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- Oil Majors Increasingly Employ eLearning Tools Marine Technology, Jun 2014 #44
The practice in oil & gas eLearning in the U.S is growing rapidly, with many oil companies now using eLearning as part of its competence management programs. Several oil giants in the U.S. such as Shell, Exxon and Chevron are keen on competence-based management, because it is an effective way for managers to ensure their workers are capable of making the workplace decisions. Although companies have focused on competences for some time, the practice is growing in eLearning, and more companies are making formal attempts to tie eLearning to competence management.
Because the oil and gas business is so competitive, senior executives realize that knowledge, and the application of knowledge, is key to business success. Oil and Gas executives therefore tend to see learning as a strategic priority. And because the major oil companies have a variety of proprietary processes and technologies that require bespoke learning solutions, it often commissions third-party vendors, such as British company, Maritime Training & Competence Solutions (MTCS Ltd.), to develop bespoke content. Both Shell, Exxon and Chevron use competence management within learning and training, and this process plays a role in defining the need for eLearning content.
MTCS Ltd. is currently working with Team Trident, a private staffing firm based in Houston, Texas, with a niche focus on skilled trades for the offshore energy industry, to ensure Team Trident customers have excellent competence certification opportunities available to them.
“After Macondo, the U.S authorities have been emphasizing the skills and experience expected from personnel in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Rod Long, Team Trident, Houston. “This is being handed down by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) through its Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) requirements and is a very good thing for our industry.
Team Trident is working with MTCS to clarify what skills and experience should be expected and how it should be demonstrated in our sector by using the MTCS, IMCA aligned, competence material. With competence certification, it will ensure Team Trident can connect great technical personnel with great employment opportunities on land and offshore. Finally, because many of the personnel Team Trident selects are prior military, they are very used to proving they are competent at their trade prior to advancement to the next level so they accept the MTCS competence scheme readily.”
Providing a full IMCA-aligned Competence Scheme Management service, MTCS Ltd. ensure personnel are demonstrating competence in the offshore workplace. In addition, MTCS Ltd. provide a spectrum of operational, technical and supervisory training, with the majority of their courses focussing on subsea technology, remotely operated vehicles, as used in the oil and gas industry and in Renewables
“The oil and gas industry is a global, highly competitive, and knowledge-intensive business with a high demand for eLearning and the use of competence management in eLearning continues to be popular,” said Richard Warburton, Managing Director for MTCS Ltd. “The global nature of the oil and gas industry also creates demand for network-based tools, such as eLearning, that can deal with highly distributed workforces. No matter where in the U.S, or indeed the rest of the world they are, candidates can use distance learning methods (eLearning) most appropriate to their needs, whether it is through the internet or the office intranet.”
www.mtcs.info(As published in the May 2014 edition of Marine Technology Reporter - http://www.marinetechnologynews.com/Magazine)
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- Oil Majors Push Offshore Players for 30% Cuts Maritime Reporter, Apr 2015 #44
offshore energy industry. “It was like a left hook out of nowhere. No one saw the crash of ’08 coming either.” Regardless of what the well-capitalized oil majors and other companies believe, the plus for them is twofold. There is the potential to make some tasty acquisitions in the wake of anticipated consolidatio
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- Safety Charter Targets Old Tankers, Flags Of Convenience Maritime Reporter, Mar 2000 #20
by the December sinking of the Erika off the coast of France, achieved a tangible first step last week with the signing of a Ship Safety Charter by oil majors and ship classification firms involved in the French petroleum shipping industry. The parties signing the three-page document, including TotalFina
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- Brown And Symon Named To Board Of Liberian Shipowners' Council Maritime Reporter, Apr 1981 #89
being a major U.S. oil company, the appointments reflect both the international nature of the Liberian Shipowners' Council members and the mix of oil majors and independent owners
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- Edda & its Five Star Offshore Accommodations Maritime Reporter, Apr 2015 #34
several new accommodation vessels and units are under construction and will be entering the market in a time where we see a slow market and naturally the oil majors will push the daily rates towards the low end. Also it is important to control the spending, this is something for the economists to explain but
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- DNV GL's Tørstad Talks Energy Trends Maritime Reporter, Jul 2017 #20
