Perfect Pearl Deep sea design Safety squeeze Life savers Strainstall’s monitoring prowess Divex’s system ScanTech quick to meet James Fisher vessel assists in provides buildings support in to be installed on BP dive stringent new compressor helicopter crew training in the Qatar development: Page 3 support vessel: Page 5 guidelines: Page 7 North Sea: Page 8

QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN 2014 IN BRIEF Young talent shines bright

This month marks the end of the first year of apprenticeship for Ryan Peacey, 17, Ben Marshall, 18 and Craig Morgan, 23 who were lucky enough to be selected to work with the Strainstall team at Cowes. The three electronics apprentices, who now move in to their second year, have been working on projects such as supplying monitoring systems for a floating deck, as well as vessel approach systems and the new Smartload technology. They expect to stay in the field and complete their apprenticeships MeyGen turns the with the company over the next three James Fisher Marine Services’ ground-breaking underwater stream turbine being years, and have just been joined by two lowered into the choppy waters off the coast of Northern Scotland. new apprentices on the Strainstall team. Read the full story on page 7. “I’ve really enjoyed my first year I’m looking forward to my second!” says Craig Morgan, “The hands-on approach to training and working alongside the team on actual customer projects, means you feel as if you are really contributing Highland power to the business” Production supervisor, Leigh Hume, New monitoring systems accurately profiled and compared to their who is responsible for their training, increase longevity of original design assumptions. adds: “We’ve been pleasantly surprised Simon Cross, Strainstall’s SSE works at the progress all three have made in hydroelectric power plant manager commented: “This was an intense such a short time. We expect very high installation due mainly to awkward site standards of workmanship and the lads Strainstall is helping Scottish and conditions, but completed on time and to a have not disappointed.” Southern Energy (SSE) to extend the high standard in order to provide SSE with operating life of its Central Highlands important data, which, hopefully, will prolong hydroelectric power plant. the life of the power station for years.” In August, a small team from Strainstall Part of the Affric-Beauly hydro scheme visited the plant to install a monitoring in the remote Central Highlands, the power system to the Main Inlet valves (MIVs) plant consists of a 48m-high, 727m-long on the generation turbines. These valves dam, plus a second smaller one. A tunnel control the flow of water through the connects the two lochs to the generating turbines and are subjected to huge station which has three 22 megawatt as a result of the high involved in (MW) turbines and one 7MW turbine with holding back vast quantities of water. a generating capacity of 7,701 kilo-watt Newsflash: The team fitted a bespoke strain gauge hours. The station is unmanned and is Enter your email address at http:// around each valves’ foundations controlled from an operations centre in pelican.james-fisher.com/registration. and inlet-outlet pipes to monitor them. The Perth with electricity being generated php to receive up-to-the-minute news and gauges allow SSE to understand more quickly during periods of high demand, or information about the James Fisher group clearly the strains the MIVs are experiencing as a back-up to onshore wind generating of companies straight to your inbox. so that their operational life can be capacity across the country. Lifting Weak Link Bails to the next level Repeat ScanTech AS’s highly innovative and simple Chris Stevens, managing director of business for Weak Link Bail system has been successfully ScanTech says: “What the guys have deployed on floating rigs worldwide to achieved is brilliantly simple - rather than Subsea Vision increase worker protection and enhance looking at these systems as two distinct safety during well testing, flow backs, pieces of physical hardware, they worked Subsea Vision has started a new clean ups, completions, plugging and together to identify how both could be used project on the Haewene Brim, a Floating abandonment and workover operations. at the same time in the same physical space.” Production Storage Offload (FPSO) The WLB system owes its success to This latest development, created by vessel in the North Sea, owned by a simple self-contained mechanism that the team at ScanTech incorporates the Bluewater. The work, for Shell, involves prevents over-tension of the completion field-proven capability of the WLB into the using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to inspect the vessel’s mooring and workover riser if the primary heave CTLF using conventional tension frame lines down to the seabed, as well as compensator fails when the rig is locked to design principles within the confinements examining its hull. the seabed. of the existing space. This new design The new project underlines the strong In the past, height restrictions have made incorporates a detachable 3-axis injector working relationship between Subsea using the existing WLB system tricky (and table, which reduces bulk and makes Vision and the petrochemicals giant potentially dangerous) when working with rigging-up easier, so reducing rig-up time and follows successful completion of Coiled Tube Lifting Frames (CTLF). More than while increasing worker protection, safety a project for Shell on the Brent Bravo half of rig work operations are estimated to and reliability in what is a recognised platform, which included subsea use coiled tubing, at least as a contingency, industry risk – compensator lock up. inspections of production risers and so the technical teams at ScanTech AS and With confirmed interest from a major oil structural surveys. It also attests to key partner Stavanger Engineering AS have corporation the first production version of the cost savings the company offers been developing the WLB-CT as a workable the WLB-CT is at the final design stage for by placing its ROVs directly on clients’ solution to this challenge. use in a North Sea campaign in 2015. FPSOs, removing the need to charter additional expensive support vessels and associated mob/demob costs. In-depth understanding (for subsea baskets)

