Fugro on Geomaster?

Though TS Marine had two XLS on board there?

There are many and far reaching reasons why the job on the Geomaster has been hard going. Maybe subsea resources should gain more experience with working with ROV’s before finger pointing.

The equipment is battered and bruised the personnel are tired and the weather is not that good. However for all the time lost due to Fugro’s equipment just as much time was lost due to getting the salvage equipment stuck in the wreck.

Iti is easy to sit back and point fingers I just hope that lessons are learnt all round so that it has not been a wasted job.

[Iti is easy to sit back and point fingers I just hope that lessons are learnt all round so that it has not been a wasted job]

good words jim

however lost on a lot of people, as has been the case for a long time since before i started

i know the guys on there also and they are a great bunch.

i,m sure that this job is not the only one going through a tough period at the minute????

keep up the good work guys

I will pass on the sentiments to the team. We are all a little annoyed at what has been insinuated.

If it is Fugro SSR are unhappy with I do not believe it to be personnel issues. Every problem has been overcome one way or another and we have managed to work the vehicles hard over the past few weeks.

And we are getting the copper maybe slowly but the pile on the deck is growing steadily.

I do not think it you we are mad at Slayer. The obvious choice for who they are disapointed with is the people onboard with the most ROV’s we are annoyed that they would start to publish statements whilst we are still onboard working our nuts off.

A larg proportion of ROV down time has been through there equipment being badly designed and only now after a couple of months are we starting to see improvements.

They also had a skid built but not designed by Perry/Slingsby. This is there own equipment which the ROV guys have to maintain with no tooling tech support. Also the grab equipment has failed a few times when they have not got it stuck in the hole.

It is fairly obvious in retrospect that someone somewhere has shareholders to answer to and that is the reason for generating newsletters which are starting to blame everything and everyone but themselves.

With no disrespect to Fugro they are not a renowned ROV construction company so maybe they at a project level did not input enough into the pre-work phase with regard to the tooling and intervention set up.

All in all it has been a bit of a cluster which has been held together through pure hard work on the part of everyone onboard the vessel from the deck crew through to the vessel manager who has been very hands on throughout the whole project. Also it has to be said that the support we have recieved from the Fugro office in Aberdeen has been very good.

As I said in an earlier comment on this I just hope that all the companies involved use this as a learning curve to make jobs run smoother in the future and also to make the guys lives offshore just a little easier.

Luckyjim,

Is it true that SSR actually lost the salvage Grab on the wreck and Fugro’s ROVs had to recover it? ❓

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