an ongoing roll-out aimed at Acergy's offshore community.
Keynotes caught up with Eric Doyle, TAQL Coordinator for
Offshore, to see how work is progressing.
methods. we have now trained 16 offshore
advisors and, in support, we have 12 trained
people onshore. we know that a lot depends
on the buy-in from the offshore management
teams and to assist this buy-in we organised
a series of awareness days for offshore
management. to date, we have had more
than 50 captains, offshore managers and
shift supervisors on this course and it has
worked well.
of offshore management and tAQl Advisors,
would map out, decide on and document
tAQl progress for each vessel.
whole of the offshore world with taQl?
make it difficult to pinpoint exactly when this
will occur, however, we are confident we
can raise awareness of tAQl among all our
offshore people this year. Having the entire
offshore community involved in a tAQl
project is our goal, but there is still a lot of
work to do.
nature and spirit of tAQl and produced some
outstanding work. some vessels have toyed
with the tools and concepts without tangible
results as yet, and some have yet to try. I
firmly believe the key to the success of tAQl
offshore lies with offshore management. we
find that if they are enthusiastic and pro-active,
things move along well. In this regards, they
success of the programme.
are there?
offshore. these vary from highly-focused,
vessel-specific issues, to all encompassing
offshore and onshore organisational
issues. the Far Saga recently completed
an invaluable 5s exercise which saw the
complete reorganisation of the hangar and
welding workshop areas. the project was
shared between shifts with the result that all
onboard are now aware of what tAQl has
to offer.
needs for offshore, other than the remote
contact?
tAQl projects, we know that having a senior
onshore sponsor for the project is of great
benefit. this shows our offshore community
that people care about their issues and are
willing to provide guidance and support.
letting our guys offshore know that we are
here, willing to listen and help-out by rolling up
our sleeves is important, as is the feedback.
perspective?
offshore community, I need all offshore
management to get behind tAQl and really
drive it on their vessels. we can already
see the benefits on vessels where this has
happened. one such example of like minded
people using the tAQl toolbox took place
Brian Burnett, Aro operations manager,
came up with the idea of using the seminar
to run a live tAQl workshop focused on
improving safety control measures when
conducting maintenance on a tether
management system (tms). more than 40
people participated in the two-hour exercise,
resulting in a number of recommendations for
future operations. For many of the participants
this was their first involvement with tAQl and
the feedback was very positive.
projects have been proposed to date,
focusing on reporting, administration,
logistical and operational issues.
For example:
to address the rising frequency and
cost of thruster breakdowns. As a result
of the tAQl project it is expected long
term thruster breakdown rates can be
reduced by one per cent, increasing
each vessel's availability by three to four
days per year.
underway include the simplification of
cross-regional reporting from offshore
to onshore work sites, improvements
in inventory management, and
improving radio communications during
challenging offshore operations.