Digging deep Fisher Offshore (FO) has created its own subsea basket for transporting equipment James Fisher and Sons plc (JFS) and KDM Marine have joined forces to create from the surface to the (subsea) worksite James Fisher Mass Flow Excavation Ltd and for bringing it back up again. Product (JFMFE). The new company will be run by development was based on industry executives from Aberdeen-based KDM consultation where the company researched Marine, with staff from JFS’ group company specific customer requirements, leading to Fisher Offshore providing engineering, the in-house design. Similar to others, FO’s operations and maintenance support. basket can be launched from deck allowing JFMFE will combine Fisher Offshore’s subsea operations by ROV or diver. existing fleet of HydroDiggers™ with KDM Marine’s latest offering, TwinProp™, to offer mass flow excavation services to the offshore energy sector. Both tools channel Eastern promise a low- controllable water column towards the seabed and are non-contact, Offshore has joined the growing reaping rewards, as Gary Anderson, Fisher so they can be operated remotely and Fisher used safely around live pipelines. contingency of James Fisher group Offshore Asia Pacific regional manager The new company will also offer other companies in Singapore supporting its explains: “By basing ourselves in the heart tools, such as dredge pumps and jetting clients’ worldwide activities by opening a of the Asia-Pacific Offshore centre we aim equipment, for subsea excavation. new base to support subsea construction to ensure local and effective engagement Kenneth Mackie, former KDM Marine and maintenance activities. throughout the delivery of our clients’ chief executive and managing director This forward-thinking strategy made subsea engineering projects, enabling them of JFMFE, says: “By combining KDM it possible for FO to complete a recent to achieve the same high safety standards management’s expertise with JFS’s global project for multinational Schlumberger in as within the North Sea.” footprint and the equipment to complete Malaysia and work is already in progress for “This puts us in a stronger position numerous different types of subsea Indonesia’s Pipeline Technologies. to supply back-deck marine equipment excavation, we aim to create the world’s The strategy of following customers (winches, marine cranes and deck rigging leading subsea excavation business.” and showing commitment to its clients is equipment) worldwide,” he adds.

