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eSeaM A R I T I M E / O I L & G A S / W I N D / C R A N E · N O . 2 1 / 2 0 1 5
EM AGA ZINE FROM M A ERSK TR A INING
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RELAXATIONEXPECTATION
INNOVATIONDEDICATION
Remote Well Control Tower > Core Education >
Moving Forward at the Speed of Light Sockets > Taking Your Passion Into The Office >
‘Bad Day At The Office’ Curling Career Turner > Sync On Skis >Leif ends at 18 >
Houston I’ve Got No Problems >The Adventures of Katwoman >
The Seagull Has Landed >Barrels of fun – not! >
Thinking Inside The Box >
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Core EducationThe staff at Maersk Training’s centre in Aberdeen have been working closely with Apple in order to make the iPad contribute to the learning experience whilst at the same time removing the need for books and writing materials. >
Remote Well Control TowerFor over a month Just Wessel has been ‘co-piloting’ a well drill which is happening 700 kms due north of him. >
Moving Forward at the Speed of Light SocketsRome wasn’t built in a day, but Dubai tries. There are few places where things happen as quickly as in Dubai. >
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The Adventures of KatwomanTwenty-three year old Katrina Benton is a walking fixing dynamo at Maersk Training’s two Aberdeen centres. >
The Seagull Has Landed Stephen Smith is a perfect example of the species, post-squaddie. Perfectly built for the job, robust, resilient and ready for action. >
Taking Your Passion Into The OfficeThey sit in adjoining rooms, just metres apart, but Susanne Slotsager, Jesper Nielsen and Leif Meitilberg have one thing in common, they have all represented Denmark at international level in their chosen sport. >
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Barrels of fun – not!We keep hearing that the cost of a barrel of crude oil rises and falls and as it does the whole world shudders. But what exactly is a barrel?. >
Houston I’ve Got No ProblemsMaersk Training in Houston is still just concrete, but by the end of the summer it will be a fully functioning drilling complex for America’s fastest growing city. >
Thinking Inside The BoxIt’s funny how dependent we get on the little things in life. >
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This is the ation issue, stories reflecting
innovation, relaxation, expectation. In some
the reflection even crosses over to provide a
dual reason for highlighting the story.
There’s innovation in Aberdeen where one of
the world’s most successful and innovative
companies has backed an idea which creates
a whole new use for the iPad. And there’s
innovation across the North Sea in Stavanger
where onshore technology is providing a
unique support service to a rig 700 kilometres
away.
Then there’s relaxation, although the
participants might not quite see it that way.
Sitting just a few metres apart we find three
international players in three very different
sports. Here they consider that what they do
in their spare time on ice, snow and concrete,
helps them develop their skills at work.
And finally there is expectation – separated
by nine time zones are two concrete shells,
the expectation is that before the summer
ends, people will be sitting at simulators
and in classrooms in both Houston and
Dubai. Expectation is what Stephen Smith
experienced some months back when he left
a career in the army for a new one offshore.
He already knows that his great expectations
have been fulfilled. Now he’s on a North Sea
production platform helping ensure that the
barrels of crude oil continue their journey to
power our cars, homes and lives.
Barrel? What’s a barrel? We answer that too,
another ation, an explanation.
editorialRichard [email protected]
Hamburgefintsiv
For over a month Just Wessel
has been ‘co-piloting’ a well
drill. Just has not been any closer
to the sea than driving home
along Stavanger fjord, but he is
right on top of the drill which is
happening 700 kms due north of
him.
Of course the airlines might look
to their control towers and say we
do the same thing, but not quite.
The air traffic controller knows
altitude, speed and direction, but
he has no information about how
the plane is performing or how it
would react to adverse weather.
Remote Well Control TowerIn many respects the offshore industry in all its guises, from maritime to drilling, has looked admiringly at aviation and said ‘that’s the way to do it.’ It’s been a catch-up process that never catches up, but a project that’s been going on in Norway might just have the airline’s looking over their shoulder and thinking, ‘Real Time Decision Support, that’s clever.’
Images created to show how a Remote Well Control Tower could look
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Hamburgefintsiv 5
In the event of an accident, the full
story would not be told until the
black box was recovered. What
Chief Instructor Just was doing
in Maersk Training’s simulator
complex in Stavanger was to take
all the data from the rig via a live
feed and to use it to predict how
the well was proceeding, hence
the title, Real Time Decision
Support. It is a multi-faceted
service which uses simulation for
consultancy and forecasting.
‘It’s a bit like having a second
driller, second supervisor, second
tour-pusher on tower,’ Just
explains. ‘We can determine how
fast or slow you can run in and we
have a well-kill model to estimate
the kick margins during the drill.’
NOT OR NEVER AVAILABLEWhat it does is to promote a
pro-active, rather than reactive
approach with an automatic
overview of the entire process
being driven by a level of
experience not always available
offshore and using computer
power that is never available.
The rig itself is the Transocean
Arctic currently working on a
HTHC well, north of the North
Sea on Haltenbanken. A semi-sub,
the biggest hurdle they have had
to overcome in the past month or
so, has been the last of the winter
weather. ‘Last week we only did
45 meters when we should have
done 1000 to 1500,’ says Just.
The usage of the word ‘we’
indicates the amount of
involvement the shore-base feels
about the project. It also helps
encapsulate why the project has
such potential. Communication
between off and on shore has in
the past often been an issue, but
now Just has a daily meeting with
the onshore team and at his finger
tips precise information about
what is happening way out there
in the deep blue sea.
SUPPORTING FIVE WELLSThe adverse weather also
answers the question, why don’t
they do this on board? There is a
lot of expensive equipment which
would be idle during bad weather
and downtime. From his seat in
Stavanger Just estimates that
he could contribute to certainly
three, but maybe five, drills,
spreading the equipment costs
and compacting the knowledge.
