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ROV / DSV operation carried out in August by GSP Queen within the offshore construction project Akcakoca

RODELTA 2009: GSP Orion and GSP Phoenix Extensive GSP deployment for the development of the Galata gas field

GSP Prince

the specialized ROV, AUV / UUV support vessel headed towards Constanta ,

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Content 4 News 6 GSP Prince, the voyage home 10 Drilling Report Our drilling department forwarded the up to date mobile offshore drilling rigs activity report at in mid-September 2009

12 G SP Saturn at the conclusion of the first drilling contract after upgrading and reclassification 14 ROV / DSV operation carried out with the support of AHTS GSP Queen held in August for GSP Queen within the offshore construction project Akçakoca 22 GSP Bigfoot 1 – The heavy lift / pipelay barge enters under a contract with Melrose Resources next February in the Galata subsea natural gas reserve, on the Bulgarian continental shelf Breaking the limit www.gspdrilling.com

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26 E xtensive GSP deployment for the development of the Galata gas field 28 R oDelta - The regional intervention exercise for search, life saving at sea and intervention in the event of oil spill in the Black Sea

36 t he guarantee of success: Cooperation between ICPE ACTEL – GSP CONSTANŢA 39 G SP Training Center offers courses in project management in collaboration with TenStep Romania 40 P roject Management Courses complete GSP’s Training Center offer 42 In formational technology supports the document management within the offshore construction department 44 G rup Servicii Petroliere plans with Primavera offshore constructions, upgrade and modernisation projects for the technical vessels Breaking the limit www.gspdrilling.com

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August

GSP Saturn

GSP Queen carried out between August 12 and August 14 a subsea survey and debris removal operation on the location of the future largest modular platform with two decks in the Black Sea, within the Akçakoca oil field, on the Turkish Black Sea coast. Onboard the vessels there have been performed works in order to ensure the safe operation of

the ROV TRITON XLX 150 and ROTECH equipments. This operation is a step forward for the marine construction project of which the beneficiary is the Turkish National Oil Company, TPAO.

August Between August 27 and 25 GSP Orion and GSP Phoenix took part in the Regional Intervention Exercise in cases of marine oil pollution and search and rescue on the Black Sea, RoDelta, exercise hosted this year by Romania.

It is the second regional intervention exercise coordinated by the European Maritime Safety Agency - EMSA. GSP Orion is operating under a contract with the European Agency, its task being to provide specialized OSR services in order to limit the affected areas, by collecting hydrocarbons accidentally spilled at sea, storing and transporting to shore in order to transfer the collected quantities to authorized companies.

September GSP Saturn offshore drilling rig completed the first drilling contract ended after the upgrade and reclassification.

GSP Saturn performed exploration drilling in Igneada field for Toreador Resources.

The General Manager of Toreador Resources, Mr. Roy Barker, sent on behalf of the beneficiary company a message of appreciation. He highlighted the quality, safety and availability shown by the crew members of GSP Saturn as well as GSP Queen and GSP Vega during drilling, marine operations, as well as supply and crew transportation. Mr. Roy Barker considers Grup Servicii Petroliere a vital strategic partner in the Black Sea area, supporting the offshore operations of Toreador.

September GSP Prince performed the sea acceptance trial in the North Sea, afterwards the vessel being transferred under GSP’s management, on the 20th

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GSP Bigfoot 1 under intense modernization

of September. The vessel was also issued the DNV class certificate, the class notation being +1A1, SF, E0, DYNPOS AUTR, CLEAN , COMF-C3-V3, HELDKSH, NAUT OSV (A), DK(+), ICE-C. On September 21 GSP Prince left the Norwegian national waters, heading towards Constanta. The ship will require about 18 days to reach the operational GSP’s base, in berth 34, Constanta port. GSP Prince is expected to begin operating in the Black Sea. The most recent acquisition will operate as a ROV, AUV / UUV support vessel.

September The offshore drilling rig GSP Saturn remained in the Turkish national waters, being located on Ayzali 1. The offshore drilling rig is preparing to enter under a new contract, TPAO being the beneficiary of the drilling services.

The date both parties agreed upon to initiate the service is September 25, 2009.

September The works at GSP Bigfoot 1, the heavy lift / pipelay barge will be completed in mid February 2010. The barge refurbishment and reclassification process takes place in the company’s operational base in the

port of Constanta South – Agigea. The engineering was completed up to 90% and the acquisitions by 75%.

September Representatives of the GSP’s Technical Vessels Department are at Tuzla in Turkey, officially taking delivery of the heavy lift floating crane GSP Neptun with maximum load lifting capacity of 1800 tons. The crane was transported from Korea on board one of Dockwise semi - submersible barges. The preparation for the towing operation is carried out. GSP Neptune will be transported to Constanta South – Agigea GSP’s shipyard.

September The reactivation and reclassification project of the semi – submersible barge GSP Bigfoot 2 takes place in GSP’s operational base in Constanta Nord – Midia port. The works scheduled to be carried out above the waterline were completed to 85%. Towards the end of September the barge is programmed for the dry dock survey and works. The work package planned for this new phase of the reactivation project will last about five weeks.

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GSP Prince - the voyage home The complete crew embarked GSP Prince on September 17, 2009. The new vessel officially entered under GSP’s operational management on September 20, after performing the sea acceptance tests (sea trials) and the issuing of the class certificate under DNV Register, +1A1, SF, E0, DYNPOS AUTR, CLEAN , COMF-C3-V3, HELDKSH, NAUT OSV (A), DK(+), ICE-C.

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On September 21 GSP Prince left the Norwegian port Aalesund heading to Constanta. The vessel will require about 18 days in order to complete the voyage and to reach GSP’s operational base in berth 34, Constanta port. GSP Prince is expected to start operating in the Black Sea. Here, the newest GSP’s fleet acquisition will carry out services as a specialized ROV, AUV / UUV support vessel.

GSP Prince is equipped with DP2 dynamic positioning system (Triple Redundant Dynamic Positioning System, AUTR/DP2, with three operators’ control posts). The vessel had on board throughout the sea acceptance tests a team of GSP’s representatives including two chief mechanics, one chief electrician and an electrician. Catalin Trandafir is the master of the ship in charge with the command during the voyage to Constanta. GSP Prince will bring a plus of operational flexibility to the company marine operations service offer.

GSP Prince will be operated under a bareboat contract with purchase option.

GSP Prince, DSV (diving support vessel), joins a fleet comprising AHTS vessels, PSV, MEDEVAC, marine barges, a submersible barge, a pipelay barge, two floating cranes with lifting capacity of 1800, respectively 100 tones .

GSP Prince, the 85.30 meters LOA vessel, built at the Baatbygg shipyard in Norway in 2009, is designed and equipped to operate at full capacity in extreme temperatures.

The vessel will be equipped for:  ROV operations, pipeline/route surveys.  Sub-see installation works  Geo-technical surveys  Light construction works.  Crane operations GSP Prince may develop while operating speeds up to 14 knots.

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accommodated on board. The vessel is equipped with a FRC (Fast Rescue Craft, FRC MP 741), as well as rescue equipment complying with SOLAS regulations.

GSP Prince will be equipped with an ROV, Triton ® XLX 150, manufactured by Perry Slingsby Systems. This is the latest in the Triton XL series, able to carry a full range of interventions and subsea surveys in the safest conditions.