02 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN 2014 Piling it on at ‘The Pearl’ Forging Strainstall creates new testing its end-bearing and frictional resistance. process for higher-than-ever test What’s more, preparation takes only a few stronger hours and there is no need for overhead loads in Qatar beams because the load is applied from within the pile, which makes it more cost- links When the team at Strainstall were asked effective than conventional load testing. to devise a new load testing facility for These tests, part of a £100,000 contract, RMSpumptools re-designs its Ammico in Qatar they knew they faced a follows inspections carried out last year tough challenge. by the company on one of Abraj Quartier’s subsea wet-mate connectors Senior engineer, Don Albero worked with “Gateway Towers”, which, at 201m-high, and wins more contracts Mark Jeff Garcia, a full-time technician based are the tallest buildings in the development. in Qatar to create and perfect a new testing The contract, for NSCC International, The team at RMSpumptools has technique called Bi-Directional Static was worth more than £150,000. And the recently completed a series of product Load (BDSL) to check the strength of success looks set to continue with another developments to improve on its industry- recent order from Ammico. huge foundation piles supporting buildings leading electrical wet-mate connector on Qatar’s artificial island development – An artificial island in the Gulf, The Pearl technology that meets specific customer The Pearl. is 350 miles offshore of Doha’s West Bay needs and industry challenges. Together, Albero and Garcia conducted neighbourhood. Built on one of Qatar’s Taking the existing highly successful four separate BDSL tests on piles 1.5m in major pearl diving sites, it will create and proven products as a starting diameter and 15m long, loaded with up to almost 20 miles (32km) of new coastline point, RMSpumptools engineers Steve 10,000 tonnes – this is the highest test load and include residential and retail areas, Hayton, Ian Boyington and Alan Craven ever conducted in the country for a 15m pile. hotels and a marina. It consists of ten repackaged electrical connectors to They cleverly designed BDSL to use a precincts, including Abraj Quartier, a achieve a slimmer, reduced diameter sacrificial hydraulic load cell installed within development of seven residential towers version with increased rating the pile to provide separate information on and town houses. (up to 155°C). The unique features of WellConnect™ V1 electrical wet-mate connector feed- through system enables the capacity for increased port facilities in the subsea tubing hanger to deliver better use of subsea equipment. These developments establish new industry standards in temperature ratings as the connectors can withstand more extreme subsea conditions. The project took nine months from concept to prototype testing and manufacture, with the first application confirmed in the Chevron Indonesia Deep Water Development (through GE Oil & Gas), a three-field natural gas project involving billions of (US) dollars in investment. Bespoke WellConnect™ V1 technology will be used for subsea trees, ‘The Pearl’: stunning man-made construction-site off the coast of Qatar tubing hangers and tubing hanger running tools in the Makassar Strait, between Sulawesi and Borneo. Michael Winfield, subsea business Production prowess manager, RMSpumptools said: “The team has delivered some fantastic improvements creating real value for our Workers at Strainstall’s Isle of Wight facility planned the workflow ahead and when customers, and showing the levels of in Bembridge have made a colossal 160 the orders came in the hook units were innovation we can achieve. The contracts mooring hooks in just two months, three ready to be assembled. This made the jobs show the versatility of our product range times the usual number. considerably easier to manage.” and our ability to meet the challenge of the Operations director, Duncan Hardiman Bembridge opened two years ago industry’s most demanding environments was full of praise for the five members when the manufacture of Quick Release by supplying our clients with bespoke of staff who produced the hooks for four Hooks was relocated from Belgium. Since products.” different projects: “The work is physically then, manufacturing processes have The team has also been selected to demanding and the team worked extremely been streamlined to increase output and supply its WellConnect™ Horizontal hard in hot summer conditions to get reduce costs. wet-mate electrical connector systems to the hooks built,” he says, adding, “The This allowed the five-man team to Statoil and WellConnect™ Concentric wet- impressive output was only possible complete the record output during normal mate connectors to DrilQuip in Trinidad, because of good pre-planning – we working hours. near Venezuela.

03 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN 2014 Mimic™ goes mobile

James Fisher Mimic upgrades its condition monitoring software for the ongoing digital revolution

