It is 35 years now since the Piper Alpha accident took the lives of 167 men who had been working on the platform operated by Occidental. I don’t think that I can ever forget the numbers who died or the events prior to or after that dreadful event. It was […]
Yearly archives: 2023
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No one has ever accused Judith Patten of being a shy retiring flower. Having done a charity ‘wingwalk’ last year in aid of the Anthony Nolan Trust, the former president of the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) took advantage of a discount – do another wingwalk within a year! – […]
Back in January, I was cc’d into an exchange of emails that was begun by Brian Skeels, former FMC subsea hardware guru whose career with the production system supplier goes way back before the merger with Technip. He is now a TFMC ‘technology fellow’ which I presume means he is […]
Back in the day, that is several decades ago before the Enron scandal of 2000, oil companies liked to tell the world what they were doing, ie finding and developing oil and gas reserves, how they were doing it and generally informing the public how clever they were at keeping […]
The lead up to Subsea Expo, this coming week in Aberdeen, always seem like an appropriate time to say something formative about our favourite technology. While much of the conversation these days is about the energy transition away from hydrocarbons, there is little doubt that the world will still be […]
Firstly, happy new year to you all. We are all hoping that the chaos that engulfed the world – and the UK in particular – last year will have come to an end, for all our sakes. Towards the end of last year, when I was only paying attention with […]