Starting as an inspired idea at a
technology day, the concept has
taken a decade to become reality,
but with the backing of several of
the majors it has done just that. It
being the first of its kind one well
was enough this time around. ‘We
were also learning as we went
along, continuously improving the
models,’ says Just. ●
'We can determine how fast or slow you can run in and we have a well-kill model to estimate the kick margins during the drill.’
The staff at Maersk Training’s
centre in Aberdeen have been
working closely with Apple in
order to make the iPad contribute
to the learning experience whilst
at the same time removing the
need for books and writing
materials.
‘It’s quite an extensive project
we are going through at the
moment. The initial idea was
Core Education
Marcus is six on his next birthday, after the summer break he starts proper school and on day one he will be handed an iPad. This, and subsequent developments in technology, will be his constant learning companion for the rest of his formal education. Marcus is not a spoilt child, he’s a child of his generation.
Ben is thirty-something and a driller, he’s about to have some further education, a drilling technology course. He too will rely on an iPad to get the message firmly implanted in his mind. However the iPad he’s borrowed for the five day-course is rather different. Ben is not a pampered driller, he’s just getting a better learning experience.
Mike Prate-Cockayne in his own Garden of Eden6
7Core Education
to put the course material on
using pdf, but we wanted to
go completely paperless, all
our forms, check lists, safety
checklists, risk assessments,
absolutely everything. It includes
participants’ workbooks, test
papers during class time.’
explains Operations Manager
Mike Prater-Cockayne.
In conjunction with Apple in the
UK they have developed the iPad
so that it becomes an integral and
interactive part of the learning
process. It’s a two-way process
between the instructor and the
participant, but one where the
instructor retains the controlling
hand. There’s no need for the
instructor to say ‘go to chapter 12’
and then have to wait as the class
stumbles through the pages of a
book.
NO EMBARRASSMENTA simple click sends all the iPads
to the right section. What’s also
innovative is the traffic light
system where the participants
can quietly inform the instructor
of how they feel about the
information. Green for yes, amber
for a little more clarification and
red for not understanding. ‘It
cuts out the embarrassment of
putting your hand up and saying
you don’t understand or I’m
struggling,’ says Mike.
The system uses a Beta operating
program which is two updates in
the future away from what the
rest of us use today and it allows
the instructor to know precisely
what the knowledge level of
each participant is. A simple
Q&A page charts the knowledge
base of the participant. This
helps tremendously in situations
like OPITO courses which are
standards driven. There is no time
wasted going over old ground.
The brains of the whole project
is an independent server. This
gives access and control of as
many devices as you need. It
also enables the function which
sees the iPads close down when
outside of the desired range. In
effect they go into a coma should
they leave the building and can
only be brought back to life by
returning. The benefits are twin-
fold; they insure the iPads have
no exterior value and they keep
the knowledge in one place.
‘There are occasions when we
would want the knowledge to
be accessible to the participant
and they can have that. All the
classwork they have done is sent
to them electronically at the end
of the course and they have the
ability, when in the building, to
use QR codes on various bites
of equipment. This gives them
instant access to videos on how
the equipment is used,’ says Mike.
iGREENA better learning experience is
the goal, but there’s no denying
that an estimated saving of £30
thousand in printed materials
makes the project a tablet that
any CFO could swallow. There’s
also the benefit that a lot more
trees will continue to shred leaves
and pine needles. ●
'What’s also innovative is the traffic light system where the participants can quietly inform the instructor of how they feel about the information. Green for yes, amber for a little more clarification and red for not understanding'.
The system also allows the instructor to see what topics the participants have prior knowledge of. A simple Q&A page charts the knowledge base of the participant.
Hamburgefintsiv
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but Dubai tries. There are few places where things happen as quickly as in Dubai.
Moving Forward at the Speed of Light Sockets
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Kasper Arendt Dahl opened
up his laptop and ‘bingo’, the
announcement of a new offshore
training centre totally dominated
the local news on the internet.
At that moment Maersk Training
in Dubai was a hollow shell of a
building in a new development
site - in exactly 26 weeks
mariners and oilmen would be in
front of simulators doing courses.
‘At the moment it is just concrete,
an area with pillars and posts,’
he says. ‘Dubai is a remarkable
place in terms of construction,
the time line is simply amazing,’
says Kasper who was already
wondering who to invite to the
opening day, despite the fact that
there was yet to be one electrical
socket in the building.
EVERY BRICK IN THE WALLPart of the relaxed atmosphere on
the part of the planners is due to
the fact that the Dubai centre will
roll off the back of another new
centre in Houston which rolled
off the back of developments in
Maersk Training in Europe. ‘We
have in Operations Manager
Tonny Moeller, our knowledge
hub, what he doesn’t know about
the best way to set things up
effectively we’ve yet to find.’
Tonny, a former chief instructor
in maritime watched every
brick being laid at the MOSAIC
9Moving Forward at the Speed of Light Sockets
Space today, within weeks it will never look the same again
10Moving Forward at the Speed of Light Sockets
complex in Svendborg and
with each new centre there are
refinements which add to the
learning experience. Classrooms
are working areas and people
respond better if they are
designed with learning in mind.
Ten years ago there was no such
concept as a ‘break out’ area.
Classrooms themselves also
reflect a change in approach, gone
are the long rectangular boxes
with a board at one end, in their
place a more open environment
where there’s more interaction
and contact.
‘I think what we’ve learnt is that
you can bring a set of architect
drawings to the table but you
need to look at them with
different pairs of glasses. First
you work out the size of the rooms
and then you put on the customer
experience glasses and look at the
facility from an entirely different
viewpoint,’ says Kasper who
said they had security glasses,
IT glasses, power glasses and a
look to the future pair of glasses
among others.
The whole area is a designated
government incentive known as
Dubai World Central, DWC. Beside
what will be the world’s biggest
airport, they have 140 sq kms of
desert which will host Expo 2020,
a major world event and the first
time it has come to the Middle
East. DWC will remain as a new
business city.