Triton ® XLX 150 benefits from an integrated system for inspections, the interface ensuring compatibility with all the modern pieces of equipment used in such operations.

The interface ROV / TMS for the surface has been reconfigured and updated in order to allow operators to actuate the controls intuitively, in the most ergonomic interface available throughout the world. There should also be emphasized the fact that the usual systems with three control stations for the pilot, copilot and the auxiliary console have been replaced in this ROV model by an advanced multi – image display system / screen wall. The pilot and copilot stations present a combination of commands allowing the customization according to each user demands. Triton XLX 150 has automatic operation options (Auto Heading Mode / option automatically maintaining steering, Auto Heading Park Model – the vehicle is anchored to a structure and maintains direction, Auto Depth mode / option that automatically allows maintaining the depth, Auto Altitude Mode / maintains a certain height from the seabed, Auto Position / Dynamic Positioning / dynamic positioning option). When the Triton XLX 150 operates in one of the above options, a submarine computer use feedback signals from the sensors on board the ROV to send commands needed to maintain direction, depth, height from the seabed.

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ROV Type: TRITON® XLX 150 HP following automatic modes:  To Heading Mode  Auto Heading Park Mode (vehicle is anchored to a structure)  Auto Depth Mode  Auto Altitude Mode  Auto Failsafe Mode  Auto Position – Dynamic Positioning Depth Rating 10,000 fsw (3050 msw) Weight in Air (approx) 10,500 lb (4.8 Tonnes – 3050 msw) Length including manipulator mount

128 in (3,250mm) Width 70 in (1,780 mm) Height 76.4 in (1,940mm) Forward Speed 3+ knots Lateral Speed

3+ knots Reserve Payload 250 Kg. Turning Rate 40 deg. per second.

Auto Heading Control

Automatic to +/- 2.0 degree Pitch and Roll Control +/- 5.0 degrees.

Depth Control

Automatic to +/- 6.0 inches.

Altitude Control

Automatic to +/- 6.0 inches.

Diving system: The diving equipment is provided by Lexmar. The reached value is of 11 million dollars. The diving equipment has a capacity of 12 people, three barometric compensation modules and a turret system that allows divers to reach 200 meters depth. In addition to the diving equipment, the contract includes a HRB (Hyperbaric Rescue Boat). The classification authority recommended the HRB purchase, as for situations such as the ship abandon, it must have onboard the means to rescue the entire crew, including those working at depth, so that entire crew should be allowed rescue, taking into account the fact that the pressurizing, respectively the depressurizing periods can extend up to fourteen days, depending on the working

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depth. Lexmar will also provide seven fully equipped diving suits, for depth intervention. The diving team will be composed of certified professional divers.

The Saturation Diving System designated for DSV GSP Prince has a capacity of 12 people. The equipment observes the IMCA, ABS and DNV recommendations.

The hyperbaric rescue unit has a capacity of 15 seats. The unit allows diving to the maximum depth of 300 meters, being also equipped with three seats capacity diving bells.

DIVING SYSTEM: Saturation Diving System  3 man diving bell  2 off – 6 man twin lock DDC built into a protective frame  3 man twin Lock DDC built into a protective frame  TUP  15 man Hyperbaric Rescue Capsule (HRC)  HRC “flyaway module”  HRC LARS (davit launch type)  LARS – A frame type, including bell winch  Umbilical winch c/w umbilical  Machinery module – 2 off  Combined diver/bell/chamber control module  Workshop container

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GSP Saturn. New drilling equipments

Drilling Report Our drilling department forwarded the up to date mobile offshore drilling rigs activity report at in mid-September 2009.

Niculae Cristocea, drilling operations manager within the department, is one of the experts who monitor the daily rhythm of work and the results achieved by the crews on board the drilling rigs.

GSP Jupiter and GSP Saturn drilling rigs are located in the Black Sea, on the continental shelves of Romania and Turkey. GSP Atlas and GSP Orizont carry out drilling operations in the Persian Gulf.

On board the offshore drilling platform GSP Prometeu, located in Constanta Port 34 berth GSP’s port facility is currently preparing to enter a new contract.

GSP ATLAS The mobile offshore drilling rig is, from the 8th of July in Reshadat field, in the Iranian national waters. GSP Atlas is running abandonment operations for a number of seven subsea wells located on an out of service jacket. The drilling rig completed the works on four wells, the rig performing the relocation operation on the same jacket, in order to access the remaining three wells.

GSP ORIZONT Positioned in the Hengam field, is working at H3 well. The well was previously drilled by GSP Orizont. Meanwhile, the Iranian beneficiary installed a jacket on

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the location and the offshore drilling rig returned on the location, implementing the production works for the well. The works are in progress.

At the completion of the scheduled program, the offshore drilling rig drill may drill a new well on the same jacket or it will be transported to a new location. The contractual partner has not yet taken a decision in the matter.

GSP JUPITER The mobile offshore drilling rig completed the well LW04 at the production jacket PGSU 6. After being drilled, the well was completed entering production. GSP Jupiter has been moved on 1 Delta Sud location, where an exploration well is drilled to the final depth of 2475 meters.

The offshore drilling rig has already

introduced the 30’’ conductor and the 13 3/8’’ tower. The estimated completion date of the well is October 15, 2009.

GSP SATURN The drilling rig already completed a contract for Toreador in the Igneada field, Turkey. The cantilever drilling rig GSP Saturn is currently in the Turkish national waters, on the Ayzali 1 location, preparing to enter a new drilling contract under TPAO (the Turkish National Oil Company). On board the drilling rig is carried out the final stage of the commissioning procedure of equipment, purchased from National Oil Varco and newly installed onboard during the upgrade. The scheduled date for GSP Saturn to enter contract is September 25, 2009.

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GSP Saturn at the conclusion of the first drilling contract after upgrading and reclassification The upgrading and reclassification project of GSP Saturn offshore drilling rig was completed in June 2009. The fourth cantilever type drilling rig was modernized in the GSP’s operational base located in berth 34, Constanta.

Immediately after the finalization of the offshore drilling rig refurbishment, GSP Saturn has left the Romanian national waters to enter under a series of drilling contracts on the Turkish continental shelf.

GSP Saturn performed exploration offshore drilling in the Igneada oil field for Toreador Resources.

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GSP Saturn at the start of the drilling campaign on the Turkish continental shelf.

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GSP Queen and GSP Vega performed the marine operations within the same contract (towing, positioning, and assistance during the transportation of the drilling rig on the new location) as well as supply and crew transportation services.

On the completion of this contract, the General Manager of Toreador Resources, Mr. Roy Barker, sent the following message: “Grup Servicii Petroliere S.A. – a Romanian company from Constanta – is working as a Contractor for Drilling and Construction as well as Marine Heavy Transportation in our Exploration and Production Block AYZALI offshore in the Turkish Black Sea coast at water depth up to 100 m.

In addition, GSP has successfully provided specialized Marine Naval Services and logistics for the positioning of the barges and platforms as well as the transportation of all our company’s material and manpower.

The work conducted by GSP has been professional and accident free and GSP has always worked in an extemporary manner at all times. The manpower consists out of very well trained enthusiastic and experienced people. We very much appreciate the company’s effort of implementing a high operational standard and the high level of latest technology all certified by the HSEQ Compliance Audit.

