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NSL are delighted to announce that we have formed an

alliance with Puglisevich in Canada.

Puglisevich is one of the most progressive companies

in Canada and they are endeavouring to raise safety

standards by supplying first class training to the Oil

and Gas Industry. Our alliance will allow Puglisevich to

deliver Crane Operator assessments and the custom-

made rigging & lifting training courses and competence

programmes designed specifically for the international Oil

and Gas Industry.

These robust courses and programmes were originally created

in 2002 when they were approved and accredited by a leading

UK national award body, EMTA Awards Limited or EAL. In fact,

EAL actually issue the certificates of competence to successful

delegates so that the qualifications are acceptable worldwide

as EAL become more and more recognized and respected

internationally.

The NSL / EAL Rigger levels 1 and 2 training and competence

programmes are approved by most major operators and

contractors including BP. In 2007, NSL added a Rigger level 3

qualification aimed at Rigging Supervisors and in March 2009,

created an extra option to the existing Rigger levels 1 and 2

qualifications to cover underwater rigging for divers, which was

identified by BP as yet another area where contractors were

experiencing problems.

Once again, these additional training and competence

programmes were accredited by EAL.

NEW SAFETY ALLIANCENSL are training Puglisevich instructors to NSL standards to

facilitate this training and the whole process will be administered

by NSL to ensure that the high standards expected by them and

EAL are maintained.

This is the first time these courses and programmes have been

available for delivery in Canada and both NSL and Puglisevich

are looking forward to being involved in a project that is sure to

reduce lifting-related accidents and incidents in the oil and gas

industry in Canada.

NSL will also be making available all their safety-related materials

such as handbooks, pocketbooks, safety posters, safety training

DVDs and eLearning programmes.

NSL look forward to a rewarding alliance with Puglisevich with the main beneficiaries being the Canadian oil & gas industry.

SPREADING NORTH SEA EXPERTISE WORLDWIDE

Contact Puglisevich:

Puglisevich, 611 Torbay Road, Suite 3, St. John’s, NL, Canada A1A 5J1 Tel: 709.739.5606 | Toll Free: 1.877.999.2744 | [email protected] | www.puglisevich.com

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injuries tofingers &Without a single offshore oil discovery, Greenland has captured the attention of dozens of the world’s largest oil companies, many of which are already

making huge investments in the area.It has also grabbed the imagination of major players in

Newfoundland and Labrador’s oil and gas industry. The exchange of harsh environment expertise between the

two regions is an obvious opportunity for both. But given the province’s location – due south of Greenland – Bob Cadigan, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association, sees another: “Hopefully we can get the supply chain operating directly out of St. John’s.”

With Husky Energy slated to drill offshore Greenland in 2013, in a program the company will manage from St. John’s, Cadigan expects that supply chain may be very close to getting its first trial run.

Supplying offshore Greenland would help position the province’s capital as the go-to hub for future projects offshore Canada and elsewhere. An Arctic gateway, so to speak.

“We see ourselves and the Greenland piece as the first step in getting a foothold into supplying oil and gas in the eastern Arctic Circle,” says Cadigan. “We’ve got a lot of expertise in ice. And once they come here to get that expertise we’ve got to try to round it out with other services that we can supply.”

‘It’s a foothold’Stephanie Porter

Why Newfoundland and Labrador is forging ties with Greenland’s fledgling oil industry

Expectations are high for offshore Greenland. Even though there hasn’t been a single oil discovery there yet, the area is attracting significant attention and investment. Newfoundland and Labrador’s service and supply sector is hoping it can help its northern neighbor develop its resources. The province’s supply chain expertise will be tested in 2013 when Husky Energy conducts its drill program offshore Greenland. Photo courtesy of NOIA.

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caught up in your work!NSL Safety Awareness & Training Materials

The contents of this book emphasise good practice

and gives guidance on the safe use of all types of lifting

equipment. This handbook should be used to enhance safety awareness.

The InternationalRigging & LiftingHandbook

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NSL are delighted to announce that we have formed an

alliance with Puglisevich in Canada.

Puglisevich is one of the most progressive companies

in Canada and they are endeavouring to raise safety

standards by supplying first class training to the Oil

and Gas Industry. Our alliance will allow Puglisevich to

deliver Crane Operator assessments and the custom-

made rigging & lifting training courses and competence

programmes designed specifically for the international Oil

and Gas Industry.

These robust courses and programmes were originally created

in 2002 when they were approved and accredited by a leading

UK national award body, EMTA Awards Limited or EAL. In fact,

EAL actually issue the certificates of competence to successful

delegates so that the qualifications are acceptable worldwide

as EAL become more and more recognized and respected

internationally.

