Oceanteam Subsea Services

[HelpMaBoab]

Heard it’s a management buyout, obviously there is a Mr Big behind things, who knows, maybe venture capitalists, if there are any left!!!

Whoever it is, is keeping a very low profile, I’m sure it will all be revealed in time.
Rumour doing the rounds lately was ISS, doubt that though as they have spent a medium fortune on a mobile sat system, which allegedly won’t pass certification without the GDP of a small African country being spent on it…

Never know it might be some middle eastern oil prince looking for a new toy 😀

[Rons_ROV_Links]

28 September 2009 – Oceanteam ASA:

Oceanteam informs that CICSA Marine has filed a legal claim at the New York court in relation to its termination of the charter agreement of the North Ocean 102. Parties are in commercial negotiations and Oceanteam ASA expects a settlement to be reached.

[chris ward]

I was one of the supervisors on that job, and yes it was true we were all contrators and out of the bunch there was maybe 3 guys who could do what they said we could do, but there’s a slight exaduation in one of the posts here, the sub didnt need a full refit!! 🙄 one of the thruster cowlings was knocked off, due to the ROV being so open as ocean team hadnt wanted to pay the extra cash to get the sub closed up with some extra C channel budge bars and head ach rack. also the tools didnt start to be ordered until I got down to the base for the mob and was told to pick up the keys at the office which werent left there so had to get the skeliton key and low and be hold nothing!!!! 😯 gave the oceanteam ops/project manager a call was told no worries every thing is at the shop or will be at the shop and will hot shot down to us the next day so not to bad, 3 days later after having done the mob thanks to the boys on the other sub lending us all the tools to get it done including the fibre gear how we where supposed to get the sub with no fibres I still havent figured tht one out yet!! 😕 and far enough it has a 4wk wait the order it when your doing your FATS because at that stage you should know your getting an ROV!!! 🙄 and this was just the start of the job this could go on for 10 pages, and if they spent less money on there paint jobs and more on there equipment they would be a lont better off no wonder there going broke!!

[HelpMaBoab]

Now then me lad,
The ROV which required a refit was TXLS44 not 51.
51 required the bouyancy to be removed and sections sent away to be rebuilt as somebody allowed a crane headache ball to be dropped onto the sub.
Apart from that the thruster and superficial bumps and scrapes all was fine.

As for the mob, this was mentioned before.
The CV, ROV, TMS went directly from FATS at PSSL to CTC, Middlesburgh
The Workshop from Aberdeen, the winch & Lars from Carlisle.
This job had been brought forward by 3 weeks (in fact FAT’s were not due to be completed for another 2 weeks), no spares, consumables or tools had yet been ordered. The company did not have any supervisors, in fact all they had were 3 trainee’s as offshore personnel, in fact I think 2 of them were with 43 & 44.

So basically the lads who put 51 together did a great job under the circumstances, remember this system had not even been completly fitted up ie. CV-Winch-TMS-ROV.
Everything had to be ordered on the day the kit was being transported to CTC.
So lets say everybody was in a blind panic trying to get tools/ spares & consumables down to middlesburgh.

If anyone is to blame it is the High Heid Yins, who forced us to mobilise an ROV spread 6 weeks before it was ready.

Anyway just to reiterate, it was TXLS44 (MV Sentinal) which was trashed not 51
Hope this clears things up a bit

[Ivor Norman Macdonald]

For all those interested see Ron’s ROV links regarding the sale of Oceanteam to a Norwegian outfit at end of Nov.
http://www.ronsrovlinks.nl/modules/impression/singlearticle.php?aid=3315&page=oceanteam_asa_sells_stake_in_oceanteam_subsea_services_to_exs_subsea_as

[HelpMaBoab]

Check out the business section of todays 02/11 Press&Journal.

[Rons_ROV_Links]

And here they are: Specialist Subsea Services Ltd

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