Toreador recommends GSP as a reliable partner with excellent modern technical capabilities. GSP is prepared to support any specific engineering and construction activities worldwide. We wish Grup Servicii Petroliere to continue their success in the future.

Toreador considers GSP to be a vital strategic partner in the area to support all its offshore operations.”

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ROV / DSV operation carried out with the support of AHTS GSP Queen held in August for GSP Queen within the offshore construction project Akรงakoca The underwater visual inspections on the future offshore construction sites - jacket, extraction platform, subsea pipeline - are designed to identify all the potential risk factors for the safe transport and installation operations, with the highest accuracy.

The seabed can hide traps such as unmapped pipelines, subsea cables, rock formations, other abnormalities of the soil, submerged shipwrecks.

Since the initial stage of the program development for the transportation and installation operation on location, the project team has considered the subsea survey of the site. The operation took place in August, involving a large number of personnel mastering the most different skills, from navigation and DGPS positioning to ROV operation and Rotech debris removal equipment.

Among the 42 team members there were also two project management representatives: the data collected on the site could influence major change decision of the previously planned activities.

According to the final report of the operation, it was a success: the debris

GSP Queen. Deck view, with the DSV/ROV equipment on board

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GSP Queen conducted in August a subsea survey using the TRITON XLX 150 ROV on the location of the future largest double decked modular platform in the Black Sea, in the Akรงakoca gas field, on the Turkish coast.

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being removed from the future jacket location site, the precise positioning of the two existing subsea wellheads was done; there have been conducted inspections on other two locations of interest on the route designed for future subsea pipeline. The position of a wooden fishing shipwreck was exactly determined and the visual inspection of the wye spool was carried out. The operation took place on location between the 12th and the 14th of August. The works were carried out without any incident recording, observing the maximum safety conditions.

GSP Queen conducted in August a subsea survey using the TRITON XLX 150 ROV on the location of the future largest double decked modular platform in the Black Sea, in the Akรงakoca gas field, on the Turkish coast. On board of the vessel preparative works were performed in order to ensure the safe operation of TRITON XLX 150 and ROTECH equipment: the load test was performed under the supervision of an ABS inspector.

To the 15 crew members normally working on board the AHTS GSP Queen, were added for a few days six ROTECH operators, one TPAO representative (Turkish National Oil Company), four positioning equipment operators from Shark, a Subsea Services Company headquartered in Constanta, and a team of seven ROV operators.

The TRITON XLX 150 ROV diving test

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AKCAKOCA. SUBSEA ROV VISUAL SURVEY RESULTS. Template (1-5). Subsea wooden fishing ship wreck(6). Wye spool (7-10)

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onshore. On August 14 the last visual inspection was conducted on the location of the jacket, to assess the results of the debris removal operation.

GSP Queen returned to Constanta on the 18th of August.

The ROV visual inspection of the seabed provided critical information critical for the seamless offshore

was carried out on the 9th of August 2009 and the DP 2 vessel left the port of Constanta heading towards Akรงakoca field. On the 11th of August the ship was on location where the sea trial of the equipment was carried out, in order to guarantee the smooth survey and debris removal scheduled operations.

The TPAO representative came on board the vessel on the 12th of August.

GSP Queen had the task to move the location where the jacket is going to be installed, to perform the ROV visual survey of the site as well as the debris removal operation with the ROTECH dredging equipment on the entire interest area. A visual inspection was conducted on August 13 in the area where the two subsea wellheads are located, the seabed being evaluated with the help of the ROV broadcasted images: as the collected data presented the uneven ground, it was necessary to intervene with the dredging equipment.

The DSV / ROV program also included two stages of visual survey on the route of the future subsea pipeline to be installed within the offshore construction project awarded to GSP. The reason why it become necessary to conduct the visual subsea inspection on the location of submarine pipeline routes with a considerable reserve of time before the installation is that, depending on survey results it may become necessary to modify the pipeline route, this engaging new engineering works. There has been identified on the Akรงakoca field pipeline route an underwater shipwreck of an old wooden fishing boat, and the customer together with the project team is assessing the opportunity of engineering changes within the project in order to avoid this submerged obstacle. The next stop and visual survey was at the wye spool where the new pipeline is going to be connected to the existing natural gas subsea pipeline delivering natural gas to the gas processing plant

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construction works proceeding. The data collected during the operation carried out this August as well as the leveling at the seabed on the jacket location represented a stage of interest in documenting the marine construction project. The collected information completes the analytical background used by the project team.

TRITON XLX 150 controls and display

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The underwater archeology in the Black Sea has great potential, especially at depths greater than 200 meters of water, where the sea is anoxic (without oxygen).

There were identified numerous underwater shipwrecks dating from different historical times.

The Turkish Black Sea coast was studied by the underwater archaeologist Robert Ballard.

He discovered the remains of a submerged Mesolithic settlement, estimated at least 7,000 years old, on the site 82, near Sinop.

Wrecks of commercial vessels have been identified by the team led by the same archaeologist on the Bulgarian coast, at water depths ranging between 85 and 120 meters. Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish ships continue to hide their secrets in the Black Sea. Robert Ballard has used in his archaeological research campaigns in the Black Sea area a Hercules type ROV. The archaeologist extended his studies to the nearby Crimean Peninsula. Black Sea covers countless evidence of different historical periods, from ancient times to the more recent World Wars.

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GSP Bigfoot 1, the heavy lift / pipelay barge enters under a contract with Melrose Resources next February in the Galata subsea natural gas reserve, on the Bulgarian continental shelf. Melrose Resources SARL is the contractual beneficiary of an Engineering, Fabrication, Installation and commissioning contract for 8.5 kilometers of subsea natural gas pipelines of 6 „and two liquid subsea pipelines underwater pipelines of 1“.

In March 2010 the vessel will enter under the TPAO contract, the barge being scheduled to carry out the installation of a 7 kilometers subsea pipeline in the Akçakoca gas reserve.

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GSP Bigfoot 1, intense modernization works

These being the programmed activities to be carried on board of GSP Bigfoot 1 towards the end of the first quarter of 2010, we wanted to find out more about the stage the upgrade and reclassification works have reached within the GSP Bigfoot 1 project, in GSP’s shipyard in Agigea.

The newest GSP’s operational base is located in Constanta South - Agigea port. The location can be easily spotted from the distance as a large number of heavy lift crane booms elevated up in the sky. There’s a surrealist ballet show put on stage by heavy lift pieces of equipment able of moving significant loads with no evident effort, impressing uninformed audiences. Behind this show there are people, each one of them very well knowing their responsibilities, and all together knowing that safety comes

first. Days have passed remaining in the memory of the shipyard personnel by the name of the completed operations, but workers do not speak about them as many new tasks with the same elevated complexity degree are yet to come.

Teams managed the completion of a heavy load steel structure elevation and precise positioning on board GSP Bigfoot 1. Afterwards they start preparing the next operation. Thorough trainings take place before each activity. The working program is conducted in two shifts.

The same intense rhythm is kept during the night. The only silent moments are those during lunchtime. Work packages of the project, with their deadlines for completion, are the general conversation subject, especially when the material supply stocks hazardously decrease.

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remaining time by the number of large steel structures they have to lift and position onboard. Others are measuring the same amount of time in hundred of meters of welding, in the installation and testing of equipment; the measurement units varying depending on the position of the person we discuss with. One can evaluate GSP Bigfoot 1 project by the number of the lifting plans, the number of safety inductions, the steel supply containers arriving at the site, but mostly the project is measured in workdays.

