ISSUE 2 M T S D P C N E W S APRIL 2015 CHAIRMAN’S REMARKS The new website of the DP Committee is on-line thanks to David Hollier with “graphics by Cyndi”. It looks great! It includes a new feature that many people have asked for: the ability to subscribe so they automatically receive documents when posted for comment or as a final version. This will help the community be more aware of new or revised documents available for comment, which should increase the number of reviewers. Some time ago USCG, joined by IADC and IMCA, proposed an update of IMO MSC Circ 645 Guidelines for Vessels with Dynamic Positioning (DP) systems. The working session for the update finally made it on the IMO calendar for March 2015. Coast Guard invited the DP Committee to act as Technical Advisor to the US delegation. Suman Muddusetti, chairman of the Guidance sub-committee, attended and provided support for the US delegation. The IMO working session voted to send the update to a correspondence group, chaired by Norway, who will consider all the proposed changes and provide a draft recommendation to IMO next year. The DP Committee will continue to assist the US IMO delegation with the activities of the correspondence group. Every February the DP Committee calls for Abstracts of papers for the DP Conference in October. The deadline for abstracts is the end of April: the following week the program committee will review the abstracts and choose the papers for the 2015 conference. I encourage you to consider submitting an abstract. Sharing of knowledge is a benefit to the community; at the same time you benefit from the prestige of presenting your abstract to the elite group of DP professionals that attend the DP conference. Best regards, Pete Fougere INSIDE THIS ISSUE: NEWS IN BRIEF 2 SUB-COMMITTEE ACTIVITY 3 SPOTLIGHT: INDUSTRY PIONEERS 4 SAFETY ALERT ISSUED 4 COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON SPOTLIGHT 5 ISSUE 2 Page 2 NEWS IN BRIEF MTS DP COMMITTEE MEETING HELD 27 JANUARY 2015 Great 2014 and start to 2015 for the DP Committee. Conference attendance, sponsors, feedback sheets all up and positive. TECHOPS, six new or updated. Two workshops for the fault ride through (FRT) TECHOP. New Website in testing. Inaugural Newsletter was well received. Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) – USCG proposes making MTS DP Operations Guidelines mandatory. Working on comments. IMO 645 – USCG formally asked MTS DP for a technical advisor for IMO work sessions in London. Committee finances healthy. Commercial conferences agreed strategy to support for profit conferences, but only to promote the MTS DP committee, through papers or workshops about the Guidance documents. Promotional Power Point produced for to explain the DP Committee’s history and goals. This would also be a good addition to the website. The MindMap below outlines the contents of the presentation. MTS DP COMMITTEE’S CHAIR PERSONS MTS DP COMMITTEE’S CHAIR PERSONS MTS DPC NEWS Page 3 SUB-COMMITTEE ACTIVITY THRUSTERS The sub-committee recently proposed doing a document on "Testing of Thrusters", which is focused on FAT testing due to the inconsistency within industry on FAT practices. TESTING Background work on in process producing guidance testing black out recovery, MODU ESD systems and advanced generator protection systems. COMMUNICATIONS The new website (see below) went live on Feb 4th and is up and running. Power point presentation and mind map produced for presenting the DP Committee’s history, role and achievements. GUIDANCE TECHOPS on fault ride through testing, acoustics systems and DP incident investigations being progressed. MTS guidance on DP Design and Operations are due for revision this year. MTS DP COMMITTEE’MTS DP COMMITTEE’S CHAIRPERSONS S CHAIRPERSONS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Looking to start some work on guidance on the use of the MTS guide on MDAT. CONFERENCE The program committee will meet in early May to select the abstracts for the papers at the conference. HISTORY Started research into technical innovations that have impacted and benefited DP systems. Producing articles on the pioneers and influential figures of DP, already have Howard Shatto and will be adding Dillard Hammet. Need to get the timeline and articles up on the website before OTC. MTS DP COMMITTEE’S CHAIR PERSONS MTS DP COMMITTEE’S CHAIRPERSONS Committee Chair (Emeritus) Howard Shatto Committee Chair Pete Fougere Conference Steve Browne Conference Technical Chuck Centore Thruster Guidelines Dietmar Deter Guidance Suman Muddusetti History Doug Phillips Professional Development Chuck Centore Equipment Testing Robby Coggin Communications David Hollier Lessons Learned To be formed ISSUE 2 Page 4 SAFETY ALERT ISSUED; BSEE & U.S. COAST GUARD DYNAMIC POSITIONING SYSTEM FAILURES ON OFFSHORE SUPPLY VESSELS ENGAGED IN OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS IN THE U.S. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF SPOTLIGHT: INDUSTRY PIONEERS EXCERPT OF DISCUSSION; This Joint Safety Alert addresses a dynamic positioning (DP) incident involving an Offshore Supply Vessel (OSV) which resulted in a loss of position while conducting a critical Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) activity. The OSV was attached to a wellhead, lost position and severed the wellhead tree causing a lubricant release on the platform deck and to the environment. Immediately prior to the position loss, the OSV had multiple DP system alarms and failures, including loss of bow thruster and engine control. No attempt was made to identify or correct the causes of these failures and the operations continued. EXCERPT OF RECOMMENDATIONS; The Coast Guard strongly recommends owners and operators of OSVs using DP to follow DP guidance provided in reference 3 (Marine Technology Society (MTS) DP operations guidance) when conducting critical activities on the U.S. OCS. See the applicable notice on this topic published in the Federal Register (77 FR 62247, October 12, 2012) for more details. Had this OSV followed the MTS DP operations guidance it likely would have: Had a DP system that met a minimum of DP Equipment Class 2 (DP-2). The involved OSV’s DP system was DP Equipment Class 1 (DP-1), which means that a loss of position may occur in the event of a single failure. (see Reference 3, paragraph 4.1); Had an Activity Specific Operating Guideline (ASOG) that prescribed emergency disconnect procedures and capability to prevent equipment damage and pollution. The involved OSV did not have an ASOG defined. The sample ASOG in MTS DP guidance recommend the operator should “halt operations and initiate contingency procedures” for thruster and generator failures, which this OSV experienced prior to the loss of position incident. READ FULL ALERT: HTTP://WWW.BSEE.GOV/UPLOADEDFILES/BSEE/ REGULATIONS/SAFETY_ALERTS/FINAL%20USCG-BSEE%20JOINT%20DP% 20SAFETY%20ALERT.PDF “Dillard S. Hammet joined Shell in 1954. For the next 45 years, Hammett led many new technology developments-dynamic positioning and floating production-involving ultra-deepwater operations. These projects involved working safely and efficiently in deep and harsh environments, thus permitting the world to drill and produce in ice-covered oceans, with unstable seabeds, and the world’s roughest areas of wind, waves and currents. Projects he has pioneered include: structure to withstand Cook Inlet ice, current and tides; drillships and semisubmersibles; floating production platforms and ocean floor scientific coring; as well as sampling using dynamic station keeping.” Pioneering Offshore: The Early Years by F. Jay Schempf COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON SPOTLIGHT: SUMAN MUDDUSETTI Suman began his career at sea working up the ranks and obtaining a Master Class I Certificate of Competency. He became Captain of Sonat Offshore's DP Drill Ship Discoverer Seven Seas in 1989. In 1996, he was invited to join Falcon Drilling as Master on the Peregrine I. Following the company's merger with Reading and Bates, he assisted in the management of marine operations for the company's fleet of eleven DP drilling units. In 2001 he joined Global Maritime US as Director of Business Development and Principal Consultant, DP Projects. During this time he was a major contributor to the successful installations of Holstein and Perdido his capabilities and potential were recognized by Shell and BP and Shell offered him a position. Suman Muddusetti receiving the MTS Fellow Award in 2013. Photo credit: Oceanic Engineering Society He accepted a position with Shell International Exploration and Production in Houston in 2003. After the company experienced a significant DP incident with consequences in 2004, he set about establishing a Shell Standard for managing DP Operations. It was quickly adopted globally by the Shell Group and others, resulting in a significant reduction in DP incidents. Building on this success, and with collaboration from a small group of experts, he then embarked on the development of the Guidelines for DP Operation on behalf of the MTS DP Committee. (Available on the DP Committee website). The new standard has been adopted by many DP users and published by Det Norske Veritas as a recommended practice (RP). Suman has since helped developed other MTS DP related guidance as Chairman of the Guidance and Standards Committee of the main MTS DP Committee. He received the MTS FELLOW AWARD in 2013 and was the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award from the MTS DP Committee. Suman is passionate about aiding delivery of Incident Free DP operations and serves in any capacity that facilitates opportunities to contribute to this. His passion and intense focus to aid delivery of incident free marine operations has him spearheading and contributing to several efforts/initiatives across Industry to develop sustainable capability in personnel leveraging effective decision support tools. Taking or about to take the same thinking from DP into vessel stability, water tight integrity, containment, high risk activities (line of fire, lifeboats and tank entry).
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