ANCHOR JOB‘We are an anchor client at DWC,
we are not just a commercial
company coming in and setting
up an office space. We will have
a multiplier effect because we
will draw in people and their
companies from all over. We’ve
been conceptualizing this as a
regional hub of offshore training
excellence from day one.’
One of the benefits is that DWC’s
corporate communications team
has been very helpful in making
sure that the good news hits the
networks. The news of the centre
went out on a large number of
DWC’s platforms and then that
got taken up by other agencies
and newsrooms – ‘hopefully
because our soon-to-be presence
in the region is welcomed as
a contributor to creating a
knowledge hub in the region.’
In the meantime the clock ticks,
the electricians are hard at work,
watch this space. ●
Dubai Factfile• The entire United Arab
Emirates cover an area the
size of Austria
• Dubai is just 5% of the land
area of UAE , yet is still the
second largest - Abu Dhabi
86.7%
• 1822 population about 800,
today 2.1 million
• Only 17% of population are
Emirati – Indians represent
more than half
• Dubai most populous state in
UAE with 35.6% From 1968-
75 it increased three fold.
• A pearl port until Great
Depression 1930’s and
invention of cultured pearls
• Asphalt runway in 1965 then
in 1970 Duty free shop
• Oil was only discovered in
1966
• There are seven emirates,
together they hold the 4th
richest oil reserves in the
world
• Dubai average summer high
41C overnight low 30C
• Dubai hotel rooms second
only to Geneva in terms of
expense
I think what we’ve learnt is that you can bring a set of architect drawings to the table but you need to look at them with different pairs of glasses.
Hamburgefintsiv
They sit in adjoining rooms, just metres apart, but they have one thing in common, they have all represented Denmark at international level in their chosen sport. In fact two of them are currently presidents of their sport’s national body.
The sports, one largely
summer and two definitely
winter, are diverse, but if one
word were to join them it would
be precision.
Susanne’s polished granite rock is
released with a calculated precise
movement which can only be
adjusted by teamwork, for a few
seconds four people become one
through communication with
curling.
Jesper concentrates, along with
his eleven teammates, for they
know that on misjudged move
will destroy months of precise
practice for the synchronised
skiers.
Leif knows he’s out there on his
own, only he can determine his
result and he can only do it from
concentration and making precise
calculations because anything
else will not deliver the perfect
round in mini golf.
Here they tell us how they got into
their sports and how sometimes
their sports get into their jobs. ●
Taking Your Passion Into The Office
Clockwise, Susanne Slotsager in action at the Salt Lake City Winter
Olympics, Leif Meitilberg has a different ball for every situation
and Jesper Nielsen about to grab a ski lift
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Hamburgefintsiv
One week in February 2002 turned Susanne Slotsager’s life upside down and inside out. Denmark’s women were one of the best curling teams in the world and at the 19th Winter Olympics, bronze, silver, gold even, beckoned. In the end when Susanne and her Hvidovre clubmates got back on the plane to put Salt Lake City behind them, they were battered and bruised having only won two out of nine games, it was a classic ‘bad day at the office.’
One week in February 2002 turned Susanne Slotsager’s life upside down and inside out. Denmark’s women were one of the best curling teams in the world and at the 19th Winter Olympics, bronze, silver, gold even, beckoned. In the end when Susanne and her Hvidovre clubmates got back on the plane to put Salt Lake City behind them, they were battered and bruised having only won two out of nine games, it was a classic ‘bad day at the office.’
‘Bad Day At The Office’Curling Career Turner
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13‘Bad Day At The Office’
It was such a disappointment
that it caused Susanne to
rethink her life, one that she’d
built around the sport – ‘as a
teenager my whole life was in
the curling club. I don’t even
remember the parties in the
gymnasium (high school). My
parents were an active part of
one of the first clubs in Denmark
and the first president was like an
uncle to me,’ she recalls.
Post Salt Lake all that dedication
and passion evaporated. For
Susanne it was time to get on and
do something different, build a
career, a life away from the rink.
But the defeats in Utah were to
linger and in a positive way, the
negative memory was to turn.
‘After a couple of years of
frustration at the loss I started
to study organisational
psychology which is basically
the psychological process in
groups. I did it because I couldn’t
understand where it went wrong.
Back then we were a group that
functioned, or failed to function, as
individuals. But even then I could
not see that it was this failure
that had actually motivated me,’
says Susanne. ‘When at Salt Lake
City my job was in HR. I started
out in HR having studied social
work, so it all came together.
Today I can see that there was a
red line through everything I was
doing, but I didn’t see it back then.
Today I use a lot of my sporting
experience in my work.’
SIMULATION, THE FUTURE?Susanne didn’t touch ice, except
in drinks, for nearly ten years.
Then the World Championships
came to Esbjerg in 2011 and she
went to see a game –‘I met all the
people from my past and I was
hooked again. Within three years
I was president.’
Curling is a relatively new sport
in Danish terms, but the Olympics
and its surrounding kudos, has
propelled it into the mainstream.
‘Up to 20 years ago it was a beer
sport, socially driven. Now to
compete you need to be 100%
professional on and off the ice.’
That’s why Susanne is smack
in the centre of the target,
without ever getting the
chance to play. Most of her
presidency is spent on strategic
development and leadership,
such as the current round of
talks with Team Danmark –
the Danish Governmental Top
Ahtlete committee – about high
performance development.. Then
a thought struck her, like the
eighth and final granite stone
slipping into the target and
kissing the opposition stone to the
back board, ‘we use simulators
at Maersk Training to define and
refine actions, maybe that’s where
the Danish team preparing for the
2018 games in South Korea, need
to be.’ ●
‘After a couple of years of frustration at the loss I started to study organisational psychology which is basically the psychological process in groups'.
Hamburgefintsiv
Jesper Nielsen’s passion and his career compliment and contribute to one another. At work he aims to bring the best out of people in creating a united team; at play he is part of a team that is not just united, but in perfect sync. Jesper is part of the Danish Synchronised Skiing team.
