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All equipment solutions related pages and news from Marine Technical Limits – specialists in FPSO Integrity and Repair Management solutions.

Human Factors – OEUK HSE Conference

Our Projects Director, Calum MacLean, had the pleasure of presenting at the OEUK HSE Conference this year to discuss a Human Factors approach to FPSO confined space entry.  MTL has been managing and conducting large and complex confined space repair projects on producing FPSO’s almost every day over the past 15 years. Despite these activities …

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Safe System of Work on FPSO deck to provide ventilation and power distribution

FPSO Tank Ventilation – Air Change Rate

While building regulations worldwide are quite prescriptive when considering the volume of ventilation required for different spaces, there is a distinct lack of guidance for the ventilation of confined spaces, in terms of air changes per hour or even what constitutes “adequate ventilation.” To a layperson or to a professional in the field this just …

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Astronaut undertaking space walk on the International Space Station

The confined space entry paradox

There is no environment more hostile to life than space. Why then, do NASA continue to train and send people into space? Quite simply, because there are many jobs that cannot be done remotely. Perhaps the highest risk of these activities, extravehicular activities (EVAs), happen regularly. This year alone, 12 EVAs have been executed to …

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Innovative Hull Repair – World First

When working in difficult, challenging and sometimes unpredictable environments, thinking ‘outside of the box’ is a necessity. Problem solving quickly, innovatively and above all safely is a must when the unexpected happens, and yet many organisations in the oil and gas industry often fall into the “one size fits all” category of problem solving.   That isn’t the case for us at Marine Technical Limits (MTL). Through careful planning and our safe …

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END2END SERVICE – THE WAY OF WORKING

In the current economic climate, and with a reduction in the price of oil, the energy sector is having to consider how it works with third party organisations. More efficiency, cost effectiveness and lean work scopes will be the new way of working. Luckily for our clients we have been innovating, thinking differently and driving …

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MTL ANNOUNCES £400K INVESTMENT AND SIX NEW EMPLOYEES

ON WAY TO £4.8MILL TURNOVER FPSO and marine vessel integrity and repair management company, Marine Technical Limits (MTL), has announced the appointment of six new recruits as part of a £400,000 investment in the organisation. It comes as the firm, which now employs 44 people, targets turnover of £4.8million this year. The Kintore-based company, which …

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