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It's going to be interesting to know where they will fly helicopters out from, feels unlikely our operations will be supported from a specific 'GoM' heliport given the near 900 mile one way journey from say, Fourchon. Something from Miami is possible if going from US soil is a must but that again is significant at c. 250 miles, around 2 - 3 hours depending on head winds. They don't mind a walk-to-work set-up on that side of the pond, maybe they'll employ that method, time at sea could be used as monitoring/quarantine and be of benefit? I'm sure all options are being considered.
24/7 working is why they have a 180 - 220 PoB.
In the North Sea the opposite has been done. We’ve actively accelerated multi skilling and remote support to reduce the POB. This has also been driven by cost savings.
Helicopters in GoM are Covid secure and passengers sealed separate from pilot. A Covid test and quarantine period is required before flying out to the rig. Rig workers still need to rotate shifts. For safety reasons and work regulations, can't have them working 24/7 for the whole duration of the drill. They need time off.
Some difficult financial number crunching and fleet planning from Stena to work out the optimal strategy for fleet deployment and any investment decisions required has no doubt occurred. If the ship hasn't been operational during COVID and then to make it 'COVID Secure', then comply with all the SOLAS requirements, etc and keeping all customers happy - well done. Not something that would have sorted itself out over night. I suspect persuading Repsol to foot a significant part of this bill was also part of negations, Stena in return making their best-in-class ship available will have no doubt helped in this process. Fair play to Stena.
BPC will have been a passenger in this process so it feels they have at last had some luck and the rub of the green, being in the right place at the right time. The decision to walkaway from Seadrill looks even better now.
seems to me it would be more likely, as Jim has said, to replace the boats to increase POB for Covid reasons, if they were just replacing the existing ones then I doubt they would need to change the Davits given the rig is not that old. On my last project we had to load up a lot of extra personnel to cover the various eventualities that occur while drilling, with Covid it's not possible just to have people fly out to the rig just when you need them due to the quarantine requirements.
Thanks Coman, POC, I'king and JTK.
You would expect the Icemax to already have sufficient lifeboats to deal with the normal number of POB. Do the additional boats indicate that they are taking a larger crew than normal as an additional covid precaution or is it more likely that they are just replacing old with new?