Almost six years after the arrival of Mimic requires continual assessment on ships, 3, James Fisher Mimic (JFM) has released cranes, ROVs and bridges. Its job is to Mimic 4, the latest version of its condition collect and store numerical data such as monitoring software suite. Designed using pressures, , speeds, loads, customer feedback, the new software tank levels, as well as vibration information, includes upgrades to existing features, as in order to analyse, display and report on well as new ones. What’s more, following the health of assets (machines). It alerts the proliferation of hardware devices that staff when the recorded data exceeds has taken place in the past few years, it’s predetermined safe limits so they can available for tablet and smartphone users decide what maintenance work to carry out, as well as for those in more traditional work thus avoiding unplanned breakdowns. station settings. Unlike its predecessor, the new Part of a condition-based maintenance enhanced Mimic 4 interacts easily with strategy, Mimic software is designed to Internet Explorer browser-based platforms, monitor rotating plant and machinery which are increasingly used by planned Coming maintenance systems. Multiple Disciplinary Trending now allows the user to view data from vibration, performance and oil through together, giving a complete overview of a Cecilia machine’s health. A new performance trial Lindstrand, feature means performance data can be loud and general manager, monitored and analysed; the software now Mimic has the ability to display wavelength data from similar machines together in 2D or 3D; clear and a new smartphone app means users can receive remote alarm information on their phone. HeliCom™ Matrix to be used at ‘We can offer Cecilia Lindstrand, general manager, one of world’s largest defence says: “With Mimic 4 we have targeted hyperbaric training facilities cloud-based the world’s shipping industry, which has been slow to adopt up-to-date electronic services to ships communication systems. Increasingly, Divex has supplied the US Navy with we are seeing ships with better satellite its industry leading HeliCom™ Matrix with better satellite communications and we are starting to offer communications system. The system, communications’ web-based /cloud-based services, although designed by the Divex electrical team led we remain focussed on selling systems for by Steven Coull (engineering office manager full use by the end-user.” at the Aberdeen-based specialist), allows divers to communicate more effectively, so dramatically improving welfare and safety for divers at one of the largest defence-related hyperbaric training facilities in the world. When working at extreme depths, divers gas supply contains a mixture of and helium which can distort their voice. To counteract this, the system uses advanced digital signal processing techniques that reverse the voice distortion, making the divers easier to understand. As well as allowing divers to communicate effectively with others in the chamber complex, HeliCom™ Matrix allows Mimic’s simple traffic light display allows users to continuously assess the operational improved contact with family and friends via status of assets on smartphones, tablets, or conventional work-stations the telephone and entertainment system.

04 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN 2014 Diving into the 21st Century

Divex wins multi-million pound Top: inside the Saturation system contract to build state-of-the-art divers living saturation diving system chambers for BP Exploration under the Left: looking up into Caspian Sea the

Right: inside the hyperbaric life boat This notable contract, from Keppel Singmarine, is for Divex to design, build Bottom: how the and install a saturation diving system into a Keppel diving purpose-built that the system will look client is building for BP Exploration. A truly global player, Keppel Singmarine is a leading supplier of specialised ships, such as diving support vessels, and has built more than 400 for clients worldwide. By choosing to work with Divex, it reinforces the latter’s strong industry reputation in the supply of diving systems. Once completed, the Keppel Singmarine diving support vessel will be used in the construction stage of the Shah Deniz II project (one of the world’s largest gas-condensate fields) in the Caspian Sea.Various Divex facilities in Scotland, South Africa and Australia will undertake construction of the 300m-depth, 18-person, twin bell, DNV-classed saturation diving system. Derek Clarke, Divex joint managing director, says: “This is a very important win for us and a fitting reward for all the effort put in by Divex staff to provide the very best diving technology.” When completed, the new diving system will incorporate five saturation chambers, an air/ surface diving capability and standard Divex products, such as the vessel has a beam (width) of 32m. The Kinergetics environmental conditioning and company will build the hull in its Singapore life support systems. shipyard as two lengthways halves, which Derek adds: “ diving support will be transported by barge from the Black vessels in the Caspian Sea date back to the Sea to the Caspian Sea, arriving at Baku 1980s, so when this new one is operational it shipyard in Azerbaijan for final assembly. The will herald a significant leap forward.” completed vessel is due to be delivered to BP The Keppel Singmarine diving support Exploration in 2017.

Osiris enters 12th year of service for Arish Mell

Thanks to a unique combination of inshore under the beach to a discharge point on the plus clearing marine growth from timber and offshore expertise, the team at Osiris seabed, 3.6km from Weymouth Bay. aprons and diffusers to allow for inspection Marine Services have been selected to “The fact that Osiris has the capability and by divers at the point where the pipeline continue maintenance work on the Arish Mell flexibility to undertake the huge variety of emerges from the ground 300m from the pipeline in Dorset for the twelfth year running. tasks on this project underlies the company’s beach) as well as managing highly technical Osiris has built a strong working multifaceted skills set – project managers and offshore challenges (cleaning and maintaining relationship with site licence company divers have had to be highly adaptive in a the subsea pipeline and its support structures Research Sites Restoration Limited (RSRL) challenging and exposed environment,” says using ROVs, was well as dives to test offshore by working to inspect and maintain the Arish Osiris’s project engineer, Geoff Houghton. diffusers anchor blocks and chains). Mell effluent pipeline from the former nuclear The demanding work requires onshore “The work is challenging but the team relish research facility in Winfrith, Dorset, through expertise (repair and refilling of the gabion working with good visibility in clear, warm the Lulworth Ranges (an MOD training area), baskets which protect the pipeline from heavy waters,” adds Houghton.

