NSL America gain recognition for quality training in the USA

North Sea Lifting Ltd’s American subsidiary, NSL America Inc. Is pleased to announce that the two main training courses delivered at their new training facility in Broussard - LA, have received API approval.

The courses are:

The rigging, lifting and slinging course

The banksman/slinger/flagman course

NSL constantly strives to create consistency in lifting related training worldwide by continually improving their courses and gaining approvals from nationally recognized lead bodies in every region where oil and gas is being explored and produced.

Where our clients are working internationally, when it comes to lifting, we intend to be able to look after their interests on a global scale.

That is our commitment to the oil and gas industry.

Our success in improving training standards and raising competence levels has been helped to a large extent by the continued and ongoing support of all our long term customers.  We take this opportunity to thank them all with additional thanks to those who supported us through our early days in the USA.

FIRST Azeri National successfully completes NSL/EAL Competency Award in Lifting & Rigging

Kerim Tagiyev is the first Azeri National to successfully complete the Level 1 EAL Competency Award in Lifting and Rigging. Kerim will be presented with his award on 13th April in Baku at a logistics meeting attended by senior BP officials.

Eldar Gasiev BP said “This was achieved by great effort from NSL and individually from Kerim, I would like to complement and thank Steve Miller and Mark Wilson and Barry Riddell for continuous efforts to make this happen”

‘significant’ reduction in lifting related incidents

Following the appointment of NSL(Caspian) as the Lifting Technical Authority, for the ACG project, just over one year ago, Carroll Kearney, project director said that there had been a ‘significant’ reduction in lifting related incidents directly attributable to the efforts of Barry Riddell and the team.

At the Quarterly Performance Review the following statistics were provided as evidence:

No Hipos (High Potential of Injury or major financial loss)

No Dafwcs (Days Away From Work Cases)

Only 4 Lifting incidents (2005=19, 2004=21, 2003=22, 2001=30)

2 x First Aid (Minor Foot and Hand Injuries)

2 x Damage to Equipment (Total under $1,000) Plate Clamp, Bracket and Paint Damage on tower crane

USA UPDATE

NSL America’s office in Houston, Texas, is well established (since October 2005) with the Oil & Gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico, the South Americas and the Caribbean using our services extensively. We have customized our training materials to reflect American standards and equipment and to some extent, their way of thinking and doing things. This has been well received with a great deal of interest shown in our products and services.

NEW US TRAINING CENTRE

NSL America’s new training center in Broussard, Louisiana, has been up and running since January 2007.  Advance bookings for the next 6 months, especially from one of the major drilling companies, guarantee to keep the instructors busy and enquiries are multiplying on a daily basis. In addition to delivering training, our instructors also deal with client’s lifting problems and act as the independent competent person for complex lifting operations.  They also coach / mentor client’s staff on site, perform audits and technical surveys and just generally give a comfort factor when lifting operations get complicated.

GETTING THE JOB DONE IN THE CASPIAN

NSL Caspian’s operations in Baku, Azerbiajan and Tiblisi, Georgia, (since October 2004) just go from strength to strength.  Our clients rely more and more on our ability to get the job done safely and efficiently by continually extending the scope of our services and using our safety awareness training materials extensively.

NEW IN INDONESIA

NSL is currently establishing itself in Indonesia, and once again, when other companies see what we can do for our existing clients, they want the same level of service and the resulting “feel-good factor”.  In response to the level of business anticipated in the region, NSL will soon be opening an office in Singapore to handle enquiries and subsequent work in South East Asia.

TOP OF THE RANGE RIGGING AND LIFTING COURSE GETS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

NSL’s popular Rigging and Lifting training and competence programme which is already endorsed and certified by one of the UK National Award bodies, EAL (Emta Awards Limited) is in the process of gaining International approvals for the American and international market.  We expect these approvals to be in place by May / June 2007.

LEVEL 3 COMPETENT RIGGER

At the request of existing experienced and competent riggers in the Oil and Gas Industry, we have at last created the Rigger - Level 3 competence qualification.  This is only available to those who have successfully completed Rigger - Level 2 and is predominately maths based so that riggers can do basic calculations and consequently take a job a lot further before having to go for help from a qualified Engineer.

LIFTING EQUIPMENT INSPECTORS COMPETENCE

The NSL / EAL Lifting Equipment Inspector training and competence modules 1 – 6 are now in place and have had a good take up especially with overseas inspectors looking for a nationally recognized qualification that is also up-to-date with modern lifting equipment and materials and relevant to Oilfield lifting equipment.