The NSL / EAL Rigger levels 1 and 2 training and competence

programmes are approved by most major operators and

contractors including BP. In 2007, NSL added a Rigger level 3

qualification aimed at Rigging Supervisors and in March 2009,

created an extra option to the existing Rigger levels 1 and 2

qualifications to cover underwater rigging for divers, which was

identified by BP as yet another area where contractors were

experiencing problems.

Once again, these additional training and competence

programmes were accredited by EAL.

NEW SAFETY ALLIANCENSL are training Puglisevich instructors to NSL standards to

facilitate this training and the whole process will be administered

by NSL to ensure that the high standards expected by them and

EAL are maintained.

This is the first time these courses and programmes have been

available for delivery in Canada and both NSL and Puglisevich

are looking forward to being involved in a project that is sure to

reduce lifting-related accidents and incidents in the oil and gas

industry in Canada.

NSL will also be making available all their safety-related materials

such as handbooks, pocketbooks, safety posters, safety training

DVDs and eLearning programmes.

NSL looks forward to a rewarding alliance with Puglisevich with the main beneficiaries being the Canadian oil & gas industry.

SPREADING NORTH SEA EXPERTISE WORLDWIDE

Contact Puglisevich:

Puglisevich, 611 Torbay Road, Suite 3, St. John’s, NL, Canada A1A 5J1 Tel: 709.739.5606 | Toll Free: 1.877.999.2744 | [email protected] | www.puglisevich.com

Contact NSL: +44 (0) 1224 208988 | [email protected] | www.nsl-aberdeen.com


Tel: +44 (0) 1224 208988 Fax: +44 (0) 1224 208044

www.nsl-aberdeen.com eMail: [email protected]

International English | 4th Edition

The International

Injuries to

Fingers & Hands

PocketbookThe contents of this book highlight the most common

causes of accidents involving fingers and hands and

addresses how best to avoid them. This pocketbook

should be used to enhance safety awareness.

ISBN 978-1-904021-27-8

© NSL 1996



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Jim Keating, vice president of Nalcor Energy Oil and Gas (Newfoundland and Labrador’s crown-owned energy cor- poration) shares Cadigan’s enthusiasm. Fresh from his latest trip to Greenland, Keating has a ready list of areas in which he believes Nalcor and Nunaoil (Greenland’s state-run oil company) can work together, including seismic and data collection projects, promotion, education, and professional exchange.

“We have production, demonstrated capability, and 15 years of activity here which they are preparing to do,” says Keating.

“So they’d like to learn from us: how did you structure, how did you prepare, what did you do to get your children interested in science and technology and engineering, right up to what are your economies of scale to providing service and supply to Greenland.”

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In 2009, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that there are 50 billion barrels of oil offshore Greenland. The resource potential has attracted attention from around the world; exploration licenses have been awarded to ExxonMobil, Chevron, Encana, Cairn Energy, Husky Energy and Statoil. Photo courtesy of NOIA.

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OF COURSE, every good partnership must go two ways. On the f lip side, Newfoundland and Labrador could stand to learn a few things from the Greenland way of doing things, as evidenced by a 2010 land sale off the country’s west coast. This land sale first turned heads at Nalcor towards Greenland.

“What was remarkable to us early on was the level of interest in West Greenland. There’s no discoveries there . . . but a tremendous amount of international interest,” says Richard Wright, Nalcor Energy Oil and Gas’s manager of exploration.

At the time, Nalcor was working out how to attract global interest in land sales offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. Why did more than a dozen international oil companies apply to be the operator of land offshore Greenland – while a land sale in the less remote, less harsh Canadian offshore would only pull in two or three bids?

It came down to information and promotion.

“By telegraphing they were going to have a land sale a few years down the road, that allowed data companies to come in and acquire seismic data, seismic seep data . . . By demonstrating there is significant potential in this region, and then offering the land sale, they brought the world to their door.”

Lessons from the Greenland experience could be applied in Nalcor’s efforts to “demystify and de-risk” the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore.

“We want to lower the barriers. Make it accessible,” says Keating. “Give the (oil companies) as much information as we can . . . It’s all about making sure the data is packaged and presented to the right people at the right time.”

SIMILARITIES between the province and Greenland abound, from historical culture to modern-day issues like out-migration and the struggle with the fisheries. When it comes to oil and gas, Keating says royalty structures and regulations are compatible. It all makes for a solid foundation for partnerships, he continues, hinting of formalized agreements to come over the next few months.

“Now is the time,” he says. “Newfoundland and Labrador companies, or anyone at all interested in serving in a marine environment, should look at Greenland and be interested.

