Brazil's Oil Industry Comes out of the Shade

EMAGAZINE FROM MAERSK TRAINING 34 eSeaMARITIME/OIL & GAS/WIND/CRANE · NO.34/2019 Sweet and Sour Reality Training The X Factor Rio de The language question End time for the blame game Juvenation Rock Stars prove to be a Magnificent 7 Putting Life in Top Gear Brazil's oil industry Smile, Say Cheese comes out of the shade content 8 4 10 Sweet and Sour The X Factor The language The seabed from Brazil to Sometimes the smallest of question Africa, where it was once 6 things can make the greatest The headline says it all. joined all those millions of of differences. Jerry Faria Time and time again the years ago, has a floor of salt, Reality Training4 through a small deviation of pitfall in causing a wrong and underneath it, almost Maersk Training aims is to be on the cutting edge of techniques his personal time and drain impression or even worse, an certainly some of the finest oil to get the message across. Rescue instructor Felipe Santana, on his own pocket, is making accident, boils down to basic on earth. > stumbled across a new genre that was both tragic and a massive contribution to his communication. > illuminating, reality training. > home community. > 22 16 20 Rock Stars prove to Putting Life in Smile, Say Cheese be a Magnificent 7 Top Gear William gets on a bus at two 12 Dropped off by boats, the It came about in the in the morning along with five geologists and their two strangest of ways. A cousin of two large flamingo boxes End time for the blame game Greenlandic field escorts took Leonardo’s who was working and when he arrives in Rio turns at the two heavy bags for the Discovery Channel visits seven offices, including The switching of the traditional way of analyzing of apportioning they carried across the sand. had recognised his profile as Maersk Training, where he blame, shifting from the individual being seen as the problem, to They should have contained finger-print perfect for an up- sells the cheese. > focusing on the root cause probably being from somewhere within cover and sustenance so that coming ad campaign. > the system, was the main message of the ‘star’ attraction on they would survive until help Global Safety Day. > arrived. > 3 Flying Down Richard Lightbody to Rio [email protected] On many levels this is a very special eSea. If By having eSea as an integral part of the Safety is paramount in everything we do. Each you’ve got this far you may have noticed that we web it should ensure that we have constant year the entire Maersk group takes time out to are using a different platform to launch it. As you freshness alongside an easier and more complete focus on safety, to see how it can be improved get further you will note a very South American experience for you, the reader, and who knows, for the next 364 days. This year there is a mind- feel, apart from a taste of the Arctic – yes, we perhaps even as a course participant. eSea’s aim shifting decision that requires putting blame are flying down to Rio. has always been to inform through entertaining. aside and seeking for the source any incident. It’s never been Maersk Training’s magazine, rather We tease you with a few questions as to how We’re using our web as the main launch pad a magazine from Maersk Training. It is a subtle you’d react in certain situations. Whilst in Rio one for eSea because we have spent the past year difference which we will endeavor to maintain, incident occurred which required the crew of a rebuilding it to become a vibrant part of our even although embedded in a website. We’d be vessel to change their view of training for safety. communications. Websites in general have a keen to hear your feedback. Positive or negative, tendency to be there because they have to be. it is the only way forward. On the human side, in Rio we meet a trio of Like a dog, it is not just for Christmas. It needs interesting men who in different ways might constant feeding and exercise. It’s all too often The Rio trip was based upon experiencing a new cause you to re-evaluate your lives. Enjoy. a company ‘tick’ in the box. ‘Oh yes we’ve got a course where the Brazilian drill team from a website.’ You then look in the news section to see rig contracted by Shell were heading into deep that the latest item is four years old. waters and having to drill through salt to get to the oil. Drilling through salt is particularly unpredictable and it draws upon an even greater level of clear communication. The course therefore concentrated on aligning both technical and human skills. Article name 4 The sweet oil lying under Sweet a bed of salt and Sour It said five past eight on the wall clock, but the drill team in the classroom were about to be travel back 200 million years. Their eventual physical target is just 85 kms off the Brazilian coast. Hopefully it is the key to one of the riches of the South Atlantic, the extensive oilfields that stretch from Brazil to Angola, two countries in two continents that were once joined together physically and now share a common language and a potential life- changing miracle. he Shell block in the western the wells sunk as exploratory have T Atlantic seabed is comparatively yielded huge returns. close to land, but in deep water. The reason for commissioning a There is no indication that the whole raft of new fields is that the new field, although isolated and economic tide has turned in favour distanced from the dozens of other of deep sea operations. The seabed new and established to the south, from Brazil to Africa, where it was will be any less generous. The crew once joined all those millions of from the drillship Brava Star were years ago, has a floor of salt, and the second and concluding part of underneath it, almost certainly the drilling section to take part in some of the finest oil on earth. Salt a new holistic course, Well Control even although it is in rock form, and Crew Resource Management. is a less stable bed and can cause The course doesn’t define between unique drilling situations. So far all the two topics, it blends them into 5 Article name Sweet and Sour 5 Shell, Expertise and Investment one, the technical side and human Maybe as a result of having used the Royal Dutch Shell is investing $2million dollars a year in the Lula basin. skills merging, showing how they procedures offshore and during the The northern field, where the Brava Star has commenced operations, was can affect each other. regular well controls every week, discovered in 2007. It is relatively close to the mainland, but the seabed is that there are further improvements deep and the pre-salt layer is particularly thick, it’s estimated to be two The perfect marriage that we can then make.’ kilometers in places. The oil found at the Tupi reservoir due south of Rio It’s a path that Maersk Training has de Janeiro with its low sulphur, is described as light and ‘sweet’. been pioneering for some time. Wouter viewed the course’s success All too often when analyzing the on several levels, skill and team Drilling through a bed of salt can be more tricky than solid rock – even aftermath of an accident, the cause building as well as it providing a although it can be around two kilometers thick, it is less predictable and finds its root in human frailty in testing and development ground for it requires even more caution than normal in the dog house. Petrobras following procedures or decisions procedures. CRM’s origins go back held a monopoly on Brazilian oil until 1995 when the constitution changed made in error. The marriage of to the airline industry and more to allow foreign investment. Shell has a 25% stake in the Lula consortium. people and technological skills has precisely one of the case studies the been the bedrock or a new genre team examined, the Tenerife 747 of courses for new build crews and tragedy of 1977. Disasters on rigs has proven itself with the return triggered a response from the oil on investment within weeks of the industry, but it is generally accepted crews going on board. that it still lags behind in terms of thoroughness and in setting uniform Shell Brasil’s Wells Technical Advisor, standards. Wouter Bode, believes the return on investment was evident before they ‘The course exceeds my expec ta- had got to day three, the final day tions because the people were not of the course. ‘I would say that after only able to train the basics but also doing this I think every campaign by working together, get to know that we bring in a new rig I think I each other. And I think it was very would look at doing similar training. powerful as the operator to come It’s been tremendous. We are now together with the rig contractor and also considering that maybe after a work together face-to-face for three year we need to bring those crews days and really get into that mindset back in for a day on the simulator that they are empowered to do this to refresh and see where they are.

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