One of the many attributes required to thrive in an offshore environment is resilience.
Here’s what Petroplan APAC managing director Dan Torpy told Rigzone when asked what skills are vital for offshore oil and gas workers.
“While communication systems have improved dramatically over the past decade, the nature of the work means long periods away from family and friends,” Torpy said.
“This, combined with the confinement of the work space, can inevitably cause tension between the teams working in the facility,” he added.
Torpy told Rigzone that technical competence and high levels of emotional intelligence are two key factors that increase resilience among the team and ensure that operations are carried out in a safe and efficient manner.
“When recruiting for teams to work in an offshore environment, it is vital to focus on how they will work together effectively,” Torpy said.
“Cultural differences and origins must be taken into account and one way to combat this is to maximize diversity. While this creates a need for collaboration, it also provides the widest range of experience and knowledge which in turn delivers exceptional results in a high performance, but also high risk environment,” he added .
“At Petroplan we strive not only to focus on people, but also on the teams we are building together and we continuously push for high performing, effective and resilient teams to deliver to our customers in some of the most challenging places in the world,” Torpy. it continued.
Hard / Soft Skills
Offering his insight into what skills are vital for offshore oil and gas professionals, Gladney B. Darroh, founder and president of Houston-based Piper-Morgan Search, presented a list of hard and soft skills.
“Hard skills: general mechanical skills, job-specific knowledge, efficient execution of tasks, high degree of safety awareness at all times,” he said.
“In addition to the mandatory three-day offshore safety induction and basic emergency training program, workers should be aware of all other OSHA certifications relevant to their specific job, in addition to recommending the same for similar jobs done by co-workers,” he added. .
“Recommended certifications would include, but are not limited to, safety regulations, emergency response, first aid, hazardous materials handling and storage,” Gladney continued.
In terms of soft skills, Darroh ticked off “communication skills” and “situational awareness at all times.”
Offshore is back
Earlier this month, Rystad Energy announced in a statement sent to Rigzone that “offshore is back,” adding that the offshore oil and gas sector is set for the highest growth in a decade in the next two years, “with 214 billion dollars of new project. aligned investments”.
Annual greenfield capital spending will exceed the $100 billion mark in 2023 and 2024, according to Rystad Energy, which noted that this would be the first breach for two years in a row since 2012 and 2013. It is expected that the ‘offshore activity represents 68 percent of all sanctions imposed. conventional hydrocarbons in 2023 and 2024, Rystad said, noting that this number stood at 40 percent between 2015 and 2018.
In a statement sent to Rigzone in November 2022, Wood Mackenzie revealed that according to its 2022 Global Deepwater Report, global deepwater production will increase by 60 percent by 2030, reaching 17 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.
“Deepwater is the fastest-growing oil and gas resource theme,” Marcelo de Assis, director of upstream research at Wood Mackenzie, said in a company statement at the time.
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