Sync On Skis
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15Sync On Skis
To associate Danes with
specialist downhill skiing
is akin to having a Mongolian
Surf Club, but no. ‘Actually for
a country without mountains
and little snow, we have a very
competitive approach to skiing.
We, as a nation, are better at
it than you’d expect,’ he says
pointing out that London, Paris,
New York all have people who
love to ski but can’t do so on their
doorstep.
Skiing has been a huge part of half
of Jesper’s life. The synchronised
skiing team is an extension of his
former day job as an instructor in
the French Alps for 12 years. Now
at Maersk Training in Svendborg
his role revolves around getting
mariners and oilmen to develop
their communication practices in
order to lead and be lead better.
‘How to move people from one
place to another, how to develop
people,’ he explains. The ski team
is this in a microcosm.
‘There really couldn’t be a greater
internal contrast within skiing.
As a skier you are an individual
setting out to do the best for you.
We are ten to twelve people and
what you have to do is to adapt
to the style and techniques of
someone else, usually the lead
skier,’ he explains. ‘That lead
skier is usually a median talent,
so some have to step up their
performance and others moderate
to make sure we come down the
mountain as one. That’s what
being synchronised is all about
and some really good skiers can’t
do it, they can’t merge.’
VITAL AWARENESSJesper says that he uses how
to handle people from different
environments and on different
levels and how to support them
in moving in the right direction
in both work and play. ‘Being in
the mountains you have to be
constantly safety aware and this
is the same thing we have in the
industry, accidents can be deadly.
Situation awareness is crucial in
both arenas.’
Asked if he could witness any
common ground between skiing
and curling and between his and
Susanne’s work approach, he
immediately noted that ‘we’re
both competitive and want to
be the best we can. I think if you
want to reach any level you have
to have that gene in you. You have
to be prepared to do things over
and over until you’ve mastered
it. We also share a comfort with
being with people from different
backgrounds - that is where
people in sport and people at work
most combine.’ ●
Being in the mountains you have to be constantly safety aware and this is the same thing we have in the industry, accidents can be deadly. Situation awareness is crucial in both arenas.’
Click to see Jesper
and his team in action
– Denmark are in blue
Hamburgefintsiv
Leif Meitilberg remembers well the day a chance decision to kill some time turned
into a passion; a passion which lead to him representing his country and to becoming president of the sporting body that was to
consume hours, days, weeks of his free-time.
Leif ends at 18
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17Leif ends at 18
‘It was in 1990, we’d been relaxing
having a couple of beers and
someone suggested mini golf – an
hour or so later I was hooked,
four years later I was playing for
Denmark,’ he recalls.
We’re talking mini golf here, not
the multi-million dollar version
which requires a tolerant partner,
a home that needs no repair and
a healthy bank balance; nor the
version which needs just two
clubs and a ball, pitch and putt.
It’s not even the slightly mad-
capped Disneyesque version of
the game which requires more in
luck than technique to get the ball
past the revolving windmill and
into the duck’s mouth.
Mini golf is pure precision and a
total inversion of the game which
requires an area the size of a farm.
To start the 18 holes can fit onto
an area the size of a tennis court,
the players generally only carry
one club, a putter. The biggest
change is in the ball they use.
The Saturday golfer hopes to get
round the whole course using
the same ball. Leif and his fellow
competitors have cases full of
balls, varying in colour perhaps
but each having an individual
characteristic or quality that
makes them unique, and in some
cases valuable. They cost 120 to
160dkk, but when prized they can
have a resale value of up to 3500
kroner.
18 IS PERFECTIONEvery golfer dreams of a hole in
one, the mini golfer dreams of
18 of them. Leif has had many
perfect rounds, and he says you
can’t draw a similarity with the
club golfer’s moment of one stroke
glory. ‘I’m not devaluing it, but for a
golfer to hit a hole in one it takes a
good shot, the rest is largely down
to luck, the bounce, the run of the
grass. With mini golf to get an 18
requires the perfect technique 18
times in a row,’ he says.
To do that he judges the surface,
the temperature, the atmosphere
and then selects the ball he thinks
is right. To find any sporting
similarity you need to look to a
147 break in snooker.
We’ve all seen videos of Tiger
Woods and Rory McIlroy
swinging a club at just four. ‘With
mini-golf it is pure technique and
you can’t expect to have the touch
and control until you are at least
twelve,’ says Leif. The bonus is
that you can play on and on. Leif
remembers having a round with a
guy who’d been playing for thirty
years and then at the age of 72,
and in Leif’s company, he scored
his first perfect 18.
Don’t confuse Mini Golf with its
Goofy cousin, Crazy Golf. There
are no motorised windmills or
other driven objects, it is pure
geography and geometry.
Leif plays for Denmark Seniors
and reached his own sporting
pinnacle at Easter when he
clinched his first major, the Nordic
Seniors title against players
from Scandinavia and the Baltic
countries. ●
Click here to see Leif’s
moment of triumph
Speed is everything in
Houston, chief instructor
Kim Laursen first observed,
‘that was the biggest initial
shock for me, the traffic, the six-
lane highways with everyone
rushing everywhere. It seemed
unstructured at first but now it
is easy. But still it took a while
to get comfortable with driving,
especially after the country roads
around Svendborg.’
Houston I’ve Got No Problems
Dad’s idea of a fun day out, seven-year old Magnus gets a treat outing,
the Galveston Drilling Museum
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There’s another empty shell of a building, in another oil hub, half way round the world from the new Maersk Training centre in Dubai. Maersk Training in Houston is still just concrete, but by the end of the summer it will be a fully functioning drilling complex for America’s fastest growing city. Several of the latest to join the ever growing population have been re-located Danes, moving from country into the fast lane.
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The take me home country roads
of Houston are massive and
fast, even though it takes Kim
an hour each way. ‘I leave for
work at about 5.30 to get in early.