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TOWER GETS POWER POSITION

Nova Scotia-based Emera Inc. is revamping its executive team as it

gets ready to move forward with the multi-billion-dollar Lower Churchill hydroelectric project.

Nancy Tower, currently the executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Emera and Nova Scotia Power Inc., will become Emera’s executive vice-president for business development. The appointment is effective May 1.

Tower will oversee Emera’s partner-ship with Newfoundland and Labra-dor’s Crown-owned Nalcor Energy to execute the $6.2-billion Lower Churchill project. Tower will become the CEO of Emera Newfoundland and Labrador.

In another move, Rick Janega (exec-utive vice-president and chief operating officer of Nova Scotia Power) is assum-ing the role of president, Emera New-foundland and Labrador. Janega will report to Tower. His appointment was effective as of late January.

Last fall, Newfoundland and Lab-rador and Nova Scotia announced the signing of a term sheet to proceed with the hydro megaproject. The planned deal will see Muskrat Falls power shipped across the Gulf to Nova Scotia via subsea cables. Nalcor will be able to avail of Emera infrastructure to sell excess power to other markets in the Maritimes and northeastern United States.

Emera will fund $1.8-billion of the project’s total estimated $6.2-billion cost. In return, the company will get 20 per cent of Muskrat Falls power for a period of 35 years, free of charge. That block represents roughly eight to 10 per cent of Nova Scotia’s domestic power needs. Emera will also pick up 29 per cent of the transmission infrastructure within Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Greenland is the world’s largest island with an area of around 2.2 million sq. km, but only some 410,000 sq. km are not covered by ice. Cape Morris Jesup at the northernmost extremity of Greenland is the northernmost land area in the world, situated less than 730 km from the North Pole. The Greenland ice sheet is the second largest in the world. With the exception of a few sheltered valleys in South Greenland, the climate is arctic and the average temperature during the warmest month of the year does not exceed 10°C. Approximately 56,700 people live in Greenland; the country’s cultural and economic center is Nuuk, with a population of 15,469 residents. Source: http://uk.nanoq.gl/ Photo courtesy of NOIA.

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f lood in pretty quick. Now’s the time to make your relationships.”

C-Core, Provincial Airlines, Cougar Helicopters and Miller Shipping are just a few companies from Canada’s east coast already engaged in Greenland activities.

In early February, at the Northern Lights 2012 Business and Cultural Showcase in Ottawa, Provincial Airlines and Air Greenland announced a Memorandum of Understanding. The MOU is the first step in an agreement through which each airline will provide passenger and cargo air service between Canada and Greenland.

An efficient transportation link addresses one key challenge to Newfoundland-Greenland cooperation: travelers must currently route through Europe, generally resulting in a multi-day trip.

About that elusive Greenland oil discovery? No one expresses any doubt that it will come – and when it does, that it will be transformative.

“The Greenlanders persevere and they’re persistent folks, just like we were in the 1970s and 1980s,” says Keating. “You may hear of companies going in and drilling a couple of wells, and you get dry holes, and people’s hopes start to wane – but 33 wells were drilled in the Grand Banks alone before Hibernia was discovered. Well-trained geologists will find that oil . . . they will eventually have a commercial discovery.”

The price of oil, which has remained high, even in the face of recession, has “made a business case” for the pursuit of Arctic oil. Advances in technology are making it a reality.

Exploration offshore Greenland will have an effect on development in offshore Labrador and elsewhere in the Canadian north, Keating says. Good news in one location most certainly means good news for others.

This latter point is key. Although Newfoundland and Labrador agencies are eager to be part of the excitement and development of Greenland’s offshore industry, it is in no way because their interest in their own back yard has waned.

“We haven’t finished at home, not even by a long shot,” says Wright. In spite of public perceptions about passing peak production, “we think we’re just at the beginning stages of finding out what our resource potential is here.”

NOIA’s Cadigan agrees. He lists Chevron and Statoil’s $350-million exploration commitment in the Flemish

Pass; Chevron’s plans to drill in the Orphan Basin in summer 2012; and the exploration wells being drilled in the Jeanne D’Arc Basin. There’s still interest off Newfoundland’s west coast and in the 4.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves offshore Labrador.

Cadigan brings the discussion full circle. “In the end, the more activity that occurs out of St. John’s for oil and gas supply, the more competitive we become,” he says. “The more competitive we become, the cheaper offshore exploration

becomes. The cheaper that becomes . . . it’s a real positive in terms of our future.”

Keating takes a broader view: “They’re our neighbours, they’re right across the border. There is lots we can do. It might not seem concrete to us right now, what the end benefit is. And in many ways it doesn’t matter. We know that there’s a common desire for both countries to strengthen where we live.

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