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DIVING & MARINE SUPPORT
OIL & GAS AUSTRALIA
Viking acquires hook retrofit leader
DANISH company Viking Life-Saving A workman grapples with the hooks on a lifeboat system. Image courtesy Viking.
Equipment has acquired hook retrofit
company Nadiro from maritime and energy stated mission to protect and save human lives will be renamed Viking Nadiro, had been
conglomerate Maersk Group and SH Group. all over the world, and our global leadership instrumental in ensuring the safety of crew on
within maritime safety equipment, doing board many vessels.
Hook retrofitting is necessary to prevent everything we can to rectify the problem has
serious accidents resulting from unsafe lifeboat been a natural focal point for Viking over the “The Viking Nadiro brand will give
deployment systems. Nadiro enables Viking past few years.” shipowners a complete and high-quality
to provide high-quality, extremely reliable answer to the LRRS compliance challenge,” he
solutions that ensure safety levels beyond basic Mr Christensen said Nadiro, which said. l
compliance, Viking said in an announcement.
Established in 2009 Nadiro manufactures
lifeboat and rescue craft systems, developing
and promoting its Drop-in-Ball technology to
help ensure crew safety, the company said.
Viking has been preferred distributor for
the company, supplying its lifeboat release and
retrieval systems (LRRS) to enable the world’s
shipowners to comply with new Safety of Life
at Sea regulations by or before 2019.
Viking chief executive Henrik Uhd
Christensen said acquiring Nadiro would
better help the company address this safety
issue for its customers.
“For more than a decade, on-load release
hooks installed to enable lifeboats to be
lowered into and retrieved from the water
have themselves been the cause of numerous
accidents,” Mr Christensen said.
“Some have involved fatalities. With our
Conductors installed at West Telesto
DIRECTIONAL conductors installed at the The directional conductors are installed at the CIS Asia Pacific Region base in Singapore.
West Telesto rig by Conductor Installation West Telesto rig, operating in the Bass Strait. Once this was completed, they were
Services (CIS) have formed the basis of the Image courtesy Conductor Installation Services. transported to Australia.
two new wells being drilled in the Bass
Strait as part of the BassGas project. To ensure that the operation would be The platform is live, so CIS chose to use a
executed successfully, it was critical that the cold cutter system to cut the conductors to the
This was the first time CIS, the hammer conductors be properly positioned before being correct height and the required bevel in order
services subsidiary of Acteon Group, had driven into the seabed, CIS said, with engineers to prepare them for receiving the respective
installed directional conductors for BassGas carefully assessing the angles required so that wellheads.
operator Origin Energy, the group said. the conductors would be appropriately offset.
By doing so, the cutting process was
CIS managing director Andy Penman said The company also produced three executed safely in a potentially explosive gas
he was pleased the operation was a success, customised deviated drive shoes necessary to environment.
noting it had been completed safely without drive the conductors: two for the wells and one
harming staff or the environment. as a back-up. CIS completed the entire offshore operation
in three days, the group said.
“Because the project plays such a vital role in The directional drive shoes were then
the supply of gas to Australians, we are acutely welded onto the conductor pup joints at the This came after CIS installed conductors
aware of how important it is that each and and drive piles 17 hours ahead of schedule in
every phase of construction is completed safely, the North Sea on jack-up rig Ensco 80.
with attention to detail and sensitivity to the
environment,” he said. A joint decision was made to flam-cut the
conductor online and carry out the cold cut
Working from the Sea Drill West Telesto offline due to issues involving cold cutting
jack up rig, CIS used a 150 kilojoule hydraulic placement - a decision that saved the group
hammer to install the conductors safely, 3.5 hours in online time during the initial
driving them about 126 metres subsea and a conductor driving operation.
further 117 metres below the mudline to their
respective target depths. This practice was then applied for all
installation operations for the five remaining
The total length of each conductor extended wells, saving a full 17 hours.
243 metres.