05 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN 2014 James Fisher Nuclear cleans up at Sellafield

Trials of a new technique for clearing sludge from nuclear ponds using remotely operated vehicles proves a success Under the surface with: Ian Moore

Introducing Ian Moore, 47, business development manager at James Fisher Nuclear’s Last month, 35 staff from Sellafield attended NDT division a demonstration of sludge retrieval and transfer by James Fisher Nuclear (JFN) at Can you tell us about your job? Barrow-in-Furness dock facility. The I work at the new JFNDT Deeside 2 demonstration was part of a trial commissioned facility covering the oil and gas, chemical, by Sellafield Limited’s Pile Fuel Storage nuclear and general engineering sectors. It’s Pond, whose operatives need to transfer my job to generate business from new and radioactive sludge from the plant’s pond decanner bays to its main pond. existing clients. Decanners are machines used to remove stainless steel and other metal cans that What exactly is NDT and how long contain the nuclear reactor’s enriched have you worked in the field? tooling, while JFNDT completed the uranium fuel rods. They do this by shearing NDT (which stands for non-destructive inspection to identify corrosion that could the tubing into a spiral strip without creating testing) is a branch of engineering that looks lead to gas leaks. It’s a novel technique for any chips. Once the fuel element has been at flaws in materials and assesses them. a single-sized valve and it means there’s decanned, it is moved on to fuel reprocessing. It’s an industry with huge opportunities for no excavation involved. So it’s a significant With the aid of a barge crane, the team career progression and I’ve been working improvement on the established inspection from JFN lowered a tethered slurry pump, in it for 28 years! I started out as an NDT method as it saves time – and money. Now two submersible remotely operated vehicles technician and went on to management we want to extend it to cover all sizes! (ROVs), a skip and dumpy bags filled roles in health and safety, quality, technical with simulated sludge onto the dock bed. and operations. In 2009 I joined James What’s your proudest achievement? Then one ROV moved the slurry pump Fisher, where I held various positions I project managed the corrosion mapping into position, while the other attached a in health and safety before becoming of 22 large pressure vessels on a deep discharge hose from the pump to the skip. It corrosion mapping sales manager; that lead water drilling unit based at the Astican then supported the inlet hose while sludge to my current position. shipyard in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. was pumped into a filter bag lining the skip. The inspection area was huge – 1,600sqm As the bag was pulled from the dock water What do you like most about – the logistics of getting equipment to drained out, leaving just sludge behind. your job? the platform on time were complicated Clearing sludge from nuclear ponds I like the diversity that comes from and we were using two different mapping is one of the greatest decommissioning talking to different people (welders, plant techniques - AGR Video Tracking and challenges facing Sellafield. Through their Silverwing corrosion mapping systems. trials, JFN showed that radioactive sludge owners, managing directors, quality and It was only me and four technicians, but can be successfully and safely removed in inspection people) and the challenge of large quantities using pumps, submersible working with other parts of the group to I’m happy to say we completed on time ROVs and filter bags without any need for solve problems. Recently, we worked with and on budget. long-reach tooling. our parent company, James Fisher Nuclear Simon Pyne, JFN business development (JFN) on a project for Scotia Gas Networks What are the key lessons you’ve manager, says: “Everyone seems impressed (SGN) to devise a technique for inspecting learned? by the innovation and many see applications underground regulator valves. These are To listen to what the customer wants. for the new methodology in their pond known as “Orpheus valves” and their job That way you stand a better chance of projects. The new technique will accelerate is to reduce gas flow at a certain pressure. choosing the most suitable NDT technique decommissioning and reduce costs.” JFN designed and built the remote handling to solve the problem.

