April 2011
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Another Offshore Industry Wakeup Call!
Imagine going to sleep in your room in a 700 bed hotel, setting your alarm for 7:30 a.m. and drifting off to a good night’s rest. The next morning, you are not woken by your alarm clock, but a much louder evacuation alarm telling you to evacuate your hotel because it is sinking into 125 feet of water 50 miles offshore! This is not a dream, it happened just this month in the Gulf of Mexico. The...
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The Real Costs of not Automating Offshore...
There is an accident somewhere around the world on an offshore drilling platform almost every day. Many are not newsworthy, lacking serious injury, loss of life, or an environmental impact. Occasionally they are catastrophic, like the BP Deepwater Horizon accident in the US Gulf of Mexico that happened on April 20th, 2010. This accident, which resulted in 11 tragic deaths and 17 severe...