Williams Tower, Houston

17 April 02

Larry Andrews of Noble (Committee chairman) opened the meeting at approximately 9 a.m.

Victor Fleming handed out a policy letter that had been issued by the Coast Guard regarding Lifeboatmen training, and a copy of e-mail explaining requirements of policy letter.

The group reviewed the minutes of the 8 January meeting. Victor Fleming of Rowan moved they be approved. Dave Murdock of Noble seconded the motion. The minutes were approved.

Mr Andrews announced the next meeting would be on 16-17 July in Lafayette, LA, at the Lafayette Hilton. It will be another joint meeting with the HSE Committee.

Mr. Murdock provided a report on the ISM/STCW subcommittee. He announced that the subcommittee chairman had not been able to attend the prior day’s meeting. Mr. Murdock stated that he had assumed the position of vice-chairman of the subcommittee. He discussed Lifeboat competency requirements mandated by USCG – he noted that the eight launches required could take up to four years to achieve.

Mr. Murdock also reported that the ISM code has been rewritten, with three new chapters to go into effect 1 July 2002. He stated that Brazil has contracted with DNV to do a gap analysis of the ISM code and the 37-page ANP proposal.

The group held a discussion on the Lifeboatmen issue raised in Mr. Fleming’s handouts and Mr. Murdock’s report. Alan Spackman of IADC said underlying problem is that USCG is applying STCW to vessels that are outside the convention. IADC has pointed this out previously, to no avail. Possible solutions include petitioning to put this into USCG regulations through the normal process.

Mr. Spackman said that the primary contact on this issue would be the captain in charge of Gulf of Mexico Operations Center at Coast Guard Headquarters. He suggested the committee draft a pro-forma letter, which each company could send to the Coast Guard to express their opinion on the matter.

Mr. Murdock and Mr. Fleming agreed to work with IADC staff on drafting the letter. The goal was to have the letter distributed so companies can send to the appropriate authority by the end of month.

Mr. Andrews mentioned that the conference planning committee for next year’s Health, Safety, and Environment & Training (HSET) conference will meet on 12 June at the IADC office in Houston.

There was a discussion of the IADC Underbalanced Operations Committee’s HSE guidelines. The draft document has been posted on the UBO Committee’s web site for some time. Copies of the document were distributed to those present. After reviewing the document, the group expressed some concerns regarding the section on competency. There was some feeling that parallel effort by the UBO Committee to develop competency guidelines could possibly conflict with efforts to be undertaken by the Training Committee. Mr. Andrews said the group’s concerns would be expressed to the UBO Committee at its next meeting on 9 May.

Mr. Andrews opened a discussion of the competency issue. He noted that at the January meeting, the committee had discussed the possibility of developing an industry-wide plan or competency matrix. At that time, committee members had been invited to bring examples of work they had done to develop competency-based programs for further discussion.

Mr. Andrews noted that no operators and only three contractors – H&P, Rowan and Noble – were present. He felt this was insufficient representation to move forward with the issue, and suggested it be deferred for discussion at a future meeting when more contractors might be present.

Cherry Young of TEEX said that if checking Lifeboatman competencies on board, an assessor designated by the Coast Guard must do this. To qualify for Coast Guard approval, a prospective assessor must provide license documents, a résumé or CV showing practical experience, and show evidence of having completed a 40-hour STCW Train-the-Trainer program.

The group discussed the current status of the MMS Subpart O regulations. Mr. Kropla said the first operator meeting to discuss implementation plans would be ChevronTexaco. The company has scheduled two meetings for 30 April in New Orleans. A morning meeting will be held to discuss Subpart O with their own employees, with the afternoon meeting for their contractors.

Ms. Young motioned for adjournment, Mr. Fleming seconded. The meeting was adjourned at approximately 10:50 a.m. Most of those present then rejoined the HSE Committee meeting, which in progress in the adjacent room.

Attendee List

Name	Company	E-mail
Kris Wilson	Aberdeen Drilling Schools	kwilson@aberdeen-drilling.com
Ed Mury	Acadian Industrial Medical	emury@acadian.com
Wade Deer	H&P Drilling	wade. deer@hpidc.com
Steve Kropla	IADC	steve.kropla@iadc.org
Alan Spackman	IADC	Alan.spackman@iadc.org
Marla Doolin	Lafayette Hilton	marla.doolin@meristar.com
Larry Andrews	Noble Corp.	landrews@noblecorp.com
David Murdock	Noble Drilling Services, Inc	dmurdock@noblecorp.com
Jan de Vos	Noble Drilling Services, Inc	jandevos@noblecorp.com
Victor Fleming	Rowan Companies	Victor.fleming@rowancompanies.com
Cherry Young	Texas Engineering Extension Service	cmyoung@teexnet.tamu.edu
Janelle Galvan	WCS Well Control School	jgalvan@wellcontrol.com

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