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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 …
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 …
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 …
8th April is the day we remember the fire which occurred during hotwork repairs in a cargo tank of MV Kometik, one of the shuttle tankers serving the offshore oil fields in Newfoundland. Whilst one of the men in the tank was able to evacuate, the other was overcome by smoke and died. As this …
In the context of the recent fatal accident on the an FPSO in West Africa where 2 workers lost their lives whilst working in an FPSO Cargo Tank, I feel it is important to point out that confined space entry in cargo tanks, ballast tanks and void spaces of FPSOs and FSUs doesn’t have to …
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For the previous 15 years, Marine Technical Limits has managed teams of 3 to 30 people working inside the hull spaces, cargo tanks and ballast tanks of producing FPSO’s and FSU’s. Without exception there is always a pressure to do the work more quickly and with less personnel than is planned; and all whilst still …
In the last year we have completed a unique world-first project which involved the destruct and reinstatement of a submerged cargo pump pipe stack while an FPSO was on-station and operational. Our team was first approached about the project by an oil operator early 2019. The client, third party inspection resources and our team of specialists, initially undertook an inspection in its off-spec tank No.4 (OST 4C). …
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 …
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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Lead Naval Architect Ian Stewart delivered a successful presentation on 13 November 2019 to students at the University of Strathclyde’s Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering. Ian, who discussed how to perform sub-surface structural hull repairs to FPSOs, while on station, said: “Having studied at the university I’m delighted to be back after …
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