Grup Servicii Petroliere provides the project management and The Offshore Partners, TOP, offers specialized consultancy services.

The pipelay equipment:

In August 2009, GSP representatives have inspected the pipelay equipment ordered for GSP Bigfoot 1 at the Dutch manufacturer fabrication facility. SAS GOUDA was awarded the fabrication of a complete shallow water pipelay

system, including the eight-point mooring system. SAS GOUDA is the producer who managed to set the quality standard in the pipeline underwater launching systems fabrication both for shallow and deep waters. The reason why GSP has selected this manufacturer was the proven capacity of SAS GOUDA to produce over the years custom pipelay systems, answering the specific needs of each client. The 8 – points mooring system also produced by SAS GOUDA for GSP Bigfoot 1 is equipped with 100 tons mooring winches, with independent power actuation. The eight electrical power supplied winches are seamlessly integrated into the pipeline launch system, the solution offering the benefit of optimal use of energy on board the technical vessel, reducing the overall energy consumption. The complete package of electrical actuated equipment both for pipeline installation and the 8 – points mooring system is scheduled to be delivered at the end of 2009.

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Extensive GSP deployment for the development of the Galata gas field SAS GOUDA pipelay system

Grup Servicii Petroliere won the contract for engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning of 8.5 kilometers of subsea gas pipeline 6’’ in diameter and two 1’’ liquid pipelines on Bulgarian’s Black Sea continental shelf for Melrose Resources SAR, within the development program of the Galata offshore gas deposit field.

Grup Servicii Petroliere provides the project management, in cooperation

with Worldwide Offshore Sollutions BV, headquartered in Rotterdam.

GSP Bigfoot 1 will perform its first pipelay mission for the Galata development project, immediately after the completion of upgrading works as well as the ABS reclassification. The Melrose Resources representatives are convinced that the recent discoveries in this area will positively affect production figures in the Bulgarian Black Sea. Also, Melrose hopes

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that the latest findings will accelerate the exploration drilling in the unexplored region of Kavarna.

After the completion of the pipeline installation works, Melrose said the company would pursue a new development stage with the initiation of a gas storage facility for Galata field.

Melrose Resources intends, at the beginning of 2010 to initiate an extensive geological study.

In August 2009, Melrose announced the result of drilling campaign in Kaliakra oil field, on the Bulgarian Black Sea continental shelf. The offshore drilling rig GSP Prometeu drilled a production well, Kaliakra 2, at a distance of about 15 kilometers / 9.3 nautical miles of the Galata platform. This well is located at 1.8 kilometers / 1.12 nautical miles west of the well Kaliakra 1, the drilling being also performed by GSP Prometeu.

The offshore gas deposit appears to be a rich one according to the drilling services beneficiary; the results sustain the development intentions which were recently made public.

Grup Servicii Petroliere is in charge of the installation of three 8.5 underwater pipelines:  A pipe 6’’ in diameter for natural gas which will link the Galata jacket at 36 meters water depth with a subsea production well head located at 8.5 kilometers away, at a water depth of 52 meters ;  Two 1’’ underwater pipelines linking the Galata jacket at a water depth of 36 meters and the well head located at 8.5 kilometers away, at a water depth of 52 meters;  Additionally, Grup Servicii Petroliere will install a riser 10’’ in diameter from the pipeline to the Galata platform.

Grup Servicii Petroliere will provide the project management, the 1’’ pipelines fabrication, will mobilize GSP Bigfoot 1, the fully equipped heavy lift / pipelay barge as well as a specialized vessel for subsea survey on the seabed route established for the three underwater pipelines and diving support operations.

The crew transport as well as the pipeline supply at the pipelay location will be sustained by GSP fleet vessels (GSP Lyra – crew transportation, GSP Queen – anchor handling and support, GSP Licorn and GSP Perseu – pipeline transportation). Throughout the entire extent of the offshore pipeline installation works, the operations will be monitored using the TRITON ® XLX 150 ROV.

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RoDelta – the regional intervention exercise for search, life saving at sea and intervention in the event of oil spill in the Black Sea

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The exercise carried out between the 25th and the 27th of August 2009 has shown increasing interest in saving life at sea and environmental protection in a very favorable development period of the offshore industry in the Black Sea basin. The year 2009 also registers the EMSA (European Maritime Safety Agency) success in providing OSR intervention power in the bordering Black Sea region of the European Union. This became possible when awarding the contract to GSP Orion for interventions of this type, the vessel having won an international tender organized by the European Agency; the OSR equipment was supplied to the vessel under the EMSA contract: it is the latest generation of oil recovery intervention technology, designed to limit the extension of the affected area, to collect and store the polluting products on board, and transport them to the shore.

EMSA schedules exercises of this kind every two years. The first regional exercise of operational response to marine pollution was held in 2007 in Turkey. More than ten ministries, commissions and private companies were involved in the action this year.

Among the organizations involved in the life saving and antipollution regional intervention exercise this August there

2009 regional OSR exercise in the Black Sea targeted to test the level of cooperation reached under the Protocol signed in 1992 during the Bucharest Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution in emergency fight against oil or other harmful substances pollution. Grup Servicii Petroliere mobilized two vessels for the exercise: GSP Orion and GSP Phoenix.

were: the Romanian Naval Authority (NRA), the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), the Commission over on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, the Ministry of National Defense, the Emergency Situations Inspectorate, and many private companies operating business in exploration, drilling, extraction, transport and processing hydrocarbons: Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP), Petrom, Rompetrol, as well as manufacturers and suppliers of equipment and materials used to prevent or combat oil pollution.

RoDelta gave to the latter a good opportunity to present the pieces of equipment they posses or supply within a special section of the international exercise, allowing the deployment of a series of demonstrations (both for equipment and materials) within the exercise sequence dedicated to the seashore oil pollution intervention which took place in Constanta Nord – Midia port.

2009 regional OSR exercise in the Black Sea targeted to test the level of cooperation reached under the Protocol signed in 1992 during the Bucharest Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution in emergency fight against oil or other harmful substances pollution.

Grup Servicii Petroliere mobilized two vessels for the exercise: GSP Orion and GSP Phoenix. GSP Orion is the oil pollution response capability ensuring within the provisions of a contract with EMSA, the intervention in case of oil pollution in the Black Sea. GSP Phoenix is specialized in passenger and supply transportation, servicing the oil fields on the continental shelf of the Black Sea. The second vessel GSP mobilized for the drill had the supplementary task to host the official representatives and observers.

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extent of hydrocarbons spill and recovery of polluting agents at sea.

The purpose of RoDelta exercise was to ascertain the viability of:  The 2008 Inter-Ministerial Cooperation Plan regarding the emergency intervention for search and rescue of human life along the coasts and at sea;  The National Plan for Preparedness, Response and Cooperation in case of Marine Oill Spill Pollution;  The Regulation Regarding the Management of Emergency Actions caused by an Accident of a Civil Aircraft;  The Regional Cooperation Plan to Fight against Oil Pollution in the Black Sea (Black Sea Contingency Plan).

RoDelta gave the opportunity to mobilize specialized personnel, air as well as naval forces, special equipment designed to limit the extension of the oil polluted area, being a test for the intervention capacity of all the participants.

