Manned Intervention

16 April 2008 Perth Branch Evening Meeting

Chairman Keith Bently, Senior Subsea System Engineer, Inpex Browse Ltd
Sponsored by Technip Subsea 7 Asia Pacific Pty Ltd

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Although there is now a great reliance on the work-class remotely operated vehicle within the commercial marketplace, manned intervention continues to supply a necessary and crucial role.

This evening, four organisations presented informative insights into the training, physiology and evaluation of manned intervention, along with recent examples of current operations – both offshore and inland – and the support equipment necessary to undertake those tasks.

Presentations

Air Diving in 2008

Dusty Miller, Operations Manager, TUCF

Staying Alive in Saturation

Ray Farrier, Business Development Manager, LMTS?Hallin Marine

Ray described the support required and the problems faced by divers living at the equivalent water depth of 500 feet in a saturation chamber for 28 days.

Warragamba Dam Deep Storage Recovery Project

Geoff Hogg, Commercial Manager, DOF Subsea

Under contract to Baulderstone Hornibrook, DOF Subsea Australia provided saturation diving and specialist tooling services to cut a single 2x2m opening through a 1.75m-thich concrete wall at Warragamba Dam to enable access to the dams deep storage

Angel 1TL Hot Tap

Jim Smith, Technical Manager, Technip Subsea 7 Asia Pacific Pty Ltd