But driving along, even when
it is quieter, you are constantly
reminded of the dangers. There’s
a big billboard with the current
yearly number of road deaths
in Texas. We’re not yet really
into the spring and already it is
362, that’s currently about 35 a
week. It is a very strong message
to someone working in a safety-
based industry. You see car
crashes every day, the traffic is so
dense.’
Kim’s current journey will be cut
to just 20 minutes when the new
centre being fitted out close to
the airport is finished. Currently
he’s building the instruction
team with much of it coming
from the former Transocean
training centre, which was
assimilated into Maersk Training
in January. For at least the next
five years Maersk Training will
be responsible for the technical
training of Transocean staff,
where they are currently
operating from, not just in
Houston, but worldwide. His
current task is to get IWCF up and
running along with competency
assessment for crane operators
and drillers.
UPS AND DOWNS‘I’ve really got used to it, so
much so that coming back home
to Svendborg to help with the
performance enhancement
course, I found driving my own
car strange, and mildly scaring.
Twice I nearly started it into a
wall forgetting to use the clutch,’
he says.
The speed of life in Houston has
been readily accepted by his
young family, especially by his
wife Lisa ‘who’s a better driver,’
although Matilda at 11 is finding
the local education system quite
tough. She’s not alone in that
since the state decided to strive
for excellence and moved the
curriculum forward by to years.
Son’s idea of a fun day at home
– well he could do this
in Svendborg in March
Houston I’ve Got No Problems
20Houston I’ve Got No Problems
Everything about Texas and
Houston in particular is about
striving to the top and to do that
they have drawn people from
all over the world. The Danish
Laursen’s fit in well in what is
America’s most multi-cultured
society and fastest growing,
highest earning city. More than
half the population is first-
generation American or, like Kim,
on a working visa.
INSTANT HOMESThe building process amazes Kim.
He smiles as he observes that you
can drive down a road one day
and you see workers putting up
the wooden interior structure,
drive past the next and you see
stone walls outside, drive past
next week and there are kids
playing in the garden.
‘They just glue the stones on and
don’t expect it to be used for more
than thirty years. Who knows
how big Houston will be in 2045?’
he says.
The hustle, the bustle, shopping
mall car parks the size of
downtown Svendborg, yet it’s
been a relatively easy transfer.
‘We are all used to English, I can’t
imagine a transfer the other way
from the US to Denmark could
ever be so comfortable. At six
Magnus is the least comfortable
with English, but it is really funny
to see him play with other kids
in the neighbourhood. He just
knocks on the door and says “can
boy play” they say “Minecraft?”
and that’s the last we see or hear
of him for three hours.’
Strangely as part of the Houston
boom, Kim has already met two
former classmates who, even
although they are in different
industries are now based in
Houston.
‘It’s the place to be.’ He says with
the slightest hint of a Texan
drawl. ●
• Named after war hero Sam
Houston by two brothers who
decided to build a city in 1836
• Oil discovered in 1901
• 4th most populated city in US
• Home to the world’s largest
concentration of healthcare
and research institutions
• Rated most culturally diverse
city in US
• Home to NASA’s Mission
Control
• Apollo 13 never said ‘Houston,
we’ve got a problem’ what
they did say was ‘Houston we
had a problem’ but Hollywood
thought that might somewhat
curtail the movie
• If Houston does have a
problem, it is air pollution – it
is #6 in the list of US ozone-
polluted cities
• One crucial factor in the
growth of Houston was the
availability from the 1950’s of
affordable air conditioning
• It’s a hanging offence to put
graffiti on someone else’s
cattle
• Infamous: Houston was home
to ‘the Candy Man’, Dean Corll,
one of America’s worst serial
killers who killed 28 young
boys in the early 70’s.
• Famous: Beyoncé was born in
the city in 1981
The Houston facility is destined
to be a very active place for
at least the next five years.
In February they followed up
the agreed cooperation with
the world’s biggest drilling
company, Transocean, by
signing a contract to provide
virtual environment training
to oil major British Petroleum.
Houston’s position is pivotal
to the US oil industry and the
scenario-based training process
developed at Svendborg is
central to creating an enhanced
workforce through better
technical and non-technical
skills.
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Hamburgefintsiv
Water pipe burst, internet down, new sign needed, send for Kat. What Kat can’t do, she’ll call in the experts.
The Adventures of Katwoman
21
The Adventures of Katwoman
Twenty-three year old Katrina
Benton is a walking fixing
dynamo at Maersk Training’s
two Aberdeen centres. ‘I don’t
have a toolbox, just a set of Allen
keys,’ she says, but they are
a very flexible set since when
something’s needed she’s right
there.
She explains that she never set
out to be a one-girl maintenance
engineer, ‘it just happened that
way. I’ve sort of fallen into jobs
and picked it up as I moved
along. I’m everywhere. Main
maintenance tech for Portlethen
and Kingswells so I have to
manage external contracts – all
the management and form filling
has just come as along-the-way
education
The first job she fell into was
built around her love for diving.
‘The shop I worked in contracted
out divers to the rigs so I spent a
lot of time servicing equipment,
regulators and the like.’
It was in the dive shop that she
met Mike Prater-Cockayne, then
a diver and now her operational
boss at the two centres. ‘Mike got
a job in maintenance at Maersk
Training and as he moved up the
position became available.’
DESK FREEHer new role was not dissimilar
to her old one, servicing diving
equipment, but there was a lot
more variety around the corner.
Today Kat not only services the
rafts and dry suits, patches wet
suits, but pulls one on and jumps
into the pool to assist in HUET
– helicopter underwater escape
training. What is different is that
when she emerges, in seconds she
could be up a ladder, hammer in
hand.
‘I couldn’t have a desk job, couldn’t
sit at it, have to adjust the legs,
take one off and put it back on
again,’ she says.
