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Helicopter Operators (AOC Holder), Flight Crews and Maintenance organisations
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Helicopter Landing Officers (HLOs), Deck Crews and Service Providers
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Helideck Designers, Fabricators and Technical Support Specialists (Consultants)
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Installation / Vessel Project Engineering & Construction Management
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Regulators.
Several individuals and organisations will be involved in the ‘lifetime’ management of a helideck design and its routine operation. It is the different perspectives held by these individuals and organisations that can, and often does, lead to inadequate helideck facilities and support arrangements being provided, particularly when they act or operate in isolation from one another.
The following sections serve to offer an insight into the end users’ perspectives and thus provide a better understanding of the overriding operational requirements and outcomes that should be given priority consideration.
2.2 THE OFFSHORE PLATFORM OPERATOR / VESSEL OWNERS PERSPECTIVE
The helicopter crew, HLO and deck crews are the end users. They have to endure the day-to-day problems in operations caused by any errors and omissions during initial helideck specification, design and construction.
The installation operator, MODU or vessel owner makes the capital expenditure (CAPEX) for the design and construction of a helideck. They also pay the operating expense (OPEX) during life of field helicopter operations.
Reductions in capital expenditure by economising on helideck design and construction costs may well prove very expensive in operating costs.
Therefore, their primary objective should be to ensure that for a given CAPEX, the helideck and its systems give value for money over the life of the facility. This means ensuring that the helideck and systems design will provide for safe and efficient flight operations. Design deficiencies that increase OPEX should be avoided.
The helideck and facilities designers (usually several discipline engineers) are tasked with developing the helideck structure and systems design for fabrication and construction.
Simply following oil field tradition and practice during the design phase will invariably embody all the errors and omissions that have accumulated in helideck designs over the years.
An integrated and well-informed approach by operations and project management and the discipline engineers is more likely to produce a good operational helideck and support systems.
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