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As part of Logical Software's commercial and legal support activities, Steve Walker has been responsible for the examination of the Safety, Management and Operational issues resulting in loss and subsequent insurance claims.

 Sinking of the P36 semi-submersible production platform offshore Brazil.           2001 – 2006

For this dispute between the Operating and Construction Insurers, Steve acted for the Design Contractors and construction insurers. It was necessary to examine all the design documentation in order to assess Safety and Operational issues along with documentation of events leading up to the loss.

The activities undertaken during the four years of the project included:-

bulletRebuttal of Plaintiff’s claims and preparation of the defence of the Design.
bulletExamination of P&ID’s and Operating procedures including the performance of a HAZOP of the relevant process sytems.
bulletExamination of compliance of the Design with the appropriate codes and standards including hazardous area classification regulations applicable offshore Brazil.
bulletUse of the relevant Process Design codes to verify details of the design.
bulletExamination of the staff competence, management, maintenance and Operating procedures.
bulletVerification of the instrumentation systems and their operation before and during the incident.
bulletVerification of the vessel design from the point of view of stability, ballast, fire response, maintenance and mitigation systems
bulletGeneration of a document database for document retrieval, identification of missing information, recording of received documents.
bulletExamination and classification/comparison of witness statements for consistency.
bulletForming of deposition questions for the Petrobras management and operations staff on behalf of the Design contractors and Design Insurance underwriters.

Steve attended and presented at the dispute resolution meeting for this claim.

Dispute relating to coating failure on the Sable Tier 1 Platforms.                               2003 - 2006

 Engineering drawings were used to rigorously calculate and record the areas of the structural elements (members and plates) for each platform. An assessment of the severity and extent of damage sustained by area was performed from the photographic evidence. All the above information was brought together in an interactive database to enable negotiations to proceed.

The bottom line costs/durations and manpower requirements were derived using a purpose built cost model.

Nigeria – damage to swamp facilities                                                                  2004 - present

 Following willful damage to a number of oil/gas installations in the Niger Delta region, Steve was engaged to perform the following activities:-

·        Engineering assessments – assessment of the status of the equipment items before and after the civil action and during on-going repairs.

·        Inclusion of information relating to the process and instrumentation systems.

These activities have involved the generation of a number of linked equipment databases for each installation to aid in costing, inspection, condition assessment and repair. 

Semi-submersible drilling rig – thrusters repair                                                2003

 Following damage to a semi-submersible and claims for two sets of repairs and loss of hire revenue, the scope was to identify the costs associated with the necessary repairs, to the exclusion of costs associated with maintenance, betterment and unnecessary support services.

A ‘Negotiation Spreadsheet’ was developed to enable a flexible interpretation of the information available and designed to allow the loss adjusters to examine the options for apportioning the claimed costs during subsequent discussions with the assured.

Sable – delayed start up claim                                                                            2005

 Evaluation of the lost profits sustained by a Sable partner resulting from delayed start up of production. Cost models were developed to estimate the lost profits under a number of ‘start of  production’ assumptions.

 

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