Somehow it is a statement that
doesn’t take much questioning. ●
22
Hamburgefintsiv 23
They are perfectly built for the job, robust, resilient and ready for action. There are plenty already in position and plenty more waiting to join them from the production line.
Stephen Smith is a perfect
example of the species, post-
squaddie.
Seventeen years with the
military, he now works on a
North Sea production platform
putting his mechanical skills
to use in a very different arena
to those he worked in with the
29th Commando Royal Artillery
regiment. His transition from the
army to oil and gas has not been
without its moments of tension,
like when a fishing boat broke a
gas line, but now back at home
in Aberdeen after three months
on and off shore, he has had the
chance to reflect on the two lives
he’s led.
There are many similarities
and quite a few shocks, mostly
positive. Like the emphasis
put on safety in the oil and gas
industry and the way training is
a little more structured in terms
of things put into stages. But the
biggest initial change he had to
overcome was in adjusting to the
teamwork ethos.
The Seagull Has Landed
The Seagull Has Landed
‘The army is all about teamwork,
you are as strong as the weakest,
we constantly learnt there is no
‘i’ in team. But in industry there’s
a lot of “I did this, I did that,” it’s
taken me some time to get used
to,’ he reflects mentioning the
early job interviews were he was
asked what he’d do and he was
left thinking, ‘surely it’s what
we’d do in the situation.’
‘It’s about selling yourself
differently, once you get out there,
there’s plenty of teamwork.’
NOVEL CHOPPERSStephen, a staff sergeant, put
in for voluntary redundancy
and was a little surprised when
it came up. The transition has
been ultra-smooth and just
about perfect timing. His long-
term partner Natalie and he are
expecting their first child in April.
The shift patterns, two on two off,
are a lot more family convenient
than a tour of duty. Stephen,
known as Smudge, has seen
duty in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and
Afghanistan.
‘Now Natalie only worries when
I’m flying,’ he adds pointing out
another dramatic difference
between industry and the
military. ‘The helicopters here
have seats and doors and are
much quieter.’
He arrived in the industry at an
interesting time, just as prices
fell and the pumps and the effect
rippled through the industry. But
he was well prepared. ‘Natalie’s
dad, brother, uncle and her mum’s
partner all work offshore and one
of them said to me, “stay away
from drilling, everyone needs
production,” and that’s where I
started, on my birthday and even
before I was officially out of the
army.’
Stephen’s transition from the
military started in June with
a specialist company, Last3
Recruitment preparing him for
a new occupation. That involved
instruction at Maersk Training’s
centre in Portlethen just south of
Aberdeen. ‘I was very impressed
by both the facilities and the
instructors. They took time and
responded to all our questions.’
NO REGRETSWith the industry going through
a change at the moment Stephen
still has no regrets and is looking
to the future, becoming a lead
mechanic and then maybe a
supervisor job onshore in five
years or so.
‘I know it is early days but I’m
pretty confident I’m made the
right move.’
Benson his dog is also happy, for
him his favourite tour of duty
is a walk in the Aberdeenshire
countryside. It’s a walk that
might now include a pram with
a baby girl on board, Stephen
and his partner Natalie became a
family on March 2. More than the
seagull has landed. ●
Reunion - Stephen (second from right) and some old mates catch up on a
Scottish Loch
24
Hamburgefintsiv 25We keep hearing that the cost of a barrel of crude oil rises and falls and as it does the whole world shudders. Today we almost enjoy filling up the car, but then we pick up the paper to see companies trimming back because cheap oil to them means a production crisis. Through it all the news talks barrels, but what exactly is a barrel?
First of all in oil terms it is
American, and not to be
confused with the imperial
measurements. There are 42
US gallons in a barrel, that’s
an inconvenient 158.98722
litres, and the contents, when
petroleum products or alcohol,
are referenced at 16 degrees
Celsius. In the 1860’s oil in the
Pennsylvania fields was collected
in whatever they had at hand,
clearly something needed to be
standardised. They pick up some
old English wine barrels and that
was that. The gasoline oil drum
carries a further 13 US gallons.
But what exactly do you get from
a barrel of crude? To start off to
further confuse things you get an
extra 6.43 gallons on top of the 42.
This is due to additional elements,
such as alkylates, that are added
during the refining process. Crude
oil varies but a typical barrel* is
expect to yield a little over half
(51.4%) as petrol, then there’s
15.3% diesel, 12.3% jet fuel, gas
5.4% and coke at 5%.
The barrel isn’t yet finished,
residual fuel oil, the stuff that
drives heaters makes up 3,3%
and LPG is a further 2.8%, asphalt
lubricants and other refined
products make up the remaining
4.1%. A barrel of oil is a bit like a
Chinese chicken, every part is
used for something.
So if it produces 51.6% in petrol
that’s 94.6 litres of petrol from
a barrel which cost, in total,
recently $50. When you consider
that about 60% of what you pay at
the pump in the UK and Denmark
is tax, you start to see why the
industry is presently looking
down the butt of a barrel. ●
*data from the California Energy Commission
Barrels of fun – not!
It’s funny how dependent we
get on the little things in life.
Take cruise control for instance.
Personally it doesn’t really matter
when buying or hiring a car what
size the engine is, my selection
process starts on the bottom-
rated car offering my right foot a
rest on motorways.
Very kindly my mother-in-law
lent us her car to get us over a
minor transportation dilemma.
It is in fact a shopping bag on
wheels, provided you don’t buy
too much. The engine struggled
at 100 KPH and my right leg was
the most exhausted part of my
body for the first part of 200
kilometers.
The journey was quite tiring,
but not quite in the league of the
Australian guy whose story came
out in a book a couple of weeks
back. In terms of inventive travel
this was thinking inside the box.
It’s funny how dependent we
get on the little things in life.
Take cruise control for instance.
Personally it doesn’t really matter
when buying or hiring a car what
size the engine is, my selection
process starts on the bottom-
rated car offering my right foot a
rest on motorways.