The 2009 RoDelta exercise agenda included two major events for the search and rescue of human life at sea and the response and cooperation in case of oil spill pollution, namely the National Exercise SAR (search and rescue of human lives at sea) and the second Regional Operational Response Exercise to Marine Pollution in the Black Sea. Marian Carnat, environmental advisor within the GSP’s HSEQ Department, one of the participants in this exercise, declared for our magazine at the conclusion of the international exercise: „The agenda was very interesting year.

The three days were very intense for all the involved participants. I regret I couldn’t see the onshore demonstrations as well, but I’m extremely proud of the fact that GSP has engaged in this exercise two vessels performing excellently on the entire extent of the operations at sea. For me, from the professional prospective, having in mind the nature of work I perform, the exercise presented a high interest. I enjoy the fact that if the Black Sea ecosystem is protected and healthy nowadays, this

The health of the Black Sea ecosystem has improved in recent years also due to the attention the natural environment protection policies enjoy both within national and international authority bodies and companies carrying out economical activities in this sea basin. is due to the increasing interest for the environmental protection in the company for which I work. The health of the Black Sea ecosystem has improved in recent years also due to the attention the natural environment protection policies enjoy both within national and international authority bodies and companies carrying out economical activities in this sea basin.“ The Regional Operational Response Exercise this year in case of oil spill and marine pollution, aimed testing the cooperation level under the Protocol signed in 1992 during the Bucharest Convention regarding the Black Sea Protection against oil pollution as well as the spill of other harmful substances in emergency situations, organized under the aegis of the Black Sea Commission.

The representatives of the Convention member states have shown a strong desire to enhance the national capacities for such interventions in the region as well as the interest to accelerate the preparative for the efficient intervention against pollution or to limit the extent of oil spill as well as the emergency response when facing disaster situations threatening the Black Sea environmental balance basin, through the implementation of the Contingency Plan resulted from the Black Sea Protocol and the Convention for the Black Sea Protection against Pollution, signed by the Ministerial Committee at Sofia.

“An accident at sea involves a major deployment of forces in a record time.

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GSP Orion. The OSR equipment at work

In addition, proper coordination of the intervention and the clear demarcation of the tasks and responsibilities of each institution are necessary, in such a manner that each institution may play a major role in limiting the impact of the environmental disaster, the intervention time or the decision upon the optimal measures to be taken”, declared Paul Branza, the General Manager of the Romanian Naval Authority.

The RoDelta exercise resulted in:  Reviewing and / or updating of the provisions of the Cooperation Plan in the light of the lessons learned and the activities carried out;  Assessing the interoperability opportunities of the structures with responsibilities in the field;  Exercising the intervention procedures;  Testing the use of the Regional Communication System POLREP in order to identify and mobilize resources of the neighboring countries;  Establishing a Joint Coordination Center in case of oil pollution

emergencies based on the Regional Contingency Plan for the Black Sea;  The effective integration of the EMSA resources as well as those of private organizations within the National plan for the preparation, response and cooperation in cases of marine oil pollution;  The checking of the communication system between the Air and Marine Coordination Centers during the SAR activities, in cases of civil plane crash at sea;  Assessing the decision support in cases of search and rescue of human life at sea after a civil aircraft accident.

The exercise offered the participants and observers the opportunity to evaluate within the response exercise the capability of each of the involved structures during the command, coordination, management, and search & rescue activities, their capacities to provide support functions and related tasks. The exercise also verified the procedures regarding the alerting and

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intervention, the notification of the responsible structures in regard of oil spill at sea as well as along the coast line. GSP’s environmental adviser, Marian Carnat also told us during our brief discussion: “It was easy to see that the crew onboard GSP Orion has responsibly understood the duties during interventions similar to the simulated one. The training all the crew members attended in May 2009 led to the enhancement of the vessel’s efficiency. The crew members on board the two ships GSP mobilized for the exercise had an excellent conduct. I would like to say a few more things about the exercise taking place this year in the Romanian national waters: as one can see from the agenda of the event, the main objective was to improve

the performance and harmonize the actions of the numerous participants.

Any activity carried out at such scale cannot deliver only smooth actions from start to finish; its importance consisted in the opportunity to look closely at its stages identifying improvement possibilities. Here’s the most important result of RoDelta: the workgroups met to assess the evolution of the involved response forces such as national authorities, international agencies, private companies’ representatives took advantage in identifying the strengths and weaknesses, the achievements and weak points registered during the application, making recommendations in order to remedy the identified deficiencies as well as the capacity for such emergency situations.”

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GSP Orion GENERAL: Design: ME 202 Built by/year Sigjborn AS / 1983 Classification DnV +1A1, Supply Vessel OILREC SF EO DINAPOS-AUT M/V TECHNICAL DATA MAIN PARTICULARS: LOA 67.4 m LPP 60,0m Breadth Moulded 16.8m Draft min 4-max.6.2m DWT (d=4 / 5,5 / 6,2) 1130/ 2475/ 3003 GRT 1599 Net Tonnage 654 CARGO CAPACITIES: Deck Area 615 sqm (42.2 x 14.7 m) Deck Cargo 1650 t Deck Load 5 t/sqm Crash Brarrier Height 2.8 m Fuel 1299 cubm Potable Water 979 cubm Drill Water 719 cubm Liquid Mud 304cubm / 1900bbls Brine 208 cubm / 1307 bbls Dry Bulk 340 cubm / 12000cuft DISCHARGE CAPACITIES: Fuel Potable Water Drill Water Liquid Mud Brine Glycol Dry Bulk Compressors 2 x 0-100 cubm/h - 7.5 bar 2 x 0-100 cubm/h - 7.5 bar 1 x 0-100 cubm/h - 7.5 bar 1 x 0-50 cubn/h - 18 bar and 1 x 50cubm/h - 18 bar 1 x 0-100 cubm/h - 7.5 bar 1 x 0-100 cubm/h - 7.5 bar 2 x 28 cubm/min - 5.6 bar DECK MACHINERY/MOORING: Tugger Winches Capstans Deck Cranes Windlass Anchors

Chain 2 x 10 t 2 x 7.5 t 1 x 1t @ 2-9m and 1 x 1.8 t 1 x 8t / 6tSWL 2 X 1980 KG Stockless 1 x 466 m and 1 x 548 m, both with 38mm K3 chain TECHNICAL DATA MACHINERY & PROPULSION: Diesel electric Main Engines 3 x Rolls Royce Bergen 1720 BHP, Totally 5160 BHP Aux. Engines 1 X 160 kw , 440 V 60 Hz Emergency Generator 1 x 24 Kw, 440 V, 60 Hz Shaft Generators Main Propellers 2 x 2000 BHP, Azimuth, thrusters, 2300 mm diameter Bow Thruster 2 x 900 BHP Tunnel Stern Thruster Using Azimuth thrusters Rudders Using Azimuth thrusters NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT: Radars Main Radio Inmarsat C GPS Autopilot Gyro 1 x 3 cm , 1 x 10 cm GMDSS Sailor 2 x Furuno Robertson Anshutz ACCOMODATION: Total Capacity Cabins Hospital Lounges 21 pers 11x 1 pers, 5 x 2 pers Fully equipped PERFORMANCE: Max Speed 11 knots Consumption pr day Sailing : 9t@10.5 knots, 12t@full speed, Stand by : apr. 3-5 t CONTINGENCY EQUIPMENT: Fast Rescue Boat 1 with outboard motors Fire Fighting CO2 for engine room and galley