market – with fresh eyes, evaluating how it could leverage its core expertise in new areas. “We all tend to focus on the upstream market and the oil majors, which take up a lot of space,” said Tørstad. “On the other hand, low prices have resulted in a surplus of oil and gas on the market, so that all
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- One TORM: Afloat, Ashore and Everywhere in Between Maritime Logistics Professional, Q2 2016 #40
two potentially different seagoing and management cultures into one cohesive firm. Not everyone was convinced that it could be done, says Frank. The oil majors, in particular, were concerned. Simon Frank wasn’t at TORM when the merger came about, but he stresses the positive aspects of the larger, combined
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- Insights: Steven Candito, President & CEO, NRC Marine News, Mar 2015 #12
Give us a sense of the size of your company – employees, assets, vessels, and geographical reach. NRC’s 3,000 clients include foreign and domestic oil majors and independents as well as manufacturers, utilities, architectural and engineering firms, and, of course, the transportation sector (shipping, rail
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- Marine News Editor's Note, July 2015 Marine News, Jul 2015 #6
prominent underwriter that offers favorable terms for those firms having to “stack” large numbers of their offshore support fleets. Separately, the same oil majors who spent lavish amounts of money to ramp up for the specter of $115 crude oil now spend similar amounts of sweat equity on negotiating discounted
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- 2014 . . . And the Story Continues Maritime Reporter, Jun 2014 #6
prosper. On the flip side, the abundance of cheap oil and gas found onshore is starting to have an impact on offshore oil and gas developments, as the oil majors are digesting rapidly rising production and crewing costs and slashing E&P expenditure. Jim McCaul, our long-time editorial sounding board, encapsulates
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- Size Matters Maritime Reporter, May 2001 #42
in which to survive, but to be a true player companies will have to grow, or go. Already, this trend is taking shape in the industry. Among the oil majors, newly-forged entities such as TotalFinaElf, BP Amoco Arco (now simply BP) and ExxonMobil have created more expansive supply global networks
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- Redundancy The Next Watchword? Maritime Reporter, Jun 2002 #20
of tankers for BP from NASSCO, to be followed by the innovative series of shuttle tankers for Conoco." While many of the projects have been driven by oil majors. Concordia Maritime's V-Max series of VLCCs (very large crude carriers) was referred to as an example of innovative thinking on the part of the
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42versions Image courtesy Kongsberg Discovery are featured in the series, and all withstand reverse pressure, too, and can be installed into both dry and oil-? lled canisters. MacArtney introduced a space and weight-saving ø12.7 mm SubConn Nano, a Nano connector which offers a versatile and robust performance
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 397 A 35Ah AGM lead-acid battery is tested using the West Mountain Radio CBA to show the effect of simply ? lling the battery voids with mineral oil as a compensating ? uid. The CBA is programmed to cut-off at a voltage of 10.50v. The top line (red) shows the unmodi? ed AGM battery capacity of
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36, Thus, there are no implodable spaces, and so are candidate and UPS, have speci? c guidelines available on their websites. cells for pressure-balanced, oil-? lled (PBOF) assemblies. This author has personally tested pouch LiPos to 20,000 psi im- Lead-Acid: The venerable lead-acid battery comes in three
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35.com/BPD.htm). have been tested ? Alkaline (alkaline-manganese dioxide): These prima- ry cells are available in the widest number of standard sizes, in oil-? lled bags and are commonly available around the world. This is handy to pressures of 20,000psi without if you are in a remote port and need
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33in the world.” How- ever, commercial success depends on many factors, not least a predictable OPEX. Over the past four years, SMD has worked with Oil States Industries to calculate cost per tonne ? gures for prospective customers. Patania II uses jet water pumps to Oil States’ Merlin riser systems
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 30FEATURE SEABED MINING bilical. It has passive heave compensation which nulli? es the necott. “The focus since then has been on scaling while en- wave, current and vessel motions that in? uence loads in the suring the lightest environmental impact,” says The Metals power umbilical. The LARS can
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 19About the Author vey with the pipe tracker is not required, resulting in signi? - Svenn Magen Wigen is a Cathodic Protection and corrosion control cant cost savings, mainly related to vessel charter. expert having worked across The major advantage of using FiGS on any type of subsea engineering, design
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 47.com Powering the fleet for 60 years! HYDRAULIC NOISE, SHOCK AND VIBRATION SUPPRESSOR Noise, Shock, VibraO on & PulsaO on in Quiet, Smooth Flow Out Oil Bladder Nitrogen (blue) Manufactured by MER Equipment Three Stage Noise & PulsaO on in ReducO on Chamber (206) 286-1817 www.merequipment.com QUALITY