Very kindly my mother-in-law
lent us her car to get us over a
minor transportation dilemma.
It is in fact a shopping bag on
wheels, provided you don’t buy
too much. The engine struggled
at 100 KPH and my right leg was
the most exhausted part of my
body for the first part of 200
kilometers.
The journey was quite tiring,
but not quite in the league of the
Australian guy whose story came
out in a book a couple of weeks
back. In terms of inventive travel
this was thinking inside the box.
thinking inside the boxthinking inside the box
fragile
Poopdeck 26
27Poopdeck
It was in 1964 and the guy,
like most twenty-something
Australians was in London. He
was called Reg Spiers, they don’t
write names like that anymore.
An injury had ruined an athletics
career that should have taken
him to the Olympics in Tokyo
the previous summer. Now out of
sport and out of work, he was out
of money.
BIRTHDAY PROMISEBack in Australia he had a young
daughter and he’d promised her
he’d be home for her birthday. The
boat was too slow, a plane seat
too expensive, so he came up with
a daring compromise. He’d fly as
cargo.
With the help of a friend they
made a box to the then maximum
specifications for air freight –
5x3x2.5 feet, a metre and half
at its longest – inside he’d lie on
his back, knees to chest, holding
on to two straps. As I drove to
Copenhagen in the shopping bag,
it made grumbling about no cruise
control, rather petty.
The box closed and opened from
the inside and Reg’s plan was
to get out of it once in a while,
providing the baggage handlers
hadn’t placed it too close to
something else. To survive he’d
some canned food and two big
plastic bottles, one with water
and one to receive a sort of water.
The second bottle didn’t last very
long; in Paris during the first of
several plane changes, he was
disturbed and had to quickly get
back into the box. In haste he’d
left the bottle on top and the
French baggage handlers took
it as an insult from those filthy
English at Heathrow.
THE CLEVER PART Another close call was in India
where he was left out on the
tarmac for four of the hottest
hours of the day, upside down.
But he was an Aussie and they
are both durable and stubborn
and eventually, after three days
the plane landed in Perth. It was
daring, dangerous and clever but
the cleverest bit was yet to come.
Freighting a heavy wooden box
would have cost him more than
a seat in the plane, but the box
had been shipped to a fictitious
shoe company, ‘to be paid for
on arrival’. He was forklifted
into a customs hanger to await
collection. He got out, cut a hole in
the side of the building and went
to a birthday party.
We’ve all had one nightmare
journey that teaches us
something. August 1995, London-
Kingston, Jamaica, aisle seat
37C, back of plane. Shoes off for
comfort, I take a comfort break.
Stepping into the toilet and
flapping the doors closed I notice
two things - the light didn’t come
on and the previous passenger
had carried on regardless of the
problems caused by the darkness.
I jumped out, but stupidly didn’t
discard my socks, instead I tried
to wash them in the lit cubicle
next-door. Back in 37C I stretched
my legs as far as they would go
from my nose and carried on the
eight-hour journey, like a plank on
a seat. It wasn’t going to improve.
Seat 37C sat a little further out
into the aisle to accommodate the
shape of the back of the plane and
the coup de grâce came when the
hostess drove the trolley into the
seat and a half-consumed bottle of
claret landed in my lap. Jamaica-
bound I’d opted for beige chinos.
The immigration officer looked at
me, both of us lost for words. I was
lucky to get in.
Anyway these reflections of bad
travel, had killed some time on the
journey to Copenhagen, with the
engine roaring the little car and I
were doing 120kph. The sun was
coming up and for the first time I
could make out the top of the gear
knob. Small cars may not have
cruise control as standard, but a
fifth gear! I realized that Jeremy
Clarkson, I was not. There is some
relief in pain. ●
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eSea 1 Instructors’ back to sea programme - Sea Time Reduction announced - Vetting for Supply - New Deepwater Horizons open up
eSea 2New Towmasters’ course gets full simulation treatment - Deepwater course piloted - Wind industry - Drill instructor gets back to the well head
eSea 3MOSAIC II announced - Offshore wind, the new challenges - West African pilots use simulator to deal with the ‘big boys’ - CraneSIM in Vietnam - Piracy through the ages
eSea 4MT launches new website - Chinese in big safety push - Rig crane put in a box - Safety and People Skills build platform emergency course - how to communicate across cultures
eSea 5Maersk Training pennant raised in Dubai - Platform crews pilot Emergency Response course - How to be best in Vetting class - Danger of computer over reliance
eSea 6MOSAIC II, the ground is broken - Rig participants up to elbows in some very special mud - Semi-sub crew learns anchor handling - West African pilots start payback
eSea 7Chinese Container crews look to safety - Rig crane simulator tested - Esbjerg’s new facilities - MOSAIC II update - DP sea-time reduction - Coffee Break with Bent Nielsen
eSea 8Titanic Edition looking back at 100 years of increased safety and improved training - the lifeboat revolution - man overboard - spreading knowledge - tomorrow’s seafarers
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eSea 9$15million Phone call - Wrappers off MOSAIC II - 5 Year drilling package - Tomorrow’s leaders today - Family comes too - Learning in luxury - Danish Olympians teambuild
eSea 10Breaking the ice, a new route in navigation - crane simulation arrives - Newcastle’s drop in course for the high life - the silent disease, loneliness - Chinese catch safety bug
To go back in time and access articles from previous issues, simply click on the photo of the edition or use the QR code.