06 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN 2014 Just off Caithness lies the Pentland Firth, separating northern Scotland from the Islands in the stream Orkney Islands. Renowned for its choppy waters, the Firth has some of the fastest James Fisher Marine Services wins contract with MeyGen, tides in the world, with speeds of 8 knots not unknown. For years it has been viewed the first commercial tidal stream development project as one of the best sites for tidal energy and now MeyGen, a 398 megawatt tidal array Richard Burmeister, managing director of project is to be built there. James Fisher Marine Services says: “I am Following its contract win with MeyGen, delighted that JFMS has been selected by James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) will MeyGen to complete this exciting project to draw on its considerable expertise to install further the development of tidal energy and four 1.5 megawatt tidal stream turbines in strengthen the capabilities of the UK supply the Firth, in the first phase (Phase 1A) of chain. This latest award integrates JFMS’s development. As part of the contract JFMS experience of working on complex marine will also install subsea cable, gravity bases projects with its access to the specialist with ballast and nacelles (housing), as well resources and capabilities of the wider as building support structures and offshore A tidal stream turbine being lowered into James Fisher group.” infrastructure. position on the Scottish sea bed A syndicate which includes Scottish Similar in look to wind turbines, tidal Enterprise (via the Renewable Energy stream turbines are held down with JFMS’s ability to provide a safe, cost- Investment Fund), the Department of additional ballast and generate effective solution.” Energy and Climate Change, MeyGen’s power from the ebbing and flowing of Work on this first phase (Phase 1A) of owner Atlantis Resources and the Crown tidal currents. MeyGen will use tidal the project began in September with the Estate has raised £50 million to fund the stream turbines supplied by Andritz Hydro aim of delivering the first electricity to the initial stage of the project. Hammerfest and Atlantis. grid by August 2016. Once it is completed, MeyGen director and Atlantis CEO Alan Heslop, special projects business MeyGen is expected to comprise a massive Tim Cornelius says MeyGen marks development manager of James Fisher 269 tidal stream turbines that will provide “the long-awaited arrival of tidal stream said: “This is a very exciting time for JFMS renewable energy to 175,000 Scottish generation as a serious, large-scale to be part of this ground-breaking project. homes. Other spin-offs include more than player in global energy markets.” JFMS’s The tidal industry is still in its infancy and we 100 “green” industry-related jobs, reduced involvement in the project’s first phase puts welcome the challenge to be engaged at carbon emissions and long-term demand it, enviably, at the forefront of commercial this early stage. The scope of work reflects for companies in the UK supply chain. subsea tidal installations. Deeper into the safety zone

Quick reactions allow delivering 1,600 cubic feet of air per minute. In compliance with the new safety standard, ScanTech Offshore to deliver they have superior gas and fire detection, newly certified air compressors the ability to shut down from installation and an automatic closure to contain fire, should one occur. Designed to maintain a surface In June 2014, ScanTech Offshore temperature of 200°C or lower, the secured a contract to deliver six DNV 2.7-2 compressors can operate within an ambient certified air compressors to Ghana. The win range of -20°C to 45°C, making them highlights its swift response and dedication suitable for arctic and tropical climates. to the recent step change in safety Scott says, “ScanTech Offshore has requirements for offshore equipment in the devoted significant time, effort and money well-testing sector. One of the new 2.7-2 compressors, modified for the R&D of a fleet [of compressors], to Fast forward several months and in a very short time frame, sent to Ghana meet and exceed the expectations of duty ScanTech Offshore has its DNV 2.7-2 holders [owners] and operators.” steam generators and further certified 2.7-2 set to become the definitive requirement Building on recent safety developments, compressors operating in Angola and the for containerised equipment offshore ScanTech Offshore has now opened a new North Sea, too. This increased demand for when hydrocarbon is at the surface,” says state-of-the-art manufacturing its products underlines ScanTech Offshore’s Scott Berry, ScanTech Offshore’s project base and offices in Great Yarmouth. As position as the company of first choice in engineer. “Our investment in a fleet of 2.7-2 well as doubling its existing workforce well-test support. compressors means we are leading the way and increasing its rental fleet capacity to “The new 2.7-2 [offshore service modules] and are well placed to help customers meet more than 120 units per year, the new safety release is the latest standard for these stringent requirements,” he adds. plant will ensure the company meets certification set by DNV GL [the leading All six containerised, diesel-driven air anticipated demand from well-testing technical advisor to the oil and gas industry]. compressors are intended for use in Zone customers during this transition to It’s a significant development and looks II-rated hazardous areas, and capable of safer equipment.

