Oil Cool- IEEE and ASTM Committees. ing”; Cheryl Tulkoff, Chris Boyd; Electronic Systems Technologies Conference, May 2021 52 January/February 2024 MTR

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    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 43

    be instru- T into the abyss to conduct critical tasks in indus- mental in the installation, maintenance, and repair of renew- tries ranging from offshore oil and gas to marine research and able energy infrastructure. underwater construction. Work Class ROVs and other ROVs • Advanced Materials and Durability:

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    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 40

    OCEAN WARRIOR JIM MCNEILL High quality, precision data is fundamental to Ocean Warrior’s success, and Valeport’s SWiFT CTDplus Chlorophyll pro? ler was the choice due to its simplicity of use, internal rechargeable battery, and an integral GNSS module to geo- locate each pro? le. Using Valeport’s

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    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33

    four of its 18 Ohio-class SSBNs and They can also operate without the wires, These weapons are launched over the side converted them to conventional cruise using their own active or passive sensors. of surface ships with the ubiquitous MK missile carriers. The ? rst four Ohio- They are programmed to

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    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 31

    at depths up to 1,000 feet. serve as a moored training ship (MTS ton. Some of the 688s were pulled from Hammerhead consists of a mooring 701) and the Nuclear Power School service at their mid-life point rather than module that plants itself on the bot- in Charleson, S.C. Likewise USS San incur the

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bottom and)
    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 29

    fying mines, especially the hard-to-? nd bottom and buried mines in high clutter environments. Knife? sh uses the low- frequency broadband capability devel- oped by the Physical Acoustics Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory. The 2,000-lb., 22-foot long Knife? sh is based on the Blue? n 21 UUV.

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    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 20

    TECH FEATURE WAVE POWER “We found an interesting market and application where we’re deploying the MARINE technology: decarbonizing oil and gas. TECHNOLOGY TV I’m talking about powering sub-sea Watch the full interview with Cameron McNatt: equipment in the oil and gas sector.” Cameron McNatt, Mocean

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we are)
    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 19

    an interesting market and application where we’re ity. So that’s something that needs special consideration, but deploying the technology: decarbonizing oil and gas. I’m talk- we are generating more and more data around that. ing about powering sub-sea equipment in the oil and gas sec- tor where the traditional

  • MT Jan-24#16  trial Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO)  innovation of such)
    January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 16

    fabric of the vessels themselves. In operations alongside the ? nancial costs. It is only with continual autumn 2023 NOC will trial Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) innovation of such tools that we can enable marine research sci- in their vessels. This will play an interim role in reducing CO2 entists to