eSea 1 Instructors’ back to sea programme - Sea Time Reduction announced - Vetting for Supply - New Deepwater Horizons open up
eSea 2New Towmasters’ course gets full simulation treatment - Deepwater course piloted - Wind industry - Drill instructor gets back to the well head
eSea 3MOSAIC II announced - Offshore wind, the new challenges - West African pilots use simulator to deal with the ‘big boys’ - CraneSIM in Vietnam - Piracy through the ages
eSea 4MT launches new website - Chinese in big safety push - Rig crane put in a box - Safety and People Skills build platform emergency course - how to communicate across cultures
eSea 5Maersk Training pennant raised in Dubai - Platform crews pilot Emergency Response course - How to be best in Vetting class - Danger of computer over reliance
eSea 6MOSAIC II, the ground is broken - Rig participants up to elbows in some very special mud - Semi-sub crew learns anchor handling - West African pilots start payback
eSea 7Chinese Container crews look to safety - Rig crane simulator tested - Esbjerg’s new facilities - MOSAIC II update - DP sea-time reduction - Coffee Break with Bent Nielsen
eSea 8Titanic Edition looking back at 100 years of increased safety and improved training - the lifeboat revolution - man overboard - spreading knowledge - tomorrow’s seafarers
eLibrary
eSea 9$15million Phone call - Wrappers off MOSAIC II - 5 Year drilling package - Tomorrow’s leaders today - Family comes too - Learning in luxury - Danish Olympians teambuild
eSea 10Breaking the ice, a new route in navigation - crane simulation arrives - Newcastle’s drop in course for the high life - the silent disease, loneliness - Chinese catch safety bug
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macondo – a lesson unlearnt? the worlds most advanced offshore simulation complex >�
the most socially isolated person on planet earth? >
training to avoid skyfall >
captaining a floating town >
combating stress with underwater rugby >
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Hello GoodbyeWhat’s that...? >Moustache Or Madness? >Runway to Slipway >Lady in Black > RIGMAROLE* you don’t need >Rolling Back the Years >Floating Like Butterflies Stinging Like Bees >SCOTS land on MARS >Umbrella Fella >Sund of Silence >Friendly Fred & Frugal Friend >
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On the move
From Diverse to Dynamic >New Day, New Horizon >Working for Transition >The Duke of Hazzard >Caso do Constant Care >Karoline’s Tartan Diary >2000 Light Years From Home >
MARITIME• 1 DP Sea Time Reduction • 1 Vetting for supply • 2 Towmaster course • 6 West Africans payback time • 10 Ice breaking through world
short-cut • 11 Captaining a hotel • 12 Bridge and engine room in
sync • 12 A new look at mooring • 14 What MLC 2006 means • 15 All Fired Up – a very real
computer game • 16 Ngoc’s Fourth Bar • 16 838 Days – Søren’s days in
pirate captivity • 19 Sund of Silence – a farewell
ferry story
O&G• 6 Semi-sub crew handling
anchors • 6 Mud course • 9 The $15million phone call • 11 Macondo – a lesson unlearnt? • 12 North Sea, experts look to
bright future • 14 Brazil’s oil and gender
revolution • 15 Gulf Lessons – performance
enhancement • 15 What is Performance
Enhancement? • 19 Lady in Black – Anna takes
us on a journey into the world of MPD
• 20 Working for Transition – new
logo, new role, same job WIND POWER• 12 The father of wind power • 12 Olsen team get specific
training • 13 Training at heights for lady
with no vertigo • 14 Blade Runners, the new high
level repairmen • 17 Carload of Hopes: the heights
some people will go to for a job• 18 Career Climber – Jonny
benefits from his car-eer gamble • 18 Bonus Points – we take a tour
of Siemens training facilities in Jutland
• 20 From Diverse to Dynamic – Dong Energy’s energised team in Esbjerg
CRANE• 3 CraneSim in Vietnam • 4 Rig crane in a box • 7 Rig crane simulator tested • 13 APMT’s management
improvement programme • 15 Slinging in the sunshine
SAFETY• 4 Container industry in big safety
push • 7 Chinese container crews show
huge progress • 20 Duke of Hazzard – Svitzer’s
newest employee is no accident
MISCELLANEOUS• 3 Piracy through the ages • 8 Titanic edition looks at
progress since 1912 • 10 Loneliness, the problem of
isolation • 11 Underwater rugby, combating
stress • 13 Piracy and the cross - the roll
today of the seamen’s mission • 14 The Story of Ngoc – a
remarkable tale of resilience and good fortune
• 14 Eat meet and leave – the messages in our diet
• 15 Puffed – Hawaii’s Ironmen • 15 Michael Bang-From defusing
to enlightening • 15 The story of the world beating
blue boat • 16 Colony of Hope, meeting
India’s stigmatised community • 17 Marstal – port of passion and
ferry tales• 18 Tracy’s Screen Test – we see
how to Skype yourself into the right job
• 19 Runway to Slipway - a pilot’s eye view of simulation training
• 20 51 Shades of Grey - Aberdeen city of contrast
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Don’t blame the cook >Eat meet and leave >
Triple E = 3M’s >Brazil’s oil and gender revolution >Funny Tummy
So what is the MLC 2006 all about? >Food for Thought >Blade Runners >
Playing the name game >
The Story of Ngoc
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Gulf Lessons >Keep taking the tablets > What exactly is Performance Enhancement? >When BP means Better Prepared > Nintendo boys, game on >Puffed, but the magic drags on >No bang Bang >Girls Out Loud >Every Boat Tells a Story >Science - stronger than steel >All fired up >Space, the final frontier >
performance enhancement
Piracy – Søren’s Somali Story
Ngoc's Fourth Bar >Colony of hope >
Farewell Favela, So Long Shanty >Starbuster >
All Sorts Have One Aim >Knowledge Seekers >
Helsingborg to Prague, via Svendborg >Surely not >
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Carload of Hopes >Revolving door >
Caught Flagging >Logomotions >
Hard Drive for Soft Skills >Perfect Pressure Performance >
Marstal - port of passion and ferry tales >Rockall - All Rock or Oil Rock? >
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The Great Bag of China- what's the secret of good branding?
Oceans Seven >Bonus Points >'Tracy's Screen Test' >What’s a Flag State? > She’s Leaving Home >Stonehaven, home of ... >SiberianOnSafety >Recalculating... >
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Jonny’s $10,000 Gamble
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