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16 <strong>SUBSEA</strong> <strong>UK</strong> <strong>NEWS</strong> NOVEMBER 2011<br />
ACHIEVEMENT<br />
Teamwork Results in Award for<br />
IHC Engineering Business<br />
Leading Engineering company IHC<br />
Engineering Business (IHC EB) has<br />
been named Design Team of the Year<br />
2011 by the British Engineering<br />
Excellence Awards (BEEA).<br />
IHC EB were awarded the<br />
accolade for the work done to design<br />
and fabricate the innovative J-Lay<br />
Tower for Saipem’s FDS2.<br />
The Excellence Award judges<br />
were highly impressed by the level<br />
of teamwork and the procedures<br />
adopted by IHC EB (part of IHC<br />
Merwede) to deliver a genuinely<br />
ground breaking J-Lay Tower now<br />
in operation off the West Coast of<br />
Africa.<br />
It is one of the most versatile<br />
pipelay systems in the world, capable<br />
of allowing the installation of large<br />
diameter subsea pipelines in water<br />
depths of up to 3,000m.<br />
“There is no doubt about it,<br />
teamwork was critical to the<br />
successful delivery of the J-Lay<br />
Tower. The whole team is delighted<br />
J Lay At Anchor<br />
BEEA Design Team of the Year Receiving Award<br />
to have won this prestigious award,”<br />
said Neil Baxter, Managing Director.<br />
“Communication was the key to<br />
the successful teamwork, given the<br />
‘from scratch’ start point and the<br />
size of the engineering challenge,”<br />
said Barry Malone, Project Manager.<br />
“The senior technical team<br />
members, including Martin Bingham<br />
(Chief Engineer), Tim Grinsted<br />
(Technical Consultant) had significant<br />
roles to play in ensuring that all<br />
elements came together to deliver a<br />
working system.<br />
The design and build of the J-Lay<br />
Tower was a complicated project<br />
presenting several key engineering<br />
challenges. Overcoming these<br />
required multi disciplinary team work<br />
of the highest order with input from<br />
in-house specialists in mechanical,<br />
structural, electrical, control and<br />
hydraulic design. The project was<br />
the largest system IHC EB has built<br />
so far with all equipment having to<br />
be developed against a fixed client<br />
deadline.<br />
IHC EB won the contract in the<br />
third quarter of 2007 and worked<br />
closely with Saipem throughout every<br />
stage of development, installation<br />
and commissioning. The J-Lay tower<br />
was built on Teesside, taking full<br />
advantage of the region’s supply<br />
chain. It left Teesside in mid-May<br />
2010 to be installed on the FDS2<br />
in Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje<br />
shipyard in South Korea.<br />
IHC EB is currently in the process<br />
of delivering two further pipelay<br />
systems to international clients<br />
and is optimistic of securing further<br />
orders in the near future.<br />
Prospect Sponsors Befriend a Child Dinner 2011<br />
Prospect, a Superior Energy Services company, recently sponsored the first Befriend A Child “Big Kid’s Sportsman’s<br />
Dinner”. Prospect are proud to have been involved in this fantastic event as all proceeds go back to the Befriend A<br />
Child charity for helping disadvantaged children.<br />
This was Befriend A Child’s first Sportsman’s Dinner, the attendance was good with 140 tickets sold with a<br />
number of local businesses from the trades, financial sectors and shipping industries in attendance. The auction was<br />
especially successful on the evening, taking in just under £6,500, including<br />
the top bid of £1,200 for a round of golf with dinner B&B at Meldrum House<br />
Hotel for four people. There was also a table top raffle and a game of true or<br />
false which helped to generate over £2,000.<br />
If you would like to support this charity, please visit www.befriendachild.org.uk<br />
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