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4 thoughts on “What’s in a name?”
Don’t worry Steve, I doubt that there’s a single one of us who have hung up at least one of their boots, that can say their recall is total any more. Just hang on the fact that the more you ever knew, the more there is to forget!
By the way, whatever happened to Statoil? 🙂
you mean StatoilHydro?
The good thing about SEN it brought some engineers and associated subsea workforce together in a less political environment. It was a good way to gleam infos and weight the good and the BS , as an operator you often voice the answer provided by the main partners so everybody node at the same time to keep in the same direction.
In the 70’s we designed the subsea tool box , now you pick and choose the tools.
Maybe whoever chose the name Valaris is a big Game of Thrones fan. “Valar Morghulis” (all men must die) is the motto of the assassin followers of the Many-Faced God.