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GSP Phoenix GENERAL: Design Built by/year Classification M/V

ICEPRONAV GALATI Braila Shipyard/1995 BV I HULL MACH Supply vessel

TECHNICAL DATA MAIN PARTICULARS: LOA LPP Breadth Moulded Draft DWT GRT Net Tonnage CARGO CAPACITIES: Fuel Potable Water DISCHARGE CAPACITIES: Fuel Potable Water

73m 67.3m 13.6m 4m 891Mt 2033 699

198.16 m³ 613.9m³

40t/h – 5 bar 60t/h – 5 bar

DECK MACHINERY/MOORING: Anchors Capstans 10m/min, 8/16/16 kW Capstans Electric capstans 14m/min, 8/16/16kW Anchors 2x1900 kg Chain 40 mm

NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT: Radars Main Radio Inmarsat C GPS Autopilot Gyro KELVIN NUCLEUS/SEATRACK SC 1004 GMDSS Console Telex SHIPNATE RS 5800 Sperry Sperry PERFORMANCE: Max Speed Consumption pr day

12 knts 14 t

ACCOMODATION: Total Capacity 112 Passenger accommodations 1x12 beds cabin , 3x4 beds cabin , 3x2 beds cabin Hospital 1bed cabin Lounges 2x52 chairs , 2x38chairs , 1x 20 chairs , 1x40 chairs CONTINGENCY EQUIPMENT: Helicopter Winching area

MACHINERY & PROPULSION: Main Engines Aux. Engines Emergency Generator Converter Generators Main Propellers Bow Thruster Rudders 2x Caterpillar 3516 B Diesel Generators-1717 kW, 660 V, 50 Hz 1x D2842 LE 421 kW, 400V, 50Hz 1x6VD21/15-2,380V,50Hz 2x400kw, 400V,50Hz 2 x FPP in duse 1 x 400 kW 2

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the guarantee of success: cooperation between ICPE ACTEL – GSP CONSTANŢA The cooperation of ICPE ACTEL and GSP CONSTANŢA, that debuted approximately 10 years ago and has already become a tradition, represents a guarantee for the successful achievement of all daring projects dedicated to offshore drilling and offshore constructions.

The experience ICPE ACTEL gained starting with GLORIA, the first offshore drilling rig, and continuing with the other mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) (GSP Orizont, GSP Prometeu, GSP Jupiter, GSP Atlas, GSP Saturn), as well as similar achievements in onshore drilling with the first Romanian onshore drilling platform at Cobia, a veritable know-how thesaurus, were made available to Grup Servicii Petroliere through the offer of application-tailored solutions and electrical drive systems for onshore and offshore drilling.

The completed refurbishment of MODUs GSP ATLAS, GSP JUPITER and GSP SATURN, promoted by GSP, resulted entirely from the need of upgrading these rigs to international technical standards, the new optimized functional and structural parameters placing them at the top of the top-notch performance pyramid.

These complex activities are the product of numerous collaborations between GSP Constanţa and reputed domestic and international companies, ICPE ACTEL being one of them. ICPE ACTEL demonstrated outmost responsibility in honouring their role in optimizing main processes and supplying auxiliary consumers onboard rigs.

ICPE ACTEL electrical engineering on board of GSP Jupiter

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Refurbishment of MODU GSP ATLAS 2006 was dedicated to refurbishing MODU GSP ATLAS. ICPE ACTEL’s contribution to this highly extensive project materialized in designing, manufacturing and installing onboard GSP ATLAS of an electrical drive system that achieves the following: electrical drive of eleven 850 kW D.C. motors with a modern A.C./ D.C. digitally controlled converters system, to replace the classical Ward-Leonard system command, synchronization and coupling at the bus bars equipment of 5 generators with a modern DGS system providing modern distribution systems of 600 V (TPD 600) and auxiliary tasks of 400 V (TPD 400).

Refurbishment of MODU GSP JUPITER Immediately after completing the refurbishment of MODU GSP Atlas, GSP Jupiter drilling rig was refurbished the following year.

ICPE ACTEL contribution to this project is similar to the one to GSP ATLAS, including additional 20 TLM and TS switchboards.

Refurbishment of GSP SATURN MODU Refurbishment of GSP SATURN was completed in the summer of 2009.

GSP SATURN is up to this date the most modern Romanian offshore drilling rig, being substantially different from the previously refurbished GSP Atlas and GSP Jupiter.

GSP SATURN also represents the first initiative of approaching Romanian engineering in the field of driving main drilling processes with A.C. motors. The result was a new A.C. electrical driving solution that ICPE ACTEL accomplished with high power A.C/ D.C. convertors for drawwork, mud and hydraulic pumps, and rotary table.

As a premiere, ICPE ACTEL contributes to this project with a new system for

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ICPE ACTEL engineered the only electrically powered Romanian ship, GSP Phoenix

synchronization and coupling at the 600 V bus bars equipment of the 5 generators « Power management system» type and PROFIBUS type connection between the control panel and A.C. drive systems.

The electrical drive system designed by ICPE ACTEL is used for the supply of main motors of the mud pumps (2 on every axle), lift pumps and rotary table.

The « Command and control » equipment is designed with state of the art PLC for driving drilling motors.

Similarly to previous variants, TPD 600 V – coupling to 600 V bus bar equipment of 5 Diesel - generator systems and TPD 400 V – supply auxiliary tasks with 400 V.A.C, 230 V A.C., 24 V.D.C).

A series of electrical panel supply the tasks of auxiliary users onboard (emergency lighting, rig’s lighting, laundry and galley, shore connection, panels for windlass and lifeboats’ winches, derrick regular and emergency lighting panels, submersible pumps panel and others).

The auxiliary control panel designed and produced by ICPE ACTEL ensures redundancy for enhanced remote control.

Refurbishment of GSP Phoenix crew vessel GSP Phoenix crew vessel, the only electrically powered Romanian ship, was equipped ICPE ACTEL products at the beginning of the 90s. With their characteristic enthusiasm, ICPE ACTEL contributed to project GSP Phoenix. Each of the two propellers of GSP Phoenix is equipped with two 850 kW D.C. motors with digital control and synchronization system, capable to ensure dynamic deceleration for regular and emergency stop.

In addition the fore motor is an ICPE ACTEL motor drive with professional A.C. / D.C. convertor, breaking in inverse current to the rated output limit.

The control panel in the CCP is also designed in cooperation with ICPE ACTEL with modern ergonomic joysticks, ensuring safe and user-friendly handling of this ship in terms of stopping, stationing and leaving the drilling rigs it supplies.

The technical performances of the equipment that ICPE ACTEL designed and manufactured for Grup Servicii Petroliere’s offshore applications and ships ensure significant energy saving in the drilling process as well as a significant reduction of the fuel-consumption, lead to reducing the average drilling time, a reduction in mounting, PIF and maintenance costs, an increase of the equipment lifespan, and equal functional time for DG systems.

In addition to equipping drilling rigs with specific electrical drive systems, ICPE ACTEL provides technical assistance throughout the product’s lifespan from mounting to post guarantee service for all equipment onboard the offshore drilling units with a team of specialized engineers always ready to face challenges and unexpected situations.