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41maritime environments: • GMDSS/NAVTEX/NAVDAT coastal surveillance and transmission systems • Offshore NDB non-directional radio beacon systems for oil platform, support vessel & wind farm applications • DGPS coastal differential global positioning systems • VHF port communication systems Nautel
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38, including collecting MARPOL liquid The tanker vessel Archangel, 274 meters long and 85,474 and solid waste, transporting personnel and provisions, and oil gt, was moored using the 3-ton pulling capacity of the moor- spill response services. Images courtesy Consulmar Crowley's New LNG Containerships Carbon
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 37SIMULATION "A simulated vessel ? ooding can help teams work together to solve the challenge using different systems on the bridge." – Jussi Siltanen, Lead, "The gami? cation of Product Marketing, learning makes it fun." Safety Solutions at NAPA – Captain Pradeep Chawla, Founder, MarinePALS Image
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35becoming as interconnected as onboard sys- size training materials, including micro-learning videos, gam- tems. Kongsberg Digital has integrated NORBIT’s oil spill ing apps, VR programs and online mentoring. detection system with its K-Pos DP system for simulation- “These digital methods are more effective
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 34scenarios, but zooming in, the industry is now working on more speci? c targets. By Wendy Laursen Image above: Kongsberg Digital has integrated NORBIT’s oil spill detection system with its K-Pos DP system for simulation-based training of offshore professionals at Equinor. 34 Maritime Reporter & Engineering
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32? xed wind. The subsidies won’t be a plentiful, and then a second on a luf? ng jib. This reduces the time it would there won’t be the same downturn in oil and gas that made all ordinarily take, weeks, to recon? gure the wiring of an ordi- the high-spec construction vessels available at attractive rates
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28to be placed on a number of our ships to add additional capability. MSC can also lease ship or contract Military Sealift Command’s ? eet replenishment oiler USNS Joshua Humphreys for services as needed. For example, we (T-AO 188) sends fuel to MSC’s fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE have
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 25vessels can MSC will see up to 20 new ships deliver to carry the equivalent of 30 C-17 transports. the ? eet in the next ? ve years. This includes new oil- Our Combat Logistics Force (CLF) is the key to keep- ing our ships at sea and in the ? ght, and sustain our forces ers, towing, salvage and rescue
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21along with our continued support to the in a UK design ? rm working in the North Sea marine industry,” said Langford. “We continue to hire key in- oil and gas platforms, the holy grail of rigorous dividuals and partner to provide best-in-class solutions.” R conditions in offshore energy production
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20and starts during its adolescence, common mantras are ‘learn from the established European model’ and ‘embrace technology transfer from the offshore oil and gas sector.’ In Robert Langford, the American Bureau of Shipping has all of that and more bundled in one neat package. Langford recently visited
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 19more exposed to redeployment risk and there re- mains a concern that overbuilding of a commoditized vessel may result in future oversupply as seen in the oil & gas OSV space in the 2008-2014 period. www.marinelink.com 19 MR #4 (18-33).indd 19 4/5/2024 8:13:37 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18through dual fuel near shore Taiwanese market, which is also actively served by engines and (space for) a bunkering system. Currently metha- CTVs. Oil & gas offshore support vessels have been widely nol is a preferred energy carrier although hydrogen and liquid deployed to support construction logistics
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 17or under construction in the North Euro- pean wind segment. Tier 2 and Tier 3 walk-to-work (W2W) vessels are cur- rently active in the segment, but as oil www.marinelink.com 17 MR #4 (1-17).indd 17 4/5/2024 8:40:33 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 16charter to a wind turbine OEM or offshore wind in-built crane and gangway. farm operator to service and maintain equipment dur- ¦Tier 2: Generally, oil & gas tonnage (MPSVs, PSVs, ing the operations period of the wind farm. A typical etc.) with ? xed gangway, serving oil & gas and SOV will accommodat
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14Book Review Approach to Meeting Underwater Radiated Noise Limits Def ned By Raymond Fischer uantitative underwater radiated noise limits will construction inspections, 5) possible training with respect to be developed shortly by IMO, and/or countries salient design/construction essentials, 6) compliance
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 11wide culture of continuous improvement and Cooper safety awareness. Captain Aaron Cooper is a Master Mariner with 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He is the programmes A Cultural Shift director at OCIMF. With standardized data collection and sharing protocols, THE LEADER SLIDING