CIS said the operator realised significant
cost-savings in terms of reduced equipment
rental fees, rig time and labour. l
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OIL & GAS AUSTRALIA
Viking acquires hook retrofit leader
DANISH company Viking Life-Saving A workman grapples with the hooks on a lifeboat system. Image courtesy Viking.
Equipment has acquired hook retrofit
company Nadiro from maritime and energy stated mission to protect and save human lives will be renamed Viking Nadiro, had been
conglomerate Maersk Group and SH Group. all over the world, and our global leadership instrumental in ensuring the safety of crew on
within maritime safety equipment, doing board many vessels.
Hook retrofitting is necessary to prevent everything we can to rectify the problem has
serious accidents resulting from unsafe lifeboat been a natural focal point for Viking over the “The Viking Nadiro brand will give
deployment systems. Nadiro enables Viking past few years.” shipowners a complete and high-quality
to provide high-quality, extremely reliable answer to the LRRS compliance challenge,” he
solutions that ensure safety levels beyond basic Mr Christensen said Nadiro, which said. l
compliance, Viking said in an announcement.
Established in 2009 Nadiro manufactures
lifeboat and rescue craft systems, developing
and promoting its Drop-in-Ball technology to
help ensure crew safety, the company said.
Viking has been preferred distributor for
the company, supplying its lifeboat release and
retrieval systems (LRRS) to enable the world’s
shipowners to comply with new Safety of Life
at Sea regulations by or before 2019.
Viking chief executive Henrik Uhd
Christensen said acquiring Nadiro would
better help the company address this safety
issue for its customers.
“For more than a decade, on-load release
hooks installed to enable lifeboats to be
lowered into and retrieved from the water
have themselves been the cause of numerous
accidents,” Mr Christensen said.
“Some have involved fatalities. With our
Conductors installed at West Telesto
DIRECTIONAL conductors installed at the The directional conductors are installed at the CIS Asia Pacific Region base in Singapore.
West Telesto rig by Conductor Installation West Telesto rig, operating in the Bass Strait. Once this was completed, they were
Services (CIS) have formed the basis of the Image courtesy Conductor Installation Services. transported to Australia.
two new wells being drilled in the Bass
Strait as part of the BassGas project. To ensure that the operation would be The platform is live, so CIS chose to use a
executed successfully, it was critical that the cold cutter system to cut the conductors to the
This was the first time CIS, the hammer conductors be properly positioned before being correct height and the required bevel in order
services subsidiary of Acteon Group, had driven into the seabed, CIS said, with engineers to prepare them for receiving the respective
installed directional conductors for BassGas carefully assessing the angles required so that wellheads.
operator Origin Energy, the group said. the conductors would be appropriately offset.
By doing so, the cutting process was
CIS managing director Andy Penman said The company also produced three executed safely in a potentially explosive gas
he was pleased the operation was a success, customised deviated drive shoes necessary to environment.
noting it had been completed safely without drive the conductors: two for the wells and one
harming staff or the environment. as a back-up. CIS completed the entire offshore operation
in three days, the group said.
“Because the project plays such a vital role in The directional drive shoes were then
the supply of gas to Australians, we are acutely welded onto the conductor pup joints at the This came after CIS installed conductors
aware of how important it is that each and and drive piles 17 hours ahead of schedule in
every phase of construction is completed safely, the North Sea on jack-up rig Ensco 80.
with attention to detail and sensitivity to the
environment,” he said. A joint decision was made to flam-cut the
conductor online and carry out the cold cut
Working from the Sea Drill West Telesto offline due to issues involving cold cutting
jack up rig, CIS used a 150 kilojoule hydraulic placement - a decision that saved the group
hammer to install the conductors safely, 3.5 hours in online time during the initial
driving them about 126 metres subsea and a conductor driving operation.
further 117 metres below the mudline to their
respective target depths. This practice was then applied for all
installation operations for the five remaining
The total length of each conductor extended wells, saving a full 17 hours.
243 metres.
CIS said the operator realised significant
cost-savings in terms of reduced equipment
rental fees, rig time and labour. l
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