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GSP Training Center offers courses in project management in collaboration with TenStep Romania Projects and their management are key responsibilities in ensuring success.

This is the reason why the company decided to invest in professional training of its personnel in the field of Project Management.

The first step in this direction was the participation of a group of 17 managers at the five days training session scheduled this May within the program „Project Management Success“, offered by TenStep Romania in Constanta. Covering all the project management areas, the training program has been customized to answer the special demands of GSP, based on a pragmatic approach, starting from the very complex projects currently undertaken by the our company. The main topics included in the program were:  Project initiation and the developing of the management plan of a project  Issues and risks management  Monitoring and control of the projects’ execution  Quality management  Communication management within projects  Project Team Management  Performance indicators Management The training program was based on practical exercises, case studies and the review and discussion upon concrete projects undertaken within Upetrom Group. A special note was given by the components of the group, including the management team of VEGA hotel in Mamaia. The diversity of the case studies as well as the analyzed application areas allowed the participants to easily assimilate the techniques presented by the trainer, leading to a greater interactivity in teaching along the course activities. In addition,

this joint participation proved once again the universality of the Project Management techniques and processes, showing their applicability in any activity field.

Mr. Sebastian Cazacu, PMP - Senior Consultant and Managing Director of TenStep Romanian branch the trainer who managed unveiling the Project Management secrets during the first PM training session at GSP Training Center. With headquarters in Atlanta - US, TenStep has branches in more than 25 countries, it is a consultancy company specialized in consulting services and training for Project Management and Programs, Optimization and Process as well as the Management of the Projects Portfolio.

The Romanian Branch was founded in 2004, being the first Romanian company certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) as authorized training provider.

At the end of training, Mr. Sebastian Cazacu said: „The training for a mixed managerial team from Grup Servicii Petroliere and Vega hotel was one of the most successful training experiences that our company had in Romania. I am glad to see that both companies, GSP and VEGA hotel, have proven excellent potential for a rigorous approach to project management, which justifies the position the two companies hold as market leaders in their business areas. I‘ve worked with experienced and highly motivated professionals, who have showed an exemplary concern for improving business processes and the quality level within the projects carried out by their companies.

I am convinced that the two companies will continue to achieve excellent business results, and we’ll continue to offer our support in the future, with specific expertise in Project Management. „

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Project Management Training at GSP Training Center

Project Management Courses complete GSP’s Training Center offer Between the 4th and the 8th of May was held the first project management course in the newly established Training Center.

About this course I asked Dănuţ Eftimiu, engineer, project manager within the Development, Investment, and Repairs Department. During one of the breaks, he already delivered a partial answer in the matter of the need a Project manager feels to attend training like the one the Training Center housed: „It depends on the approach, on the training needs the project manager feels at a certain moment of his career. There’s always something new to learn. Each project has its own particular demands; the time dedicated to training isn’t wasted. From my experience I know that this course will charge us new energies to continue our work. „ Sebastian Cazacu, PMP certified instructor, director TenStep Romania, the first Romanian company certified as Registered Education Provider (REP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2004, conducted the training.

Further we’ll allow our colleague to share his training experience.

“One can find countless books about the importance and the benefits of project management; there are hundreds to be written.

The phrase „Project Management“ usually refers to planning, monitoring, control and completion of a project, understanding the „project“ as a unique organization, defined in time and space, with a well defined purpose and a strict budget approved by the owner; in fact the threefold constraint – purpose, time, money – of project management represent the „nightmare“ of any project manager.

For the smooth and successful completion of any project, the preparation phase is one of great importance in the project economy; planning, identification of organizational environment that may affect the project, defining roles and allocating the required human and material resources, establishing project budgets and datelines, choosing

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the most suitable approach strategies, of the techniques and the management most suitable tools according to the Project are only a few challenges a project manager must face.

The progressive development and clear outline, with concrete steps, the continuous increment and permanent control of the project resources allocated by the owner within the time frame and budget are current activities in any project.

In order to face this challenge, thorough preparedness it is however needed in the field of project management, regardless the position held in the project organizational chart; one must understand the project before any other thing, understanding the role within the project team, the purpose, the means or tools and requirements.

All the above mentioned elements are only a small part of the sum of topics the training approached and clarified; I’ve used them here because they serve the purpose of introducing you in the themes atmosphere, for their example power. The training was conducted by a genuine Project Manager mastering the domain, internationally certified, possessing an excellent sense of humor, juggling - with the soft skills brought only by a solid experience he adapted the work techniques to the audience, challenging us to work as project teams, bringing case studies gathered among the rich offer of concrete projects undertaken within the company.

Via group discussions and provoking us to conclude with individual presentations and personal opinions, Sebastian Cazacu succeeded not only to capture the audience’s interest but he also tactfully paved the path to awakening the interest to find out more. the training itself borrowed the characteristics of a project: there has been a project manager - the trainer, it has a purpose – the know how efficient transfer in the PM field and a time frame clearly delimited – five days, allotted resources well thought and deployed - the classroom, communicational support and so on.

The greatest achievement the training brought in my personal opinion is represented by the advance to a new stage – do not forget that the process of transforming GSP in a project focused company with training the personnel to occupy planner positions in the organizational chart. There will be both internal projects as well as external, involving provision of services in the specific business area of the company.

The following stages will consist in selection processes of personnel for the various positions within the project teams and the setting up of a „Project Management Office“.

The space put at our disposal during the training was extremely beneficial, serving the purpose of the course. GSP Training Center proved to be a high standard training facility, appreciated by the trainer.

Both the approached thematic and the course location supported the entire process of knowledge transfer, proving to be a successful combination.

Sebastian Cazacu is the Managing Director of TenStep Romania, having an experience of over 12 years in Project Management. He holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) international certification and, since 2003, is project management consultant, author of training programs.

Sebastian Cazacu is the author of a great number of articles in specialized publications in the MP field and frequently attends international PM conferences.

As a consultant and trainer, Sebastian Cazacu was involved in numerous programs in various industries such as IT and communications, construction, oil industry, financial services and banking, industrial, pharmaceutical industry. His professional competency covers areas of interest such as multi-project management, standards implementation process on the PMBoK and CMMI modeling basis, the establishment and optimization of organizational structures of Project Management Office (PMO) type.

Within the TenStep Global Network, Sebastian Cazacu coordinates development projects and methodologies’ implementation in the Project Management area, as well as implementation programs of the PMBoK and CMMI standards in various economical domains.

Sebastian Cazacu is a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications of the „Politehnica“ University, Bucharest, where he specialized in Computer Systems Engineering.

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Informational technology supports the document management within the offshore construction department SIVADOC is the software which „disciplines“ the documents within the offshore construction department. The need to implement efficient document management software was felt as the exigency of the project is very high. The increasing information volume required a software solution able to allow increased efficiency of the document flow, processing, storage and retrieval of the documents at any time.

The software used within the company provides significant facilities for the connection to the complementary systems; its implementation aimed streamlining and automating the circulation of documents, regardless their shape, format or support.

Grup Servicii Petroliere selected the SIVECO software also carefully observing the costs, the personnel training and the assistance supplied during exploitation, the supplier’s experience in developing solutions in the Document Management software category.

SIVADOC represents an investment able to generate significant costs control both long and short term, solving critical problems such as electronic archiving, workflow, indexing, search, security, document management and integration.