07 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN 2014 Life savers Thrills but no spills on a RAF Search and Rescue helicopter training exercise

It was supposed to be a perfectly ordinary day for the crew of the James Fisher Everard (JFE) tanker, Seniority, which was on its way from Antwerp, Belgium, to Peterhead in Aberdeenshire to deliver 3800 metric tonnes of marine gas oil for a major oil company. But at 11.30am on 11th September, as the vessel neared the Yorkshire coast, Seniority took an unexpected radio message from an RAF helicopter, asking if they could carry out an unscheduled training exercise and land a paramedic on the ship. OF THE RAF MAIN IMAGE COURTESY Despite the rough seas permission was JF tanker, Seniority (right), unexpectedly aiding an RAF rescue training excercise granted immediately as, like most merchant seamen, the Seniority crew were aware that the bridge, then returned to deck assisted to risk helps us to identify and manage one day, one of them might be in need of by able seamen Rodulfo Tonalete and Mario potential problems and minimise the chance evacuation and these exercises are vital to Reantoquio before being winched safely back of something going wrong.” keep the helicopter crews’ skills updated. up to the helicopter. Asked afterwards about his potentially As the ship pitched from side to side It was an exciting and potentially perilous job, the paramedic added: “You don’t and bobbed up and down in the waves the dangerous exercise for the ship and the RAF think about the dangers at the time when Seniority team had to work hard to hold a crew, but one which JFS was more than there’s adrenalin pumping through your body, steady course and speed so the helicopter happy to be involved with. Mike Prior, the ship but it really is a team effort - every member could lower an RAF paramedic onto its poop manager said: “Safety in all ship operations of the crew works to keep everyone safe, and deck – without colliding with the ship. Once is paramount and JFE is always happy to even though you might be suspended on a safely onboard, the paramedic made contact support our emergency rescue services. Our 240ft cable over rough seas I knew I was in with Seniority’s master and second officer on comprehensive and professional approach good hands.” Corvettes set sail for Indonesia A six month contract extends to a seven year partnership for the Corvette warships of Barrow

When James Fisher Marine Services signed a part of the Barrow sky-line. The town has six-month contract to look after three corvette grown accustomed to the sight of the three warships at Barrow docks and prepare them warships as well as, more recently, to the for sale, no one expected the ships to still be 126-unit accommodation and training facility under JFMS care in Barrow seven years later. JFMS built in just weeks to cater for the influx But with some fanfare, local and of Indonesian Navy visitors during the transfer international dignitaries came out in process, prior to the ships’ departure. in August when the three 95-metre warships Reflecting on the end of an era, Arthur set sail for Indonesia to serve in the Todd, corvette project director, says: “We’re country’s navy. very proud to have been involved in a project Originally built by BAE Systems, the of this scale and of how we’ve been able to corvettes arrived at JFMS’s Barrow base extend our expertise into so many diverse in 2007 for a short stay while their original areas, from caring for state-of-the-art defence owner, the Royal Brunei Navy, marketed them technology to the wellbeing of 160 overseas for sale. Throughout their seven-year stay personnel.” JFMS has maintained the warships in a state Twenty-three JFMS staff sailed with the The Indonesian Navy’s chief of naval staff, of “hot lay-up” (leaving a reduced crew in corvettes to continue training during the Admiral Marsetio, signs a commemorative place to keep all systems running on minimum voyage, shoring up the excellent working book for Peter Luerssen, managing director power), and taken them on demonstration sea relationship between Indonesian Navy of Luerssen GmbH voyages for potential buyers. personnel and the company – so marking Since 2007 the partnership has grown and the end of one chapter for JFMS and the the warships have become a fixed and familiar beginning of another.

08 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE JAMES FISHER GROUP OF COMPANIES AUTUMN 2014