Bringing together such an extensive panel of functionalities, SIVADOC software is able to regulate in an orderly and controlled manner the monitoring, security and circulation of all the documents issued during the current activities of any organization. Besides the increased safety in tracking and storing information within the company, there must also be mentioned a significant figure: the software manages to reduce communication time on average by 70-80% also influencing upon the time spent for carrying out various

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activity reports. Due to the software, all information is accessible directly from the system. It also provides synthesis facilities.

The SIVADOC implementation within the offshore construction department leads to an enhanced quality during processing the documents, reducing the physical documents’ archive on hard copies and the necessary storage space.

The documents management software

Users of SIVADOC during the training session

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provides easy ways of generating, managing and archiving documents of any kind, supporting and documenting the work packages progress - and here we take into consideration a very wide range, from simple text documents, to electronic messages, faxes, engineering designs, scanned documents and images.

During the discussion we had with the SIVADOC users, Elena Mihail, Cristina Radulescu and Alida Cucu, document controllers within the offshore construction department, we received detailed information related to the application, an extensive list of advantages the software brought in their work; they underlined the customized software modeling in order to meet the specific needs of the department as well as those of the project the department activities focus on.

SIVADOC was installed in April. Firstly, the supplier performed an accurate analysis of the documents’ workflows, the team of account managers and users receiving the full support of GSP’s IT & C specialists.

From the document management package offered by SIVECO, there have been selected the following modules: registry, documents’ store, archive, workflows.

The advantages the document management software present has been shown to us, by comparing it to the previously used method. The old one required the intervention of the document controller for performing each operation in the registry. By using SIVADOC the operator’s intervention is no longer necessary in order to make the registry record: the document route once established, all transactions are automatically recorded. Our colleagues have pointed out the advantages the new software ensures:  safety of the data, the access being allowed within the system only for authorized users;  the synthetic and operational reporting;  flexible reporting mechanism;  the option of extracting the needed information directly from the system;

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Grup Servicii Petroliere plans with Primavera offshore constructions, upgrade and modernisation projects for the technical vessels Primavera is the international market leader in the field of Project and Portfolio solutions, the fact being confirmed by the Gartner Institute in June 2006. With 25 years of international experience, Primavera is nowadays implemented in more than 76.000 companies in over 80 countries, having approximately 500.000 users. In over 15 years on the Romanian market, Primavera confirmed its value in more than 600 companies (administration, constructions, engineering, shipbuilding, army, energy, oil industry). Primavera was officially recognized by the public administrations of the member states all around the European Union as the unique management system dedicated to investments projects.

One of the domains undertaking large investment projects in Romania is the offshore industry. The high complexity degree, the large infrastructure investments, the necessity of using specialised resources are only a few of the reasons making the project management not only a necessity but

Implementing the system provided by TotalSoft has led to a smoother manner of projects’ tracking and management; it also guaranteed that all partners, regardless their geographical location, can get the same reports / results, based on project data.

also a vital component in the current activity within Grup Servicii Petroliere The investment in a software dedicated to the project management has been decided at about the half of 2008, firstly because of the need to closely monitor the projects’ evolution and, secondly, because of the demands of the foreign partners. Implementing the system provided by TotalSoft has led to a smoother manner of projects’ tracking and management; it also guaranteed that all partners, regardless their geographical location, can get the same reports / results, based on project data.

Within GSP, the Primavera Project Management Solution is used by specialists from three departments: Special Operations (Offshore Construction), Investments – Development - Repairs and Engineering, departments carrying out large projects including: the construction of a 101 meters steel jacket weighing 1500 tons, the modernization and reclassification of technical vessels entering service under the management of the new Technical Vessels Department. We must add to these the upgrade and reclassification project of the offshore drilling rig GSP Saturn, with an allocated budget of 50 million dollars, the investment rising to the amount of 70 million consisting in the conversion of a marine transport barge into a specialized one – GSP Bigfoot 1 – heavy lift / shallow water pipelay barge.

TotalSoft also provided advice on project management.

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aware of the benefits brought by the implementation of Primavera project management solution was the Special Operations (Offshore Construction) Department.

Regardless the complexity degree of the projects, there have been registered positive results, such as the increased efficiency of the planning activities – a significant shortening of the time for these activities, the accurate evolution tracking of all the projects, as well as a significant ease in developing and managing budgets.

“Primavera allows us an efficient management of the projects and the possibility to maintain their original planned track. Annually, thousands of billions of dollars are spent on construction projects worldwide, most projects offering a profit rate of

a single figure; this is why it becomes imperative that all the construction and design companies efficiently control the project costs, the scheduled activities, procurement, contracts and changes.

Moreover, I consider that Primavera is proving useful in our activity field, the offshore construction”, declared Isabela Bucur, planning engineer, Special Operations (Offshore Constructions) Department, GSP. Adnan Geamil, economist, completed his colleague saying: “In the constructions field, the project management consists in planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling the project from the beginning to its end, with the aim of achieving the customer requirements for producing a viable objective in terms of functionally and finance, meeting the of quality, cost and deadline standards previously agreed.

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„Primavera Project Planner for the Enterprise“ represents a real support in respect of reducing the identified risks through a strong planning analysis, a clear costs forecast and a better coordination between designers, suppliers and beneficiary.

Once the “Primavera Project Planner for the Enterprise” project management software implemented, the Offshore Constructions Department achieved the following benefits: the planning and tracking of the project was improved, regardless the work packages complexity; the budgets were easily drawn up and managed; The planning activity was completed in shorter time intervals.

“Primavera Project Planner for the Enterprise” represents a real support in respect of reducing the identified risks through a strong planning analysis, a clear costs forecast and a better coordination between designers, suppliers and beneficiary.”

Also, “Primavera Project Planner for the Enterprise”, the system provided

by TotalSoft facilitates the project management by providing diagrams, and default / customized format reports, offering this way a clear picture of the project progress. The information made available through the reports is intended for both the project manager, providing a performance and efficiency overview of the project activities and the GSP’s management as real support for the decision making process is supplied.

“As I haven’t worked with Primavera Project Management solution, I had the opportunity at Grup Servicii Petroliere to discover the complexity of the software: it requests practice at first but also presents the advantage of using it in almost any

economical activity. Each plan presents resources, money and activities forecast allowing the department to efficiently organize the resources. Primavera is designed in such a manner that the team is constantly stimulated to plan. I consider that this project management solution educates us to take into account all the possibilities and to take the right decision at the right moment” declared Lucian Telehoi, planning office, Offshore Construction Department, GSP. The main benefits of using the Primavera Project Management are:  the 22 – 27% reduction of the project duration;  15% savings of the total project costs; Precise description of activities succession and the identification of the key events;  Complete assessment of deadlines, costs and resources;  „What if” type analysis;  Complete control during the execution phase;  Results analysis;  Background analysis of variants of decisions;  Real time information for rapid and relevant decision taking;  Holistic as well as structural vision of the investment;  Real time access to information concerning the investment, provided access to all the hierarchical levels based on strictly defined access rights;  Rigorous progress tracking of the ongoing works, of deductions and the comparison possibility of the actual progress phase with the initial planning;  Preserving the investment history, allowing the improvement of the processes based on experience over time;  Automatic correlation of the consumed quantities with the physical state of the works;  Monitoring, coordination and correction based on the scenarios method.

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